Higher added value originates in three dimensions and in particular from their combination:
- Innovation in products through "ICT-inside": the opportunities that arise today from embedding ICT in any product and artefact are the almost infinite.
- Transformation in processes – "digital manufacturing": digital innovations affectthe full product lifecycle "from cradle to grave" i.e. innovations span from product design and simulation tools to automation and shop floor controls and from logistics and supply chain management down to product tracking and recycling.
- Radical/disruptive changes in business models: digital technologies are radically modifying the business of well-established industries such as automotive, lighting or textiles.
At recent events like the Public Hearing on Advanced Manufacturing and Digital Technologies and the Digital Action Day 2014, representatives from industry and public authorities discussed how to maximise the contribution of ICT in manufacturing to generate growth, competitiveness and jobs in Europe and how to leverage national and regional efforts in this area to speed up the modernisation of the European industry. General consensus was found to work in partnership across Europe to achieve critical mass and to align innovation strategies across borders.
This workshop is therefore bringing together representatives of Europe's major initiatives on innovation in digital manufacturing in order to explore synergies, stimulate co-operation and develop first ideas for a possible alignment of strategies and policies across EU-, national and regional initiatives.
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OVERVIEW OF DIGITAL MANUFACTURING INITIATIVES ACROSS EUROPE
Final Report of the workshop on Innovation in Digital Manufacturing
Executive Summary of workshop on Innovation in Digital Manufacturing
Agenda
21 January 2015
13:30 Registration
Moderator: Max Lemke, DG CONNECT Rapporteur: Haydn Thompson
14:00 – 14:40 Opening and setting the scene
Towards a European strategy for Digitising European Industry (Khalil Rouhana)
The EFFRA vision (Maurizio Gattiglio)
Task Force on Advanced Manufacturing (Bonifacio Garcia Porras, DG GROW)
Factories of the Future and SPIRE Public Private Partnerships (Andrea Gentili, DG RTD)
Plans of the Latvian Presidency (Rinalds Celmins)
14:40 – 16:30 Mapping Initiatives at EU level, in Member States and in regions (Part 1)
Germany:
Industrie 4.0 (jointly Rainer Glatz, Wolfgang Dorst, Oliver Blank)
Smart Service World (Matthias Kuom)
Baden-Württemberg: Allianz Industrie 4.0 (Joachim Seidelmann)
It's OWL (Guenter Korder)
Netherlands:
Smart Industry (Egbert Jan Sol)
France:
Usine du Futur (François Bichet, Michel Carton)
Ile de France (Cedric Daumas)
United Kingdom:
High value Manufacturing Catapult (Lee Vousden/Lynn McGregor')
Scotland (David Milliken)
Spain:
Basque region (Oscar Lazaro)
Italy:
Fabbrica Intelligente - Cluster Tecnologico Nazionale (Tullio Tolio)
Associazione Fabbrica Intelligente Lombardia (Marco Taisch)
16:30 – 16:50 Coffee Break
16:50 – 17:45 Mapping Initiatives at EU level, in Member States and in regions (Part 2)
Sweden:
Produktion 2030 (Cecilia Warrol)
Finland:
Finnish Innovation Initiatives (Tuokko Reijo)
Austria:
Produktion der Zukunft (Michael Wiesmueller)
Portugal:
ProduTech Initiative (José Carlos Caldeira)
Belgium:
iMinds (Ilse Roelants)
Poland:
Greece:
17:45 – 18:05 The approach of "cross regional" initiatives:
EU Innovation Initiatives and Regional Dimension (Francesca Flamigni, DG CONNECT)
Vanguard Initiative (Wim De Kinderen, in collaboration with other Vanguard representatives)
18:05 – 18:30 The link to the ICT PPPs:
ECSEL (Jerker Delsing)
Photonics 21 (Reinhart Poprawe)
SPARC (Joachim Seidelmann)
IoT Focus Area 5G (Tatu Koljonen)
18:30 – 19:00 Closing of Day 1:
Preparation for Day 2: First ideas on how do we achieve added value at EU level? What are possible key areas of collaboration? Which synergy effects are we aiming for?
22 January 2015
8:30 – 09:20 Inspiration for discussion
- The broader industrial perspective (Adrian Harris)
- The unions' perspective (Laurent Zibell)
- The international perspective – US Industrial Internet (Reiner Anderl)
- Big data (Thomas Hahn)
- Digital Industrial Platforms (Marco Taisch)
9:20 – 9:30 Introduction to three rounds of discussions using the world café method (4 tables, 40 minutes each) for open brainstorming on
- Need for an EU strategy? How do we achieve added value at EU level?
- What are possible key areas of collaboration?
- Which synergy effects are we aiming for?
Tentative Topics:
9:30 – 10:10 Topic 1. Competence, demonstration and application centres / innovation hubs
- Moderators: Francesca Flamigni, Jose Carlos Caldeira, Günter Korder, Wim Renders
10:10 – 10:50 Topic 2. Platform-building, standardisation and the international dimension
- Moderators: Reiner Anderl, Željko Pazin, Rolf Riemenschneider, Rainer Glatz
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:50 Topic 3. Other issues: skills, certification, ethical and legal aspects, etc.
- Moderators: Laurent Zibell, Anne-Marie Sassen, Mark Nicklas, Marco Taisch
- Note takers: Haydn Thompson, Patrick Kennedy, Oscar Lazaro, Harald Egner
11:50 – 12:50 Feedback from the roundtables
12:50 – 13:30 Closing of Day 2
- Conclusions and next steps