Innovative Ambient Intelligence Based Services to Support Life-Cycle Management of Assembly and Manufacturing Systems

Partners:

UNINOVA (PT)
ATB (DE)
ATECNIC (PT)
AISIAKIN (ES)
LSW (DE)
SIEMENS (DE)
BOSCH REXROTH (DE)
FATRONIK (ES)
GER (ES)

Duration:

Oct 2005 – Sep 2008

Total cost:    € 2 582 440

EC funding:  € 1 449 029

Strategic Objective:

IST-NMP-1 Integrating Technologies for the Fast and Flexible Manufacturing Enterprise

Project Identifier:

FP6-2004-IST-NMP-2-16788

Project coordinator :

Rui Neves-Silva
(UNINOVA)

InAmI explores how a combination of existing technologies, namely ambient intelligence and semantic-based knowledge management, can promote collaboration to support industrial installations and manufactured products.
 

Manufacturing companies need to improve competitiveness and strengthen market position. This pressure demands strong collaboration from all actors involved in the product or production value chain. However, manufacturing industry is still missing the necessary support, in methods and tools, to achieve efficient collaboration strategies.

InAmI is focused on eCollaboration: collaboration among individuals engaged in a common task using electronic technologies, to provide services supporting access to relevant information and knowledge through a common interface for different agents along the production process.

The project’s rationale consists in a human-centric approach, involving all the actors interacting with a product: parts or machines suppliers, producers, service providers and customers. This approach is based on an effective use of information and knowledge, in virtual and/or distributed environments, i.e. for all actors in the extended enterprise.

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This project is supported by funding under the
 Sixth Research Framework Programme of the European Union.