Global-leading smart manufacturing through digital platforms, cross-cutting technologies and skilled workforce

Digital manufacturing platforms play an increasing role in dealing with competitive pressures and incorporating new technologies, applications and services. Advances are needed in digital manufacturing platforms that integrate different technologies, make data from the shop floor and the supply network easily accessible, and allow for complementary applications. The challenge is to fully exploit new concepts and technologies that allow manufacturing companies (especially mid-caps and SMEs) to fulfil the demands from changing supply and value networks

ConnectedFactories2 Coordination and Support Action (CSA) focuses on:
-Supporting understanding of key enablers and cross-cutting factors with regard to digital technologies and platforms for manufacturing
-Identifying pathways to the industrial take-up of digital technologies and platforms
-Situating state-of-the-art cases, key enablers and cross-cutting factors on pathways
-Stimulating the matching of skills transfer offering with skills demand across Europe
-Engaging with research and industrial actors in EU and local ecosystems of manufacturing
-Generating broad awareness about key enablers, cross-cutting factors, pathways and cases
-Increasing collaboration and synergy between Industrial Platform projects, especially Digital Manufacturing Platforms for Connected Smart Factories