Dr' Eldaw Eldukhri,

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Enabling Global Innovative Manufacturing
Dr. Eldaw Eldukhri, Manufacturing Engineering
Centre, Cardiff University, UK
24th April 2008
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Contents

• Manufacturing in EU
• Competitiveness strategy for SMEs
• Manufacturing Research in EU
• Key technologies session Zurich, Nov. 2007
• Strategy for Enabling Global Innovative
  Manufacturing
• Goal
• Activities
• IPROMS the EU Network of Excellence
• Vision
• Structure
• Impact

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Manufacturing in the EU (1)

• 2.5 M manufacturing enterprises in the enlarged
  EU
• 22 of GNP
• 18-20 of the workforce

gt Manufacturing creates substantial wealth and
employment
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Manufacturing in the EU (2)

• EU manufacturing generates
• 25 of global waste
• 23 of greenhouse gases
• 26 of NOx

gt Further costs of efforts needed to minimise
the environmental impact
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Manufacturing in the EU (3)

• 93 micro SMEs
• 6 small enterprises
• under 1 medium-sized companies
• under 0.2 large enterprises
• 16 people per enterprise

gt SMEs form the core of EU manufacturing industry
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Competitiveness strategy for SMEs

• Innovation
• High technology
• High-value-adding
• High knowledge content

gt Advanced Manufacturing research holds the key
to EU competitiveness
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Manufacturing research in the EU

• Research carried out by thousands of
  organisations
• Lack of co-ordination
• Duplication of efforts and resources
• Different regional, national and EU funding
  bodies
• Duplication of programmes

gt EU manufacturing research is highly fragmented
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Key Technologies Session Zurich, Nov. 2007
Effective collaboration creates new value and
thus competition!
Nevertheless, in win-win collaborations all
involved actors may have a positive return
Win-win collaborations can be properly defined
through business-technology roadmaps
once a common technology framework has been set up
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Key Technologies Session Zurich, Nov. 2007
First Action Create the common technology
strategy for win-win RTDI collaborations on the
global market and hence, enable Horizontal key
technologies for global development
Second Action Define business-technology roadmaps
with reference to the global RTDI offer and the
global market
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Key Technologies Session Zurich, Nov. 2007
Horizontal Key Technologies for Global Development
Standardization of Product and Process Data
Flows, Requirements Specification and
Certification Protocols for consumer-centred
products and services Products, Process
Reliability and Quality Certification Methods and
protocols to guarantee proper knowledge and
awareness to the consumers Global Distributed and
Networked Production solutions New Business
Concepts and Organization Schemas for the global
market
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Strategy (1)

• Provision of sustainable solutions research
  focussed on the critically interrelated areas of
  business change, logistics and advanced
  manufacturing technologies, undertaken by
  centres of excellence in this field, bringing
  together wide-ranging sets of complementary
  business and engineering capabilities.

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Strategy (2)

• Creation of Virtual institutes Networks of
  Excellence to overcome research fragmentation
  through
• Integration to create strong and lasting
  integration of research activities and resources
• Joint research to advance knowledge to
  reinforce world-class status in an area
• Dissemination to extend excellence to the wider
  community

gt NoEs are an instrument for structuring EU
research
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Strategy (3)

• Enabling cutting-edge research coupled with
  vigorous strategies for knowledge-sharing and
  training programmes
• transforming manufacturing from
  resource-intensive to knowledge-intensive
• Adopting new attitudes towards continued
  acquisition, deployment, protection and funding
  of new knowledge
• Providing accessible RTDI infrastructures
  facilitated by favourable framework conditions

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Goal

• Facilitate mobility of researchers world-wide
• Create/strengthen collaborative research links
• Identify common challenges
• Agree joint approach to enabling global
  innovative manufacturing

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Activities

• Exchange of researchers
• Joint publication
• Preparation of research proposals
• Initiation of joint research

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Activities

• Transfer of knowledge
• Wide dissemination of research results
• Support for participation in joint events
• Fostering networking

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Activities

• Study tours
• Exposing researchers to latest developments
• Establishing collaborative links

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• IPROMS Network of Excellence

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IPROMS the FP6 NoE

• I intelligent, individualised , gt Innovative
• PROMS PROduction Machines and Systems
• IPROMS umbrella network covering the whole
  area of knowledge-based technology and
  organisation

gt IPROMS integrates key wealth and job
creating areas of EU Advanced Manufacturing
research
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The Manufacturing Challenges

• Concurrent Engineering
• Integration of Human and Technical Resources
• Conversion of Information to Knowledge
• Environmental Compatibility
• Reconfigurable Enterprises
• Innovative Manufacturing Processes and Products

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IPROMS Main Features

• Holistic coverage of the entire field of
  Production Machines and Systems
• Multi-disciplinary, non-compartmentalised nature
• Ability to choose priority research topics,
  embracing new areas according to changing
  industrial needs

gt This guarantees the continuing relevance and
sustainability of IPROMS
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IPROMS Focus

• Development of new processes and flexible,
  intelligent manufacturing systems
• Development of new, eco-efficient and
  user-friendly production equipment and
  technologies
• Incorporation of new technologies/ equipment into
  the factory of the future

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IPROMS Vision
ICT-enabled
Drivers price, quality, customisability,
environmental impact, sustainability
Processes design, production, support
Customisable Products
Materials
Technologies ... microsystems, re-configurable
manufacturing, enterprise modelling, agent
technology, knowledge management, man-machine
interaction, self-adaptive control, complex
systems, intelligent robotics
Knowledge-based Autonomous Factory
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Vision Realisation (1)

• Help define EU future research agenda
• Strengthen collaboration with Manufuture
• Prioritise partners research activities
• Facilitate integration of Partners resources
• Align activities with EC research policy
• Generate value-added research projects
• Promote international collaboration

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Vision Realisation (2)
European Commission
Collaborate
Consult
Define
Manufacturing Research Agenda
Collaborate
International organisations
Consult
IPROMS
Collaborate
Collaborate
Manufuture other ETPs
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IPROMS Research Clusters (1)

• Advanced Production Machines (APM)
• Multi-function Machines
• Re-configurable Machines
• Production Automation and Control (PAC)
• Collaborative Agent-based manufacturing
  automation
• Self-adaptive control
• Human-machine interaction

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IPROMS Research Clusters (2)

• Innovative Design Technology (IDT)
• Concurrency
• Design Complexity
• Production Organisation and Management (POM)
• Cost-effective and rapid reconfiguration of the
  factory
• Integration of human and technical resources

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Intended Impact (1)

• Higher degree of re-configurability
• Easier integration of manufacturing resources and
  legacy systems
• Greater autonomy and intelligence capabilities
• Extreme customisation (lot size)
• Greater environmental awareness

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Intended Impact (2)

• Integration of key EU research institutions in
  the field of manufacturing
• Re-structuring research within the whole area of
  Production Machines and Systems
• Enabling the creation of a knowledge-based,
  highly competitive EU industry
• minimising environmental impact

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Global Impact

• Sustainable manufacturing enterprise
• Zero-waste manufacturing strategy
• Cleaner production processes
• Stringent international environmental regulations
• Environmentally conscious consumer

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IPROMS Website

• Downloads (roadmaps, papers, books, )
• Discussion fora
• Web-based advisory service for SMEs
• Latest manufacturing news
• information about relevant world-wide events
• http//www.iproms.org

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Virtual Conference (1)

• Online web-based Conference
• Free participation including paper/presentation
  downloading
• Over 1500 registered participants
• Over 31,000 visits from 90 countries
• Conference topics appear at top of list when
  searched on Google
• Global forum for discussion and dissemination of
  manufacturing research results

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Virtual Conference (2)

• 107 papers from 32 countries during IPROMS 2007
• 4th IPROMS Virtual Conference on 1-14 July 2008
• Deadline for full paper submission is 28 April
  2008
• http//conference.iproms.org

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Partners
30 Core Partners from 14 European Countries
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The Co-ordinatorManufacturing Engineering Centre

• Leading-edge research in advanced manufacturing
  and information technology
• Wales-accredited Centre of Excellence
• Award-winning Centre for collaboration with
  industry
• Over 70 million research funding in the past 10
  years. http//www.mec.cf.ac.uk

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Associates

• Academic (63)
• Industrial (57)
• Trade groups (13)
• Public (4)
• Publishing (5)
• From 40 countries worldwide

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Associates (2)

• Benefits
• Free registration
• First hand access to information Expertise
• Participation in joint research ventures
• Access to a vibrant dissemination platform
• http//www.iproms.org/associate

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Contact

• IPROMS Central Co-ordination Team,
• Manufacturing Engineering Centre,
• Cardiff University,
• Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 3AA,
• United Kingdom
• Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
• E-mail iproms_at_iproms.org
• http//www.iproms.org

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The End Thank you