This statistic from a PWC report on the Future of Manufacturing shows that manufacturers cannot afford to lag behind if they want to remain competitive. Following the manufacturing consulting company Aeva, implementing Digital Factory solutions can lead to drastic...

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Article from Angelos Bavelos, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation Instructions are a necessary part in industries where workers must be involved in assembly operations and reconfiguration actions. New and inexperienced workers must first learn the...

At the end of May, the European Commission conducted its first review of the DIMOFAC initiative. The goal: to make sure everything is on track regarding the various sub-objectives that were agreed with the European Commission related to helping factories reconfigure...

https://youtu.be/tV8Y8A4hvHU DIMOFAC is a project that came to life to help factories make their assembly lines more responsive to demand changes. This implies in particular automating and computerising manual industrial processes in order to be able to reconfigure...

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Article from Germán Vergara, CTO at New Infrared Technologies The DIMOFAC ambition is to enable the modularity, adaptability and responsiveness of production lines in order for European factories to quickly adapt to market dynamics (sudden drop of demand for a given...

Plug-and-Produce will be a key technology to speed up the reconfiguration of assembly lines. See how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiZo_BhudR0

Article from Kunal Suri, researcher at CEA & Aleksandr Sidorenko, researcher at DFKI Introduction to the Plug-and-Produce concept The earliest mention of the term “Plug-and-Produce” dates back from the year 2000 when researchers from the University of...

Article from Monireh Pourjafarian, Researcher at DFKI The DIMOFAC project aims to provide the infrastructure needed for the development of a digital manufacturing platform. Such a platform promises a variety of services that will support manufacturing in a broad...