Innovative Product-Service design using manufacturing intelligence

Specific challenge:Manufacturing intelligence requires a high integration of (ICT-based) engineering tools and secure middleware solutions that facilitate easy, ubiquitous (e.g. Cloud-enabled) and fast sharing of product and process information/knowledge across the entire lifecycle and among all actors involved. Today's ever faster product lifecycles and ever higher quality requirements necessitate manufacturing engineering capability and knowledge that is able to exploit to the maximum the concurrency of product and service engineering with immediate, cross-disciplinary feedback loops to relevant shop floor knowledge. Also end-users feedback and requirements should be taken into account.

Scope: Research should aim at developing open, multi-disciplinary and holistic product-service engineering environments with the following features:

-          Collaborative management of engineering knowledge and its multi-directional exchange between product design, service design and