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• Resilient Multi-Plant Networks: REMPLANET

• Rethinking globalisation in the light of contraction and Convergence: CONVERGE

• Innovative Networks of SMEs for Complex products Manufacturing: Net-Challenge

• In time delivery in non-hierarchical manufacturing networks: inTime

• Sustainable Mass Customization – Mass Customization for Sustainability: S-MC-S

During the workshop, some of the current results already achieved in the iNet-IMS FP7 Projects were presented in terms of theoretical and methodological framework improvements as well as of supporting tools development. The proposed approaches have been developed in order to be as general as possible, in order to facilitate a wide adoption by the enterprises. Nevertheless, the needs and specificities of particular sectors (textile and apparel, footwear, machinery and equipments) from which belong the companies involved in the projects are elicited and addressed. The challenges and opportunities linked to product differentiation, mass customisation and customer driven innovation were specifically addressed. The workshop provided an excellent opportunity to discuss about state of the art enhancement in the field of design and management of collaborative manufacturing networks.

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Two presentations were performed with regard to REMPLANET Project. The first one, presented by Raul Poler, offered a general overview of the project and its main expected results. The second one, presented by Julien Maheut, showed a mathematical programming model for supply chain operations scheduling in distribute plants related to the research activities performed within WP4: REMPLANET Simulation and Optimization Decision Support.

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In this meeting special emphasis has been put in the different presentations to take into account the recommendations proposed by the Project Technical Advisor (PTA) after the Official Review Meeting in Brussels in order to reach a better alignment with the European Commission expectations and achieve the expected results in the project.

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The presentations were focused on the work performed since the beginning of the project until month M18. Moreover, the potential exploitable results of the project were shown and discussed. The Official Review Meeting was an excellent opportunity to converse about different aspects of the project and to receive feedback about the REMPLANET Project status and future work.

The day before, an Executive Board Meeting took place for preparing the Official Review Meeting and coordinating the presentations of the different Work Package Leaders.

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The other presentation was related to the works performed in the Work Package 3. This presentation performed by Dong Li from the University of Liverpool was entitled: Strategic Design of Resilient Supply Network. The session had around 20 People.

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The ESS animator described the methodology to use, and leaded the REMPLANET partners during the whole process. This process included discussing about the expected results of the project, identifying and characterizing them. Moreover, the partners presented their respective visions about the expected results, considering: their level of innovation and the expected benefits. Later, partners discussed about intellectual property rights and explotaition issues, taking into account the background and foreground generated by each partner to each result. Then, the animator proposed the generarion of a Risk Assessment and Action Plan, identifying key risks, possible solutions and actions to be implemented to reduce the risk. Finally, the seminar concluded with the generation of a Plan for Using and Disseminating Foreground.

In the ESS different visions arised and a process of discussions and agreement took place to establish a common reference. After the discussion, a first approach of expected results was obtained (see Table 1). All partners agreed that an important point to guarantee the success of the results is that they should provide stand alone usability and usefulness.

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This event was held the first day in Bologna, and the second in the facilities of CRIT in Vignola. During these days the REMPLANET members presented their current works and discussed about future work to be performed. This meeting also included a visit to the GHEPI manufacturing facilities.

Moreover, the 21^st September, the Exploitation Strategy Seminar was held in Bologna.

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Project full title: Sustainable Mass Customization – Mass Customization for Sustainability;

Project acronym: S-MC-S;

Work program topic addressed: FoF.NMP.2010-2 Supply chain approaches for small series industrial production and

Coordinator: Claudio Roberto Boer.

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This meeting also included a visit to the facilities of KING & FOWLER in Liverpool.

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The meeting also included a guided visit to the facilities of IKERLAN and BIMATEC‐SORALUCE in Mondragon.

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In regard to presentations, Raul Poler (CIGIP), REMPLANET project coordinator, did a general presentation of REMPLANET: REMPLANET: Resilient Multi-Plant Networks. Whereas, Ditmar Ihlenburg  (Festo) and Eduardo Saiz (Ikerlan) focused in specific subjects presenting “Managing  customerinteraction  ininnovation processes with value creation networks” and “Integration of a new product catalogue process generation and resilient supply network configurations for several customised demand scenarios” respectively. Moreover, Eduardo Saiz also presented the paper “Customised Order Fulfillment in a Machine Tool Supply Network”.

In the IWEI 2009 conference, the 2nd IFIP WG5.8 Workshop on Enterprise Interoperability held in Valencia, the 13th and 14th of October, Ruben de Juan presented the paper “SOP4EBPM Generating Executable Business Services from Business Models” a position paper about the IT platform that will be developed in the REMPLANET project for supporting the decentralized decision making process.

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The 4 NMP-2008-3.3-1 Projects (REMPLANET, Net-Challenge, CONVERGE and inTime) celebrated a meeting the first day of the event in order to prepare a joint IMS MTP Initiative. The result of this meeting was a proposal entitled iNet-IMS “Intelligent Non-Hierarchical Manufacturing Networks”. The objective of this initiative is the extension of scope of the EC-FP7 funded projects REMPLANET, CONVERGE, Net-challenge and inTime, with respect to IMS-specific tasks and results.

iNet-IMS “Intelligent Non-Hierarchical Manufacturing Networks”

The four projects are under the Call “FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2” Activity code “NMP-2008-3.3-1: Supply chain integration and real-time decision making in non-hierarchical manufacturing networks”, and started between May and September 2009.

The objectives of the iNet-IMS initiative are:

• To analyse the needs that arise from the interactions and relationships between SMEs belonging to Non-Hierarchical Manufacturing Networks.
• To analyse recent technological innovation trends (mainly in terms of IS and IT) to support Decentralised Decision Making.
• To analyse existing standards for information exchange to support Collaborative Processes.
• To define a Framework for Collaboration in Non-Hierarchical Manufacturing Network context.
• Strategic Model
• Tactical Model
• Operational Model

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