MOTION , MObile Teamwork Infrastructure for Organisations Networking,is
a European project aiming at the development and validation of an
innovative multi-service business architecture to support Team
Work and distributed working methods in largely distributed production
environments.
An emerging direction of nowadays manufacturing is leading to
a growing need for geographically distributed product development:
products are built up of components developed by units located
in different cities or countries.
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MOTION addresses this important business area, and the
innovative architecture which will be developed and demonstrated
will allow end-users to implement new methods of working and achieve
business process improvements in terms of improved product design,
improved productivity and reduced time to market.
The MOTION system will be developed to support several
key requirements for distributed business processes, including:
efficient information sharing across a widely distributed enterprise
environment; constant and timely update of the distributed knowledge
base, with many different sites acting both as potential users
as well as potential providers of information; shared access to
different, integrated manufacturing engineering services, supporting
both local activities as well as mobile working. The platform
will be based on a novel approach integrating several technologies:
intelligent and mobile agents, information push and event based
communication. Combined in a uniform architecture, such techniques
will allow configuring and operating a consistent set of Team
Work Assistants required in the different sites of an application
and supporting engineering teams working across the sites in a
variety of tasks.
MOTION will validate the achieved end products in two industrial
environments: household appliances production at Electrolux Zanussi
facilities and mobile phones manufacturing at Nokia facilities.
Nokia will validate the advanced business-oriented platform to
support cooperative design, on top of their current distributed
design environment spanning over 3 Countries and exploited by
over 500 designers. Zanussi will validate a pilot application
targeting two selected manufacturing establisments, in two different
European countries. This will provide information and knowledge
management to support engineering and production tasks such as:
product information management, process and production planning,
technical support during business process engineering and strategic
planning activities.
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Contacts :
Dr. Enrico Morten
Softeco Sismat SpA
Phone: +39 10 6026 354
Fax: +39 10 6026 350
email: enrico.morten@softeco.it
Dr. Marco Boero
Softeco Sismat SpA
Phone: +39 10 6026 329
Fax: +39 10 6026 350
email: marco.boero@softeco.it
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