 | The Factory2Fit project has received funding from Horizon 2020 (H2020/2014-2020), the European Union’s Programme for Research and Innovation under grant agreement n° 723277 |
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Senior Researcher Cemalettin Öztürk
United Technologies Research Centre Ireland Limited (UTRC Ireland)
We recently spoke to Cemalettin Öztürk, Senior Researcher with UTRC Ireland, about his role in Factory2Fit and his views on the project.
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Research and Development Manager Fernando Ubis
Visual Components
We recently caught up with Fernando Ubis, Research and Development Manager with Visual Components, at the company’s headquarters in Espoo, Finland. Visual Components is a leading global provider of 3D factory simulation software that offers machine builders, system integrators, and manufacturers a simple, quick, and highly cost-effective way to build and simulate their total process solutions.
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New Product Launch Manager Thomas Walter
Continental Automotive GmbH
This week we spoke to Thomas Walter, New Product Launch Manager with Continental Automotive’s Industrial Engineering department, about his role in Factory2Fit.
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Research Assistant Kostas Apostolakis
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)
This week we spoke to Kostas Apostolakis, Research Assistant from the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), about his role in Factory2Fit and his views on the project.
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Professor Ralph Riedel
Chemnitz University of Technology
Two departments within Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC) are participating in the Factory2Fit project. The department of Factory Planning and Factory Management is focusing on the development of innovative production systems, covering a wide range of questions in the field of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. The department of Cognitive and Engineering Psychology is focusing on Human-Machine-Interaction with automated systems in various domains. This includes learning processes, and skill acquisition as well as the development of trust, acceptance and mental models of automated systems.
Today we sat down with F2F partner Professor Ralph Riedel – Adjunct Professor and research group leader at the department of Factory Planning and Factory Management in Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany – to talk about his role in the Factory2Fit project.
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Dr Eija Kaasinen
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
This week we spoke to the project coordinator, Dr Eija Kaasinen from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, about her role and the impact she sees Factory2Fit making in the manufacturing sector.
VTT is a state owned non-profit company operating under the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy. The research and technology organisation (RTO) carries out research and innovation activities for the needs of industry and knowledge-based society. As well as coordinating the Factory2Fit project, VTT brings expertise in human factors, user experience, user acceptance, safety, wellbeing and ethics.
The Factory2Fit partners gathered for an insightful two-day consortium meeting in Espoo, Finland on 7th and 8th March 2017. The meeting was hosted by project coordinator VTT and attended by 27 members representing all 9 partner organisations. Read more →
The Factory2Fit External Advisory Board will meet on Monday 30 January 2017 in Helsinki. This first face-to-face meeting between the Advisory Board members will be hosted by the Finnish Metalworkers’ Union in the heart of the Finnish capital. Read more →
The Factory2Fit consortium met on 9th and 10th November 2016 to officially kick off the three year project.
Partners from all nine organisations in the four participating countries (Finland, Germany, Greece and Ireland) travelled to Brussels to begin work on this exciting project.
By developing solutions to make the factory environment more flexible and adaptable, the Factory2Fit project will bring increased worker motivation, satisfaction and productivity. It will help people to become knowledge workers in smart factories with fulfilling careers.
Work is now underway on the first task – defining industry’s needs and requirements for adaptation solutions. This will be done locally with participating industrial partners, and globally with stakeholders from industry, scientific experts and user communities.
Factory2Fit is funded under the EU’s H2020 research programme. Follow us on Twitter (@Factory2Fit_EU) for project updates.
Ever heard of a ‘co-bot’? It’s a robot who becomes your co-worker – working hand-in-hand with you to complete tasks. In this article, originally published on www.autonews.com, author Zac Palmer looks at some automotive factories using co-bots to help workers get more jobs done faster. Watch the video below to see a co-bot in action.
To read the original article, visit: http://www.autonews.com/article/20160715/BLOG06/307169999/fist-bumps-and-shock-installation-ford-co-bots-do-it-all
The Factory2Fit project has received funding from Horizon 2020 (H2020/2014-2020), the European Union’s Programme for Research and Innovation under grant agreement n° 723277