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AITPL Cluster

Ambient Intelligence Technologies             
for the Product Lifecycle Cluster

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Description

The Cluster aspires to enable organisations in a networked world to deliver better products in a more efficient way faster to the market by enhancing the product and the product lifecycle processes using ambient intelligence technologies. For this information, each information that is relevant in the network has to be available at the right place, in the right time, and with suitable aggregation. The keyword is context awareness, providing means to effectively manage decisions of different networking partners for different product and production status. Different environments within one system should adapt to the roles of the human addressing the network, and different (possibly conflicting) changes need to be detected and introduced into the workflow for problem solving. Such systems would behave different dependent from where they are contacted (in the extreme case, changing the role when physical interfaces like PDAs are moved into a new environment). Today, Europe’s attitude with respect to agility is massively higher than from distant low-cost / high volume providers. However, achieving the goals mentioned requires a new step forward in terms of the business culture.

 

AITPL publishes its Cluster Book

“New Technologies for the Intelligent Design and Operation of Manufacturing Networks” documents the results and perspectives of the projects of the AITPL cluster. It gives an overview of each single project and goes into detail about certain selected results that have been achieved by the projects.

 

 AITPL Cars

 

Cluster Projects

Today the cluster consists of the following projects:

 

Participating Projects

 

Project Acronym
 Name of Project
  coordinator info
BRIDGE Building Radio Frequency Identification in the Global Environment Henri Barthel, GS1 more info
SPIDER-WIN Supply Information Dynamic Exchange and Control by Web-based Interaction Network Markus Rabe,Fraunhofer IPK more info
INDISPUTABLE KEY Intelligent distributed process utilization and blazing environmental key Dr. Richard Uusijärvi more info
CATER Computerized Automotive Technology Refiguration Manfred Dangelmaier, Fraunhofer IAO more info
STOLPAN Store Logistics and Payment with NFC Andreas Vilmos more info
STOP Stop tampering of products Harald Vogt,SAP more info
ILIPT Intelligent Logistics for Innovative Product Technologies René Esser,ThyssenKrupp Automotive more info
VERITAS Virtual Enterprises for Integrated Industrial Solutions Dr. Epaminondas Stamos more info
CO-DESNET Collaborative Demand and Supply Networks Prof. Agostino Villa,Politecnico di Turino more info
CE RFID Coordinating European Efforts for Promoting the European RFID Value Chain Dr. Gerd Wolfram, MGI Metro Group more info
FLUID-WIN Finance, Logistic and Production Integration Domain by Web-based Interaction Network Markus Rabe,Fraunhofer IPK more info
MAPPER Model-based Adaptive Product and Process Engineering Dario Leo,CRF more info
X-CHANGE Flexible Change Management for the Factory of the Future Kari Hein,Fatman Oy more info
PADABIS' PROMISE PABADIS based Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems for Reconfigurable Enterprises Dr.-Ing. Arndt Lüder,Otto-von-Guericke Institut more info
E4 Extended Enterprise Management for Enlarged Europe Maria Luisa Sanseverino, CRF more info
TraSer Identity-Based Tracking and Web-Services for SMEs Zsolt Kemény more info
NET-WMS Towards integrating Virtual Reality and optimisation techniques in a new generation of Networked businesses in Warehouse Management Systems under constraints Bruno Le Dantec more info


Major Achievements

  • Publication of a book on “Strengthening competitiveness through production networks”, documenting early results of the cluster projects
  • First Analysis on how the co-ordination of European/national/regional activities and policies could be improved from a bottom-up thematic perspective (ERA)
  • Organization of two forums in Brussels (February 2006) and Milan (June 2006)
  • Concerted participation in the ICE’07 conference with 6 reviewed paper presentations


Future plans

  • Publication of a book based on the 2006 forums
  • Concertation of pre-normative activities among the cluster projects
  • Formation of three discussion groups on specific AITPL-related topics


Cluster Documents

 

Cluster Contacts


For further information on this cluster, please contact the cluster representatives:

Markus Rabe (Fraunhofer IPK)
Phone: +49 (0)30 39006248
E-Mail: markus.rabe@ipk.fhg.de

Florent Frederix (European Commission)
Phone: +32 (0)2 296 2816
E-Mail: florent.frederix@cec.eu.int