- Start: 01/10/2020
- End: 30/09/2024
Hybrid lean-agile manufacturing systems are emerging as smart approaches that can connect industry with cyber-physical systems. They can also support the manufacturing of new and personalised products. The EU-funded Better Factory project will create a network of artists and manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to collaborate in the development of such products. The artists will analyse the deep knowledge within the manufacturing SMEs and support them in diversifying their product portfolio to meet new market demands. The project will also provide state-of-the-art technology for SMEs to maximise their production capacity. A portfolio of 16 cross-border Application Experiments by 48 SMEs selected through 2 competitive Open Calls will test the SME-artist collaboration and other services.
Main results are:
- An Advance Production Planning and Scheduling (APPS) system which can be deployed on a free and open IoT platform at 10% of the cost in 50% less time.
- A Marketplace, a one-stop-shop, where Manufacturing SMEs can buy services from Technology suppliers, Artists, Competence Centres, training providers and financial brokers.
- A portfolio of 16 cross-border Application Experiments by 48 SMEs selected through 2 competitive Open Calls, that will test APPS, SME+Artis collaboration and other services, and leveraging 11M€ of public and private funding becoming success stories.
- Services, including Technical, Business and Art mentors, infrastructure, training and access to finance.
AIMEN collaborates adding technology to the APPS and giving support to the SMEs participating in the Application Experiments.
- Sectors: agricultural, Chemical, Construction, Food Industry, Furnitures, Industrial machinery, Metal mechanical, Textile, Wood
- Financing programme: Horizon 2020
- R&D&i: Additive manufacturing, Advanced assembly and disassembly technology, Advanced robotic solutions for industrial applications, Flexible manufacturing cells, high power and high throughput laser processing, Integrated monitoring and control systems, Laser assisted processing, Mass customization, Mechatronics, Robotics for logistics
- Leader: Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy
- Partners: AIMEN Centro Tecnológico, INESC TEC - INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, INOVA+ - INNOVATION SERVICES SA, HOLONIX SRL - SPIN OFF DEL POLITECNICO DI MILANO, Scuola Universitaria Professionale Della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI), FUNDINGBOX ACCELERATOR SP ZOO, Time.lex, TECHNOLOGIKO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU, NARODNE CENTRUM ROBOTIKY, GLUON, STICHTING WAAG SOCIETY, EUROPEAN DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS SA, FUNDACIO BARCELONA MOBILE WORLD CAPITAL FOUNDATION, HERMIA YRITYSKEHITYS OY, TOP DATA SCIENCE OY, INFOTECH, S.R.O., GESTALT ROBOTICS GMBH, IN4ART BV, OULUN YLIOPISTO, ASOCIATIA CLUSTER MOBILIER TRANSILVAN, RAZVOJNI CENTER ORODJARSTVA SLOVENIJE, FOUNDATION CLUSTER INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, LATVIJAS PARTIKAS UZNEMUMU FEDERACIJA, BYDGOSZCZ INDUSTRIAL CLUSTER, CLUTEX - KLASTR TECHNICKE TEXTILIE, PECS-BARANYAI KERESKEDELMI ES IPARKAMARA
- Acronym: BetterFactory
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://betterfactory.eu/
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