The projects contribution to fulfilment of the vision will be achieved by aiming at the following overall objective:

 

MAPPER will enable fast and flexible manufacturing by providing methodology, infrastructure and reusable services for

participative engineering in networked manufacturing enterprises, demonstrating practical benefits and scientific values in three

industrial pilots.

 

The main S&T results from the project are the core components in the MAPPER collaboration platform as illustrated in Figure 1:

Reconfigurable visual enterprise models of products, processes and other enterprise aspects. Models described in business domain terminologies enable the cultivation of a web of shared understanding among stakeholders, and management of complex and dynamic enterprises.

• Participative engineering methodologies, enabling joint product and process design, interdisciplinary and inter-organisational collaboration throughout multiple product lifecycles.

• Customisable work environments for different stakeholders, roles and tasks. The platform will enable solution providers and users to jointly customise and configure such environments.

• Secure collaboration platform, enabling enterprises to access each other’s engineering tools and product data in a collaborative, yet secure manner.

 

Our research approach is business and user-driven.