Industrial workshop on the results of the European H2020 CREMA and C2NET projects
On November 24, the First Industrial Workshop will be held at IKERLAN.
On November 24, the First Industrial Workshop of the “CREMA” and “C2NET” projects will be held at IKERLAN, both Cloud technology projects within the scope of the H2020 program.
This is an event during which there will be presentations and practical demonstrations carried out by different partners of both projects, as well as presentations by staff from the European Commission. Interested entities can find more information at the following link: Workshop.
New operating system for SMEs of the future
The Research Center in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP) of the UPV is one of the partners of the European vf-OS project. The Universitat Politècnica de València, through the Center for Research in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), is one of the partners of the European project «Virtual Factory Open Operating System» (vf-OS), funded by the Horizon 2020 program ( H2020) from the European Commission with 7.75 million euros.
The Universitat Politècnica de València, through the Center for Research in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), is one of the partners of the European project «Virtual Factory Open Operating System» (vf-OS), funded by the Horizon 2020 program ( H2020) from the European Commission with 7.75 million euros.
The objective of the project is to create a new operating system for SMEs, which will contribute to improving their competitiveness; vf-OS will make it easier for software developers to build apps faster and cheaper for European small and medium-sized businesses.
The technical coordinator of the project is Raúl Poler, director of CIGIP and also a professor at the Alcoy campus of the UPV. As highlighted, vf-OS joins the different initiatives in H2020 that aim for Europe to assume the leadership of digital platforms for industry 4.0, creating a new operating system on which to develop the business applications of the future, with special attention to needs of European SMEs.
Open operating system
vf-OS will be an open operating system. It will consist of a system core, an application programming interface and an advanced data storage and communications system. It will be hosted on a platform, so that companies can install it for free and subsequently download apps created by software developers.
“An application development kit will be provided to software developers for programming apps that will work on vf-OS, using a business application store on the virtual platform. The goal is for the platform to end up hosting thousands of apps, at a very competitive price and easy installation. Like the Android or IOS marketplaces, some of the applications will be offered for free, others will offer Premium functionalities and others will be a one-time payment or by subscription, but always as modular as possible and with a common objective: to facilitate SMEs access to software tools that contribute to being more efficient and improving their competitiveness,” adds Poler.
14 partners from 7 countries (Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Germany, Netherlands and Lithuania) participate in the vf-OS project, of which 9 partners are SMEs. Coordinated by the British company, Information Catalyst, the project will run from October 2016 to September 2019.
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CIO 2017
Edition: 11th
Date: from 5th to 6th July 2017
Place:Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
URL: http://www.cio2017.org
Welcome to the website of CIO 2017, XXI Congress of Organizational Engineering / 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management.
This conference is promoted by ADINGOR (Association for the Development of Organizational Engineering), and it will take place at Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) from 5th to 6th July 2017.
The CIO 2017 Conferece motto is: “Engineering Digital Transformation”. It aims to provide a forum to disseminate, to all branches of industry, information on the most recent and relevant research, theories and practices in Industrial Engineering, Management and Operations
European project vf-OS, turns one year old
Last week the corresponding review of the project was carried out in Brussels. An explanatory video has also been edited about what the project will be like. The Universitat Politècnica de València, through the Center for Research in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), is one of the partners of the European project «Virtual Factory Open Operating System» (vf-OS), funded by the Horizon 2020 program ( H2020) from the European Commission with 7.75 million euros.
The Universitat Politècnica de València, through the Center for Research in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), is one of the partners of the European project «Virtual Factory Open Operating System» (vf-OS), funded by the Horizon 2020 program ( H2020) from the European Commission with 7.75 million euros.
The objective of the project is to create a new operating system for SMEs, which will contribute to improving their competitiveness; vf-OS will make it easier for software developers to build apps faster and cheaper for European small and medium-sized businesses.
The technical coordinator of the project is Raúl Poler, director of CIGIP and also a professor at the Alcoy campus of the UPV. As highlighted, vf-OS joins the different initiatives in H2020 that aim for Europe to assume the leadership of digital platforms for industry 4.0, creating a new operating system on which to develop the business applications of the future, with special attention to needs of European SMEs.
Open operating system
vf-OS will be an open operating system. It will consist of a system core, an application programming interface and an advanced data storage and communications system. It will be hosted on a platform, so that companies can install it for free and subsequently download apps created by software developers.
“An application development kit will be provided to software developers for programming apps that will work on vf-OS, using a business application store on the virtual platform. The goal is for the platform to end up hosting thousands of apps, at a very competitive price and easy installation. Like the Android or IOS marketplaces, some of the applications will be offered for free, others will offer Premium functionalities and others will be a one-time payment or by subscription, but always as modular as possible and with a common objective: to facilitate SMEs access to software tools that contribute to being more efficient and improving their competitiveness,” adds Poler.
14 partners from 7 countries (Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Germany, Netherlands and Lithuania) participate in the vf-OS project, of which 9 partners are SMEs. Coordinated by the British company, Information Catalyst, the project will run from October 2016 to September 2019.
Visit to the production management and engineering research center (CIGIP)
What does the “Production Management and Engineering Research Center” (CIGIP) work on with potential applicability to VALMETAL and FEMEVAL companies? How can a company collaborate with CIGIP?
Program
09:00 Presentation of the day. What can the UPV do for the company?
09:10 What does the “Production Management and Engineering Research Center” (CIGIP) work on with potential applicability to VALMETAL and FEMEVAL companies?
- Operations Management, Supply and Distribution Chain Management and Business Modeling and Engineering. In particular:
- Analysis and Design of Decisional Systems. Advice on ERP Software Selection
- Development of the Order Management Process in a Company and/or Supply Chain/Direction
- Production/Operations in a context of uncertainty.
- Design of advanced production scheduling systems in complex environments (relationships between resources, size, dynamism, uncertainty, etc.).
- Modeling and simulation of production processes to help select alternatives based on the observation of the dynamic evolution of the system and the results obtained.
- Expert systems for demand forecasting. PROGNOS
- Programming ad-hoc algorithms for optimization.
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09:40 A vision of the most important innovations in production and supply chain management of interest to the business sector. Trends to take into account.
- Virtual Factory Open Operating System. Marketplace of an operating system led by the European industry and focused on the industrial sector. The availability of operating systems, software development kits, free or low-cost software, and marketplaces accelerate the implementation of solutions for the management of production and operations in the industry.
- Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks (C2NET). Development of Cloud tools for the optimization of Manufacturing Networks composed mainly of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and their logistics assets by collaboratively managing demand, production and supply plans.
- Future Internet Technologies for MANufacturing (FITMAN). Development of collaborative tools based on FIWARE technology “open source software ecosystem and public libraries” that facilitate and reduce the cost in the generation of intelligent applications for any sector. Especially intended to manage large volumes of information on the network so that all those people involved in the management of product design and development work together, online, from anywhere in the world.
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10:15 How can a company collaborate with CIGIP?
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Example of relationships with companies.Training offer in mastersMaster’s Degree in Advanced Production, Logistics and Supply Chain Engineering (MUIAPLCS)Master’s Degree in Organization and Logistics Engineering (MUIOL)Advice/realization of R+D+i projectsStudents in internships/master’s final projects based on business needs.
10:45 Networking coffee.
11:15 to 12:30 Optional Matching One to one companies/researcher. Bilateral meetings in private, company/researcher to analyze specific aspects of interest that require privacy.
Datos
- Day date: 04/12/2018
- Starts: 09:00
- Ends: 1:00 p.m.
- Maximum capacity: 20
- Location: POLITECNICA UNIVERSITY VALENCIA
- Address: CAMINO VERA, 14
- Population: VALENCIA
- Postal code: 46022
- Telephone: 963877100
- Email: mjimenez@femeval.es
- Contact: MARTA JIMENEZ
Researchers from the Alcoy campus of the UPV participate in this European project, funded by the Horizon 2020 program.
The Universitat Politècnica de València hosted last week, from Monday 21 to Friday 25 January, 60 researchers from 30 entities of the H2020 project «Zero Defects Manufacturing Platform» (ZDMP) celebrating the project kick-off meeting.
Launched on January 1, 2019, and with a duration of 4 years, ZDMP has as its main objective to develop an open source platform, aimed at Small and Medium Enterprises for the achievement of Zero Defects in the manufacturing of products in Industry 4.0.
The platform will make available to companies applications (Apps) for this purpose, which will be developed by software implementers using development kits and advanced artificial intelligence components.
ZDMP combines state-of-the-art technological approaches based on commercial quality standards, open source software and results from previous H2020 projects with an innovative integration concept based on successful technologies. The ultimate goal is to establish a sustainable commercial and technological approach that, at the end of the project, will enable the creation of a spin-of company «ZDMP Limited» that represents the exploitation potential of the majority of the partners and that, through a crowdsourcing approach, will commercialize the results of ZDMP.
The European consortium of the ZDMP project is made up of 30 entities from countries such as Spain, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Finland, the Czech Republic and Romania. Among them are technological SMEs specialized in software development (ICE, ASCORA, SOFTECO), SMEs whose main activity is the development of manufacturing technology related to zero defects (PROFACTOR, CETECK, VSYS), technology corporations (Software AG, Scale Focus), 11 use cases with companies in the automotive, machine tool, construction and electronics sectors (FORD, MANTINREA, MASS, HSD, FIDIA, FORMPLAST, CONSUGAL, PTMILLS, FLEXFELINA, CEI, CONTINENTAL, ALFATEST, SANDVIK, GRAMAFAN ), universities and research centers (UPV, UNINOVA, TUT, ITI, IKERLAN) and other specialists (DIN, ROOTER, UOS-ITI). ZDMP integrates among its partners research project coordinators who will provide their developed technologies such as “Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks” (C2NET), “Cloud-based Rapid Elastic MAnufacturing” (CREMA) and “Virtual factory Operating System” (vf-OS ).
From the Alcoy Campus of the UPV, the Production Management and Engineering Research Center (CIGIP), directed by Professor Raúl Poler, is the one that participates in the ZMDP project. Raúl Poler was the scientific coordinator of the C2NET project that ended last year and is the technical coordinator of the vf-OS project that will end in September 2019. CIGIP will be responsible for the development of machine learning algorithms for the optimization of manufacturing for quality assurance.
The ZDMP project is funded with 16.2 million euros by the Horizon 2020 program, specifically in the area of Factories of the Future: Digitalization and transformation of European industry and services (H2020 DT-ICT-07-2018-2019) with financing agreement number 825631.
What is vf-Os Hackathon?
vf-OS Hackathon is an event organized at the UPV, to demonstrate the latest Industry 4.0 technologies developed in the vf-OS project and apply them to solve real problems of SMEs from any industrial sector.
In the vf-OS Hackathon, developers (students and researchers) will collaborate on projects using the application design tools for connected factories (vApps) provided by the vf-OS ecosystem.
The vApps developed in vf-OS include predictive maintenance, stock optimization, collaborative design or quality control, using technologies such as industrial IoT, machine learning or big data analytics with simple and intuitive tools.
Why sign up?
- Have fun learning about the connected factory of the future.
- You don’t need to know how to program to collaborate.
- Work together with experts and get first-hand advice and best practices.
- Develop prototypes of applications for factories in our environment or for a global market.
- Present your business idea on Industry 4.0 and get resources.
- Work with open source tools and great potential in a booming market.
Requirements for participation
This hackathon is open to all those individuals or groups that meet the following requirements:
– UPV students preferably enrolled in undergraduate or master’s degree in the branch Engineering and Architecture. Information and Communication Technologies.
– Each group will present 1 application developed in the hackathon to participate in the awards competition.
– The students must have programming knowledge and it is preferable that they know javascript, nodejs and typescript.
Don't forget our prizes!
- 1st prize: 1.000€.
- 2nd prize: 750€.
- 3rd prize: 500€.
- 5 runners-up prizes of 200€.
Links of interest
- Call and rules of the Hackaton.
- Agenda.
- Hackathon registration.
- Hackathon Poster.
- Hackathon information.
- List of participants.
- Resolution of the prizes.
Boosting collaborative networks 4.0
Collaborative Networks play a key role in the ongoing process of digital transformation in industry and services. Although the Collaborative Network (CN) area is relatively young, and similar to several other domains, a number of major milestones can be identified in its “revolution” through the last decades. These milestones can be listed as follows:
-Collaborative Networks 1.0 – focused on goal-oriented networks (e.g., addressing the supply chains, extended enterprises, virtual enterprises, and virtual organizations)
-Collaborative Networks 2.0 – focused on CN breeding environments (e.g., addressing the business ecosystems, industry clusters, industrial districts, and professional virtual communities)
-Collaborative Networks 3.0 – focused on the interplay among multiple CNs (e.g., addressing the hybrid value system networks, and co-creation networks).
Research and development is now beginning to address Collaborative Networks 4.0, for which some of the main distinctive features include hybridization (networks consisting of organizations, people, machines and intelligent systems), collaboration between humans and intelligent autonomous systems, distributed cognitive systems, accountability, ethics and coping with risks and disruptions, handling large amounts of data, monetization of collaboration, creation of a collaboration culture, collaboration creativity, mass collaboration, and new business models focusing on collaborative value creation, among others.
PRO-VE 2020 aims at addressing diverse viewpoints on such timely challenges. It will provide a forum for sharing experiences, discussing trends, and identifying opportunities, thus introducing innovative solutions for the new generation of collaborative networks in the era of digital transformation. Contributions are invited from multiple and diverse areas and disciplines, including: computer science, manufacturing, industrial, electrical and computing engineering, social sciences, organization science, and technologies, among others, which are well tuned to both the interdisciplinary nature of the research and development on CN 4.0, as well as the spirit of the PRO-VE Working Conferences.
Topics
Possible topics for proposed papers, special sessions or position papers can notably include (but are not limited to):
• Collective intelligence and collaboration in advanced/emerging applications
- Collaborative manufacturing and factories of the future, e-health and care, food and agribusiness, and crisis/disaster management
Evaluation of papers is double-blind and based on full text, considering original scientific and technological contribution. However, prospective authors should also submit a short abstract to the conference in advance, in order to check if the proposed topic fits within the conference scope.
A CIGIP researcher among the 7 UPV researchers among the national elite
Josefa Mula, researcher at CIGIP, present in IHL ranking
Seven researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) are among the best resident scientists in Spain. This is attested by the ranking prepared by the Group for the Dissemination of Index h (DIH) from data obtained from the prestigious ISI Web of Knowledge.
They are Amparo Chiralt Boix, Mercedes Álvaro Rodríguez, Mª del Carmen Muñoz Roca, Mª Victoria Borrachero Rosado, Josefa Mula Bru, Sara Iborra Chornet and Mª Dolores Marcos Martínez.
For the elaboration of this ranking, the DIH group evaluates both the h-index of each researcher, a value that measures the scientific quality of the research personnel from the number of citations of their articles, and their h-factor, which is the quotient between the aforementioned index of each researcher and the average of all those who appear in the ranking in their area.
Josefa Mula Bru
PhD in Industrial Organization Engineering and Professor of Business Organization at the UPV, Josefa Mula is a member of the scientific and technical committee of the Center for Research in Management and Production Engineering (CIGIP) of the UPV. In addition, since 2008, she is deputy director of Quality at the Polytechnic School of Alcoy of the UPV.
In addition, she has published (in collaboration) more than 90 articles in relevant scientific journals. Her main contributions focus on the research and application of quantitative methods for the optimization of production management processes (demand forecasting, planning, scheduling and production control, among others) in industrial companies and supply chains.
Mula, who is currently leading a project of the national plan for the design and development of the supply chain 4.0 (CADS4.0), is co-author of the books edited by Springer Supply Chain Simulation: A System Dynamics Approach for Improving Performance and Operations Research Problems. Statements and Solutions; editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Production Management and Engineering; editor of the Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management; editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering; guest editor of the Central European Journal of Operations Research; and a member of the editorial staff of the International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems and Modelling.
Josefa Mula, researcher at CIGIP and professor at the Alcoy campus of the UPV
She is interviewed by the newspaper "Investigación" about her research work and her transfers to companies.
Professor at the Alcoy Campus of the UPV, she is on the list of the best Spanish scientists.
Link to the news: www.diarioinformacion.com
