Also, the team had a very fun time visiting Amsterdam and having the last official meeting in between the projects partners within the duration of the project.

Now the last month of ADVENTURE is running out, and the team gathers the last deliverables due in M36, and is looking forward to the review meeting in October. To all readers of this news-stream: thanks a lot for your interest in ADVENTURE! Still, this will not be the last update for sure

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   by  John Spooner 

AZEVEDOS INDUSTRIA is a producer of machinery used to manufacture cork stoppers, including design, custom built parts and control software as well as support and repair tasks. For the use case of AZEV, many manual tasks happen in a Virtual Factory, that can be based on default templates created once.

Control2K (member of TANET) is a systems integrator providing monitoring solutions for companies like FORD. They extend their monitoring using ADVENTURE to integrate additional logic and smart sensors in their product and will demonstrate this using an ADVENTURE Virtual Factory.

Now that the M33 deliverables are completed, the focus of the project will be to bring the use cases into reality. While this is already in progress, the next plenary meeting will focus on shaping up the use cases to have them in a final stage for the review in Octobre. This plenary meeting will take place in two weeks in Sofia, Bulgaria, and be hosted by ISOFT.

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  by  elevationus 

The questionnaire that was developed by the project partners during the Vaasa meeting, is freely available online at http://fp7-adventure.eu/questionnaire. Prior to the questionnaire the interviewee is show the ADVENTURE video which provides them with the core vision of the project, and following this a brief presentation which explains in more technical depth the functionality and features the platform offers and what the benefits are to companies who us it.

Initial feedback has been very positive with a lot of focus by interviewees on the exact functionality offered by ADVENTURE. The questionnaire has also sparked interest from companies to review their current technology for collaborations with the customers and suppliers.

More interviews are planned this month and we look forward to the see the final outcomes. You can also still use the link above to take part in the online survey.

The last ADVENTURE  consortial meeting in Vaasa (Finland) was hosted by the University of Vaasa (or UVA as we like to call them). They prepared a very special meeting place for us at Kalle’s Inn, which is a very beautiful place and the evening event included a traditional smoke sauna, hot tubs and a hole in an ice sea if you wanted to cool down (I didn’t dare but actually everyone who tried it is still alive).

Besides the nice Finnish people, the beautiful winter-wonder-landscape and the (let’s say interesting) mid-week nightlife in Vaasa, the meeting was also very productive now that ADVENTURE has reached the third year, and the technology has to be validated by the use case partners. Questionaries for possible users have been created to find out what would be necessary to put the ADVENTURE platform to use in real world processes. The last IPR issues were discussed and the general progress towards the delivery of the second batch of prototypes were some of the main topics.

Enjoy some of the photos we made.

By the way, you still have a week left to submit papers to the ADVENTURE workshop at the I-ESA 2014:

http://www.fp7-adventure.eu/2013/12/adventure-workshop-paper-submission-deadline-extended/

The ADVENTURE team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

For the second years review, the ADVENTURE team focussed on showing as many component-prototypes as possible in an integrated demo, in a fictional but coherent story of a business opportunity at Azevedos Industria. In fact, the team had so many demos that we had to cut some, and we even managed to keep to our time limits. Also noticeably not a single demo failed or had bugs, and we succeeded in showing the interaction between all prototypes that were due to that date.

The reviewers were happy with the progress and the excessive coverage and handling of all the criticism they had the year before, as another main focus was the last years’s criticism which was broadly dealt with. Especially the team received very positive feedback for the fine grained plan for intellectual property rights. Overall, the reviewers offered very positive feedback and suggestions.

All deliverables, presentations and prototypes are being submitted to the reviewers in the following days, and we’re awaiting the formal feedback in written form. Also, you’ll find all public deliverables popping up on our website under http://www.fp7-adventure.eu/resources/ soon.

Thanks for everyone who participated. Let’s get to work for the third stage!

There have been updates to a lot of earlier documents to reflect the changes deemed necessary in the implementation phase:

• D2.1 Project Vision Consensus Document
• D2.3 Requirement Analysis Report
• D3.1 Global Architecture Definition
• D3.2 Functional Specification
• D3.3 Technical Specification

Also, a big number of other deliverables are finished or in the works, under these are:

• D3.4 The Conceptual Manufacturing Reference Model
• D4.1.2 ADVENTURE Cloud Based Data Storage Prototype 2
• D8.1.1 IPR Document
• D8.3.2 Scientific Dissemination Report 2
• D8.3.4 ADVENTURE Workshop Report 1
• D8.5.3 Report on Cluster Activitites
• and some more (Gateway Developers Guide, State of the Art Wiki Update and some more Prototype deliverables, and this list is just comprised of what I saw personally in the last month)

Also a new project Flyer has been designed, hackers tried to infiltrate the ADVENTURE servers, and a lot of work has been done in terms of meetings, decisions and conceptual work to make the planned Dashboard more modern and enjoyable. And this is also just a small excerpt of what happens. Busy schedules.