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Last Month of ADVENTURE

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:19:17 +0000

The final review meeting will be held in Waterton, Wales, and will be hosted by TANet at the premises of Control2K. For the final demonstration of the use cases of TANet and Azevedos, the technical meeting for the 3ʳᵈ project year was held in Breukelen (near Utrecht in the Netherlands) from August 6ᵗʰ – 8ᵗʰ to amend the last necessary technical details. The final missing bits and pieces for the demonstration of the use cases were exchanged, results were presented, the state of the deliverables as reported and implementation for open issues took place.

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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Initial Interviews Conducted

admin — Tue, 27 May 2014 14:49:29 +0000

The initial interviews about the acceptance of ADVENTURE and possible feature wishes began this month with several partners conducting interview sessions with engineers from a range of companies within the manufacturing domain.

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.

ADVENTURE Workshop Paper Submission Deadline extended

admin — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:27:00 +0000

Upon popular request, the deadline for paper submissions for the ADVENTURE workshop at the I-ESA 2014 has been extended to the 10ᵗʰ of January!

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

Upcoming ADVENTURE Workshop – Call for Papers

Tim Dellas — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:44:26 +0000

Update: The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to the 10ᵗʰ of January!

This is a CALL FOR PAPERS for a Workshop on ICT Services and Interoperability for Manufacturing on the IESA 2014 – INTEROPERABILITY FOR ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS“INTEROPERABILITY FOR AGILITY, RESILIENCE AND PLASTICITY OF COLLABORATIONS” taking place on March 24th-28th,2014 – ALBI (FRANCE). ADVENTURE will take part in this conference and it’s organization, and present a workshop.

I-ESA brings together the world’s leading researchers and practitioners in the area of Enterprise Interoperability for the development of new Enterprise solutions based on the Internet of the Future. Initiated in 2005 by two major European research projects of the FP6 of the European Commission, the ATHENA IP (Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their Applications, Integrated Project) and the INTEROP NoE (Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprise Applications and Software, Network of Excellence), the I-ESA conferences have been recognized as a tool to lead and generate an extensive research and industrial impact in the field of interoperability for enterprise software and applications. I-ESA’2014 will be held in Albi, France by 24th-25st March, 2014 (Pre-conference) and 26nd-28rd March, 2014 (Conference): www.i-esa.org

You are cordially invited to participate to the Workshop entitled “ICT services and interoperability for Manufacturing” in the International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications. (I-ESA) 2014. I-ESA is established as the major event addressing Enterprise Interoperability and the official conference of Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability (INTEROP-VLab) with the sponsorship of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).

The Workshop with presentations from ADVENTURE will take place in Albi (France) on 24th and 25th March 2014. Accepted and presented papers will be published by ISTE Publications UK, www.iste.co.uk

Workshop Scope

The workshop is jointly organised by, and will include presentations from the ADVENTURE, FLEXINET, FITMAN, IMAGINE and MSEE projects. It aims to achieve the following goals:

To review current developments in delivery of ICT support to manufacturing enterprises and production networks.
To be a forum for discussion between researchers active in the related domains of enterprise interoperability, future internet enterprise systems and factories of the future.
To present the on-going projects/initiatives of the FoF and FInES domain, actively contributing towards the realisation of the FoF visions
To discuss the current development in the FoF domain, bringing together interoperability scientists, manufacturing industries and IT solution providers
To reveal ideas and innovations for fully automated end-to-end manufacturing
To elaborate on the EFFRA roadmap and on future visions for the Factories of the Future Domain
To discuss on the directions and future trends as indicated in the Horizon 2020 strategic documents by addressing topics selected from the following:

Intelligent Systems Configuration Services for Flexible Dynamic Global Production Networks.
Future Internet for manufacturing.
Distributed, adaptive and interoperable virtual factories environments.
Contemporary business networks going beyond cost, complexity and administrative burdens.
Component based tools and architectures enabling the innovative dynamic composition of services.
New Business Models, Service Alliances and Virtual Economies.
Collaboration platforms for Innovative and Responsive Manufacturing.
Real-time management of volatile manufacturing tangible and intangible assets, production System Reformation and Monitoring.
Dynamic formation of new industrial clusters as partners in the value chain.
Service provision and maintenance contracts among different size companies.
Seamless collaboration between SMEs and larger companies.
New technologies in the manufacturing domain (Big Data, Virtual Manufacturing & 3D printing, etc.).
Bridging FoF and Future ICT & Internet Technologies.
Service-product platforms  empowering traditionalsectors & SMEs.
Other relevant Factories of the Future in Future Internet Enterprise Systems related topics.

Workshop Format

Speakers: circa 8.
Presentations: from the above topics.
Duration (provisional, depending on total time allocated in programme): for each presentation (20 min. + 5 min. for questions (full discussion to be conducted in interactive joint discussion session)).
Coffee 10 minutes.
Interactive Joint Discussion to address the above topics supported by questionnaires. Duration (provisional): 30 minutes.
Workshop total duration: half-day – 4 hours followed by the break for coffee/networking.

Paper Submission

Papers must be in English, describe original work and must follow the HERMES eng-guidelines for authors. Paper length should be 6 pages for a full paper and 4 pages for a short paper. Papers will be peer-reviewed. Authors should submit their contributions by email to the Workshop Organisers (see below).

Workshop Organisers

Keith Popplewell, Coventry University, UK, email: k.popplewell@coventry.ac.uk
Gash Bhullar, Control 2K Ltd., UK, email: admin@control2k.co.uk
Sotirios Koussouris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, email: skous@epu.ntua.gr

Key Dates

Workshop deadline for papers: ~~December 20th, 2013~~
Update: The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to January 10ᵗʰ !
Workshops Programme: January 31th, 2014
Workshops Venue: 24th – 25st March, 2014

Further Information about this Workshop

Please, consider that at least one author per paper must register for the Workshops. If none of the authors is registered, the paper will not be included in the workshop programme and in the proceedings.
Enquiries to: Keith Popplewell (k.popplewell@coventry.ac.uk)
Website: www.i-esa.org
You may download the Call for Papers from this link.

Year 2 finished

Tim Dellas — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 07:26:11 +0000

The second year of our ADVENTURE comes to an end. We finished a new Flyer and a new Newsletter with updated information about the project. Also, everyone is frantically working at the integration of the first functional prototype components, and time is filled with meetings, deliverable documents and coding.

The second review is approaching mid October in Brussels, we’ll write another update how it went.

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ADVENTURE Month 24 and 2013 Review approaching

admin — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:04:12 +0000

The ADVENTURE time schedule quickly approaches the end of month 24, when many prototypes are finished, which means all partners are working hard to get the best possible solutions online. The month 24 prototypes are going to be shown on the next review meeting in Brussels, where individual presentations and a combined prototype presentation is planned.

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.

Summer Vacation Time

admin — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:03:55 +0000

Many of the participants of ADVENTURE have holidays and the team wishes everyone nice summer holidays! Meanwhile, the second ADVENTURE review is approaching on the horizon and the month 24 milestones are close on deadline, so not everyone is sitting on the beach. The last IPR discussions before delivering an amendment to the description of work are committed, integration meetings try to settle on deadlines for specific integration features between ADVENTURE components, information for a late workshop report is gathered and although the temperatures in the offices of partners keep rising, a lot of programming takes place and ice cream is being continuously consumed, maybe even more than APIs.

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Waterton Meeting

admin — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:53:20 +0000

The last consortium meeting, hosted by Control2k / TANet in Waterton from the 27th of February till 1st of March was very fruitful. The external advisory board managed to teach the consortium about real world industry cases where ADVENTURE might be applicable, as well as informing about copyright and patent laws and advising on intellectual property issues that could arise and on how to prevent those.

The board also decided on the extension of the Azevedos use case to substitute the loss of ABB from the consortium, in order to make the use case more relevant for bigger use cases where the whole supply chain has to be covered.

Also, an internal competition was held where eleven projects by six consortium members were presented. After a quick voting, it was decided that the “ADVENTURE Mobile Status App” by Ascora and “Graphical Approach for Gateway Implementation” by TIE were the winners, which will be implemented in the further course of the project.

First Half Over

Tim Dellas — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:00:56 +0000

After 18 months, at the end of February, half time for ADVENTURE is announced. Participants of the three-year FP7 project are working tightly on the month 18 prototypes that are due at the 28ᵗʰ of February. At the same time, changes to the ADVENTURE deliverables requested by the reviewers of the project in December have to be delivered and another newsletter is being finished while the partners get ready for the next ADVENTURE consortium meeting in Waterton, Wales, where the next steps are discussed and a Ford factory is visited.

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Technical Meetings After Positive Review Report

Tim Dellas — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:46:07 +0000

After the review in Darmstadt on the 25th of October, ADVENTURE has finally received feedback in form of a very good review report with only minor corrections to be made and some additional information requested.

ADVENTURE now enters a phase where more technical concepts get turned into reality. To start things up, a technical meeting was held on the 4th and 5th of December 2012 in Vienna. After the holidays, and with a good review report that doesn’t cause much work, the team is now organizing in telcos to push development work forwards as the deadline for the month #18 deliverables arrives at the end of February.

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