INESC TEC develops apps to support Manufacturing Systems Engineering
INESC TEC’s Manufacturing Systems Engineering Unit (UESP) is working on the European project APPS4aME – Engineering Apps for advanced Manufacturing Engineering, where the purpose is to develop a set of apps to support Manufacturing Systems Engineering in order to increase productivity and reliability in small series.
06th June 2013
The need to develop these apps came from the change in paradigm that occurred in the European manufacturing industry, which went from mass production to a customised or small series production, where the preferences of consumers are taken into consideration. This entails a higher complexity in manufacturing systems design and operation.
To deal with this added complexity, it is necessary to have new methods and tools based on knowledge that will make it possible to model, optimise and monitor manufacturing systems, supporting the engineering and reengineering stages of manufacturing systems.
In this project, UESP will be responsible for conducting R&D activities mainly in terms of modelling and managing business processes based on knowledge, performance management, interoperability and advanced collaborative environments. The person representing INESC TEC in this project is Américo Azevedo, a researcher at UESP, who will be supported by Álvaro Caldas (also from UESP) in the initial stage of the project.
The project is coordinated by the German InstituteFraunhofer-IPA and other than INESC TEC, the consortium includes the Portuguese
partners Autoeuropa and ATEC – Academia de Formação, and the
remaining partners CarmOlimp(Romania), Bazigosand LMS (both from Greece), Siemens, SAP andCADS (all from Germany), Technology Transfer
System –
TTS and ITIA-CNR (Italy). The APPS4aME has a duration of 36 months.