The European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) is an industry-led association representing private partners in a public-private partnership with the European Commission called Factories of the Future. EFFRA has over 160 members across Europe working to establish research priorities and coordinate over 200 projects funded by the Factories of the Future partnership under Horizon 2020, focusing on developing technologies like cyber-physical systems, zero-defect manufacturing, and human-robot collaboration to transform European manufacturing. EFFRA is developing a strategic roadmap called Factories of the Future 2020 to guide these research priorities and ensure they allow European industry to address challenges from trends like the fourth industrial revolution.

1. Europe’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership
Factories of the Future
Maurizio Gattiglio
Chairman

2. Who We Are
European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA)
 Industry-led association representing
private side in the ‘Factories of the Future’
Public-Private Partnership with European
Commission
 160+ members from across Europe
(growing)
 Members include large, small & medium
industrial enterprises, research organisations,
universities, industrial associations and
clusters
 Full time secretariat: Connecting with
members, coordinating research agenda &
liaising with the European Union

3. Background
Manufacturing & Europe
How important is manufacturing?
 Despite the continued fall-out from crisis,
manufacturing means a lot for Europe:
 20 % Direct jobs
 67 % Exports
 65 % Business R&D Expenditure
 Manufacturing in Europe remains
diverse
 Importance of manufacturing now
recognised by EU and its member states...
....but also by Europe’s competitors
 Realising the potential of 4th industial
revolution needs support = ‘Factories of the
Future’

4. Progress
Factories of the Future PPP
 1.150 M€ program within Horizon 2020,
of those 110 m€ for I4MS (ICT for
Manufacturing SMEs) program
 200+ projects
 1,300+ organisations participating
 60% industrial participation
 >30% of funding to SMEs
 77% of funding to non-EFFRA members
 Partnership is addressing all multiple
topics to transform manufacturing (from
CPS to zero-defect factories)

5. Factories of the Future 2020
Strategic Roadmap
 One living document covering 2014-2020
 Developed by EFFRA & through broad
public consultation
 Identifies megatrends which drive structural
changes in manufacturing sectors
 Establishes research priorities which will
allow industry to meet these challenges
 Priorities focus on development, application
& integration of enablers & technologies
 ‘Factories of the Future’ call topics based
upon research priorities = industry relevant
 Not static: we are developing the Roadmap
further

6. Factories of the Future 2020: Priorities to Realise Structural Changes
Strategic Roadmap

7. FoF 1 – 2014: Process optimisation of manufacturing assets
FoF 2 – 2014: Manufacturing processes for complex structures and geometries with
efficient use of material
FoF 3 – 2014: Global energy and other resources efficiency in manufacturing
enterprises
FoF 4 – 2014: Developing smart factories that are attractive to workers
FoF 5 – 2014: Innovative product-service design using manufacturing intelligence
FoF 6 – 2014: Symbiotic human-robot collaborations for safe and dynamic multimodal
manufacturing systems
FoF 7 – 2014: Support for the enhancement of the impact of FoF PPP projects
FoF 8 – 2015: ICT-enabled modelling, simulation, analytics and forecasting
technologies
FoF 9 – 2015: ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS)
FoF 10 – 2015: Manufacturing of custom made parts for personalised products
FoF 11 – 2015: Flexible production systems based on integrated tools for rapid
reconfiguration of machinery and robots
FoF 12 – 2015: Industrial technologies for advanced joining and assembly processes
of multi-materials
FoF 13 – 2015: Re-use and re-manufacturing technologies and equipment for
sustainable product lifecycle management
FoF 14 – 2015: Integrated design and management of production machinery and
processes
FoF-01-2016: Novel hybrid approaches for additive and subtractive manufacturing
machines
FoF-02-2016: Machinery and robot systems in dynamic shop floor environments
using novel embedded cognitive functions
FoF-03-2016: Zero-defect strategies at system level for multi-stage manufacturing in
production lines
FoF-04-2016: Continuous adaptation of work environments with changing levels of
automation in evolving production systems
FoF-05-2016: Support for the further development of Additive Manufacturing
technologies in Europe
FoF-06-2017: New product functionalities through advanced surface manufacturing
processes for mass production
FoF-07-2017: Integration of unconventional technologies for multi-material
processing into manufacturing systems
FoF-08-2017: In-line measurement and control for micro-/nano-enabled high-volume
manufacturing for enhanced reliability
FoF-09-2017: Novel design and predictive maintenance technologies for increased
operating life of production systems
FoF-10-2017: New technologies and life cycle management for reconfigurable and
reusable customised products
FoF-11-2016: Digital automation
FoF-12-2017: ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS)
FoF-13-2016: Photonics Laser-based production

8. Factories of the Future & EFFRA
Connecting National & Regional Programmes

9. Importance of Investment
Investment in R&D is Part of Solution to
Recover from Crises

10. … new technological
challenges are in front
of us
Digital Revolution will affect
manufacturing in a similar way as it is already
happening to communication and consumers
markets

11. October 2015
(…. but 1202 CPUs to beat Go World Champion)

12. 90 IBM Power 750 Servers
2880 Power7 Processors cores
16 TeraByte RAM
80 TeraFLOPs
Power consumption 200kW vs
20 W of a human brain
Won Jeopardy (America’s favorite
Quiz show) in 2011
Artificial Intelligent Market growing at a CAGR of 54.56 % between 2015
and 2020 (source: Marketandmarkets) – 8 on 10 key players from the USA

13. Product variety
Productvolumes
1850 - Handcraft
1908
1950
Time
2000 - Globalisation
?
Source: PoliMi
Mass Production
Mass Customisation
“I manufacture what
I need at home”
… and change of
business models:
Mass Customisation
Source: McKinsley/VDMA

14. Factories of the Future 4.0 & Beyond
Factories of the Future PPP
 ‘Factories of the Future 2020’ is not the end of the
story – EFFRA is preparing complementary agenda to
tackle new challenges
 Success of the ‘Factories of the Future’ under Horizon
2020 = Highly likely to continue under next programme
 Future of industry (e.g. Industry 4.0) requires
continuation of successful programme
 Factories of the Future is already realising the
potential of this next industrial revolution
 What might this mean?....

15. Factories of the Future: Industrie 4.0 Germany
Source: McKinsley/VDMA

16. Factories of the Future: Factories 4.0 - proposal
 Innovative SMEs
 High-level of customisation & quality
 Rapid adaptable production lines
 Re-manufacturing
 Focused on zero defects
 Interconnectivity, communication & data storage via cloud
 Factories closer to customers
 Energy & resource efficient
 Adaptable workplaces for changing
worker demographic
 Continous skills improvements:
multi-skilled jobs

17. From classical
manufacturing/supplier
to brand owners and
regional eco systems
Innovation 4.0
Industry 4.0
Economy 4.0
+

18. Our European ambition
Factories 4.0 =
Innovation 4.0 + Industry 4.0 + Economy 4.0
IoT/Big Data/Cyber Security/Cloud/Blockchain
Innovation 4.0: you can’t innovate alone,
you need a networked innovation eco-system – smart specialization of a region
Industry 4.0: automate to lower the costs of manufacturing on the shopfloor
Economy 4.0: create a Digital Marketplace to automate and lower the cost of transactions
Single product manufacturing for the price of mass produced, in town/region in Europa
personal(consumer)/(B2B), series size N=1, zero defect, short delivery, close to customer
new manufacturing paradigm: economy of networking, not scale

19. Today’s manufacturing with economy of scale
(yesterday in Europe, today in China)
design deliveryproduction
design deliveryproduction
design deliveryproduction
Customer
OEM/Brand D
OEM/Brand F
OEM/Brand E
B2B: OEM
B2C: Brand D

20. Future of manufacturing: Factories 4.0 in metropolitan area
(smaller factory, close to the customer)
location A
design production
D
E
design production
F
location C
location B
purcha
ser X
purcha
ser Z
A
C
B
Customer ordering at web
Customer

21. Factories of the Future PPP: on-line resource
EFFRA Innovation Portal
www.effra.eu/portal
• for progress monitoring
• for on-line brokerage
• for sharing information among projects
• for promoting projects, results and
demonstrators to the wider community
• for portfolio management and analysing
coverage of FoF 2020 roadmap
• for supporting roadmapping exercises
• for supporting online brokerage
One reference resource…

22. 15 & 16 September 2016 (Brussels)
Major conference centred on future of
manufacturing in Europe.
Topics:
 Digital Technologies & the Factory Floor
 Energy & Material Efficiency
 Digital Technologies & Networked Factories
 Human-Centred Manufacturing
 Data Security, Liability & Integrity in Connected Factories
 Product Life-Cycle Management & Business Models in a
Product-Service Economy
 Lightweight Components & High Precision Manufacturing
 High-Performance Computing & Simulation
 Additive Manufacturing & Advanced Joining Technologies
 Next Generation Robotics & Mechatronics in Manufacturing
conference2016.effra.eu

23. Thank you for your attention
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maurizio.gattiglio@primaelectro
info@effra.eu
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