[step-manufacturing] New European projects

[Xun W Xu]

Thanks for the information, Ian.
For us, the ?International Cooperation? category will be of our interest.
Regards
Xun


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Xun W Xu (PhD)
Currently - December 2008
CAM-NC-Technology
Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL)
RWTH Aachen University
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Quoting Stroud Ian Anthony <ian.stroud at epfl.ch>:

> Dear Everyone,
> Please feel free to pass this message on to anyone you think may be 
> interested, as I do not have email addresses for everyone concerned 
> yet.
>
> The point of the message is to start a coordinated discussion on our 
> strategy for getting new FP7, and maybe other projects.  We all 
> recognise the need for having continuing strong presence in 
> manufacturing projects.  What I would like to do is, first, to avoid 
> treading on each other?s toes by competing with each other; and 
> secondly to coordinate research projects for better visibility.
>
> In the next call there seem to be three main NMP areas, which have 
> already been mentioned by Van Khai Nguyen in an earlier message.  
> These are:
>
> NMP-2009-3.2-2 Adaptive control systems for responsive factories
>
> NMP-2009-3.4-2 Holistic and integrated approach to high performance, 
> reliable and adaptive machine-tool design and production
>
> NMP-2009-4.0-5 Innovative and knowledge-based tooling industry
>
> With maybe
>
> NMP-2009-4.0-4 Reducing the environmental footprint of energy 
> intensive industries
>
> For eco-evaluation and adaptive control and stuff.  We are a bit 
> outside that, but maybe we can submit something anyway.
>
>
> For the Adaptive control systems call, there is, for me, an 
> interesting idea of how to set up a virtual factory of a main 
> manufacturer as a hub, with various SMEs attached as reconfigurable 
> manufacturing elements.  This could also work at a distance, so that 
> a company could have a virtual factory in another country to avoid 
> transport costs.  I think that this is in line with Bath?s 
> plug-and-play work.
>
> The Holistic and integrated approach is a bit of an embarrassment for 
> me.  This is a natural call for UPLIFE, which Professor Suh 
> initiated.  However, I did not know that Professor Xirouchakis has 
> already started negotiations with Fatronik (Rikardo Bueno) with a 
> similar proposition.  I think that there is room to join this 
> project, but we would not be in control, so I am a bit in the middle. 
>  If interested people in our community can be accommodated in 
> Fatronik?s project then OK, but if we decide to put in our own 
> proposal then I won?t be able to participate as a partner, although I 
> will help in preparation of the project.  What are your thoughts 
> about this?
>
> The Innovative and knowledge based tooling also talks about 
> distributed manufacturing and could maybe also have the virtual 
> factory as an element.  Simulation and verification based on standard 
> machine tool models is another possibility.
>
> The environmental footprint call may also be a forum for distributed 
> manufacturing and process selection.
>
>
> In addition there are some other interesting topics in the ICT 
> document I got from Stephen Newman.  I haven?t finished going through 
> these yet, but some of the objectives on networking may be 
> interesting in a manufacturing environment ? ?Internet of things and 
> Enterprise environments?, ?Trustworthy ICT?.  There is also Embedded 
> Systems design.  Technology Enhanced learning for manufacturing, 
> possibly embedding learning systems into manufacturing resources, 
> which was a suggestion by ASCAMM in the NEXT project in which we 
> participate.  I also noticed ?Challenging current thinking?, which 
> would perhaps be useful for re-engineering of the manufacturing 
> lifecycle, how to redo the CAD-CAPP-CAM-CVNC chain, but also handle 
> the use-phase and end-of-life phases with remanufacturing as an 
> integrated process.  There was also an ?International Cooperation? 
> category to look at.  I haven?t finished looking at this because I 
> found the document more opaque than the NMP call so am not sure quite 
> what they want.
>
> I would welcome your comments so that we can move forward to get some 
> projects, or possibly project packages, going in the near future.  
> Apologies to the people outside Europe if this is not of interest, 
> but I thought it would keep you informed about European activity.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ian
>
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> Ian Stroud
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>
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> Some links:
> http://www.nextproject.eu/
>
>



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