This page gives a brief overview of FP7-funded projects under the first 'Factories of the Future' call for proposals. For further details about each project, including websites where applicable, please click the project names below.
If you would like to view the 25 projects together in brochure format, you may do so here.
First Call (FP7-2010-NMP-ICT-FoF)
- Smart Factories
- Virtual Factories for Networked Production
- Adaptive Production Equipment
- High-Precision Manufacturing
001 - ActionPlanT aims to develop a vision on the short, medium, and long term role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the European manufacturing industry in order to ensure its sustainable competitiveness.
002 - CustomPacker will develop a scalable and flexible packaging tool to aid human workers in packaging a range of goods. It will automate the packaging process so that several production lines of various consumer goods can be amalgamated into one packaging line.
003 - FoFdation creates a data integration standard to help overcome difficulties faced by manufacturers. It seeks to create the foundations of the future of digital manufacturing to overcome productivity pressures, environmental aspects and allow for greater product variability.
004 - KAP aims to provide manufacturing standards to ensure that every existing resource can be used as efficiently as possible through the effective coordination of man, machine, material and method.
005 - PLANTCockpit will focus on defining standard interfaces and a reference model for integrating the most prominent manufacturing processes.The project vision is to offer PLANTCockpit to manufacturing communities as the central environment for monitoring and controlling all intra-logistical processes.
006 - Robofoot aims to introduce robots into the production process for footwear to improve productivity in the footwear sector. Currently, robots are underutilised in the footwear sector, unlike in the automotive, food and metal processing industries.
007 - TAPAS is a project that aims to optimise European production, to prevent manufacturing jobs from migrating to low-wage economies, by breaking new in ground robot-based automation and logistics.
008 - QCOALA will develop a new dual-wavelength laser processing system for welding thin-gauge aluminium and copper of 0.1mm to 1.0mm in thickness, with integrated process monitoring and in-line non-destructive inspection.
009 - CoReNet aims to support the production of fashionable and eco-friently clothing and footwear products for elderly, diabetic, obese and disabled people at affordable prices.
010 - e-CUSTOM aims to bridge the gap between mass production and mass customisation, engaging the customer in the initial design of the products and realising the manufacturing of these personalised added-value products in a novel, coordinated, eco-friendly and efficient decentralised approach.
011 - ManuCloud will develop a service-oriented ICT environment as a basis for the next level of manufacturing networks by enabling production-related inter-enterprise integration down to shop floor level.
012 - Micro-Dress' main objective is to extend the limits of feasible customisation for men’s and ladies' garments to include, for the first time, user-controllable wearable functionality and user-selectable degree of material eco-friendliness.
013 - Phocam aims to develop innovative lithography-based additive manufacturing systems which will facilitate the processing of photopolymer-based materials in the new factory environment.
014 - S-MC-S will help European manufacturing businesses adapt to global pressures by developing methods and innovative enabling technologies for personalised, customer-oriented, eco-efficient manufacturing.
015 - AIMACS has as its objective the development of active, self-optimising control systems, which continuously analyse a wide range of monitored parameters in the machining process and automatically adapt machine operations, thereby enhancing machine productivity.
016 - COMET aims to optimise and control the movement in robots by developing dedicated hard- and software modules combined within an innovative Plug-and-Produce platform. COMET outcomes will improve efficiency and boost productivity in the manufacturing industry.
017 - DYNXPERTS focuses on the development of active spindle heads and smart fixturing so as to offer a new generation of adaptive plug and produce components for the factories of the future. The project will overcome current limitations, introducing plug and produce actuators and sensors as close as possible to the machining point.
018 - HARCO aims to achieve cost-effective structural solutions consisting of a new class of smart components based on plug-and-produce modular adaptronic devices which integrate smart and multifunctional actuators and sensors capable of performing a wide array of multiple functions.
019 - LOCOBOT creates system which reaches above and beyond what is currently available for those working in the automotive industry: it incorporates a flexible robotic assistant platform to support and increase manual production processes, as well as the engineering tools required for its setup.
020 - PopJIM creates an innovative solution to performance limiting problems by incorporating a self-configuring and optimising mechatronic module alongside a wireless network. It is based on a novel concept through which the dynamic stiffness of the machine is controlled to maintain process stability.
021 - FAB2ASM project will develop a new manufacturing technology for the 3D integration of microelectronics and microsystems. It aims to fulfil an urgent need of the industry in 3D integration to bridge the gap in technology which currently exists.
022 - Femtoprint will develop a printer for microsystems which can produce three dimensional patterns with nano-scale features in glass material using a low-power femtosecond laser beam. With increasingly efficient technologies, the scope of this project is foreseen to expand to the benefit of multiple commercial and industrial sectors.
023 - IMPRESS aims to develop an injection moulding platform to produce plastic components with micro or nano-scale functional features. Impress will combine up-to-date and advanced facilities based on three main modules.
024 - ManuCyte will focus on the development of an intelligent, modular manufacturing platform for cell production with a view to creating personalised medicine. In particular, it will make cell production tailored to the patient’s needs.
025 - WaferLevelOptics stems from the concept of implementing wafer level glass moulding to reproduce micro optics at this level. The project will benefit manufacturing processes where there is both a current need to further miniaturise and produce in larger quantities at the same time.
