A European project will improve the competitiveness and capacity of companies to adapt to the market
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05/19/2009
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The Polytechnic University of Valencia, through the Center for Research in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), leads REMPLANET, a European project that seeks, among other objectives, to increase the competitiveness of Multiplant Business Networks. Among the partners of the project is also the Technological Institute of Informatics (ITI) of the UPV.
The project started last week at the UPV – with the celebration of the “Kick-off meeting” in the Polytechnic City of Innovation – and will extend until April 2012. Throughout these three years, methods, guidelines and tools whose application will help companies adapt and respond better to changes in the market and obtain advantages over competitors with less capacity to adapt.
According to the CIGIP professor and researcher, Raúl Poler, REMPLANET aims to provide tools that allow networks of European non-hierarchical industrial companies to improve their competitiveness by increasing their capacity to adapt to unforeseen changes in an agile way, in order to to take advantage of the rapid evolution of current and future markets. “These tools will help us know how to respond to unexpected changes in the market, such as what we are experiencing today in the international economy with the global crisis. They will help companies adapt to the economic situation,” adds Poler.
REMPLANET will contribute to a significant reduction in logistics costs, high levels of current asset inventories and material lead times. To achieve this, this project will develop the appropriate tools to overcome the complexity of operating in several production networks, and at the same time, facilitate an increase in business volume. Among others, the development of a tool for the Simulation and Optimization of production and logistics scenarios of multi-plant networks is planned, as well as a Platform to support Open Innovation Processes.
The models and tools developed in the project will be validated through 6 pilots in different multi-localized and multi-national plants of networks of companies in the machinery and capital goods sector.
The REMPLANET project consortium consists of various research groups as well as companies – both SMEs and large companies – from Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy and Spain. The total budget of the project is 3.8 million euros.
A total of 27 researchers from all members of the consortium attended the “Kick-off meeting” and, after two days of intense work developed in each of the eight work packages of which the project consists, all the objectives set for the launch have been covered. The Project Officer (the person responsible for monitoring the project by the European Commission) attended all the work sessions and expressed his satisfaction both with the organization carried out by the UPV and with the degree of involvement of all the project partners and, especially, the interest expressed by industrial partners in the expected results.
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2nd IFIP WG5.8 workshop on enterprise interoperability (IWEI'200)
Edition: 2nd IFIP WG5.8 Workshop on Enterprise Interoperability
Date: 13-14/10/2009
Place: Valencia
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This workshop aims at identifying and discussing challenges and solutions with respect to enterprise interoperability, both at the business and the technical level. The workshop promotes the development of a scientific foundation for specifying, analysing and validating interoperability solutions; an architectural framework for addressing interoperability problems from different viewpoints and at different levels of abstraction; a maturity model to evaluate and rank interoperability solutions with respect to distinguished quality criteria; and a working set of practical solutions and tools that can be applied to interoperability problems to date.
BASYS 2010
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07/15/2010
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The Production Management and Engineering Research Center (CIGIP) organizes the BASYS 2010 conference, which will take place at the UPV, from July 21 to 23.
This conference is a forum to share visions and research on sustainable innovation and knowledge-based manufacturing models of products and services.
The goal is to discuss how people, emerging technologies, and organizations come together to redefine the way the value creation process is conceived and realized.
Due to the increase in customer participation in innovation networks, an increase in the responsibility and agility of industrial ecosystems should be expected. New production systems must be modeled, designed and used to achieve profitable solutions.
BASYS 2010 hopes to address new approaches to automation where synergies between people, systems and organizations are taken advantage of with the aim of generating products and services with high added value.
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UPV: http://www.upv.es/noticias-upv/noticia-4026-basys-2010-es.html
Business interoperability
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07/18/2011
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The Center for Research in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP) of the UPV organizes the 6th International Conference on Interoperability of Business Systems and Applications (I-ESA’12), from March 20 to 23, 2012.
The 6th International Conference on Interoperability of Business Systems and Applications (I-ESA’12) is organized by the Universitat Politècnica de València, INTERVAL (Spanish Pole of the I-VLab) and INTEROPV-Lab (European Virtual Laboratory for Business Interoperability).
This conference is the annual meeting of INTEROP-VLab, the largest community of business interoperability experts in Europe and China. It is a network of organizations that integrates universities, research centers, industrial partners and SMEs.
Since the first edition, which took place in Geneva in 2005, the I-ESA international conferences have established themselves as the most important event worldwide in the field of interoperability of business systems and applications.
So-called “enterprise interoperability” is the ability of an organization to work with other companies without requiring special effort. This ability to interact and exchange information, both internally and with external organizations (partners, suppliers, clients, citizens, etc.), is a key factor to improve competitiveness in today’s economy.
This is a fundamental factor to produce goods or services quickly and reduce costs and efforts. In addition, it ensures high levels of quality, customization, service and security.
Under the theme “Designing enterprise interoperability in the Internet of the future”, the I-ESA’12 conference will bring together professionals; experts; public and private sector entities, and researchers and organizations -both regional and international- who will debate over the four days on the latest applications of business interoperability in the fields of e-health, manufacturing, logistics or transportation.
Through presentations, presentations of scientific articles and analysis of real cases, participants will exchange opinions, ideas, results and experiences, and discuss the problems related to interoperability that they encounter in their daily lives.
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UPV: http://www.upv.es/noticias-upv/noticia-4711-interoperabilid-es.html
Two researchers from the Alcoy campus awarded at an international industrial engineering conference
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03/10/2011
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Researchers from the Alcoy Campus of the Polytechnic University of Valencia receive an award for their research related to the resilience of companies
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Raquel Sanchis and Raúl Poler, from the Production Management and Engineering Research Center (CIGIP) on the Alcoy campus of the UPV, were awarded at the 5th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management, held recently in Cartagena.
They received the award for the best paper presented in the manufacturing area. The communication titled: “Or der Fulfilment Strategies in the Capital Good Sector. An Empirical Research”, which was developed in collaboration with researchers Eduardo Saiz and Eduardo Castellano from IKERLAN, Center for Technological Research, revealed the main problem of companies in the machinery and capital goods sector that operate in mass customization scenarios to achieve business resilience.
The authors comment that it is really interesting to be able to know the real problems that companies face in mass customization scenarios, to guide research efforts towards the development of tools that help solve these difficulties.
The communication is the result of the European Research Project: Resilient Multi-Plant Networks (REMPLANET), led by the Production Management and Engineering Research Center (CIGIP) on the Alcoy campus of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
This recognition highlights the high quality of the research being carried out at the University of Alcoy.
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UPV: http://riunet.upv.es/bitstream/handle/10251/11756/20110926.remplanet.pdf?sequence=1
I-ESA 2012 (6th international conference)
Edition: 6th International conference on Interoperability for Enterprises systems and applications
Date: 20-23 marzo 2012
Place: Valencia
URL: http://www.aidima.es/iesa2012/
I-ESA’12 (Interoperability of enterprise systems and their applications) is the sixth Conference after the first five experiences carried out with great success: Geneva (2005), Bordeaux (2006), Madeira (2007), Berlin (2008 ) and Coventry (2010), as well as a special edition developed in Beijing (2009). I-ESA has already established itself as a key event in Europe in the field of business interoperability and an excellent opportunity to present and exchange leading research experiences in this field.
The I-ESA’12 Conference was held from March 20 to 23, 2012 and was organized by the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability, with the International Federation for Information Processing and the International Federation of Automatic Control as sponsors of the event and with the collaboration of AIDIMA. The I-ESA’12 edition had the participation of 119 attendees, according to their different registration alternatives.
Two days of pre-conference were held, March 20 and 21, 2012, in which a Doctoral Symposium and 13 Workshops were held, as well as the meeting of the Working Group 5.8 Enterprise Interoperability of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The Conference took place on March 22 and 23, 2012, in which oral presentations were presented in different sessions as well as different plenary presentations with prestigious guest speakers.
Pre-conference: March 20-21, 2012
- Doctoral symposium: The symposium brought together different doctoral students who showed their latest advances in their Doctoral Thesis work on Business Interoperability to receive feedback from experts in the field.
- Workshops: Specialized sessions in areas related to Business Interoperability in which speakers presented their latest research. 13 Workshops were held with a total of 58 presentations that gave rise to a great diversity of debates and round tables on the current state of Business Interoperability.
- Meeting of the IFIP WG 5.8 working group: In parallel to the doctoral symposium, on March 20, the annual meeting of the Working Group 5.8 Enterprise Interoperability of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) was held, in which its different participants defined new lines of research regarding the area of Business Interoperability as well as future work to be developed
Conference: March 22-23, 2012
- Opening ceremony: The ceremony was presided over by the Vice-Rector for Research of the Polytechnic University of Valencia: Amparo Chiralt, as well as by the Presidents of the Conference: Professor Raúl Poler (Polytechnic University of Valencia) and Professor Emeritus Guy Doumeingts (Universitat Politècnica de València) of Bordeaux) (Fig. 5).
- Plenary sessions: By 5 prestigious guest speakers
- Gerald Santucci: Head of the “Internet of Things and Future Internet Enterprise Systems” Unit, DG INFSO of the European Commission, (Belgium).
- Howard Manson: Corporate Information Standards Manager, BAE Systems (UK).
- Claudi Guglielmina: Project Director at the Corporate Research Unit of TXT (Italy).
- Michel Byvoet: Founder and CEO of Bivolino (Italy).
- Carmen Marcos: International expert in international projects at the R&D&I Office of the Valencian Community (OPIDI-CV) (IMPIVA), (Spain).
- Sessions: During the conference, 10 sessions were planned where 40 papers were presented. Researchers, academics and professionals showed their research results and experiences.
- Closing ceremony: The general presidents of I-ESA’12 thanked the guest speakers for their attendance as well as the work carried out by the organizing committee. In addition, prizes were awarded for the best presentation of both the Doctoral Symposium and the Conference and it was announced that the next edition will be held in Lille (France) in 2014.
Exos solutions/eye 2021
The UPV joins the spin-off companies Exos Solutions and Grupo Eye 2021 as a partner, arising from the CIGIP-UPV and the CITG-UPV respectively.
The Universitat Politècnica de València has joined as a partner the spin-off companies Exos Solutions SL and Grupo Eye2021 SL, arising from the Center for Research in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP) and the Center for Research in Graphic Technologies (CITG) from the UPV, respectively.
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Promoted by CIGIP researchers Raúl Poler and Ángel Ortiz, Exos Solutions SL has the UPV itself among its founding partners. Its activity focuses on research, development and innovation through the provision of consulting services to improve management and decision-making processes in companies and organizations.
To carry out its work, Exos Solutions SL will make use of DGRAI technology, developed over 20 years at the CIGIP-UPV and which includes software for modeling, analysis and simulation of decision-making processes (management systems). decision) of any organization or group of organizations. This software is also being used by the company Ericsson Mobile Communications and the University of Linköping (Sweden).
Eye2021 SL Group
For its part, Grupo Eye 2021 SL -established in 2012- is a company promoted by CITG researchers Guillermo Peris and Víctor Santiago, together with the Chinese businessman Zouqun Cai. Its activity focuses on the development and integration of applications to help blind or visually impaired people through advanced technology.
Its reference product is the EYE21 glasses, a device that helps the blind detect obstacles, recognize people, find objects and read. The result of more than ten years of research, they transform the images captured by two video cameras into sounds.
As Guillermo Peris explains, “sound helps blind people know if there are static or mobile objects in front of them that may cross their path. The glasses are connected to a microcomputer that processes the images and to headphones that the user is wearing.”
In addition, UPV researchers have developed specific applications for other areas, such as athletics, and are currently working on new models for other sports such as skiing or motorsports.
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UPV: http://www.upv.es/noticias-upv/noticia-6286-exos-solutions-es.html
International award for two researchers from the Alcoy campus of the UPV
The work investigates the collaborative networks formed by SMEs.
Beatriz Andrés, doctoral student, and Raúl Poler, professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València, belonging to the Production Management and Engineering Research Center (CIGIP) on the Alcoi Campus of the UPV, have been awarded at the international conference I-ESA 2014 (7th International Conference), recently held in Albi (France)
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They received the award for the best research paper presented at the I-ESA ’14 conference. The communication titled “Computing the strategies alignment in Collaborative Networks” was presented in the area of “Business Interoperability”. The article presents special relevance in the context of research on collaborative networks of companies, allowing collaborative networks to be modeled generically considering the objectives and strategies defined by the companies that form it, which allows identifying the influence that the strategies defined by a company of the network have on the objectives that are defined in the rest of the companies that are part of the collaborative network.
The proposed model allows researchers and professionals to identify which strategies are aligned among those defined by the companies that make up the network. This allows improving the objectives of the companies and consequently the performance of the network to which they belong.
Communication is within the field of study of the iNet•IMS Intellygent Non-Hierarchical Networks initiative.
This recognition highlights, once again, the quality of the research being developed at the Production Management and Engineering Research Center (CIGIP) on the Alcoi Campus of the UPV.
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UPV: http://www.epsa.upv.es/noticia_detalle.php?lang=es&idnot=246
Projects on factories of the future
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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UPV: http://www.epsa.upv.es/noticia_detalle.php?lang=es&idnot=397
Manuel Díaz-Madroñero, 2015 CEL university award
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Manuel Díaz-Madroñero, from the Production Management and Engineering Research Center (CIGIP) on the Alcoi Campus of the Universitat Politècnica de València, has been awarded the CEL University Award in the 2015 edition for his doctoral thesis “MRP IV: Fourth Generation Materials Requirements Planning” directed by professors Josefa Mula Bru and David Peidro Payá.
The CEL University Award, awarded by the Spanish Logistics Center (CEL), has become the most prestigious and important national award for research in the field of logistics. The winners of the award are the researchers who demonstrate in their work the most significant contributions in the business field to the improvement of supply chain management.
The main objective of Díaz-Madroñero’s thesis is the proposal of a new model, called MRP IV, that integrates production planning and supply transportation into the same decision system, with the restrictions inherent to the latter, such as such as types of transportation, pickup modes (milk-run, full truck, routes) in the supply chain. The objective is to avoid suboptimization of these plans, which are currently usually generated sequentially and independently.
The proposed model has been validated in a supply chain in the automotive sector, confirming the reduction of total costs and more efficient planning of the transportation of the trucks necessary to carry out the supply.
The Thesis is framed in the research developed by the Research Center in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP) in different projects of the National R&D&I Plan and the R&D&I Support Program of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
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