It is part of the Horizon 2020 Program and has been awarded at the Alcoi Campus.

The Production Management and Engineering Research Center (CIGIP) of the Alcoi Campus of the Universitat Politècnica de València, has obtained funding to participate in a European project of the Horizon 2020 Program in the call for Factories of the Future.

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This is the project titled Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks (C2NET) in which tools will be created in the Cloud for the optimization of Manufacturing Networks composed mainly of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and their logistics assets through the management of demand, production and supply plans collaboratively.

The specific objectives of the project are:

Improve the global competitiveness, innovation and adaptability of European companies in collaborative business scenarios.

Build network companies that are supported by stable collaborative schemes in a business paradigm based on collaboration and coordination.

Reduce costs, through global optimization and the elimination of inefficiencies in processes.

Train SMEs and improve their accessibility thanks to the Cloud environment and increase their visibility throughout the entire supply chain.

Optimize the use of materials, waste management as well as energy consumption through more rational and homogeneous production and supply plans, as well as a more balanced workforce and inventories.

The C2NET project proposal has been developed entirely by researchers from the Alcoi campus, coordinated by the professor and director of the CIGIP Raúl Poler. The project will begin on January 1, 2015, has a duration of 3 years and has funding of more than 7 million euros, of which 434,550 euros correspond to the UPV. Raúl Poler will be the scientific coordinator of the entire C2NET project and the CIGIP of the Campus d’Alcoi will lead the development of optimization algorithms and simulation models to solve problems related to logistics and manufacturing processes within the framework of collaborative manufacturing networks. .

The project consortium is made up of 20 entities from 6 countries (Belgium, Slovakia, Spain, Finland, France and Portugal) and consists of 3 Universities, 3 Technology Centers/Institutes, 2 Research Organizations, 2 Business Associations, 4 Large Companies and 6 SMEs. From Spain, in addition to the presence of the UPV, there is the participation of the consulting firm ATOS España, the IKERLAN Technology Centers and the Technological Institute of Informatics, as well as 2 Valencian companies in the automotive sector (Faurecia and Novatec).

It is not the first time that CIGIP researchers at the Alcoi Campus participate in a European project, as they are currently involved in the Future Internet Technologies for MANufacturing (FITMAN) project that will end in September 2015 and they recently coordinated the Resilient project Multi-Plant Networks (REMPLANET) which ended in April 2012. Other European projects in which CIGIP researchers at the Alcoi Campus have participated have been: PLANET-DESIGN, INTEROP-NoE, ECOSELL, UEML, V-CHAIN and SCHUMANN.

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