LinkedDesign, a four-year initiative financed by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, today announced significant results achieved by developing and manufacturing administration leaders such as SAP, COMAU, Volkswagen Group, TRIMEK, Aker Solutions and HOLONIX, a subsidiary of the Milan Polytechnic and leading technology combination of the Internet of Things to Life Cycle Management of Products.
The project objective was to develop a flexible architecture and modular software that allows the use of product information in a strategic way. In addition, the specific initiative has increased the productivity of the engineering activity through an integrated and holistic use of the data, people and the complete life-cycle processes of Products. Thus, the specific results have made it possible today, to talk of a new, integrated approach to optimize the entire value chain of the manufacturing industry.
Achieving its foreseen objectives, the project has resulted in the construction of the Virtual Obeya platform, a collaboration tool with one goal: to virtualize Obeya (a component of the management model of Lean production projects). Virtual Obeya acts as a “war room” digital, shared and distributed geographically at the crossroads, handling in an optimized fashion, all information about a project, product engineering, maintenance and management of systems.
The integrated software solution is the result of the synergetic utilization of 20 exploitable assets marketed and developed by each partner in the consortium, that are directly owners and contributed to a substantial optimization of production processes as well as the LinkedDesign project.
The complete list of LinkedDesign project partners is: Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Aker Solutions ASA, BIBA (Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH), COMAU, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), HOLONIX, INFAI (Institut für Angewandte Informatik), NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), SAP (project coordinator), TRIMEK, UBITECH and Volkswagen Group.
Source: http://www.elmundo.es/economia/2015/09/29/560a71c722601d8a768b4589.html
