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EU FIRST Project on Virtual Factory Technologies: Project update
The EU FIRST project has achieved most of the goals planned for the 1st Periodic Report (first 24 months), regarding virtual factory and smart manufacturing research, training and networking activities. The consortium has achieved relevant scientific contributions, created new collaborations and enhanced existing ones, and proposed and implemented well-attended training and networking activities.
The concrete scientific and technical achievements from the first reporting period are established the foundational notions and requirements of interoperability of a virtual factory and operationalizes them. Existing manufacturing-oriented service description languages, service classification, service management, service discovery methods, and service-oriented process verification are reviewed. Related new approaches, architecture, methods are discovered and researched. Some works have been prototyped.
CFP: 1st International Workshop on Key Components For Enabling Virtual Factory Technologies 2019
Call For Papers: 1st International Workshop on Key components for Enabling virtual factory Technologies in conjunction with CAiSE 2019 at 4th June 2019, Rome, Italy
Conference Website: Ket4DF2019
Scope
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This workshop seeks at providing the opportunity for inspiration and cross-fertilization for the research groups working on technological solutions for virtual factory concepts and smart manufacturing. We welcome
innovative papers from academic and industrial researchers covering a wide range of topics of interests in computer science and computer engineering fields.
Topics of interest
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The topics include but are not limited to:
* Digital Platform Interoperability for Virtual Factory manufacturing
* Internet-of-things for Smart Manufacturing
* Virtual factory concepts and End-to-end supply chains
* Peer Manufacturing
* Virtual factory model-based development
* M2M interaction
* Information Systems for Sustainable Value Networks
* Information Systems Engineering for Additive Manufacturing
* Manufacturing Enterprise Architecture Engineering
* Big Data Technologies and Analytics for Smart Manufacturing
* Cloud, Fog, Edge Computing and other programming techniques in
Manufacturing Systems
* Data Mining, Machine Learning and AI in Smart Manufacturing
* Data-driven decision making in Industry 4.0
* Real-time Computing in Smart Manufacturing Environments
* Proactive and Autonomous Computing in a Virtual Factory
* Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems and Digital Twins
* Context-aware and Adaptive Systems in Smart Manufacturing and virtual
Factory concepts
* Digital Security, Privacy and Liability
* Business Process Modelling, Analysis and Engineering
* Business Impact of Information Systems for Industry 4.0
* Advanced user interfaces for Industry 4.0
* Virtual and augmented reality for smart manufacturing
Important Dates
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Paper submission:
February 23rd, 2019
Acceptance notification:
March 16th, 2019
Camera Ready Copies and copyright forms:
March 23rd, 2019
Workshop:
June 4th, 2019
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Workshop Co-chairs:
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Federica Mandreoli
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Giacomo Cabri
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Gregoris Mentzas
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Karl Hribernik
Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH (BIBA), Germany
Match Funding Received from Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), P.R. China
Our Chinese Partners, SSPU and KMSoft received their match funding from Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) to support the FIRST project. See more detailed information
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Mid Term Review Meeting 20 September 2018 in Groningen, the Netherlands.
EU FIRST virtual factory project mid term review meeting hosted at University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Group photo
EU FIRST Project Group photo
During the mid-term review meeting, the EU FIRST virtual factory project advisor Irina Elena Tiron giving a talk on RISE projects.
Serial Seminars about EU FIRST Virtual Factory Research Project at SSPU, Shanghai, China
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![]() | The report attracted different audiences. |
Dr Paul de Vrieze gave a talk to update the EU FIRST Virtual factory research Project SSPU team. | ![]() |
Visit Computer School, Wuhan University, China - Virtual Factory Lecture
Prof. Peng Liang and Dr. Chong Wang invited Dr. Lai Xu to visit Computer School, Wuhan University on 8th May, 2018. A seminar was given on the topic of 'Interoperability of Virtual Factory: an Overview of Concepts and Research Challenges'. A 4-hour lecture is delivered about 'Business Process Modelling, BPMN and Virtual Factory' for Master students at Computer School, Wuhan University. | ![]() | |
![]() | Conference: Discussing Business Process Modelling, BPMN and Virtual Factory | |
Lecture: Business Process Modelling, BPMN and Virtual Factory | ![]() |
Visit KM Software at Wuhan, China
Dr. Lai Xu visited KM Software at Wuhan. She is learning Virtual Factory Manufacturing Software and general knowledge of manufacturing processes. | ![]() |
![]() | Mr. Hua Mu and Dr. Wanling Chen hosted this visit. |
Virtual Factory Seminars at Shanghai Polytechnic University, China
Dr. Lai Xu and her PhD Student John Kasse give two interesting talks related to the EU FIRST Virtual Factory Research Project. Vice-director of Research Office Prof. Hong Lu and Prof. Bai hosted the seminars. Students and Colleagues from College of Engineering attended the seminars. | ![]() |
![]() | Dr. Lai Xu gave a talk on topic of Building Distributed Virtual Factory Organisation Model. from 14:30 to 15:30. During the panel some European projects were presented (among which the EU FIRST project), and then there was an open discussion about the proposed topics. |
Mr. John Kasse gave a talk on topic of Data Protection and Process Oriented Authorisation | ![]() |
Visit Huida Co. Ltd at Shanghai, China
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Dr. Lai Xu visited Huida Co. Ltd. Shanghai, China. The company specialises in manufacturing and machining of core auto parts of engineering systems, steering system, clutch systems and transmission systems as part of her virtual factory research for the EU FIRST project. |
Visit KM Software at Wuhan, China
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Dr. Paul de Vrieze visited KM Software, which is one of our partners of the EU FIRST Virtual Factory Research Project. The Chinese Version of this vising can be found from here. |