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 Tokyo and...

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...

Article from Kunal Suri, Researcher at CEA Digital twins are currently making the headlines in various industrial domains such as manufacturing, infrastructure, natural resources, healthcare, energy, aerospace and defence, just to...

With a consortium of 30 complementary partners, a 4-year duration, and an ambitious goal of making the production lines of European factories more flexible, the DIMOFAC project might be difficult to grasp in just one sentence. But what about one picture? Zoom on the...

The project, supported by the European Commission and launched in October 2019, will be taking advantage of emerging manufacturing technologies to create, implement and disseminate modular production methods that will help European factories to reconfigure their assembly lines in order to be more productive and flexible and thus reactive to demand changes.

The DIMOFAC consortium held it its kick-off meeting on the 6 and 7 November 2019 in Grenoble, where CEA, the organisation leading the initiative is based.