HORIZON 2020 - Simple apps transform advanced manufacturing

EU researchers have developed a new model for collecting data across the manufacturing life cycle and storing it all in one place. Accessing this data, prototype apps have helped to improve metrics by nearly 90 % in SME advanced manufacturing trials, hinting at how apps could transform this sector in Europe.

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Industrial Technologies Innovation Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Germany Greece Italy Portugal Romania Nanotechnologies, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing & processing, and biotechnology

date: 03/05/2016

Project: Engineering Apps for advanced Manufactur...

acronym: Apps4aME

See also: CORDIS

Although consumers will pull out their phones and use simple apps for banking, shopping or planning a journey, businesses have tended to head in the opposite direction. They favour complex software, such as enterprise resource planning tools, to optimise their activity using the wealth of data at their disposal.

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