FoF Briefing Material (privat)


	Work Programme 2014 -- Call 2014 - Now open / Closes on 20 March 2014

	Objective FoF 1 ? 2014: Process optimisation of manufacturing assets The ICT contribution to this initiative aims at improving the efficiency, adaptability and sustainability of manufacturing systems as well as their better integration within business processes in an increasingly globalized industrial context. Actions must be industry-driven and should include validation/demonstration elements and involve stakeholders covering the whole value chain. Specific challenge: Today's manufacturing is increasingly challenged by uncertainties of continuously and rapidly -changing market conditions and increasingly shorter time-to-market requirements. Manufacturing value chains are distributed and dependent on complex information and material flow requiring new approaches inside and outside the factory both on process and product lifecycle level. They have to respond faster and more efficiently to higher complexity and frequently changing designs. Topics of the FoF1 topic under evaluation will be structured around 3 sub-topics, i.e. i. Cyber Physical Systems for continuous and discrete processes ii. Collaborative and mobile manufacturing for optimising logistics / supply chain iii. Fast speed control and optimization of Laser-based manufacturing Research topics include, among others, advanced process sensors and control, M2M communications, optimization and control of discrete and continuous processes, management of supply chain and logistics and laser-based manufacturing. Proposals must address at least one of the above sub-topics (i), (ii) and/or (iii). Research and InnovationActions (RIAs) must be industry-driven and should include validation/demonstration elements and involve stakeholders covering the whole value chain. The call is published under http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2180-fof-01-2014.html (please see explanations on the work programme WP2014-5 below)