HaDEA-managed projects to show their work at Manufacturing Partnership Days (7-8 May)

The Manufacturing Partnership Days are taking place in Brussels, on 7 and 8 May 2024. This collaborative event, co-organised by EFFRA, Factories of the Future, and Made in Europe projects, aims to bring together the Factories of the Future and Made in Europe community, providing a platform to showcase ongoing project work.  

HaDEA-managed projects

Change2Twin (part of I4MS) supports manufacturing SMEs in their digitalisation process by providing Digital Twin solutions. Their scheme focuses on the individual needs of companies, reaching from the analysis of their digitisation potential, individual mentoring plan to ready-to-use recipe for digital twin deployment. Change2Twin provides companies with funding which covers the assessment of their digital fitness, preparedness for digital twinning as well as the deployment of the digital twin. Change2Twin has activated a network of 54 Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) that actively helped the manufacturing companies in their application process. It also developed a technology marketplace, a platform offering a variety of exploitation and innovation items.

ENGINE is working on a ‘first-time-right’ zero-defect metal product design and manufacturing system, which will be first applied in the marine engine supply chain. In addition, the project is creating a modelling toolbox for the design process as well as data solutions, diagnostic tools, and efficient methodologies and strategies for its implementation and optimal use. The success of this endeavour could lead to safer working conditions, lower costs, and lower emissions. 

FLEX4RES provides an open platform to support production networks' reconfiguration for resilient manufacturing value chains. The developed platform and specialised hardware aim to improve the existing industry-established lean management approaches related to Reconfiguration Management through the digitalisation of the production, characterised as Industry4.0, by allowing for the information sharing between value chain stakeholders. 

MASTERLY is developing flexible robotic solutions based on modular grippers and state-of-the-art robotic technologies enhanced with AI driven advanced control and perception capabilities. The technologies will be able to act autonomously to handle many different parts varying in size, shape, and material. The solutions will be tested in three industrial sectors: elevator assembly; logistic and packaging; and aeronautics production.

OPENZDM is developing an open platform advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) solutions and non-destructive testing to help companies realise zero defective material in a cyber-physical manufacturing process. This will allow a large reduction of wasted resources and energy consumption, while also supporting manufacturers to provide high-quality products.

PENELOPE is developing a methodology linking product-centric data management and production planning and scheduling in a closed-loop digital pipeline. The aim is to ensure accurate and precise manufacturability from the initial product design till the end of one-of-a-kind or low-volume large-scale parts. The project is built to develop the methodology and vision in the following sectors: oil and gas, shipbuilding, aeronautics, and bus and coach manufacturing.

R3GROUP is working to develop and demonstrate resilience strategies for reconfiguration. It will carry out industrial demonstrators in diverse manufacturing sectors (automotive, fabricated metal products, rubber and plastics, wearing apparel, home appliances) facing various reconfiguration issues (scale up or down, introduction of new suppliers, accommodation of multiple product variants, resilience to unforeseen events), engaging end-users operating with different business models (B2B, B2C) and on different positions in the value chain (OEM, Tier 1).  

STAND4EU is working to strengthen the links between the standards-making process and the research world and to improve the connection between research, industry, and standardisation bodies. It will map and identify key stakeholders and actors involved in standardisation activities at national, regional and international levels to allow proper identification of the obstacles hampering standardisation efforts in four technological domains: Welding, Additive Manufacturing, Smart Manufacturing, and Circular Economy. The STAND4EU Portal is being created and populated with inspiring examples of how research and innovation projects have contributed or are contributing to standardisation. 

SURE2COAT is working to enable the use and uptake of aluminium, instead of steel, in new sectors involving products with complex shapes, such as electrical engines, heating systems and heat storage units. To address aluminium’s corrosion problem, it is developing new surface treatments and innovative production technologies, also aiming to increase the energy efficiency and the use of recycled aluminium. 

ZDZW is developing a catalogue of Internet of Things (IoT) based non-destructive inspection (NDI) technologies to improve production efficiency, zero-defect, and sustainable manufacturing of European industries.