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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UPV: http://www.epsa.upv.es/noticia_detalle.php?lang=es&idnot=1001
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.
Event – 2015
Platform for collaborative product design and development
Workshop on the FITMAN project tools for collaborative design in the furniture industry
Event details
Date
29 September 2015
Venue
AIDIMA, Technology Park, Calle Benjamín Franklin 13, Paterna (Valencia)
Project
FITMAN (Future Internet Technologies for MANufacturing)
Description
The FITMAN (Future Internet Technologies for MANufacturing) project developed a series of tools based on FIWARE technology (“Open APIs for Open Minds”). AIDIMA, together with the UPV, led the development focused on the furniture industry: tools for working collaboratively, handling large volumes of online information on possible product trends and designing innovative products.
These tools allow everyone involved in managing product design and development to work together, online, from anywhere in the world.
International recognition for researchers from the Alcoy campus
Beatriz Andres, doctoral student, and Raúl Poler, Professor at the UPV, belong to the Production Management and Engineering Research Center of the Alcoi Campus.
This is the fifth international recognition received for the research carried out by two researchers from the Higher Polytechnic School of Alcoy.
Beatriz Andrés, doctoral student, and Raúl Poler, University Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València, belong to the Center for Research in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), and have been awarded at the international conference “XXI International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management”, “XIX Congress of Organizational Engineering” and “International IIE Conference 2015” (ICIEOM-CIO-IIE 2015), held on July 6-8 in the Portuguese city of Aveiro.
Andrés and Poler achieved recognition in the article presented at the Doctoral Seminar held at the ICIEOM-CIO-IIE 2015 conference. In the article, titled “Modelling the Strategies Alignment Process in the Collaborative Network context”, they present the complete approach that allows addressing the collaborative process of strategy alignment. The complete proposed approach supports Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in making decisions about which strategies to activate, among all the strategies formulated by the partners of a collaborative network, so that they are aligned. The lack of alignment of the strategies activated by the companies belonging to a collaborative network can lead to a contradictory situation. So, if there is no alignment, the strategies activated by a company, which positively influence the objectives defined in the same company, can negatively influence the objectives defined in the other companies in the network. This lack of alignment generates non-collaborative behavior between companies, ultimately leading to failure in collaboration and dissolution of the collaborative network. Precisely, the contribution proposed by Andres and Poler allows companies to address the lack of alignment of strategies, through the identification of alienated strategies. Thus promoting sustainable and stable collaborative relationships within the collaborative network of companies.
This represents the last of five international recognitions obtained at the mercy of the work developed in the area of collaborative networks, 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=619
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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UPV: http://www.epsa.upv.es/noticia_detalle.php?lang=es&idnot=565
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
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.
Online news is available at:
UPV: http://www.epsa.upv.es/noticia_detalle.php?lang=es&idnot=246
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.
The online news is available at:
UPV: http://www.upv.es/noticias-upv/noticia-6286-exos-solutions-es.html
Event – 2012
I-ESA 2012
6th International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications
Event details
Edition
6th
Dates
20–23 March 2012
Venue
Valencia
Organisers
UPV and Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability
Attendees
119
Description
I-ESA’12 (Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications) was the sixth edition of the conference, after Geneva (2005), Bordeaux (2006), Madeira (2007), Berlin (2008) and Coventry (2010), plus a special edition in Beijing (2009). I-ESA has become a key event in Europe in the field of enterprise interoperability.
The conference was held from 20 to 23 March 2012, organised by the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and with the collaboration of AIDIMA. It had 119 attendees.
Pre-conference: 20–21 March 2012
- Doctoral symposium: doctoral students presented their latest thesis work on enterprise interoperability to receive feedback from experts.
- Workshops: 13 specialised sessions with 58 presentations and many debates on the state of enterprise interoperability.
- IFIP WG 5.8 meeting: on 20 March, in parallel with the doctoral symposium, the annual meeting of IFIP Working Group 5.8 Enterprise Interoperability defined new research lines and future work.
Conference: 22–23 March 2012
- Opening ceremony: chaired by the Vice-Rector for Research of the Universitat Politècnica de València, Amparo Chiralt, and by the conference chairs, Professor Raúl Poler (Universitat Politècnica de València) and Professor Emeritus Guy Doumeingts (University of Bordeaux).
- Plenary sessions with five invited speakers: Gerald Santucci (Head of the “Internet of Things and Future Internet Enterprise Systems” Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission), Howard Manson (Corporate Information Standards Manager, BAE Systems, UK), Claudi Guglielmina (Project Director, Corporate Research Unit, TXT, Italy), Michel Byvoet (founder and CEO of Bivolino) and Carmen Marcos (international projects expert at the R&D&I Office of the Valencian Community, OPIDI-CV, IMPIVA).
- Sessions: 10 sessions with 40 papers by researchers, academics and practitioners.
- Closing ceremony: awards for the best paper of the doctoral symposium and of the conference were presented, and the next edition was announced for Lille (France) in 2014.
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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