The document summarizes the activities and plans of the FInES Cluster Taskforce on Manufacture and Industry. It discusses the challenges facing European manufacturing, including servitization and sustainability. It outlines the Taskforce's objectives of stakeholder engagement, demonstration, and dissemination activities. Recent achievements are also summarized, such as workshops held in May 2012 on Internet of Things applications and business models. Future plans include clearer messaging to industry and participation in more events.
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1. The FInES Cluster
Taskforce on
Manufacture and Industry
Status,
activites
and plans
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Jesper Thestrup
The ebbits project
2. Items to be presented…
Task for objectives
Achievements
Key issues
Future directions and plans
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3. Industry Background
There are more than 20 million enterprises in the
European Union
but only 0.2 % are large enterprises!!
Two thirds of all jobs are in SMEs
one third is provided by large enterprises
Most of the research undertaken at the European level
has an underrepresentation of industrial participation and
a noticeable weak representation of SMEs
Only 18% of FP6 funding was attributed to industry
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4. Some challenges & solutions
Challenges facing European Manufacturing Industry
The Product-Service System – ”Servitization” of products and
”Productization” of services
Life-cycle management
Sustainable production, energy management, EOL
Sustainable business models and value identification
ICT Opportunities for European Manufacturing Industry
FI as a Universal Business Ecosystem
FI technologies for network interoperability
Internet of Thíngs (and Services)
Cloud technologies and service interoperability
Manufacturing enterprise interoperability, the digital enterprise, FoF
Value networks and dynamic value constallations
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5. Taskforce Objectives
Stakeholder Engagement
Actively seek to engage the stakeholders through interaction with
national business communities and European level organisations.
Attract and engage individual performers (opinion leaders,
innovation clusters, pilot owners, living labs)
Demonstration and pilot preparation
Align demonstration activities performed by one or jointly by several
projects
Dissemination Activities
Publishing of information material in form relevant to industry
Organise conference events, workshops, etc
Co-organise European events with the theme of Future Internet and
Enterprise Systems, Internet of People, Things and Services etc.
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6. Implementation until 10/12
Stakeholder Engagement
Identify business communities in Member States and prepared
introduction paper for visits
Alignment with EFFRA / ActionPlanT on the subject of roadmaps
Interaction with Interop-V on the subject of 2020 Vision for
Manufacturing Enterprise Interoperability (MEI)
Mobilisation
Support from organisations to liase with the Taskforce (ongoing)
FInES workshop organised in Denmark on 9 May 2012
FIA event to be organised in Denmark on 10 May 2012
General dissemination
Participation at the ActionPlanT stand at CeBIT march 2012 (ebbits)
Establish collaboration tools
Wiki – including transfer to FInES wiki
RSS feeds to project websites
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8. Fines workshop FIA May 2012
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http://webcast.in-jet.dk/site/player/pl_v6_compact.php?a=80038&t=0&m=wms&l=da_DK#
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9. FIA sesson 10th May 2012
“IoT applications and business models”
Organised by Philippe Cousin (Probe-IT) Man-
Sze Li et. al.
1. Presentations of IoT activities and challenges through
mainly the IoT forum,
2. Show cases event allowing projects to present IoT
application success stories, development and business
model
3. Panel session to debate few questions prepared in
advance
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12. Key Issues for our Taskforce
Stakeholder engagement
Need more activities at national and regional level
Need to meet industry and SMEs at their playing
field
Dissemination
Make our message more explicit and clear to
stakeholders
Participate in more events as a cluster
Cluster activities
Better coordination of activities
More visibility as EU/EC activity
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13. Future activities
Plan messages for industry and SMEs on key topics
Engage stakeholders through European, national and
regional events
Focus on Horizon 2020 and Enterprise Systems
Identify larger European events for dissemination of solutions
Further alignment with EFFRA / ActionPlanT / Interop-V
roadmaps
Coordination among FInES Cluster members / projects
Fill in the stakeholder identification for your country
Suggest activites and European events
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14. Contact
Manufacture and Industry
Website wiki
http://twiki.in-jet.dk/twiki/bin/view/FInES/WebHome
The ebbits project
www.ebbits-project.eu
Taskforce leader
Jesper Thestrup
In-JeT ApS
jth@in-jet.dk
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