EFPF

The European Factory Platform – EFPF has allocated 2.5 Million Euro to provide Financial Support to third parties for open experimentation over the federated
EFPF. The call opens in September 2020:

• Funding per experiment: 50.000€ – 150.000€
• Duration: 6 months – 12 months
• Time period for experiments: Sept 2021 – Aug 2022

The open call for experimentation supports two types of experiments:​

• Experiments for the development, testing, validation or utilization of digital manufacturing applications and services:
  • Applications and validation of EFPF solutions in real-world digital manufacturing and supply chain scenarios.
  • Development of new tools or solutions, either by using the
    EFPF SDK or combining functionalities of
    EFPF solutions.
• Experiments for the enhancement of
  EFPF ecosystem through the integration of innovative solutions:
  • Integration of 3rd applications in the
    EFPF federation.
  • Integration of 3rd party platforms in the
    EFPF federation through agreements on security framework, providing
    EFPF users with wider access to smart factory and digital manufacturing solutions.

For more information visit the EFPF Call.

As the COVID-19 pandemic requires to avoid meeting and more or less all of EFPF partners are in lock-down situation, the EFPF project has completely switched to using digital technologies to stay in touch with partners and make progress in these difficult times.

CNet is currently managing the efforts in supply chain blockchain applications for the EFPF pilot use cases.

The consortium of 30 partners, consisting of 3 large industrial partners, 6 Research organizations, 1 industrial association in the aerospace network, 6 SME end-users from different areas of manufacturing and 14 SMEs technology providers met from the 4th to 7th February 2020 at CNet in Stockholm. The technical meeting addressed the integration of practical requirements of the pilot use cases and the application of standards.

These 30 partners have spread across 10 different European States namely: UK, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Romania, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Germany and Austria, covering thus the diverse end-user and market needs in the field of digital manufacturing. This provides a well-balanced combination of complementary skills and expertise in the European Factory Platform project.