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Multidisciplinary Competences in AI for Manufacturing Industry <\/mark><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The COALA consortium combines multidisciplinary competences and resources from the industry and research community focusing in AI technologies in the manufacturing industry. It consists of  14 partners representing research institutes, technology providers and industrial partners (including 7 SMEs), from 5 EU member states, i.e. Germany, Greece, France, Italy and Netherlands. The project brings together experienced partners dedicated to contributing, each in their respective area of expertise, to the successful implementation of the project.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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BIBA – Bremer Institut f\u00fcr Produktion und Logistik GmbH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIBA – Bremer Institut f\u00fcr Produktion und Logistik GmbH is an engineering research institute developing technical and organizational solutions for tasks from various areas of production technology as well as from other related scientific disciplines and puts them into practice both in SMEs as well as multinational companies. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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The institute is directly linked to the University of Bremen, Faculty of Production Technology. The research unit \u201cICT applications for production (IKAP)\u201d prepares, develops and realises methods and tools to support co-operative, inter-organisational enterprise networks. The research concentrates on efficient and effective collaborative design and production processes by applying innovative information and communication technologies (ICT).
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The department Intelligent ICT for Co-operative Production deals with the application of ICT to develop and implement co-operative networks. Within this context, the acquisition, provision and transformation of process and product related information is considered. The expected project results are compliant with BIBA\u2019s core long-term strategy. The ICT-based solutions will be used to improve the competences as well as enhance and distribute worked out in-house technologies and methods, especially knowledge based engineering (KBE), PLM systems and knowledge acquisition. BIBA is a founding member of the Open Group IoT work group. There, it is actively involved in the standardisation of IoT protocols and data models (O-MI, O-DF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BIBA coordinates the COALA project and is responsible for the lead of WP9 (Project Management). Besides, it will lead WP2 (Augmented prescriptive quality analytics for factory workers). BIBA uses its interdisciplinary expertise to support the consortium partners in all other work packages and to provide their contributions.<\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Technische Universiteit Delft<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founded in 1842, TUDelft is the oldest, largest and most comprehensive university of technology in The Netherlands educating over 25.000 students, with 5.000 staff at 8 Faculties with over 40 Masters. TU Delft has excellent international rankings, e.g. ranked 17th globally by QS World Universities for engineering and technology and belongs to the top 20 Horizon 2020 beneficiaries. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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The Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) is one of the oldest and largest multi-disciplinary product and service design oriented research and education institution in the world. It is not only influential on, but also has a leading role in the development of the design discipline. With over 2,000 students and 200 researchers, the Faculty of Industrial Design is now one of the world\u2019s leading design schools. Over 7,000 engineers graduated from the Faculty since it was founded in 1969. The Faculty is also leading in many subfields of design research, with more than 100 senior researchers and 120 PhDs. The conducted research is user-centred and design-driven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The expected project results support the ultimate objective of Department of Sustainable Design Engineering (SDE) to fulfil joint social, economic and sustainability demands. The resulting methods and tools will strengthen SDE\u2019s abilities to support designers and companies in successfully developing user-centred agile manufacturing solutions in which the added value of artificial intelligence technology are optimally exploited. The scientist contributing to the administrative and professional management of the COALA projects have extensive experience with human machine interaction in the context of smart cyber-physical systems and robotics are related to spin off companies (e.g. SenseGlove B.V., Anything Connected BV.) through the incubator at YesDelft!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TUDelft is responsible for leading the work packages WP3 (Smartening workers with AI competencies and AI-assisted on-the-job training) and WP8 (Communication). TUDelft will develop human-driven AI methods for recommendation systems operating with small data sets in order to support agile manufacturing processes. It intends to develop intuitive interfaces for helping experts to guide and validate the learning process of the developed AI methods and for making predictions and advices more accurate and trustable.<\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Institute of Communication and Computer Systems<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICCS is a non-profit private law body associated with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). ICCS was established in 1989 by the Ministry of Education of Greece in order to promote research and development activity in all diverse aspects of computer and telecommunications systems and their applications. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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The Information Management Unit (IMU), which participates in the project, is a multi-disciplinary unit engaged in research and development activities in Information Technology Management. IMU is staffed with three faculty members, seven post-doctoral senior researchers and six researchers. Research in IMU addresses the whole lifecycle from data analysis to computation to decision. Since its establishment, IMU has actively participated in 45 research and development projects, of which 8 are currently active. Our work falls along three strands: Analyse, Compute, Decide. The research activities of IMU focus, among others, on: predictive & prescriptive analytics, proactive computing, recommender systems, semantic web, situation awareness, knowledge management and enterprise & business information systems. IMU is active in five application domains: factories of the future, electronic governance, digital health & well-being, digital innovation, sustainable & green economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ICCS leads WP5 (Adoption and Evaluation) and WP7 (Dissemination and Exploitation). Moreover, ICCS leads T2.1 (Prescriptive analytics for process and product quality), which deals with the concept and related AI methods and algorithms for predictive quality. In this Task, ICCS will perform a state-of-the-art analysis of AI-supported predictive quality and will develop the Prescriptive Quality Analytics component of the COALA platform will perform advanced data analytics. This work will be based on ICCS\u2019s prior work in the H2020 UPTIME project. ICCS will also lead T5.2 (Evaluation of the use case implementations), and T7.1 (Dissemination of results). The Director of IMU of ICCS, Professor Gregoris Mentzas, is the Scientific Manager of COALA, while Dr Alexandros Bousdekis, Senior Researcher of ICCS, is the Dissemination Manager. Finally, ICCS will actively promote and disseminate the results of COALA in the FoF and ICT communities through the publication of project\u2019s research results in international journals, workshops, conferences and books. ICCS is also a registered Digital Innovation Hub (DIH).<\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ANITI \u2013 Artificial & Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute, Universit\u00e9 F\u00e9d\u00e9rale Toulouse Midi-Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANITI is one of the four interdisciplinary institutes set up in 2019 for spearheading research, education and economic development on AI in France. It will bring together more than 200 researchers from universities, engineering schools and research organizations (e.g., from IMT, IRIT, LAAS-CNRS, TSE in Toulouse, and also from international research labs, e.g., MIT or Brown University in the United States), and about thirty companies (Airbus, Thales, Continental, etc.). Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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ANITI scientific project is aimed at developing a new generation of artificial intelligence called hybrid AI, combining data-driven machine learning techniques with symbolic and formal methods for expressing properties and constraints and carrying out logical reasoning. This approach will provide better guarantees in terms of reliability, robustness and the ability to explain and interpret the results of the algorithms used, while ensuring social acceptability and economic viability. The strategic application sectors targeted by ANITI are mobility and transportation, and robotics\/cobotics for the industry of the future. One of the major research topics investigated by ANITI concerns the design of cognitive assistants with advanced dialogue, interaction and monitoring skills to increase the performance of design, decision and industrial production-related activities. This topic is perfectly in line with the objectives of COALA. The team participating to COALA is part of the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI) coordinated by the University of Toulouse \u201cUniversit\u00e9 F\u00e9d\u00e9rale Toulouse Midi-Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ANITI leads Tasks 2.4 and 3.3 dedicated to the design of the \u201cWHY engine\u201d for explainable digital assistant responses which will include the development of components about data analytics results and processes and the integration of reasoning about the analysis results, and investigate how it can be used to support on-job training. ANITI will lead Task 7.3 focussing in particular on contributions on AI Ethics. ANITI will contribute to the dissemination and exploitation related activities through the publication of scientific papers in reputed conferences and journals as well through ANITI industrial partners network. Moreover, ANITI will also contribute to WP1 and WP6 and to project activities related to communication and management. <\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Citt\u00e0 Studi S.p.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citt\u00e0 Studi Spa represents one of the European most important, and historically-based, industrial culture hub on textile-related issues. Citt\u00e0 Studi Biella is one of the most important educational and training centers in Northern Italy, established in 2004 in the oldest wool district in Europe, by a merger between two companies, Citt\u00e0 degli Studi S.p.A. and Texilia S.p.A. Citt\u00e0 Studi solidly fulfils the strategic integration between the various fields of university education, vocational training, research and business services; though operating in an international dimension, it remains faithful to its original vocation: growth and development for its territory. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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Since 2009, as coordinator of the Textile Innovation Cluster POINTEX, we have been actively engaged in supporting our companies in Italy as well as abroad on every possible level of their daily engagement with customers, research centres, international and national institutions and funding programs, etc. Therefore, we are part of an active network of textile companies, clusters and research spreading across the whole of Europe and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carrying on its primary role, Citt\u00e0 Studi has created in 2018 an academia (Citt\u00e0 Studi Academy) to fulfil the requests of the textile companies: to train all the professional roles in the textile field. In this project Citt\u00e0 Studi, in closed collaboration with Piacenza SpA, will test the AI system during the academia education programme and will support all the partners developing this system in order to create a usefull tool for textile training. <\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fratelli Piacenza S.p.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piacenza is an SME manufacturer of fine woollen fabrics for fashion and luxury markets. Based in Italian textile district of Biella, where all its production is realized, and it is one of the oldest textile industries of the world, founded in 1733 and from then on owned by the Piacenza family. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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Piacenza will provide the SME textile industrial test bed, where to implement COALA pilot. In particular, Piacenza will provide its experience from the participation into intelligent factories and factories of the future projects Texwin, Artisan, iSurf, Psymbiosys and Nimble as well as from FI-PPP FITMAN project, where its pilot included the application of FIWARE. Piacenza effort in COALA will be devoted to Update on state of the art & requirements definition and to Pilots Development and Data Collection. It will also contribute to the demonstration of COALA technology to other potential adopter and into the dissemination of the technology to its supplier network, local and international.<\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Whirlpool Management EMEA SRL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is the leading major appliance manufacturer in the world, with approximately $21 billion in annual sales, 92,000 employees and 70 manufacturing and research technology centers in 2019. The company markets Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, Jenn-Air, Indesit, Hotpoint and other major brand names in nearly every country throughout the world. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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In Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) it has approximately 21,000 employees, a sales presence in more than 35 countries and manufacturing sites in seven countries. Whirlpool EMEA is an operating segment of Whirlpool Corporation. Whirlpool Corp.\u2019s EMEA Headquarters are located in Pero (MI), Italy. Additional information about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com or find us on LinkedIn and Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Italy, besides the managerial centre, Whirlpool owns its Centre of Excellence for Research in Cassinetta, Italy (Varese district), and in Fabriano, employing researchers and technicians working on the development of innovations which are transferred to all EMEA businesses of the group. The Research Division has acquired over the years expertise in numerous areas such as manufacturing, materials, mechanical design, thermodynamics, energy transmission, energy efficiency, etc., that enable the company to undertake significant and challenging research projects. Strategic collaborations with several universities and research centres from all around EMEA support Whirlpool needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WHR will provide an industrial use case to demonstrate technological solutions developed by COALA in the Statistical Quality Department of one of its factories. <\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Diversey B.V.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diversey is a provider of cleaning, sanitation and maintenance products, systems and services that efficiently integrate chemicals, machines and sustainability programs. Everything Diversey does is based on the implicit belief that cleaning and hygiene are life essentials and that what Diversey undertake constitutes a vital service. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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Diversey constantly seeks to deliver revolutionary cleaning and hygiene technologies that provide total confidence to customers across all our global sectors. These include facility management, health care, hospitality, retail, and food service; in addition to food and beverage. Harnessing 95 years of expertise and knowledge, Diversey develops cleaning technologies that save lives, providing a tailored, customer-centric approach that empowers sustainable solutions. Diversey in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) have approximately 5,000 employees, with a sales presence in 37 countries and manufacturing sites in 9 countries, in the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden, UK, Switzerland, Turkey, South Africa. Diversey Europe BV is an operating segment of Diversey Inc. Diversey EMEA Headquarters is located in Utrecht, in the Netherlands. You can find more information about Diversey at Diversey.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Netherlands, besides the EMEA headquarters, Diversey owns its Centre Research facility in Utrecht, employing chemists, researchers, and engineers. Diversey collaborates with several universities and institutes like the University of Twente (TU), KIDV (Netherlands Institute for Sustainable Packaging), University of Eindhoven (EU) and so on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the COALA project, Diversey has chosen two of its European factories participating in the COALA project. The chemical factory at Enschede, in the Netherlands with 37,000 m2 and at Bagnolo, Italy with 48,000 m2 industrial area, producing a vast variety of products from 250mL to 1000L packaging types. Both factories have experience in continuous improvement and face similar challenges where COALA will support both manufacturing sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Diversey is an industrial user of the improvement, however it is also adding engineering and operational support to the COALA project. Diversey is looking forward to supporting the development of human-driven AI methods for recommendation systems operating with small data sets in order to support agile manufacturing processes. COALA will also be a good opportunity to introduce the latest AI technology in a chemical environment, that could be available in other industries like communication or automotive. Diversey also expects to provide its manufacturing colleagues with different knowledge, experience, background, and language dialect to improve voice recognition to be able to improve the production changeovers and training of production line managers. <\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I-Deal is currently active in the app development for mobile data collection and is strongly committed to enter the new domain of human-centric manufacturing optimisation explored by COALA. Being an SME with commercial development purposes, the company expect to reach a result which will be ready for commercialisation at the end of the project. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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Like happened in the past i-Deal also expect to transfer the technology developed in the project in the other business domains where it is present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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i-Deal will the IT provider, in charge of the mobile applications provided to operators during the training process. More in detail, i-Deal will provide all the tools to support the deployment of AI by mobile to support the interaction of students and operators during the training process and their introduction into the end-user manufacturing process. <\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gioumpitek Meleti Schediasmos Ylopoiisi Kai Polisi Ergon Pliroforikis Etaireia Periorismenis Efthynis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UBITECH is a leading, highly innovative software house, systems integrator and technology provider, established to provide leading edge intelligent technical solutions and consulting services to businesses, organizations and government to allow the efficient and effective secure access and communication with various heterogeneous information resources and services, anytime and anywhere. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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UBITECH enables real-time valid information processing and decision-making, the realization of intelligent business environments, and B2B and B2C transactions by providing high added-value business \u2013oriented and \u2013based solutions. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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UBITECH LTD is the youngest member of UBITECH Group that has been established in 2005, concentrated initially in the Balkan market and acquiring several EC and national grants for novel R&D initiatives. Currently, UBITECH Group has extended its operations with targeted international activities through its subsidiaries, representation offices, business partners and affiliated companies in Limassol (UBITECH LIMITED), Madrid (Business Development Office), Buenos Aires (UBITECH SRL targeting mainly Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia) and Guayaquil (Business Partner and Representation Office for Ecuador and Panama), concentrating mainly in the Spanish-speaking countries of Central and Latin America. Technology innovation constitutes the lifeblood of UBITECH. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UBITECH R&D team \u2013 that spans across all group\u2019s companies, collaborating and exchanging experiences and technological know-how, reinforcing the group\u2019s research capacity \u2013 is engaged in developing, integrating, deploying, piloting, demonstrating and evaluating innovative technologies, utilities, features and processes, transferring technological know-how to end-user organizations and adapting breakthrough solutions to end-user\u2019s demands. UBITECH R&D team participates in large, multidisciplinary consortiums in complex and highly-innovative projects, including experts from universities, research institutes and industry across the enlarged Europe, which partner to provide research, technology integration and skilled project management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UBITECH researchers, depending on their expertise and the local exploitation potential, perform applied research in the areas of Cloud Computing, Software and Services; 5G Technologies; Digital Security, Big Data and Analytics; Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things; Energy Efficiency; Factories of the Future; e\/m-Health. UBITECH has a strong a focus on the integration and interoperability of information technology solutions and applies its research results to solve problems in various application-oriented projects in several domains (included but not limited to Life Sciences and e-Health, Ambient Assisted and Independent Living, e-Government and Policy Modelling, Lifelong Education and Technology-enhanced Learning, e-Culture, e-Business and Networked Enterprise, Digital Factories, Security and Environmental Management).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UBITECH is going to lead WP4 concentrating in the architectural design, specification and integration activities towards the delivery of the COALA Platform. Moreover, UBITECH is going to work closely with the demonstrators in the implementation of the white goods use case (WP5), and support the technical partners in the contributions to EU\u2019s AI activities, including augmented analytics, predictive analytics and explainable AI. <\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Holonix S.R.L.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holonix was born as a spin-off from Politecnico di Milano; now it is an \u201cinnovative company\u201d specialized in ICT solutions for the manufacturing domain. The Company provides advanced ICT solutions mainly for the manufacturing domain, focused on the creation of value from data collected with IoT\/CPS technologies and on the involvement of different companies from the value chain. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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Holonix has a vast experience in European projects and the company invest significant effort in research activities in order to innovate its product portfolio. The company has extensive experience of industrial ICT implementation, while the link with the RTD is guaranteed by senior researchers holding a PhD Holonix mainly focuses on the Lifecycle Data and Knowledge Management, and it brought to the market the \u201ci-LiKe\u201d (intelligent Lifecycle data and Knowledge) suite able to collect data from smart products and production environment and aggregate them into formats that are used to create digital representations of the real world. It can also be used for advanced services supporting all the phases of the product life cycle, including production. Another commercial product is \u201ci-Like machines\u201d that is a platform to collect data from sensorised machines and offer services to monitor and support maintenance. Both i-Like and i-Like Machine derives from the results of research projects. In addition to IoT related solutions, Holonix developed competencies in Open Innovation, thanks to the participation to the FLEXINET (FP7, GA 608627) project and others afterwards, where it developed the first version of the Idea Manager tool and the Virtual Obeya tool. The Virtual Obeya platform had been further developed in FALCON (H2020, GA 636868) as front end of the entire project platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOLONIX has been technical coordinator of PREMANUS (FP7, GA 285541), Exploitation Leader of LinkedDesign (FP7, GA 284613) and Industrial Scenarios Coordinator of FALCON and it has been involved in road-mapping activities for the Factories of the Future. Moreover, it is driven the I3-VLab, an Italian association with the main objective to facilitate the enterprise interoperability through the internet of things technologies. The company is member of The Open Group, an association that provides open, vendor-neutral IT standards and certifications in a variety of subject areas critical to the enterprise. Thanks to some of the last H2020 project (including NIMBLE GA 723810, MANUSQUARE GA 761145, FIBEREUSE GA 730323-1), Holonix had been actively involved in the technical creation of Europe-wide IT platforms, to support companies in meeting business partners and services in specific domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HLX will participate into the definition of the requirements and UC cases (WP1) and into the feature definition of prescriptive analytics (WP2) that will feed T3.1 – Situation aware digital assistant in manufacturing, whose leadership is assigned to HLX. We will also contribute to the integration activities (WP4) and we will lead WP6 – Contributions to Europe\u2019s AI community, with the role of AI Ambassador. <\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mews Partners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mews Partners is an independent management consulting firm that has been dedicated to the improvement of its customers\u2019 operational performance for the past 25 years. Mews Partners combines value chain expertise (Innovation, R&D, MRO and Services, Management), methodology (Lean Transformation, IT Governance) and human values (customer proximity, team spirit) to deliver tangible results. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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Mews Partners has developed recognized expertise in PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) & Lean Engineering \/ Lean Product Development. Mews Partners has a wide knowledge of several industrial sectors: Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Energy & Utilities, Industrial equipment, Retail & Consumer Goods. Mews Partners has around 160 consultants dedicated to the improvement of operational excellence. The company has grown steadily since its creation in 1992 and had a turnover of 35 M\u20ac in 2019. Throughout its growth, our firm has always kept a focus on a fundamental value: team-spirit, whether internally between coworkers, or externally in our relationships with our customers. Today they are as appreciative as we are of this trademark, which facilitates the establishment of trusting relationships, strong commitment to recommended changes, and lasting involvement in the implementation efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mews Partners was a partner in European & French Research Projects: – ENHANCE, responsible for the data management task – CRESCENDO & SIMID, responsible for semantic technologies implementations – FALCON, UPTIME & DIH4CPS, responsible for the innovation strategy & management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mews Partners will be involved in business requirements analysis (from identification to market validation), change management, AI algorithm and techniques harmonisation and will lead the exploitation activities. The business requirements identification will rely on Mews\u2019 experience to structure major projects of Information Systems and the Use Cases definition. For their validation through market analysis, Mews Partners will rely on two levers: first its experience on market research for innovative projects in industries and, second, its industrial customer base which is more and more interested in Industry 4.0. Mews will also ensure that all AI techniques are consistent and well-optimized thanks to a large experience on industrial projects in Data Science. In addition, change management will be of great importance in COALA to make sure that these new approaches will be well adopted by the workers and their managers. Regarding exploitation, Mews Partners will leverage its experience on Business Modeling, on Lean Management methodologies and previous European projects such as FALCON & UPTIME. Especially, Mews Partners will facilitate the convergence on the Value Proposition and the Exploitation plan. <\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Institute of Technology and Education (ITB) is a central scientific research institution of the University of Bremen founded in 1986 with a staff of about 50 employees, it is one of the largest independent research institutions for vocational education and training worldwide. The four departments of the institute are headed by professors from the faculties 01 (Physics\/Electrical Engineering), 04 (Production Engineering) and 12 (Educational Sciences). Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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The research work of the ITB is dedicated to vocational training research under the guiding principle of the shaping of work, technology and education. The design aspect includes the idea of sustainability. In addition, the research work is characterised by a close connection to reforms and developments in vocational education and training. Against this background, interdisciplinary, participatory and international research and evaluation approaches are practiced which the ITB realizes together with the University, institutional and industrial partners and other institutions relevant to the design of work, technology and education. Among the focal points are: Design of work and technology, work and qualifications, teaching and learning in vocational education and training, school development and quality of teaching, work and technology as an object of pre-vocational education and training, occupations and vocational training systems and innovation and industrial culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ITB is involved in the entire project process with research into technical development from a vocational science perspective, curricular requirements at the educational level and operational implementation in education and training. Based on the research results, the ITB is successively developing a teaching-learning concept for in-company initial and continuing training. Focal points will be WP1, WP3 with process analyses, WP4 with learner-centred design, WP5 with a vocational scientific view of the application and its evaluation, WP7 through publications. <\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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STAM S.R.L.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STAM is an engineering firm specialized in the high-tech sector. We provide turnkey solutions in the following areas: Space & Defence, Security & Transport, Energy & Environment, and Industry & Automation. Since the company establishment in 1997, we have been designing and developing innovative mechanisms and mechatronic devices. Read More<\/a><\/span>\n

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The primary services provided were related to the field of mechanical engineering, performing all stages of the product design cycle: conception, tools and subsystem design and specification, definition of production systems and cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2010 we have broadened our expertise portfolio, applying our expertise in new fields, such as construction and transports, and building new skills in ICT, where we develop solutions and software tools in order to support activities within Industry 4.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The enthusiasm and experience of the personnel is our main asset. Thanks to these qualities and to an ideal mix between various areas of expertise, Stam has achieved outstanding results, such as: a number of patents, a testing laboratory for special machinery, and the successful completion of over 200 projects. STAM has developed a strong experience in working with the funding instruments of the European Commission under FP5, FP6, FP7, H2020, Eureka and ERA-Net frameworks, being involved in more than 50 Projects over the last 15 years, in the fields of: automation, mechatronics, adaptive production equipment, high precision manufacturing technologies, new materials and energy. Among these, it is worth mentioning the CloudiFacturing project, an H2020 project funded under the I4MS initiative where Stam acts as DIH, leading the exploitation and results in maximization of industrial use cases. Moreover, STAM is an engineering firm specialized in the high-tech sector. We provide turnkey solutions in the following areas: Space & Defence, Security & Transport, Energy & Environment, and Industry & Automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the company establishment in 1997, we have been designing and developing innovative mechanisms and mechatronic devices. The primary services provided were related to the field of mechanical engineering, performing all stages of the product design cycle: conception, tools and subsystem design and specification, definition of production systems and cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2010 we have broadened our expertise portfolio, applying our expertise in new fields, such as construction and transports, and building new skills in ICT, where we develop solutions and software tools in order to support activities within Industry 4.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The enthusiasm and experience of the personnel is our main asset. Thanks to these qualities and to an ideal mix between various areas of expertise, Stam has achieved outstanding results, such as: a number of patents, a testing laboratory for special machinery, and the successful completion of over 200 projects. STAM has developed a strong experience in working with the funding instruments of the European Commission under FP5, FP6, FP7, H2020, Eureka and ERA-Net frameworks, being involved in more than 50 Projects over the last 15 years, in the fields of: automation, mechatronics, adaptive production equipment, high precision manufacturing technologies, new materials and energy. Among these, it is worth mentioning the CloudiFacturing project, an H2020 project funded under the I4MS initiative where Stam acts as DIH, leading the exploitation and results in maximization of industrial use cases. Moreover, Stam is a member of the Italian Agency for the Promotion of European Research (http:\/\/www.apre.it\/en) and partner of several regional and National technology innovation hubs such as SIIT (intelligent integrated technology systems, http:\/\/www.siitscpa.it\/index.php), and has long-term relationships with CONFINDUSTRIA and the chamber of commerce of Genova and is a founding member of the START 4.0 competence center for security and optimization of strategic infrastructures, one of the eight highly specialized competence centers sponsored by the Italian Ministry of economic development and focusing on Industry 4.0. START 4.0 is a Public Private Partnership led by the Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR). The association involves industrial players such as ABB S.p.A, Ansaldo Energia S.p.A, Autorit\u00e0 di sistema portuale del Mar Ligure occidentale, Cetena S.p.A, DGS s.p.a, The Italian Institute of Technology (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IIT), Iren S.p.A., and Stam s.r.l.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mission of the competence center is to offer services concerning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Digital strategy, allowing enterprises (especially SMEs) to evaluate their level of digitization as well as their technology potential through the development of a set of tools;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Training, for the promotion and dissemination of competences related to the Industry 4.0 paradigm aiming to empower SMEs in achieving their industrial goals in the evolving European scenario;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Participation to RD&I collaborative projects to foster the open innovation transition of enterprises and SMEs as well as technology transfer initiatives;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The Competence Center is a strategic tool to support companies in facing the challenges brought by the fourth industrial revolution, creating synergies between, regional, national and European entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Due to private and public projects, Stam can count on a network of over 500 organizations Europe-wide, mostly SMEs. Within private projects, Stam usually supports companies\u2019 (mostly SMEs) research by selecting, coordinating, improving and evaluating ideas and project proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Within the project, STAM will support the definition of industrial requirements from the use cases as well as coordinate the results maximization activities through the development of specific exploitation plans, communication and training activities and continuously acting as an interface with the industry and R&D world to make the project\u2019s developments as relevant to the industry as possible. <\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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