Industrial manufacturing strategies for distributed control and resilient, rapidly responsive and reconfigurable supply chains

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The MODUL4R envisions reliable, maintainable, affordable, (re)usable, and changeable SME- firendly autonomous modular factories and supply chains, able to manufacture new product in low volumes, and rapidly respond to unexpected events as well as the overall suplly chain.
MODUL4R proposes a holistic framework applicable both to new and existing manufacturing lines to achieve flexibility, rapid responsiveness, and sustainability. MODUL4R will be demonstrated in specialized mould manufacturing for the automotive sector, CPPS for flexible & modular assembly of PCBs, and tools manufacturing for the aerospace.

MODUL4R focuses on 4 pillars:
Pillar1 --> Resilience against changes in customer and societal demands and disruptions on the supply chain.
Pillar 2 --> Modular technologies for flexible manufacturing operations.
Pillar 3 --> Simulation and interfaces to the industrial Metaverse.
Pillar 4 --> Human centred technologies and upskilling.

The impact of MODUL4R for the EU Manufacturing Industry, but also the society itself, can be summarised as follows: 1)Process ramp-up time (>20%), (3) Speed in product shifting (>29%), (3) Yield & CpK (>12% & >21%), (4) OEE (>21%), (5) Part cost reduction (>15%) with over 41 MEUR ROI for the consortium, (6) 408 new jobs, and (7) help industry to reduce Energy consumption (>30%) through Automation of processes (>25%).
The role of AIMEN is work on modular adaptive interfaces for production planning and reconfigurations in ΕΜΟ pilot.

• Sectors: Automotive, Machine-tool
• Financing programme: HORIZON EUROPE
• R&D&i: Flexible manufacturing cells, Integrated monitoring and control systems
• Leader: FRAUNHOFER-IWU Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology
• Partners: AIMEN Centro Tecnológico, ATLANTIS ENGINEERING AE, ASOCIACION DE EMPRESAS TECNOLOGICAS INNOVALIA, HOLONIX SRL - SPIN OFF DEL POLITECNICO DI MILANO, EMO-ORODJARNA DOO (EMO), POLITECNICO DI MILANO, FFT Produktionssysteme GmbH & Co. KG, TTS - Technology Transfer System S.r.l., Intrasoft International SA, Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne AG - SSF, CORE INNOVATION CENTRE NPO, VISUAL COMPONENTS, Unparallel Innovation Lda.UNP, NXTcontrol. NXT, Instituto Desenvolvimento Novas Tecnologias. NOVA, DESI Srl. DESI, Nueva Herramienta de Corte S.A.. NECO, Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknikoa J.m.a. S.Coop. MGEP.
• Acronym: Modul4r
• Ambit: International
• Web: https://www.modular-project.eu/