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A Social Manufacturing Framework for Streamlined Multi-stakeholder Open Innovation Missions in Consumer Goods Sectors

Project description

Innovative open digital platform for collaborative manufacturing

Innovation researchers consider the rise of capability of consumers to innovate for themselves. The democratisation of innovation will benefit EU producers. However, its integration with corporate innovation processes is still underdeveloped. The EU-funded iPRODUCE project aims to technologically advance existing concepts from specific manufacturing fields such as DIY manufacturing, FabLabs and Makerspace and deploy them in connected multi-stakeholder structures under its inclusive concept of collaborative manufacturing demonstration facilities (cMDF). The project intends to activate an open digital platform supported by innovative instruments that will allow stakeholders to interact and cooperate. The platform will be installed, monitored and evaluated in six local environments with diverse experience, objectives and application areas.

Objective

Democratized innovation holds undeniable promise for European producers, but the integration with corporate innovation practices is in its infancy. While the interest is real, it is still neither easy or efficient for producers – especially SMEs to benefit from collaborative production. The iPRODUCE project takes well proven concepts and approaches (from DIY manufacturing, FabLabs, Makerspace), and aims to upscale them through innovative technology solutions and to install them in well-connected multi-stakeholder ecosystems under an umbrella concept of collaborative Manufacturing Demonstration Facilities (cMDF)”.
We organize our work under a social-manufacturing platform that enables multi-stakeholder interactions and collaborations to support user-driven open-innovation and co-creation. At the heart of the iPRODUCE platform is an open digital space supported by a set of innovative tools that cover matchmaking, secure interactions, generative product design, process orchestration, agile prototyping, usability evaluations and lifecycle management. We complement these technical tools with a strong social component that aims at easing the notorious hardship of engagement with makers and aim to open up to new maker segments, while we improve on SoA tools for Lead User Innovation identification.
The iPRODUCE platform will be deployed in six local ‘ecosystems’ which cover different levels of maturity with collaborative production, diverse objectives and application areas spanning from home furnishing, automotive/mobility, consumer photography, medical ecquipment and more. The platform supports knowledge and resource sharing across cMDFs and all our results will be monitored and evaluated.

Call for proposal

H2020-NMBP-TR-IND-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-NMBP-FOF-2019

Coordinator

INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO METALMECANICO, MUEBLE, MADERA, EMBALAJE Y AFINES-AIDIMME
Net EU contribution
€ 513 375,04
Address
CALLE LEONARDO DA VINCI 38 PARQUE TECNOLOGICO
46980 Paterna Valencia
Spain

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes
Region
Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València
Activity type
Research Organisations
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Total cost
€ 513 375,04

Participants (24)