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Innovation in Digital Manufacturing Report from the Workshop on Innovation in Digital Manufacturing held on 21st and 22nd January 2015 in Brussels, Belgium

Organised by Communications Networks, Content and Technology Directorate-General DG CONNECT, A3 http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/smart-manufacturing and European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) http://www.effra.eu/

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EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing”

Executive Summary The digitisation of industry has recently become a central issue in the discussion on the shape of the future European economy. Its relevance has been recognised politically by acknowledging the need for a corresponding innovation strategy, which is high on the agenda of the European Commission and in EU Member States. The objective of the workshop "Innovation in Digital Manufacturing" was to bring together representatives of Europe's major initiatives in this area in order to explore synergies, stimulate cooperation and develop first ideas for a possible alignment of strategies and policies. The workshop was organised by DG CONNECT-A3 of the European Commission in co-operation with EFFRA, the European Factories of the Future Research Association. The first component and essential starting point of the event was a mapping exercise of all initiatives represented at the meeting in order to establish a comprehensive overview and develop a better understanding of what is currently done at EU-, national and regional level. The following map illustrates the overview:

The second part of the workshop focussed on relevant aspects of possible cooperation and related synergy effects, namely competence, demonstration and application centres / innovation hubs, platform-building, standardisation and the international dimension, and other issues e.g. skills, ethical and legal aspects. The main conclusions that were drawn from the second part are as follows: 

Need for pan-European EU platform-building for digital manufacturing. Platforms need to be interoperable, propose open and standardised interfaces and be modular, scalable and affordable both from applications development and operation perspectives, with clear and easy understandable business cases. Three types of possible platforms have been identified: (1) 2 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” organisational platforms organised across stakeholder groups; (2) technology platforms that may be organised around industrial suppliers which agree to open up part of their commercial products, integration hubs driven by shared governance models of industrial companies, and/or research & technology organisations, aiming at testing pre-commercial solutions and intending to be an experimental marketplace for new product-service or business models; (3) operational platforms organised in working groups to agree on essential issues e.g. system specification, reference architectures, or semantic interoperability middleware. Today's consumer platforms are dominated by non-European competitors. Europe has a strong position in industrial sectors, but needs to urgently develop a common strategy to preserve its interest in this area and reinforce its position. In order to be successful there is a need, on the one hand, to mobilise interest and commitment by large companies to work together and, on the other, to develop a supporting ecosystem, particularly towards SMEs and mid-caps. 

EU innovation initiatives such as ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) and Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE) should be further developed and expanded to connect together the fragmented national and regional initiatives. I4MS (available budget: € 77m, running since summer 2013) addresses process innovation through digital technologies, while SAE (available budget: € 25m, started 1 January 2015) supports product innovation – "digital inside". These initiatives have been recognised enablers for creating strong links between competence, demonstration, and innovation centres on an EU scale by providing the required critical mass of showcase experiments and the related knowledge to support innovation towards SMEs.

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A number of additional issues have been identified. They include the need for a proper legislative framework as future systems would need to be “legal by design”, e.g. as regards co-working of robots and humans and increased autonomy in systems. Liability issues have to be tackled with respect to potential accidents related to new ICT, but also as regards an innovative contract framework to deal with increasingly dynamic and flexible supply chains. Privacy needs to be addressed with clear guidelines on data ownership, management and exploitation to provide a level playing field across Europe. Holistic digital skills and training support need to be promoted at all levels, disseminating best practice and experience to re-skill and up-skill the workforce to the digital manufacturing level. Finally, social acceptance of digital manufacturing should be promoted in cooperation with trade unions as regards issues such as employment quality and quantity, welfare, health and privacy.

The following key recommendations were elaborated: 1. Industry commitment is of paramount importance to successfully support EU platform-building activities. Relevant industry associations should take the lead and organise an industrial digital manufacturing forum to identify the best approaches to platform-building activities. 2. The European Commission should foster co-ordination of national and regional initiatives in digital manufacturing by organising meetings on a 6 to 12-monthly basis to bring together all relevant constituencies from EU Member States. This could lead to an EU-wide repository of competence centres and their specialisation. 3.

The European Commission should expand its innovation actions such as I4MS and SAE in order to connect the different digital manufacturing initiatives and its platform building activities to support the adoption of emerging digital technologies.

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Table of Contents Executive Summary....................................................................................................................................... 2 Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction and Scope of Meeting .............................................................................................................. 5 Digital Manufacturing initiatives in the EU ................................................................................................... 7 Setting the Scene ...................................................................................................................................... 7 Mapping Innovation initiatives on Digital Manufacturing at EU level, in Member States and Regions .. 9 Germany................................................................................................................................................ 9 Netherlands......................................................................................................................................... 11 France.................................................................................................................................................. 12 United Kingdom .................................................................................................................................. 12 Spain.................................................................................................................................................... 13 Italy ..................................................................................................................................................... 14 Sweden................................................................................................................................................ 14 Finland................................................................................................................................................. 15 Austria ................................................................................................................................................. 15 Portugal ............................................................................................................................................... 16 Belgium ............................................................................................................................................... 16 Poland ................................................................................................................................................. 17 Greece ................................................................................................................................................. 17 The Approach of "Cross regional" Initiatives .......................................................................................... 17 The Link to the ICT PPPs.......................................................................................................................... 18 Discussion ............................................................................................................................................... 19 Synergies, co-operation and EU added-value ............................................................................................. 20 Inspiration for Discussion ....................................................................................................................... 20 Competence, Demonstration and Application Centres / Innovation Hubs ............................................ 22 Platform-Building, Standardisation and the International Dimension ................................................... 23 Other Issues: Skills, Ethical and Legal Aspects, Etc. ................................................................................ 25 Conclusions ................................................................................................................................................. 27 Participants and Contributors ..................................................................................................................... 29 Annex 1: Member States and Regional Initiatives ...................................................................................... 30 Annex 2: Digital Innovation Initiatives for Industry - State of play ............................................................. 37 Annex 3: Term of Reference and Final Agenda........................................................................................... 39

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Introduction and Scope of the Meeting The workshop was organised by the European Commission, DG CONNECT (Communications Networks, Content and Technology Directorate-General) in co-operation with EFFRA (European Factories of the Future Research Association). It brought together representatives of Europe's major initiatives on innovation in Digital Manufacturing in order to explore synergies, stimulate co-operation and develop first ideas for a possible alignment of strategies and policies across EU-, national and regional initiatives. The potential areas for panEuropean collaboration to exploit synergies between European, national and regional ecosystems include:  Linking leading EU competence centres to facilitate cross fertilisation and to establish demonstration centres for SMEs and midcaps;  Collaboration and consensus building on manufacturing standards and platforms for strategic positioning of European industry – also vis-à-vis initiatives like US Industrial Source: Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, 2014 Internet;  Pooling resources and exploring synergies between national and, in particular, also regional initiatives to achieve critical mass and further integration of the European supply chains;  Addressing the skills gap and reskilling due to the transformation of production processes;  Contributing to coherent policy making across different policy areas. The workshop was organised over two days. In the first day a series of setting the scene presentations were given by DG CONNECT, DG GROWTH (Internal Market, Industry, Entrepeneurship and SME Directorate-General), DG RTD (Research and Innovation Directorate-General) and EFFRA along with a political perspective from the Latvian Presidency1. Presentations were then given covering major initiatives from 13 member states to gain a picture of digital manufacturing research and innovation activities across Europe. This was complemented by presentations on cross regional activities and PPP activities. On the second day a number of presentations were given to inspire a discussion session. The world café methodology was used to to gather input on the key topics of interest: engagement with SMEs and midcaps via competence centres, demonstration and innovation hubs, platform building, standardisation, and skills, security, legal and other issues.

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EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” For each breakout session, the participants have been split in four tables, in each table the discussion was guided by a facilitator. The open-ended questions for each session were the following:   

Is there a need for an EU strategy? How do we achieve added value at EU level? What are possible key areas of collaboration among the national/regional initiatives? Which synergy effects are we aiming for?

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Digital Manufacturing initiatives in the EU Setting the Scene To open the event and set the scene for the workshop a number of presentations were given. Towards a European Strategy for Digitising European Industry (Khalil Rouhana, DG CONNECT) Khalil Rouhana highlighted that there is increasing momentum within the EC for digital transformation of industry. This is now driving work on the Digital Single Market (DSM). Innovations are expected in all types of products, with smart connected objects, sensors, wearables, low power devices, connectivity, Big Data, and Cloud computing. Additionally, there is a digital transformation of the process covering logistics, product design, shop floor automation and customer relationship management. The expectation is for radical disruptive changes leading to the development of new services around the products and reshuffling of values chains. The overall situation in Europe is good with many high tech industries in several member states but there is certain slowness in adopting digital solutions across other industries and regions. The SMEs and non-tech sectors are not benefitting yet sufficiently from digital technologies. In addition, there is a threat from new competition from non-EU digital platform owners, they are eager to become the dominant supplier of technology for EU industry and they are starting strategic alliances. Furthermore, there is a lack of standards and interoperable solutions, a need for skills and re-skilling of the work force, and legislative and regulatory gaps (e.g. security/safety). There is currently a fragmentation of effort in Europe and in order to obtain widespread adoption of digital technologies in all industrial sectors there is a need to focus on key technologies to provide leadership in digital platforms for industry such as embedded Operating Systems, autonomous systems, Cloud platforms, smart data analytics, system engineering methods & tools, design, simulation and security. To build the Digital Single Market it is also necessary to address the skills gap and legal issues. The EFFRA Vision (Maurizio Gattiglio, EFFRA) EFFRA promotes research and innovation for manufacturing and has 150 members, many of whom are SMEs. It was noted that manufacturing dropped significantly in the 2008 crisis and the aim is to recover this and to reach the goal that 20% of the European GDP is generated by manufacturing in 2020. The Factories of the Future initiative covers a mix of IoT, Complex Systems, Cloud, Big Data, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Augmented Reality with the aim of creating Future Intelligent Factories. There are needs for innovative and digital SMEs, high levels of customisation, flexible and rapidly adaptable manufacturing and sharing of resources and knowledge. From a digital perspective there is a need for interconnectivity, communications, and data storage in the Cloud. Factories will move closer to customers, be more energy and resource efficient, and provide adaptable workplaces for a changing worker demographic supporting continuous skills improvements and multi-skilled jobs. It is believed that 60% of the future jobs and companies, which will exist in the next years, do not exist now. 7 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” Task Force on Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Clean Production (Bonifacio Garcia Porras, DG GROWTH) The European Commission Task Force on Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Clean Production is providing a unique opportunity to bring things together to form a common understanding of why we need integration of digital into industry. This addresses a number of challenges including climate change, environmental protection and the need for growth to create jobs. It is necessary to act in a holistic manner considering industry and society. Innovation is the solution but technological innovation is not the only answer. This needs to be supported with integrated design and business models in a user driven approach. Five initiative pillars are recommended by the Task Force report: training the trainers, supporting the uptake of advanced manufacturing technologies, working with regional funds for modernisation of industry, collecting evidence-based EU industrial policies, and raising SME awareness on the need to modernise. An expert workshop is being held on 10th February to address how to facilitate the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies by SMEs. Factories of the Future and SPIRE Public Private Partnerships (Andrea Gentili, DG RTD) There is a need for standards and business models which requires interaction with DG GROWTH as well as research in human centred manufacturing, local manufacturing and additive manufacturing. Any initiative needs to be bottom up to attract SMEs both across sectors and across technologies. This can be enabled by use of regional funding. Plans of the Latvian Presidency (Rinalds Celmins, Chair of Competitiveness and Growth Working Party) It was highlighted that increasing competitiveness was a key aim of the Digital Agenda with 3 priorities: to be more and more competitive, be more digital and be more engaged. There is a major impetus for the Industrial Digital Single Market (DSM) and this requires input from industry and a profound debate on Digitalisation of Industry. There are many issues and also opportunities for entrepreneurship. This will result in a statement from Prime Ministers and the EC in coming months.

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Mapping Innovation initiatives on Digital Manufacturing at EU level, in Member States and Regions A map of European Digital Manufacturing Activities has been derived from the inputs of the participants of the meeting and in the following sections a brief description of each is given.

Germany Industrie 4.0 (Rainer Glatz, Wolfgang Dorst, Oliver Blank) The HighTech Strategy 2020 covers health, nutrition, communication, safety, climate, energy and mobility. There are 10 forward looking projects, two of which are in communications, with 200 Mn EUR of funding from government. The working group identified 8 action areas: standardisation, reference architecture, mastery of complex systems, national broadband infrastructure, security, organisation and structure, vocational and further education, legal framework and resource efficiency.

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EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” The aim is to achieve a quantum leap in organisation management through the entire value chain and product lifecycles. Key technologies are dynamic self-organising systems, real-time availability of information, Big Data management and optimisation. An aim is to realise research in the real world and in the Platform Industrie 4.0. BITKOM, VDMA and ZVEI are working together. A scientific advisory board has been formed and 4 working groups on strategy, standardisation, research and security have been created.

Smart Service World (Matthias Kuom) The Smart Service World is being funded with 50 Mn EUR primarily targeting strong sectors such as the automotive and aerospace industries. Industry policy and ICT policy are working together to address the Internet of Service where smart production is achieved via interlinkage across plants and across country boundaries. Autonomik for Industries 4.0 is addressing technological developments in autonomous systems and already 19 projects are running. The Competence Centres Industrie 4.0 is developing recommendations for implementation of change management, individualisation and fast delivery. A key challenge is how to be resilient against Cyber Physical System (CPS) attacks, disasters and malfunction. There are also issues of liability of who will pay if the system goes wrong. A new R&D programme called Smart Service Welt has also been launched investigating how products may be sold as smart services. Businesses must be ready to cooperate and continuously adapt their portfolios. There is a need to understand where experience can be shared, building on existing technologies, such as Future Internet and FIWARE. Co-ordinated orchestrated development programs for platforms in logistics and product engineering are needed and there is a need for exchange on standardisation and roadmapping. Allianz Industrie 4.0 (Joachim Seidelmann) The aim of Allianz Industrie 4.0 (which has not yet officially started) is to support Baden Württemberg in becomming a key supplier and lead market for Industrie 4.0 solutions. The 20 companies in the steering committee have defined a master plan which is being co-ordinated by VDMA. It is funded by the Ministry of Finance and Economics and interacts with local initiatives, e.g. Chambers of Commerce to get SMEs involved. The Campus for Personalised Production was highlighted as an example which brings together smart objects, CPS, additive production, real-time simulation and lightweight construction. 75 Mn EUR is being used to set up centre and a further 40 Mn EURs is being dedicated to integration of centres into the value chain. It's OWL (Guenter Korder) The OstWestfalenLippe Intelligent Technical Systems strategy is targeted at strengthening competitiveness in SMEs in a region that has many family owned SME’s. Here specialisation is advocated in the mechanical engineering, electrical/electronics and automotive supply industries. It is jointly funded by the cluster and government (100 Mn EUR) and 46 industry led projects are being performed. Joining with activities in other countries is welcomed and there are already links with Finland, China, 10 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” Poland and Spain. Research is being performed in ICT, mechanical engineering and robotics to move from mechatronic systems to Intelligent Systems. The programme has ambitious targets to create 10,000 new jobs and 50 new companies in 5 years and has already created 6500 jobs. Five new research institutes have been created on self-optimisation, human machine interaction, intelligent networking, energy efficiency and systems engineering. Additionally, 40 technology transfer projects have been funded (typically 10 months duration and 50,000 EUR) for engineers to receive knowledge then return to work. A further 120 projects will be performed in the next 2 years. It was highlighted that a governance organisation is needed, content is important, and there is a need for smart specialisation targeted towards SMEs in a region.

Netherlands Smart Industry (Egbert Jan Sol) The Smart Industry Action plan was created as a result of broad consultation. This identified a need for Network Centric Production, the importance of information as a source of value creation, and the requirement for new business, new knowledge, new skills and supporting policies. The Action Plan has a number of activities. This includes a knowledge base help desk for SMEs to deal

Smart Industry Regional Centre/Fieldlabs

with simpler problems via 10 regional centres, field labs performing work at TRL5-6 in real factories, and activities targeted at strengthening the foundations of knowledge. It was noted that there is a reluctance to let youngsters work with welding robots, older people are preferred but they need to be taught how to interact with the associated ICT. The plan covers a wide range of manufacturing sectors, e.g., metal, robots in greenhouses and digital manufacturing. It was noted that ICT will result in new 11 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” business models, e.g., pay for use, outsourcing of manufacturing, etc. Currently factory owners need help in what to invest in with respect to ICT.

France Usine du Futur (François Bichet, Michel Carton) La Nouvelle France Industrielle Plan was launched in 2014 by the French Ministry of Industry (MEIN) and has been managed by Fives and Dassault Systèmes. Two working groups have been involved covering supply (defining key competences, drivers and gathering suppliers) and demand to assess the impact by industries. Analysis is complete of 200 competitiveness drivers which have been grouped into 43 having strong economic, social and environmental impact. Projects have been defined for SME support (3000 SMEs to be coached under the French Regions leadership), eco performance (3 pilot projects), industrial pilots (a wide number, including 6 priority projects) and R&D (7 projects covering composites, robotics, 3D printing, nondestructive inspection and the augmented human). The plan was approved in May 2014 and is being started. There is good agreement on topics which are structured into 6 levels: supply chain, facility, line, station, resource and interface. It was noted that problems to be adressed are different at different levels, e.g intimacy with the customer to bring loyalty at the suplly chain level, eco issues at the facility level and optimisation at the line level. A key overall aim is to put the human back at the centre of factory for him to drive continuous innovation. Finally IoT is important at interface level as a key driver for systems architecture. Ile de France ”Usine du futur” programme (Cedric Daumas) Ile de France is the number one industrial region (480,000 jobs in 2010) in France with strong presence in many key sectors (aeronautics, automotive, mechanics, electric equipment and complex systems, etc) but is suffering from a decrease in industrial employment. The Region has recently adopted an “Usine du future” programme that will be implemented by a partnership involving the Region, its innovation agency, the regional chambers of commerce, clusters, the CETIM, etc. Funding is targeting experimentation, development changes and modernisation of industrial production systems. The Action Plan for factory of the future targets SMEs. It has 5 actions today with another one starting on Lean Automotive in April 2015. These are to help SMEs build a shared vision of their future, help competitiveness and sustainable development, help to improve production performance, provide training days for aeronautics companies, and robotisation by helping SMEs testing the robots in their production processes and purchasing them. This is initially a 2 Mn EUR programme for 2 years (20152016) that will be reinforced in the future. Overall there are 25 Mn EUR for collaborative R&D in the S3 strategy, it is estimated that up to 5 Mn EUR could support FoF projects through a strategic innovation domain dedicated to “Complex systems and software engineeting” but also through funding to robotics and photonics defined as transversal priorities in the S3.

United Kingdom High value Manufacturing Catapult (Lynne McGregor) Manufacturing accounts for 10% of UK GDP, 54% of exports and 2.5 million jobs. 72% of UK R&D is funded by manufacturing. The EPSRC Research Council funds early stage research TRL1-3, and Innovate UK funds research to TRL4-TRL6 via SMART, SBRI and Collaborative R&D programmes. The Catapults use a mixture of Industry and Private Sector funds with the aim of providing manufacturing leadership, access to global economies and addressing research challenges, of which manufacturing informatics is a key area. Innovate UK challenge areas are in energy, health, transport, etc. 12 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” There are 7 R&D Catapults with 1238 staff and a £369 Mn capital base which provide capital equipment and the skills and competences to run the equipment. The High Value Manufacturing Catapult has £72 Mn and the Digital Economy Catapult has £42 Mn. The aim is to demonstrate how companies can use and exploit new technologies driving growth in manufacturing and to help companies of all sizes to incubate and develop new technologies. This takes the risk out of innovation. For skills development the National College of Advanced Manufacturing has been set up with the AMRC Training Centre in Sheffield. A new training centre is being built at the MTC (Manufacturing Technology Centre) in Coventry and further centres will follow. Scotland (David Milliken) Currently a Manufacturing Action Plan for Scotland is being developed and it will be complete by spring 2015. This is to act as an interface between industry and Innovate UK with an overall objective to rebalance the economy by growing a sustainable and competitive manufacturing sector. Strategic leadership is required with investment in plant and machinery, innovation, transformational change, productivity and skills. It was noted that education is needed on what innovation really is because many people think it is just problem solving. Funding for initiatives has yet to be announced.

Spain Estrategia Fabricacion Avanzada (Oscar Lazaro) An overview of the industrial strategy of Basque region was given which covers energy, advanced manufacturing and biosciences. There is a focus on upgrading factories, improving efficiency, quality of employment (targeting the ageing workforce), new materials, new processes, means and systems. The complete life cycle is being considered: pre-manufacturing, manufacturing and post-manufacturing linked with services. The machine tool industry is particularly strong in the Basque region along with advanced manufacturing. To target higher value niche markets, 5 different actions have been launched with a local perspective but with global reach to address global value chains and help industry with the internationalisation process. The aim is to provide supporting infrastructure and scale up so that SMEs can grow. Big industry is working with SMEs to reach global markets. Areas are: eco-efficient competitive manufacturing, new materials and complex structures, new business services with high added value, intelligent and safe means for production and intelligent collaborative and distributed manufacturing, Two advanced manufacturing centres have been created with 10 Mn EUR per year funding in aerospace and energy. There are also initiatives to renew machine tools and help SMEs implement ICT solutions. 13 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” MDI 4.0 – TECNALIA (Rikardo Bueno) MDI 4.0 stands for “Diagnosis and Impact Model for Industry 4.0”. The objective of this initiative is to identify the lacks and gaps of the industrial companies within the Industry 4.0 strategy and to identify relevant opportunities of improvement. The initiative addresses Product and Process Innovation in SMEs, in order to take advantage from digital technologies. The initiative contributes to identify the improvement opportunities that can have a strong impact on the efficiency of the company, being feasible and with an acceptable ROI. In the application of the Indutry 4.0 diagnosis and roadmapping initiative for SMEs, each company is different from all others, due to its sector, product, processes, organizational structure or economical situation. The approach to Industry 4.0 is also different for each company and the MDI 4.0 tool identifies the best opportunities individualised per company.

Italy Fabbrica Intelligente - Cluster Tecnologico Nazionale (Tullio Tolio) Italy is the second largest manufacturing country in Europe with 4 very strong manufacturing regions. Italian industry is dominated by SMEs who employ 4 million people. To support the Italian industry, the Cluster on Intelligent Factories was created in 2012 to form a long lasting community to propose and generate research agendas. Currently membership has 223 companies (180 SMEs), 46 research organisations and 24 other type of organisations. The cluster connects national policies to international policies with the aim of developing new processes, product services and exploiting new market opportunities. It facilitates Italian participation in European Initiatives, PPPs and JTIs. Research priorities are synchronised and each regional cluster has a representative on the national board. Four projects have been defined: sustainable manufacturing, adaptive and modular approaches for the digital factory, smart manufacturing and high performance manufacturing. These are funded with 33 Mn EUR. Associazione Fabbrica Intelligente Lombardia (Marco Taisch) The North of Italy is a key region and there is a drive to support the local manufacturing sector. AFIL is the Lombardy Intelligent Factory Association which promotes research and innovation. It defines and adopts technologies considering integrated evolution of products. The Intelligent Factory is a key part of this and is addressing a number of industrial sectors, e.g. aerospace, agrifood, chemistry, mobility, smart communities, etc. A roadmap has been created that covers innovative processes, adaptive and evolutive manufacturing systems, high efficiency, human centred, personalised manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing, and collaborative/dynamic entreprises. ICT priorities are in adaptive systems, digital manufacturing, modelling and simulation, design of personalised products and collaborative supply chain management (considering information sharing and Big Data).

Sweden Produktion 2030 (Cecilia Warrol) In Sweden 650,000 people are directly employed in industry and around 1 million are dependent on manufacturing. 77% of exports are industry based and 42 Bn SEK for R&D comes from engineering companies. The National Programme, Produktion2030, aims to link industry, academia and research institutes so that they collaborate together to increase innovation. Since 2013, 6 strength areas have been supported: environmentally sustainable production, flexible manufacturing, virtual production and simulation, human centred production systems, production services and integrated product development. 25 Mn SEK per year is being provided for research and innovation projects, technology transfer to SMEs, education (28 courses), mobility and internationalisation. A total of 15 R&I projects

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EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” have started and there are also collaborations with EU programmes. An expert group of 200 people has been set up to address challenges and generate ideas.

Finland Finnish Innovation Initiatives (Tuokko Reijo) Five examples of initiatives were given (total 250 Mn EUR): MANU (35 Mn EUR), S-STEP (25.6 Mn EUR), SIMP (43.8 Mn EUR), S4Fleet (50.6 Mn EUR) and Industrial Internet (100 Mn EUR). All these initiatives are PPPs with 40% coming from industry. MANU is addressing manufacturing processes, lean production and human centric manufacturing. S-STEP is developing smart technologies for lifecycle performance improvement using Industrial Internet technology. SIMP is investigating system integrated metal production to increase the competitiveness of the Finnish metals and metal products export sector by digitalisation and sustainability. S4Fleet is targeted at improving profit creation and service business in technology firms by creating enablers for high volume dynamic and global service business. The Industrial Internet initiative is encouraging companies from different fields to co-operate. Key topics being covered include Big Data, machine-to-machine communication and real-time service and production processes. Late 2014 company driven Finnish Industrial Internet Forum (www.FIIF.fi) was launched in order to boost new Industrial Internet enabled business, renewal of value chains and markets. FIIF activities initiate joint hacking, testing and breeding of longer term R&D&I actions between manufacturing, ICT companies, research and education. FIIF targets utilising existing solutions and experiences of start-ups, SMEs, large companies and academia to the full, and it also seeks seeds for new R&D initiatives and for policy making. January 2015 FIIF has 135 member organisations.

Austria Produktion der Zukunft (Michael Wiesmueller) In Austria manufacturing accounts for 670,000 employees (16% of total employment), with 30,000 companies, the majority of which are SMEs. 1 Bn EUR has been invested in Advanced Manufacturing and Production Technologies and the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology intends to invest a further 250 Mn EUR in the next 2 years. Dedicated top down RTI programmes are used and the ICT of the Future initiative covers all aspects of ICT research in Austria addressing, embedded systems, complex systems, secure systems, intelligent systems and interoperable systems. The Production of the 15 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” Future initiative (25 Mn EUR /year) aims to strengthen the technological basis with efficient production processes and systems, flexible manufacturing, tools for planning, simulation, data management and additive manufacturing. Three Endowed Professors have been appointed for: Industrie 4.0 for SMEs, smart textile production, and high tech material steel. A Pilot Factory demonstration lab is also being created at Vienna University. An Austrian Industrie 4.0 Platform has been established with the aim of guiding research and innovation activities.

Portugal ProduTech (José Carlos Caldeira) An overview of the Production Technology Initiatives launched by Manufuture Cluster Initiative was given. This has 90 members covering end users, researchers and manufacturers. An Action Plan was created selecting EFFRA roadmap key themes of interest for Portugal concentrating mainly on ICT. The intent is to cross-fertilise technologies across 8 sectors (e.g. glass, ceramic, cork, metal) via two initiatives PRODUTECH PSI and PRODUTECH PTI that cover new products and services and new processes and innovative technologies respectively. This is supported with 12.5 Mn EUR of investment and 8.8 Mn EUR of funding. It is addressing new software, machinery, models, and advanced tools for new products, interactive training, and maintenance and energy mangement. It is also looking at standards and protocols for integration. It was noted that Advanced Manufacturing is a priority at regional and national level and RIS3 (smart specialisation) strategies are now being worked upon.

Belgium iMinds (Ilse Roelants) The Flanders Digital Research and Incubation Institute has 5 strategic research centres, including IMinds which addresses Digital, and Flanders MAKE which addresses manufacturing. Research topics are security, Internet of Things, Big Data analytics and high tech visualisation. A strategic programme for IoT and visualisation is being set up. iMinds is involved in 4 FIWARE accelerators. The aim is to encourage start-ups and entrepreneurs, and transform from old industry to the factory of the future. 16 12 Feb 2015


Poland Polish Innovation Initiative (Edward Chlebus) Funding is being provided by the national centre for research and also by the national centre for science. Key areas in Poland are mining, agriculture, medicine, aeronautics and automotive. The PPP model is being used in partnership with industry and 5 current programmes: Digital mine, Intelligent Mine, Smart Mining, Lean Mining and Mine of the Future are being funded. Other areas being funded by national funding are new equipment and devices for agriculture, medicine and additive manufacturing. For the aeronautics sector additive manufacturing, 3D modelling, lightweight constructions and new materials are being supported. For automotive, digital manufacturing, digital factory, visualisation, control systems, computer aided design, modelling, simulation and additive manufacturing are being supported. Another key area is Digital manufacturing for SMEs.

Greece Western Greece Innovation Initiative (George Chryssolouris) It was noted that the GDP for Greece coming from manufacturing was significantly lower than Germany and also much lower than the 15% “economic health” threshold. In Greece, only 8% of the economy is based on manufacturing. Under RIS3 smart specialisation strategy the government is funding areas such as food production with the intent of reducing unemployment. SME’s in Greece are very small and the development strategy in the Western Region of Greece is to improve SME manufacturing competitiveness by exploiting ICT. 30MEuros is targeted at education and training and R&D in advanced materials, nanotechnologies and ICT.

The Approach of "Cross regional" Initiatives EU Innovation Initiatives and Regional Dimension (Francesca Flamigni, DG CONNECT, A3) Two main initiatives are being supported: ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) focusing on Digital Manufacturing and Smart Anything Everywhere which aims at putting ICT inside of products and services to develop new functionalities, higher security and safety,etc... (see Annex 2 for more details). The aim of these initiatives is to support early adopters of technology but also to help suppliers of novel ICT to move from the lab to the market (TRL 4-6). I4MS is an initiative created for supporting panEuropean networks of competence centres to support a critical mass of cross-value chain/cross-borders experiments involving SMEs. There are currently 7 running projects, 40 competence centres and 150 experiments with 77 Mn EUR of funding. The Smart Anything Everywhere initiative is helping to create a critical mass of experiments in the Components and Systems area covering microelectronics, smart systems, cyber physical systems and IoT applications. It is a dynamic scheme to allow for the fast innovation cycles in this area. New calls for experiments are made in batches. There are currently 4 projects and 100 experiments for a total funding of 25 Mn EUR. The objective for the next WorkProgramme (WP2016-17) is to promote an organic growth of the innovation ecosystems of the 2 initiatives towards less developed regions by promoting the access to other sources of funding such as funding from national initiatives, the European Structural & Investment Funds (ESIF), the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI). Regional satellite nodes will have the possibility to access competence centres in different EU countries to exploit their competences/infrastructures/services/skills. Activities funded through H2020 have to be innovative, while the activities performed by regional satellite nodes usually focus on achieving more cohesion. Therefore, the feasibility of an innovative experiment might be supported through H2020 whereas replications of a successful experiment in a local setting can help to achieve more cohesion and 17 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” innovation in a region. Also local dissemination and skills development seem useful activities for regional satellite nodes. The H2020 projects will have the possibility to use a small "start-up" funding to set-up business cases in regional satellite nodes. Vanguard Initiative (Jan Larosse, in collaboration with other Vanguard representatives) Vanguard is a political initiative launched in 2013 covering 21 regions. The aim is to adapt the smart specialisation strategy to a more general industrial strategy with the goal of influencing the European industrial policy debate. A number of initiatives are being created under a new mechanism on advanced manufacturing specifically targeting regions as these are close to companies and research institutes. There are 3 pilots covering high performance production through 3D printing, applications in harsh environments and efficient and sustainable manufacturing. The intention is to map value chains, and if more funding is available, set up demonstrators. Interregional networks are also been set up to foster co-operation.

The Link to the ICT PPPs ECSEL (Jerker Delsing) The aim of ECSEL is to provide European leadership in the automation industry and increase European competiveness in production. The intention is to lead in automation and disruptive production technologies by use of innovative electronics systems and embedded software. The priorities areas are: safety-critical systems, virtual world, Big Data, systems of systems, Cloud services, Internet of Things, autonomous, adaptive and predictive control, computing and multicore technologies. These are applied to automation services and automation systems for flexible distributed manufacturing. A Roadmap has been created targeting in the short term introduction and migration to smart cyber physical systems, in the mid-term development of proven production automation systems, and in the long term collaborative automation systems. Photonics 21 (Reinhart Poprawe) The intention of Photonics 21 is to link between digital photonics production and Industrie 4.0. The mission is to unify the photonics community and advise on photonics research development and innovation needs. Currently there are 2200 members from 1100 organisations. There are a number of working groups covering industrial manufacturing and quality, digital photonic production design, and laser based manufacturing. It was noted that production costs in digital photonics are unusual as there is no dependency on lot size which allows for invidualisation and increased complexity for free. Currently parts are being investigated for the medical and automotive sectors. 18 12 Feb 2015


SPARC (Joachim Seidelmann) SPARC is addressing robotics technology for industrial robotics and other areas. In particular there is interest in robots as a companion to human workers and health robots in hospitals. Launched in 2014 with 700MEuros from the EC and 2.1BEuros from industry it is the largest civilian robotics programme in the world. A number of topic groups have been set up working on market domains and technology areas. It was noted that robotics is a pillar in Digital Manufacturing. IoT Focus Area 5G (Tatu Koljonen) There is a need for new business logic as current services do not scale, and products and product services scale according to logistics. Digital services and products are hyperscalable according to Metcalfe’s law as can be seen in the Internet world and gaming industry. IoT can be used to provide products, services and processes that virtualise the real-world for digital processing. The IoT pilot network in Finland aims to provide a cluster of trust covering automation systems, information systems, diagnostics and sensors. The cluster can perform performance analysis, technology development and service development. An IoT Pilot Factory has been set up. Big Data Association (Thomas Hahn) The Big Data Value Association is a 1.068 Mn EUR PPP investment in joint research and innovation projects. Actual research will start next year but already a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda has been produced that can be downloaded from the website.

Discussion The discussion highlighted that there is a need for sharing knowledge, expertise, and infrastructures among Competence Centres. As the spectrum of applications is broad, overall priorities have to be established. A common digital mind-set vision and solution is needed in terms of the digital European market. Critically there is a need to find a way for SMEs and mid-caps to access ICT tools considering their limited budgets. Initiatives are required to develop competence in the manufacturing field to make use of the hardware and software that all the programmes are producing. ICT is seen as a means of improving manufacturing and also innovation in manufacturing SMEs. However, it should be remembered that any approach needs to consider incorporation of legacy machines and tools that have been used for the past 20-30 years. Looking to the future it was felt that manufacturing may well come back to the urban areas if products are produced using 3D printers. Overall it was noted that there is a need for fairness in distribution of value added across Europe.

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Synergies, co-operation and EU added-value Inspiration for Discussion The Broader Industrial Perspective (Adrian Harris) Orgalime covers the European metal, electronics, services and software sector which accounts for 1700 Bn EUR, 10 million jobs and a substantial export industry. It was noted that increased connectivity (1 million connected people and predictions of 50 billions connected devices) offers many opportunities but an Industrial Internet is required to support this. There are many agendas but many simple things can be done through connectivity, smart sensors and analytics to improve efficiency. This will give rise to services which will allow building on existing strengths. Both large and small companies will benefit from the Digital Single Market. There needs to be a focus on supporting digital infrastructures, standardisation for communications right through the value chain and open systems that work. It was noted that industry is dominated by regulatory factors. Regulation is policy driven and standardisation is driven by industry. Industry invests 1 Bn EUR per year in standardisation. There is a need for investment in research and innovation (from fundamental to PPP) and investment in education. Although regulation for Big Data is welcome care must be taken not to kill innovation. In particular it was noted that privacy of consumers is a very different issue to privacy for B2B interactions. Companies want to protect their data so there is a need for cyber security. Contract law needs to be developed to cover liability issues. Platform Building (Marco Taisch) It was highlighted that there are difficulties for SMEs to access innovative ICT solutions. At present it is difficult to pull innovation from the market offer and there is a lack of trust in Cloud technologies. Notably 26% of cyber attacks are in manufacturing. A challenge is to compete in the GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) world. As all the major platforms are US based this is a threat. There is a need for a European Cloud Strategy for Manufacturing targeted at SMEs and mid-caps that offers an open secure, collaborative and mobile enabled IT infrastructure. The creation of a Manufacturing Business Web MBW was proposed.

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EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” industriAll European Trade Union: The Trade Unions' Perspective (Laurent Zibell) industriAll European Trade Union (industriAll Europe) is the European federation of trade unions in the manufacturing sector. It represents the whole supply chain. In total 81% of European manufacturing value added is represented with 6.9 million members. IndustriAll Europe takes an active role in European policy-making. It supports the training up and re-skilling of existing workers and open standards for the digital integration of manufacturing. Key aims are to promote fairness in the distribution of value added and differentiation through quality in the market (rather than price competition). It also supports long-term orientation towards sustainability and geographic embeddedness of industrial sites. A policy document2 has been produced on standardisation of protocols and data formats for digital manufacturing. Proprietary communication protocols are seen as a threat to European jobs. If there is a monopoly on this then the owner of the protocols can extract a toll from engineering companies that digitally integrate complete factories and from machinery manufacturers. This capture of the sector’s value added in Europe would have an impact on wages, working conditions and capacity for investment and innovation. An open standard for integration of manufacturing is needed that has communication protocols and data formats that allow full interoperability, real-time performance and security, that meet the needs of occupational health and safety, and of privacy at work (i.e. prevent inappropriate monitoring of workers). Training in telecoms is required for mechanical engineers to participate in the standardisation work, and reference software designs are needed (potentially under Free and Open Source licences). A strong political signal from the EU is required to remove uncertainties about who will win the race on the standards of the Industrial Internet. The International Perspective – US Industrial Internet (Reiner Anderl) It was noted that there are Industrial Internet initiatives in the US, Germany, China, Japan, and South Korea. The US Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is attracting members from all over the world. It is a non-profit organisation with 14 staff. Launched by AT&T, CISCO, GE, IBM and Intel, it is strongly tied to Object Management Group (OMG). There are currently 130 members (20 from the EU) and it is growing quickly. There are 20 working groups. The consortium has developed use cases in healthcare, transportation, manufacturing and smart grid and 3 approved testbeds have been developed. The initiative is addressing revenue generation, new operational efficiencies to drive down costs and improvements in customer satisfaction. This will create new markets and new working styles. Workforce

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EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” productivity gains will be gained from digitalisation of tasks and reduced maintenance costs will result from use of predictive maintenance. Material and energy saving is also a key aim from reduced waste by precision monitoring to predict and control machines. There are working groups on security, technology, legal issues (e.g. who does data belong to), marketing and testbeds. Existing technology is used to identify research topics which are then investigated with the industrial members. It is not a standards organisation but it does evaluate and influence standards, e.g., ISO/IEC OMG and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Competence, Demonstration and Application Centres / Innovation Hubs It was highlighted that Europe has world leading automation companies, such as Siemens, Schneider, etc., and very strong automotive and aerospace manufacturing companies but there is a disparity in levels of ICT usage across companies in member states and also across manufacturing sectors, e.g. clothing and food production. This is particularly the case when considering the levels of ICT usage in SME’s in different countries. There is a need for dissemination actions to raise awareness of what is already available in terms of technology and transfer this to SME’s and mid-caps and there is also a need to promote the potential business benefits of ICT. It was noted that exchange does happen but it is currently informal and so there is a need to formalise this with regular themed workshops. An event like today was seen as a very positive move in bringing together the community and opportunities to have future workshops on specific topics such as technologies, IPR and business models are welcome. There is a need to connect national and regional initiatives together (to get outreach to SME’s). EU intervention is needed to agree on priorities, create critical mass (currently work is fragmented across Europe) and knowledge. Innovation hubs and competence centres were identified as good instruments. To get to the SMEs it is necessary to engage with regional centres. A problem here is that regional centres are funded by regional resources which, by default, do not extend to working with other European countries. This could be enabled through the use of I4MS/Smart Anything Everywhere-type of initiatives to allow SMEs and mid-caps to engage on an EU scale. As an incentive for this to happen, these schemes could be used to provide the "glue" among the demo/competence centres/innovation hubs and trigger additional funding from other sources, such as funding from national initiatives, ESIF, EFSI. For establishing and sharing competences there is a need to define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and best practice which requires synchronisation of agendas and KPIs. Competence centres need to have proximity to SMEs. In order to be fair, here it is suggested that centres who believe that they have relevant expertise should sign up to offer their expertise on a voluntary basis rather than trying to designate specific centres of competence. There is also a need to perform a gap analysis to establish what needs to be developed for the future. There is a need for industry demonstrators that link with regional SMEs. This has the advantage that local politicians can also be encouraged to get involved. Demonstrators should engage the entire value chain. The demonstrators themselves should not only concentrate on technology but also on business development. Real use cases are needed driven by users rather than technology providers. There is also a need to maintain and update demonstrators as ICT technology, in particular, outdates very fast so there is a need for “living” pilots and testbeds. In addition, using demonstrators to identify gaps, which

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EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” can be addressed through R&D should be further explored. In the US Industrial Internet Consortium (US ICC) first ideas have emerged which are worthwhile to be further analysed. The digital retrofit of existing, legacy machinery, e.g. by adding “kits” of sensors and controllers, could increase the uptake of digital technologies by existing companies, by reducing the investment needed both by the machine user and by the machine manufacturer. The development of such “digital retrofit kits” could deserve a specific R&D&I programme at EU level.

Platform-Building, Standardisation and the International Dimension There is considerable competition from the US in existing de-facto platforms (e.g. Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon – GAFA). Europe holds strong position in industrial sectors, which could be undermined by US initiatives such as the US ICC, intended for the definition of the backbone for future digital manufacturing operations. In order to compete it is necessary to urgently develop a strong European position and strategy to preserve European interests. It was noted that US platforms are vendor driven rather than user driven. Already good work is being performed in ARTEMIS/ECSEL (Crystal, EMC2, Arrowhead, PROSE, Artemis-ECSEL Standardization Working Group), IoT Focus Area 5G/FI-PPP (FIWARE/FITMAN). However, in order to be successful it is necessary to also develop a supporting ecosystem, a proper alignment and complementarity across platforms and grow a production focus in their application, particularly towards SMEs. Any platform needs to be SME friendly which means they need to be interoperable, propose open and standardised interfaces and be modular, scalable and affordable both from applications development and operation perspectives, with clear and easy to understand business cases. It was noted that platforms can be organisational, technology based or operational depending on the purpose of the activites they cater for. Organisational platforms are organised across stakeholder groups for them to collectively be represented vis-à-vis polititcal bodies, research programmes, etc… (e.g. MANUFUTURE, NESSI, German Plattform Industrie 4.0, …). Technology platforms can be organised around leading industrial suppliers which agree to open up part of their commercial products (e.g. Siemens, Dassault, SAP, etc…) to establish an open experimental environment, but also they can be integration hubs, such as Teratec in France, Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL) in Germany, driven by shared governance models of leading industrial companies, which aim at piloting a selection of pre-commercial solutions and intending to be an experimental marketplace for new product-service or business models. Operational platforms are focused on business operations and driven by global sectoral agreements on reference architectures, protocols and interoperability. European level strategies need to be coordinated and defined at the three types of platforms, to ensure that the European interests are properly represented. There may be scope for a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) to perform a mapping exercise of platforms 23 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” across Europe but also proactive industry driven initiatives for best practice generation for platform federation should not be discouraged but properly and timely supported and encouraged. Development of a new EU initiative on a digital manufacturing platform was seen as difficult, timeconsuming and complicated. However, Europe holds a strong position in traditional industrial sectors with strong supply companies in Europe, e.g. Siemens, SchneiderElectric, ABB, SAP, Dassault, Ericsson etc… Bearing in mind that no single company can make money out of a platform in the short term a prerequisite for starting the process of building a European platform are a strong interest and commitment (buy-in) for mainly large companies to engage into a large partnership. The development of “a single” platform for digital manufacturing was deemed unrealistic. On the contrary the federation and alignment of platforms focused on various domains with the proper semantic interfaces at the data level was regarded as a more feasible and interesting approach for European industries, which could greatly benefit from a federation or network of proliferating marketplaces of digital manufacturing applications. Special attention to reference architectures and domain business models is given through large-scale pilots as supported by major initiatives such as ARTEMIS/ECSEL, IoT Focus Area 5G or FI-PPP among others. The best practice adoption of such general purpose platforms and the elaboration of a manufacturing centric proposition with specific SMEs support are of high relevance and priority to European major industrial players. Considering the main hurdles at present there is an increasing need to promote and coordinate European effort on standardisation of communications, data semantics and formats for the manufacturing domain. Here Europe could take a lead but it needs to move quickly. Europe holds the industrial relevance and technical competence to lead the definition of the future digital manufacturing operative system for the smart factory in terms that are favourable to the growth of European industry and SMEs as opposed to the threat of alternative market solutions that are dominated by non-European market players. Standardisation needs to be pragmatic and only used where applicable as there is a danger that it kills innovation. It was noted that in order for platforms and standards to work companies need to be driving them and so there is a need for them to have a strong self-interest to develop and promote standards/platforms. Large companies can provide leadership and the EU can support technical platform activities and provide a political push to migrate the technologies to SMEs. The uptake of platforms depends on trust and there is a need for a European centred discussion on data storage and security including knowledge. Additional measures to support trust among economic actors involved in the standardisation process would be to ensure that its benefits, costs and risks are fairly distributed: 

place conditions on the procedures and legal arrangements on Intellectual Property Rights of standard-setting bodies, so that all actors can use the underlying Intellectual Property under “Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory” conditions3

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define and sanction a list of Unfair Trade Practices and of leonine contractual clauses, and prevent them by effective enforcement mechanisms (such as ex officio enquiries and confidential information transmission to authorities)

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define templates for consortium agreements, and for the pooling of patents around the development of a common technical system.

A strong EU position on security policy is required that does not depend on US developments. The EU could also set up an authority for trust building that companies can go to for help, and also that can take action when issues come up. As a final note historically the Internet has been dominated by US, however with the adoption of next generation IPv6 (which is the only addressing space with enough resources to meet the needs of the anticipated several billions of connected objects in the age of fully digital manufacturing there may be an opportunity to reduce this domination. The EU R&I programmes can be instrumental in mapping platform building with special emphasis on the development and adoption of future technology and operational platforms: whereas CSAs can support issues like industrial consensus building both with suppliers and users across Europe; Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs) can develop reference implementations, user-driven proof-of-concept demonstrations, and validation actions. Innovation Actions (IAs) under I4MS an SAE can support the orchestration of the marketplaces, ecosystem building, and adoption of platform by SMEs and mid-caps across Europa and its regions.

Other Issues: Skills, Ethical and Legal Aspects, Etc. A number of additional issues were raised as being important topics. Legislation is required for future systems that need to be “legal by design” such that we move away from the currently reactive approach to legislation to one where the legal implications of what is being developed are considered. It was noted that presently robots that work alongside human workers need to have fences around them whereas in logistics autonomous robots are allowed to work with humans without fences. Liability is a key issue as new technologies are introduced. Here work is required on how to do collective agreements or public law to deal with potential accidents related to new ICT and also with dealing with dynamic and flexible supply chains. Currently, the position is that if there is an accident in a factory the plant is always liable; however, if the machinery is responsible then the machinery manufacturer is liable. If machinery is connected to the Internet/Cloud then coverage is needed by easily understandable and enforceable collective agreements or public law that fully acknowledge the right for workers to be appropriately covered for their professional risks. With more complex supply chains, dynamic contract frameworks are needed to support this. Privacy is also a key issue and in particular the ownership of data and in the differentiated rights attached to it (e.g. to read, to access, to modify, to copy, to delete, to use for commercial purposes, to use for non-commercial purposes (academic, government), to transmit, to include in a statistical database, to anonymise…). There are no clear guidelines for this at present and there is a need to provide a level playing field across Europe. It is difficult at present to develop systems if they can only be used in certain member states (here it was noted that key automation companies are centred in Germany where privacy is a particularly sensitive subject). There are enormous opportunities for developing services but in order to exploit these it is necessary to make data available. Potentially this 25 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” data will be shared by many different services. Data information and management and exploitation demand an EU Framework which goes beyond Privacy by Design. Holistic skills and training support is required at all levels down to apprentice level. Best practice experience and successful implementations can be used to facilitate cost effective workforce re-skilling and up-skilling to digital manufacturing level. Here E-skills could be evolved in a direction that meets the needs of digital manufacturing or engineers could be sent on targeted University courses designed to refresh their skills. Also a Marie-Curie style scheme designed specifically for workers can play a role. A sectoral and national curriculum needs to be built and an option could be to expand the role of the Competence Centres to develop skills. This could be supported by regional funding. It was noted that the CEN EU Skills supported by DG GROW in “Office-based” ICT provides a role model and could be extended to include embedded software, complex algorithms, data mining, etc. This should be targeted at the use of IT by non-IT specialists but input is required on what this should be in the future. There may also be a new class of engineers “Cyber Physical Engineers” with a new skills profile which includes electronics, mechanical, and other skills such as business management and modelling. In the future service design and service based business models will become more important. Within factories there is a need for ICT tools for education with an emphasis on on-line training and learning by doing. It was noted that large companies have a vested interest and an important role to play in educating their SME suppliers. Social issues need to consider welfare, health and privacy issues on the factory floor both from the workers’ and owners’ perspective. There is an underlying need to gain social acceptance of Digital Manufacturing. This needs to be achieved through development of trust and by ensuring that workers do not feel under threat from the new technologies. Here there is a need for legislative support for health and safety when working with robots and co-operation with trade unions to manage change. Supporting this there needs to be development of interfaces for non-IT specialists, social training and empowerment of workers.

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Conclusions The Workshop successfully brought together manufacturing initiatives across Europe. It was identified that there is a strong need to co-ordinate national and regional initiatives and engage SMEs in the digital revolution to address employment in Europe. The main conclusions are the following:  EU Platform for Manufacturing and Standardisation. Platform-building in this context is meant in a very broad sense; it can be open or proprietary; sector-specific or cross-cutting; where the value creation resides in the platform itself or from a critical mass of actors providing services/apps based on the platform; it can vary from niche platforms to consumer platforms. Platforms can also be envisaged at different levels. User-level: well-being, smart home, smart city, connected car; professional application perspective: analytics, design & simulation; infrastructure perspective free from vendor-lock-in: cloud and web applications; middleware: embedded operating systems, Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous systems building blocks, Systems of Systems, security frameworks. Three types of platforms have been identified (1) Organisational platforms organised across stakeholder groups for them to collectively be represented vis-à-vis political bodies, research programmes, etc. (e.g. EU Technology Platforms (NESSI, MANUFUTURE, …), German Platform Industrie 4.0; (2) Technology platforms may be organised around industrial suppliers which agree to open up part of their commercial products (e.g. Siemens, Dassault, SAP, etc…) under fair economic conditions to establish an open experimental environment or marketplace, but also they may be integration hubs, such as Teratec in France, Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL) in Germany, driven by shared governance models of industrial companies, which aim at piloting a selection of pre-commercial solutions and intending to be an experimental marketplace for new product-service or business models; (3) Operational platforms organised in working groups, which represent a critical mass and balanced shares of all stakeholders to agree on issues like system specification, reference architectures, semantic interoperability midlewares, communication protocols, system engineering methods & tools, advanced HMI interfaces, etc. Consumers platforms already exists and are dominated by non European competitors, however, Europe holds strong position in industrial sectors. It is necessary to urgently develop a strong European position and strategy to preserve European interest. Already good work is being performed in ARTEMIS/ECSEL (Crystal, EMC2, Arrowhead, PROSE, Artemis-ECSEL Standardization Working Group), but also in IoT Focus Area 5G/FI-PPP (FIWARE/FITMAN). However, in order to be successful it is necessary on one side to get strong interest and commitment of large companies to work together and on the other side to develop a supporting ecosystem, a proper alignement and complementarity across platforms and grow a production focus in their application, particularly towards SMEs. Any platform needs to be SME friendly which means they need to be interoperable, propose open and standardised interfaces and be modular, scalable and affordable both from applications development and operation perspectives, with clear and easy to understand business cases. 

Further develop and expand EU initiatives such as ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) and Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE) to connect together the fragmented national and regional initiatives. I4MS addressing process innovation through digital technologies such as simulation & visual representation, modelling, smart-data-analytics, big-data, cloud computing, autonomous – adaptive - and - predictive control, communication protocols and smart connected object; robotics; advanced lasers and smart sensors; cyber-physical systems and the 27 12 Feb 2015

EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” Internet of Things (IoT) ), or the digital retrofit of existing machinery. Currently, 40 competence centres in 17 Member States with 150 experiments and around 150 SMEs or mid-caps are participating in I4MS. Smart Anything Everywhere is supporting product innovation through digital technologies. 23 of Europe's leading competence centres in the components and systems value chain across 11 Member States are starting to support 100 user-supplier experiments with 200 SMEs and mid-caps from February 2015. These initiatives have been recognised enablers to create strong links between the competence, demonstration centres/innovation hubs on an EU scale by providing the required critical mass and knowledge, and to support innovation towards SMEs, by giving them EU-wide access to demo centres and expertise, and allowing cross-borders experiments. 

A number of additional issues have been identified. They include the need for a proper legislative framework as future systems would need to be “legal by design”, e.g. co-working of robots and humans and increased autonomy in systems. Liability issues have to be tackled with respect to potential accidents related to new ICT, but also innovative contract framework to deal with increasingly dynamic and flexible supply chains. Privacy needs to be addressed with clear guidelines on data ownership, management and exploitation to provide a level playing field across Europe. Holistic skills and training support has to promote at all levels, disseminating best practice and experience to re-skill and up-skill the workforce to the digital manufacturing level. Existing initiatives, e.g. E-skills, CEN EU Skills, sectoral and national curriculum and Competence Centres could be extended in scope. Promote the social acceptance of Digital Manufacturing in co-operation with the unions by supporting studies, workshops, public hearings on issues such as welfare, health and privacy.

In particular the following actions are recommended. 1. To successfully support EU platform-building activity, industry commitment is of paramount importance. Relevant industry association should take the lead and organise an industrial digital manufacturing forum to discuss the best approach to platform-building activities (operational/technological/organisational, open/proprietary, sector-specific/cross-cutting, etc…). 2. EC should take its role of co-ordination of regional/national initiatives in digital manufacturing and thus organise meetings/workshops/events on a 6 to 12-month basis to bring together all the relevant constituencies from the Member States. 3. EC should expand and further customise initiatives such as I4MS and Smart Anything Everywhere which proved to be useful to connect the regional competence centres/innovation hubs across Europe for the targeted applications and can provide the "glue" among the different Digital Manufacturing initiatives. 4. EC should continue to support its R&I programmes as it has been recognised to be instrumental on the development and adoption of future technology and operational platforms: whereas CSAs can support issues like industrial consensus building both with suppliers and users across Europe; Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs) can develop reference implementations, userdriven proof-of-concept demonstrations, and validation actions. Innovation Actions (IAs) under I4MS an SAE can support the orchestration of the marketplaces, ecosystem building, and adoption of platform by SMEs and mid-caps across Europa and its regions.

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Participants and Contributors Haydn Thompson (Editor) Anderl Reiner Francois Bichet Oliver Blank Rikardo Bueno (not present) Jose Carlos Caldeira Michel Carton Rinalds Celmins Edward Chlebus George Chryssolouris Cedric Daumas Wim De Kinderen Chris Decubber Jerker Delsing Johannes Diemer Wolfgang Dorst Harald Egner Maurizio Gattiglio Rainer Glatz Mikael Haag Thomas Hahn Adrian Harris Ingo Hegny Patrick Kennedy

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European Commission organisers: Max Lemke, Rolf Riemenschneider, Peter Martin, Francesca Flamigni (DG CONNECT, A3) European Commission participants: Khalil Rouhana (DG CONNECT, Dir A), Anne-Marie Sassen (DG CONNECT, A3), Bonifacio Garcia Porras (DG GROWTH, J3), Andrea Gentili (DG RTD, A3), Mark Nicklas (DG GROWTH, J3), Peter Friess (DG CONNECT,E1), Juha Heikkila (DG CONNECT, A2), Christoph Helmrath (DG CONNECT, A1), Jorge Pereira (DG CONNECT, E4), Nikos Pantalos (DG GROWTH, J3), Dirk Beernaert (DG CONNECT)

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Annex 1: Member States and Regional Initiatives Member State/Regi ons Austria

Programme

Objective

Focus

Priorities

Method

Funding

Source

Produktion der Zukunft (Production of the Future)

Technological and process innovation

Efficient production processes and systems; flexible manufacturing processes; value networks; methods and tools for planning, simulation and data-management; additive manufacturing; material science; bio-based industries; Nano-technologies

RTD projects for cooperative applied research and development; Endowed professorships; Pilot factories; Open stakeholder platform; Competence centres; Basic programme –bottom-up; Bridge (Transfer programme)

Up to 125 Mn€ per year

http://www.bmvit.gv. at/innovation/produkt ion/index.html http://www.ffg.at/ http://www.ffg.at/pro duktion

Belgium

MADE DIFFERENT – Factories of the future

Increase innovation in Austrian production sector Improve cooperation and networks at European and international level Improve competitiveness of Austrian industry Increasing overall competitiveness of the manufacturing industry

Process innovation

Research programmes in public-private partnerships

8.4 Mn€

http://www.madediff erent.be/

BelgiumFlanders

Flanders Make iMinds

Product & technology innovation

Germany

Industrie 4.0

Strategic research centre Flanders’ digital Research & Incubation Institute Prepare German industry for the future of production

World-class production technologies; Simultaneous product and production development; Human-centred production; Networked factory; Eco-production; Smart production Factory of the Future; Vehicle of the future; Machine of the future; IoT; Data; Security

Technological innovation, in particular CPS

Smart factory; IoT; Smart production

High-level advisory board Industrie 4.0 with industry leaders and thematic public-private partnerships

Up to 200 Mn€

http://www.hightechstrategie.de/de/Indust rie-4-0-59.php http://www.plattform i40.de/plattform/orga nisation http://www.bmbf.de/ de/9072.php

Germany

Smart Service World

Innovative services for the digital economy

Integration of cross sectoral value networks Cross usage of data between different areas of daily life

Combination of CPS; data and services; Platform development

Innovation projects

Up to 50 Mn€.

http://www.bmwi.de/ DE/Themen/DigitaleWelt/Internet-derZukunft/smartservice-welt.html

Germany

Autonomik for Industrie 4.0 Production,

Foster autonomous systems and highly flexible production

logistics, engineering models (i.e. decision making support

Skills, migration, standards, security

19 R&I-projects, which aim to accelerate the process of transfering R&D findings into development of

55 Mn€ 2014 2017

http://autonomik40.d e

Industry driven research projects carried out by a mix of industry partners and university research groups.

www.flandersmake.be www.iminds.be

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infrastructures that enable disruptive products

schemes), working conditions (humanmachine interaction, safety & security), service robotics

Germany Ostwestfal en-Lippe

It's OWL

Leading position for intelligent technical systems

Technological and Process Innovation for Production

Achieve a leading position for intelligent technical systems; Provide enabling technology for Industrie 4.0 applications; Innovation with main focus on SME’s; Strengthen competitiveness of SME’s; Combine strength of academia with entrepreneurial skills from industry; Secure existing and create additional employment; Attract talent (Industry and/or academia);

Germany – BadenWürttemb erg

Allianz Industrie 4.0 BW

Enable all SMEs of Baden-Würtemberg to develop and use Indusrie 4.0 technologies and products

SME (down to 50 employees)

Improve awareness, knowledge , enabling to develop “own” solutions

Denmark

MADE – Manufacturing Academy of Denmark

Greece

Regional Operational Programme of Region of Western Greece for the Period 2014-2020

Support the manufacturing industry in Denmark and maintain its position as a leader of innovation Digital Technology as a Pillar for Manufacturing and Services in Region Western Greece

marketable technologies esp. in Industry and Smart Home / Building, supported by accompanying research on cross-cutting issues, conferences, workshops and trade fair appearances.

Point to supporting bodies like center of commerce,

Co-operation culture Specific program structure Symbioses of ICT, Robotics and Engineering skills in top quality available in Region Strong support from industry with Top Management commitment, financial contribution and active participation Dedicated transfer projects meeting the requirements of SME’s Efficient governance structure Workshops; Demonstrators; Applications Centers; Joint R&D projects; Involving of already existing clusters in BW

100 Mn€ in 5 years (40Mn€ public funding, 60Mn€ private funding)

Initial ~ 15 Mn€

183.5 Mn DKK

Advance Materials, Nano – Technology and Microelectronics supported by ICT

Strengthen of Research, Technological Development (RTD) & Innovation Improving access, quality and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) Improving the Competitiveness of manufacturing SMEs using among others ICT Investment in education, training and vocational training for skills acquisition and lifelong learning

Research into a Regional Public Private Partnership (RWG – PPP).

http://www.its-owl.de

http://made.dk/welco me

Up to 30 Mn € (tbc)

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Cluster Fabbrica Intelligente CFI (Intelligent Factories Cluster)

Italy Lombardia

Cluster Fabbrica Intelligente Lombardia AFIL (Cluster Intelligent Factories Lombardy)

To create and organize a long lasting Italian Manufacturing community able to propose research agendas generate research results and valorize research outcomes Build, maintain and coordinate a stable Manufacturing Community in Lombardy expressing common priorities in manufacturing research

Finland

MANU - Digital manufacturing technology & systems (20122017)

To increase competitiveness of the Finnish manufacturing industry by means of digitalization.

Finland

S-STEP - Smart technologies for lifecycle performance (2014-2018)

To create an industrial internet technology that enables superior services for the Finnish technology industry.

Finland

SIMP - System integrated metal production (2014-2018)

Finland

S4Fleet (20152018)

To further increase its global competitiveness by integrating digitalisation and sustainability in a system integrated manner. To improve profit creation of service business in technologybased firms by creating enablers for highvolume, dynamic and global service business

Products, Processes, Manufacturing System, Manufacturing networks

Products, Processes, Manufacturing System, Manufacturing networks

Technologies and systems for personalized production; Strategies, methodologies and tools for sustainable production; Valorization of humans in Factories; High efficiency in production; Innovative manufacturing processes; Evolutive and adaptable manufacturing systems; Strategy and management for next generation manufacturing systems Production with innovative processes; Evolutive and adaptable manufacturing systems; Highly efficient production processes; Production of personalized goods; Factories for the people; Manufacturing Systems for environmental sustainability; Networking of collaborative and dynamic enterprises

Roadmapping, strategic research agendas RTD projects for cooperative applied research and development Innovation projects Education projects

45 Mn€ (34 Mn€ public funding + 11 Mn€ private funding)

http://www.fabbricain telligente.it/

Roadmapping, strategic research agendas RTD projects for cooperative applied research and development Innovation projects Education projects

(tbc). Intelligent Factories is one of the top priorities of the RIS3 strategy for Lombardy Region

http://www.afil.it

Demanding welded structures and their simulation; Digital design and manufacturing; Machining and its control through digitalization; information management; Manufacturing Execution System for SMEs; Research on 3D printing technologies Next level on machines and devices embedded intelligence; Capabilities to harness the industrial internet technologies for significant value creation; Industry specific simulation and prediction technologies; Empowered field service personnel with novel interaction & data analysis tools for easy access to situational relevant knowledge. Software development focusing on digitalizing complex process models and making them operable in real-time in a gateto-gate systemic plant environment.

PPP research programme

35M€ (Industry 45%, Tekes 45%, Universities & Research Institutes 10%)

http://www.fimecc.co m/content/manufuture-digitalmanufacturingtechnologies-andsystems


25,6M€ (Industry 45%, Tekes 45%, Universities & Research Institutes 10%)

http://www.fimecc.co m/content/s-stepsmart-technologieslifecycle-performance0


http://www.fimecc.co m/programs/simp

Intelligence to enable strategic decision making over the global fleet and transformation towards service business; Capabilities to enable global operational excellence and dynamic service delivery over distributed fleet; Technological ICT solutions and algorithms for fleet

PPP Research Programme

43,8 M€ (Industry 45%, Tekes 45%, Universities & Research Institutes 10%) 50,6 M€ (Public Tekes-funding pending) (Industry 45%, Tekes 45%, Universities & Research

http://www.fimecc.co m/content/s4fleet

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Finland

Industrial Internet – Business Revolution (2014-2019)

Renew the business operations of companies through the Industrial Internet and encourage companies from different fields to engage in new kinds of cooperation.

France

Usine du Futur

Competitiveness Employment SME's development

SME's diagnostics and modernization incentives Development of the national offering Showcase pilot projects Eco projects Development of the advanced manufacturing techniques

France / Ile-deFrance

Plan “Usine du future”

Improve the productivity and the competitiveness of manufacturing companies Support pioneering projects

Support measures targeting SMEs

Ile-de-France RIS 3 strategy Systematic

Engineering of complex systems and software

Supply Chain optimization. Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS). SME's integration. Collaboration and execution hubs. Support of eco-investment. Digitalization, Design for Manufacturing, Manufacturing Intelligence. Support of flexibility and diversity. Advanced manufacturing techniques (additive manufacturing, composites, nondestructive inspection), and their dissemination. Man (augmented through Cobotics, Virtual Reality, on-line knowledge services) placed at the core of the factory of the future. in order to leverage his cognitive functions for innovation, excellence and continuous change. 'System of systems' vertical integration from Supply Chain down to IoT interfaces. Manufacturing continuous adaption through collaborative innovation. Modernisation of the production tool; Integration of digital and information systems; Vocational training and well-being in the workplace; Clean, energy sober and safe factory. Health; transport/mobility; energy/environment

Industry projects and collaborative company-academia projects. An open, industry driven forum ‘Finnish Industrial Internet Forum (FIIF, www.fiif.fi) has been established catalyzes starting, testing, planning, breeding fast activities, which concretize the Industrial Internet visions into a good, sustainable business for Finnish companies, incl. speeding-up new businesses enabled by the Industrial Internet; developing new business and growth for existing companies and their value chains; finding new seeds for SME growth through new products, services and markets and new markets for product, service and ICT companies. Regional Programs for the diagnostic of 3000 SMEs, and support of modernization projects Schemes for Eco performance projects Industrial pilot projects R&D projects

Projects for help SMEs to elaborate strategic evolution scenarios; and to improve their production performance all along the product life cycle; Bourget workshops: 2 days training for aeronautics companies; Collaborative R&D projects

Institutes 10%) 100 M€ (Tekes funding appr. 50 M€)

http://www.tekes.fi/e n/programmes-andservices/tekesprogrammes/industria l-internet--businessrevolution/

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http://www.economie .gouv.fr/nouvellefrance-industrielle

2 Mn€ for 2 years for a start.

http://www.poleastech.org/site/pages/ index.php?doi=859b5 3568eb0059f7e6cbda 05d35a77d http://www.pic2europ e.fr/sites/www.pic2eu

(tbc) Around 25 Mn €

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Structuring the FoF community; identify excellent collaborative projects and help them access to funding

Advanced manufacturing processes; Adaptative and cognitive production systems; Digital technologies at the heart of resource efficient factories; Human centred manufacturing

Networking / public-private collaboration at regional scale

Netherland s

Smart Industry

Dutch Industry fit for the Future

Poland

INNOMED

Poland

CuBR

Poland

BIOSTRATEG

Poland

INNOLOT

Acceleration of introduction of ICT in manufacturing and adaption of business value chains

Accelerating use of ICT at SME Leading fieldlabs in 2015, more to follow in 2016 Manufacturing Knowledge Skills ICT (security, big data, software)

Complex multiproject funding, mix of H2020 and regional EFRO (50-100 Mn€ )

Increase of number of innovative technologies development and implementation in Poland Development and implementation of innovative technologies, devices, materials and products in order to increase competitiveness of Polish non ferrous metals industry Increased food safety

New manufacturing technologies

Generative technologies

Jointed program office (with Min Economic Affairs, FME (industrial association), TNO, Chamber of Commerce and ICT-Nederland) and per action line own teams and for fieldlab teams each running their own (regional) fieldlab program Research programmes in public-private partnerships

About 75 Mn€

http://www.ncbir.pl/p rogramykrajowe/programysektorowe/innomed/

Technological innovation

Breakthrough technologies in mining


Up to 125 Mn€

http://ncbr.gov.pl/pro gramy-krajowe/cubr/

Innovative products and technologies in agriculture

World-class production technologies


About 125 Mn€

Long-term increase of competitiveness through development of new products and production processes; increase of

New and innovative solutions for aeronautics

World-class production technologies


About 125 Mn€

http://www.ncbr.gov. pl/programystrategiczne/srodowis ko-naturalnerolnictwo-i-lesnictwo--biostrateg/ http://www.ncbir.pl/p rogramykrajowe/programysektorowe/innolot/

R&D and Innovation Projects (individual

Core Activities

Smart production

rope.fr/files/1830_rap port_final_S3_IDF_13 0916.pdf http://www.systemati c-parisregion.org/sites/defau lt/files/content/page/ attachments/feuille%2 0de%20route%20Usin e%20du%20Futur.pdf http://www.smartind ustry.nl

Platform development

aircrafts’ safety Portugal

PRODUTECH –

Increase the

Advanced

New business models; Intelligent Production

www.produtech.org

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Competitiveness of Manufacturing Industry by developing, demonstrating and promoting Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Systems

Manufacturing Systems

systems; Performance, Flexibility and Efficiency Modelling and simulation; Operations Management and Logistics; Networked production systems; Advanced Technologies Energy and environmental efficiency Advanced tools for new products and systems development; Active and passive safety in production systems Invest in research, development and innovation to make the UK the best place in the world to run an innovative business or service.

and cooperative) Dissemination and Demonstration Projects and Activities Cooperation Actions Internationalization Projects and Activities

and Projects: Up to 20 Mn€ + Complementary Projects

http://mobilizadores.p rodutech.org/en http://portal.produtec h.org/

United Kingdom

Innovate UK

Support and connect innovative businesses in UK to accelerate sustainable economic growth.

UK businesses

Wide range of funding programmes both single company and collaborative R&D projects, with both open and thematic calls. Innovate UK also manages a number of networks, including KTN (Knowledge Transfer Network) and the NCP and EEN networks within the UK. It also funds Catapults, a series of physical centres with the facilities and expertise to enable businesses and researchers to collaboratively solve key problems and develop new products and services on a commercial scale.. Invest equipment and skilled personnel in the HVMC’s 7 Technology and Innovation centres around the UK which is then available on an open access basis for CR&D and industrial projects with companies of all sizes.

2013/14 budget was 440 Mn£

https://www.gov.uk/g overnment/organisati ons/innovate-uk

United Kingdom

High value Manufacturing Catapult

Drive growth of manufacturing within UK

Working with UK and international organisations looking to establish or grow UK R&D capability or UK manufacturing. Industrial scale up of new technologies and processes

United Kingdom

EPSRC Manufacturing the Future theme

Invest in cutting-edge research and highlyskilled people that support the current manufacturing base in the UK providing opportunities for future development and growth.

Businesses in the field of high value manufacturing. i.e. a high level of R&D intensity, leading to significant growth. Customers include large multinationals to small spin-out companies and anything in between. UK academic community in partnership with business.

Core funding from InnovateUK 30Mn £ per/annum supplemented by project funding and funds secured from other sources 80 Mn£ per annum invested in manufacturing research since 2010. Total portfolio value 387 Mn£ + 136 Mn£ leveraged from business.

https://hvm.catapult. org.uk/

Priority research areas: Manufacturing Informatics, Frontier Manufacturing, Innovative Production Processes Sustainable Industrial Systems

A range of activities including: 16 Centres for Innovative Manufacturing, Calls in priority areas, investigator-led research, joint activities with Innovate UK and the HVM catapult, manufacturing and early career fellowships, 11 Centres for Doctoral Training and 5 Engineering Doctorate Centres.

United

Action Plan for

To grow and sustain a

Develop Leadership

Advanced Manufacturing pilot

Research into public/private

Funded by UK Government department Business, Innovation and Skills

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Manufacturing

competitive manufacturing sector

and Skills Supply Chain Capability Industry upgrading for economic sustainability; Manufacturing efficiency for environmental sustainability; Quality employment for social sustainability

Enhancing SME capability through investment and innovation

collaboration.

Spain

Estrategia Fabricacion Avanzada

To strengthen the position of the Basque Country as an economy with an industrial base through the promotion of knowledge intensive manufacturing

Added value: more knowledge intensive manufacturing; Integration of KETs: multidisciplinary and technological convergence; Global value chains, clusters 2.0; Industrialisation of research results; Talent: education and on the job training

Research programmes for industry, large R&D projects (ETORGAI) and smaller projects (GAITEK) and for research organisations and universities, for strategic research in cooperation (ETORTEK) and for results oriented research (EMAITEK)

Up to 400 Mn € per year in R&I grants, matched by private contributions similar in amount.

http://app3.spri.net/a yudaspri//?idioma=es http://www.spri.eus/e n/ris3-euskadi

Spain

MDI 4.0 TECNALIA

To identify the lacks and gaps of the industrial companies within the Industry 4.0 strategy, to identify relevant opportunities of improvement.

Product and process innovation

Identification of the improvement opportunities that can have a strong impact on the efficiency of the company, being feasible and with acceptable ROI.

TECNALIA Internal funds and companies private funds

http://www.tecnalia.c om/industry-4.0/

In 2030 Sweden is the primary choice for sustainable production

Develop Leadership and Skills in sustainable production

Environmentally sustainable production; Flexible manufacturing processes; Virtual production development and simulation; Human-centred production systems; Product and production based services; Integrated product and production development

Indutry 4.0 diagnosis and roadmapping initiative for SMEs. Each company is different from all others, due to its sector, product, processes, organizational structure or economical situation. The approach to Industry 4.0 is also different for each company. And the MDI 4.0 tool identifies the best opportunities FOR EACH COMPANY. Research and innovation projects; Knowledge and technology transfer to SMEs

Sweden

Produktion 2030

50 Mn€

http://www.produktio n2030.se/

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Annex 2: Digital Innovation Initiatives for Industry - State of play Starting in FP7 and more broadly applied in Horizon 2020, DG CNECT is supporting a group of innovation initiatives, particularly for SMEs and mid-caps, across the economy in digital value creation. The formula for success is the collaboration of industrial actors across the entire value chain in a large number small experiments facilitated by Europe's leading competence centres. Covering a broad range in terms of applications and actors (e.g. SMEs and mid-caps both on provider and user side), this scheme is an important means for putting Europe's industrial renaissance on a more solid foundation. The major initiatives are I4MS supporting process innovation and Smart Anything Everywhere supporting product innovation: • I4MS (ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs) is addressing process innovation through digital technologies such as simulation, modeling and dataanalytics; robotics; advanced lasers and smart sensors; cyber-physical systems and IoT. Launched in July 2013 in the context of the FoF cPPP (Factories of the Future contractual public-private partnership) with 7 large innovation projects and an initial budget of €77 million, I4MS has proven to be on the right track towards helping SMEs and mid-caps making progress with the adoption of digital technologies. Currently, 40 competence centres in 17 Member States with 150 experiments and 150 SMEs or mid-caps are participating in I4MS.

Competence Centers (23) in Smart Anything Everywhere

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Annex 3: Term of Reference and Final Agenda EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology Components and Systems Complex Systems and Advanced Computing

CO-OPERATION WORKSHOP ON INNOVATION IN DIGITAL MANUFACTURING 21-22 January 2015, Avenue de Beaulieu 25 0/S1, 1160 Brussels Terms of Reference Europe's industrial renaissance is digital! Europe's competitive position across all major economic sectors depends on its capacity to innovate both processes and products through the latest advances in ICT. European industry is in a good starting position being leader in manufacturing systems, automation and digital design. However, Europe now also needs to become the world leader in manufacturing innovation through ICT: this means building the industrial ICT platforms of tomorrow based on European technologies and developed by EU actors rather than being more and more dependent on non-EU ICT actors. The relevance of industrial digitalisation has been recognised politically by identifying the need for a corresponding strategy, which is high on the agenda of the European Commission and in the Member States. Commission President Juncker has emphasized that Europe must make better use of the potential offered by digital technologies. More specifically, he wants digital research to lead to successful European innovation stories, encouraging entrepreneurship and providing a framework that drives startups, the take-up of new businesses and job-creation. Mr Juncker argues that the Commission needs to play its role in ensuring that promising new developments such as the cloud, the Internet of Things and big data can thrive in Europe and that citizens, innovative web entrepreneurs and other businesses can take full advantage of their potential. Commissioner Oettinger has outlined the objective of Europe being amongst the world-leading economies in the area of ICT. He has expressed his conviction that this will only be possible by breaking down national silos and creating a truly European market. He has also announced that the deployment of a high-quality, digital network infrastructure would be matched by support for digital reindustrialization via wider and faster integration of digital innovations in all types of products processes and services.

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EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” At national level, e.g. in Germany, Chancellor Merkel considers the ongoing digitalization of the economy a great opportunity and has put Industrie 4.0, defined as the integration of smart factories and the Internet of Things, high on the German government's Digital Agenda. One of the key criteria for Europe's future industrial competitiveness is its ability to make the European manufacturing industry ready for the Internet age. The European Commission Task Force on Advanced Manufacturing for Clean Production has provided first recommendations for fostering the reindustrialisation of Europe. Innovation in digital manufacturing is the subject of many innovation initiatives by the European Union, the Member States and its regions, e.g. at EU-level: Factories of the Future Public Private Partnership, jointly managed between DG RTD and DG CONNECT (ICT for Manufacturing) in partnership with EFFRA, and the I4MS initiative (ICT innovation for manufacturing SMEs), in the Member States: Industrie 4.0 (DE), Smart Industry (NL), Usine du Futur (FR), Catapult High Value Manufacturing (UK), Produktion2030 etc.. At recent events like the Public Hearing on Advanced Manufacturing and Digital Technologies (organised by DG GROW) on 10 July 2014 and the Digital Action Day 2014 on 29 September (organised by DG CONNECT), representatives from industry and public authorities gathered to discuss how to maximise the contribution of ICT in manufacturing to generate growth, competitiveness and jobs in Europe and how to leverage national and regional efforts in this area to speed up the modernisation of the European industry. General consensus was found to work in partnership across Europe to achieve critical mass and to align innovation strategies across borders. The objective of this workshop is therefore to bring together representatives of Europe's major initiatives on innovation in digital manufacturing in order to explore synergies, stimulate co-operation and develop first ideas for a possible alignment of strategies and policies across EU-, national and regional initiatives. Potential areas for pan-European collaboration to exploit synergies between European, national and regional ecosystems include:     

Linking leading EU competence centres to facilitate cross fertilisation and to establish demonstration centres for SMEs and mid-caps; Collaboration and consensus building on manufacturing standards and platforms for strategic positioning of European industry – also vis-à-vis initiatives like US Industrial Internet; Pooling resources and exploring synergies between national and, in particular, also regional initiatives to achieve critical mass and further integration of the European supply chains; Addressing the skills gap and reskilling due to the transformation of production processes; Contributing to coherent policy making across different policy areas.

To make working in partnership become a reality, next steps after this first working meeting could include:

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EC Workshop on “Innovation in Digital Manufacturing” 1. Identifying common strategic issues including a catalogue for future co-operation between participating initiatives; 2. Organisation of a high-level event in the second half of 2015 to promote working in partnership on digital manufacturing and foster political support for it; 3. Launch of co-ordination and support measures and platform-building innovation projects under the FoF-ICT Work Programme 2016-17; 4. Organisation of back-to-back European and national events to support "networking" (e.g. the successful pilot with I4MS 2014, organised back to back with Autonomik 4.0 (DE)). This workshop is organised by the European Commission CONNECT in co-operation with EFFRA, the European Factories of the Future Research Association. Co-operation Workshop on Innovation in Digital Manufacturing Agenda 21 January 2015 13:30 Registration Moderator: Max Lemke, DG CONNECT

Rapporteur: Haydn Thompson

14:00 – 14:40 Opening and setting the scene Towards a European strategy for Digitising European Industry (Khalil Rouhana, 15') The EFFRA vision (Maurizio Gattiglio, 10') Task Force on Advanced Manufacturing (Bonifacio Garcia Porras, DG GROW, 5') Factories of the Future and SPIRE Public Private Partnerships (Andrea Gentili, DG RTD, 5') Plans of the Latvian Presidency (Rinalds Celmins, 5') 14:40 – 16:30 Mapping Initiatives at EU level, in Member States and in regions (Part 1) Germany: Industrie 4.0 (Rainer Glatz, Wolfgang Dorst, Oliver Blank, 10') Smart Service World (Matthias Kuom, 5') Baden-Württemberg: Allianz Industrie 4.0 (Joachim Seidelmann, 5') It's OWL (Guenter Korder, 5') Netherlands: Smart Industry (Egbert Jan Sol, 10') France: Usine du Futur (François Bichet, Michel Carton, 10') Ile de France (Cedric Daumas, 5') United Kingdom: High value Manufacturing Catapult (Lynn McGregor, 10') Scotland (David Milliken, 5') Spain: Basque region (Oscar Lazaro, 5') Italy: Fabbrica Intelligente - Cluster Tecnologico Nazionale (Tullio Tolio, 10') Associazione Fabbrica Intelligente Lombardia (Marco Taisch, 5') 41 12 Feb 2015


16:30 – 16:50 Coffee Break 16:50 – 17:45 Mapping Initiatives at EU level, in Member States and in regions (Part 2) Sweden: Produktion 2030 (Cecilia Warrol, 10') Finland: Finnish Innovation Initiatives (Tuokko Reijo 10') Austria: Produktion der Zukunft (Michael Wiesmueller, 10') Portugal: ProduTech Initiative (José Carlos Caldeira, 10') Belgium: iMinds (Ilse Roelants, 5') Poland: Edward Chlebus (5') Greece: George Chryssolouris (5') 17:45 – 18:05 The approach of "cross regional" initiatives: EU Innovation Initiatives and Regional Dimension (Francesca Flamigni, DG CONNECT, 10') Vanguard Initiative (Wim De Kinderen, in collaboration with other Vanguard representatives, 10') 18:05 – 18:30 The link to the ICT PPPs: ECSEL (Jerker Delsing, 5') Big data (Thomas Hahn, 5') Photonics 21 (Reinhart Poprawe, 5') SPARC (Joachim Seidelmann 5') IoT Focus Area 5G (Tatu Koljonen, 5') 18:30 – 19:00 Closing of Day 1: Preparation for Day 2: First ideas on how do we achieve added value at EU level? What are possible key areas of collaboration? Which synergy effects are we aiming for? 19:30 Networking Dinner

22 January 2015 8:30 – 09:20 Inspiration for discussion    

The broader industrial perspective (Adrian Harris, 10') The unions' perspective (Laurent Zibell, 10') The international perspective – US Industrial Internet (Reiner Anderl, 10') Digital Industrial platforms (Marco Taisch, 10') 42 12 Feb 2015


9:20 – 9:30 Introduction to three rounds of discussions using the world café method (4 tables, 40 minutes each) for open brainstorming on   

Need for an EU strategy? How do we achieve added value at EU level? What are possible key areas of collaboration? Which synergy effects are we aiming for? Tentative Topics:

9:30 – 10:10 Topic 1. Competence, demonstration and application centres / innovation hubs  Moderators: Francesca Flamigni, José Carlos Caldeira, Günter Korder, Wim Wenders 10:10 – 10:50 Topic 2. Platform-building, standardisation and the international dimension  Moderators: Reiner Anderl, Željko Pazin, Rolf Riemenschneider, Rainer Glatz 10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break 11:10 – 11:50 Topic 3. Other issues: skills, certification, ethical and legal aspects, etc.  Moderators: Laurent Zibell, Anne-Marie Sassen, Mark Nicklas, Marco Taisch 

Note takers: Haydn Thompson, Patrick Kennedy, Oscar Lazaro, Harald Egner

11:50 – 12:50 Feedback from the roundtables 12:50 – 13:30 Closing of Day 2 

Conclusions and next steps

43 12 Feb 2015

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