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.

http://fp7-adventure.eu/questionnaire

As mentioned some time ago, ADVENTURE participated in the organization of the Workshop entitled “ICT services and interoperability for Manufacturing” at the International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications (I-ESA 2014) in Albi, France. The Workshop was jointly organized by, and included presentations from the ADVENTURE, FLEXINET, FITMAN, IMAGINE and MSEE projects. We would like to give thanks to the partners of the other projects and everybody who participated in the Workshop for a great time.

The finish line of our ADVENTURE is in clear sight and everybody is working hard to finish the developement of the last prototypes and the implementation of the use-cases. Make sure to check out our first Newsletter in 2014  for additional information about the latest activites in ADVENTURE. You can download the Newsletter here.

Therefore we removed the logo from the ADVENTURE website and won’t use it any further for future publications in the context of this project.

The recommendation of the EU is to display the EU emblem and to include the following text:

“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 231396”.

You can find the statement by the EU here.

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!

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:

1. Intelligent Systems Configuration Services for Flexible Dynamic Global Production Networks.
2. Future Internet for manufacturing.
3. Distributed, adaptive and interoperable virtual factories environments.
4. Contemporary business networks going beyond cost, complexity and administrative burdens.
5. Component based tools and architectures enabling the innovative dynamic composition of services.
6. New Business Models, Service Alliances and Virtual Economies.
7. Collaboration platforms for Innovative and Responsive Manufacturing.
8. Real-time management of volatile manufacturing tangible and intangible assets, production System Reformation and Monitoring.
9. Dynamic formation of new industrial clusters as partners in the value chain.
10. Service provision and maintenance contracts among different size companies.
11. Seamless collaboration between SMEs and larger companies.
12. New technologies in the manufacturing domain (Big Data, Virtual Manufacturing & 3D printing, etc.).
13. Bridging FoF and Future ICT & Internet Technologies.
14. Service-product platforms 
empowering traditionalsectors & SMEs.
15. 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.