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Join the EFPF challenges

Peter Rosengren 1st February 2022

CNet as member of the European Connected Factory Platform for Agile Manufacturing invites students, researcher as well as SMEs focused on innovation, research and development to test, validate, and develop the EFPF platform including its tools, services and infrastructure (e.g. Data Spine elements) in a hands-on community event of the EFPF Ecosystem Catalyzer Event from:

23rd of February to 7th April 2022

The event provides practical hands-on experience with the federated digital platform, industrial IoT, and industry 4.0 topics and offers:

  • Interaction and networking opportunities with international companies
  • Chances to demonstrate technical skills
  • Support to publish results in a peer-reviewed scientific journal or renowned conference
  • Awards: CERTH organizes in collaboration with EFPF research partners a hybrid award event (online & in Greece) on April 7th 2022 .
  • The participants will present their results and the four best projects will receive one of these prizes:
    • 1st Prize: Smartphone valued at 600€​
    • 2nd Prize: Smart Home Kit valued at 300€
    • 3rd Prize: IoT Starter Kit valued at 200€
    • 4th Prize: IoT starter kit valued at 100€
    • All participants will receive a voucher for an Audible subscription

Potentially, scientific proceedings of the workshops results could be published to the scientific community. For more details and registration visit the EFPF Open Call:

Peter RosengrenJoin the EFPF challenges

EFPF organised DMP Cluster Webinar

Peter Rosengren 2nd December 2020

The EFPF organised on 2nd of December 2020 a Webinar to present an
Introduction to the common EU Data Space for Manufacturing Industry and presenting Data Spaces pathway focusing on the specifics of connected factories detailing Data Sharing within Marketplaces and Models for B2B Data Exchange. The Webinar detailed:

  • The Hyper-connected Factories pathway: towards networked enterprises in complex, dynamic supply chains and value networks.
  • The Autonomous Smart Factories pathway: towards optimised and sustainable manufacturing including advanced human-in-the-loop workspaces.
  • The Collaborative Product-Service Factories pathway: towards data-driven product-service engineering in knowledge-intensive factories.
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Peter RosengrenEFPF organised DMP Cluster Webinar

EFPF Open Call

Peter Rosengren 23rd October 2020

The European Factories Platform (EFPF) in conjunction with the European Commission is delighted to inform you that their €2.5mil Euro Manufacturing and Industry4.0 Open Call is now open for submissions on www.f6s.com/efpf.

The European Factory Platform (EFPF) project team invites you to submit a bid for a share of EFPF’s €2.5million EC H2020 Open Call. European SMEs, software developers, tech companies and manufacturers can be funded to create, test, validate and/or integrate innovative tools / services / applications / solutions / platforms for Industry4.0. You can find out more about this EC/EFPF funding opportunity on www.efpf.org/funding-call or by watching our Promo Video below.

EFPF Industry4.0 Open Call
Total available funding €2.5million
Funding range per project €50,000 – €150,000
Call Launch October 19th 2020
Call Close February 19th 2021
Call Close September 2021
Sub-project Duration 6, 9 or 12 months
Sub-project Types Type 1: Develop digital manufacturing applications and services
Type 2: Validate/test EFPF platform and services in digital manufacturing domains
Type 3: Integrate 3rd Party applications, services and/or platforms with EFPF
Target Audience EU SMEs (including micro-SMEs)
EU technology providers and software developers (including start-ups)
EU manufacturing and logistics companies (any size)
EU Research Institutes and Universities
Number of projects funded 15 to 20
More Information www.efpf.org/funding-call
Online Submission www.f6s.com/efpf

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Peter RosengrenEFPF Open Call

EFPF open call for experiments

Peter Rosengren 3rd September 2020

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.

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Peter RosengrenEFPF open call for experiments

2nd EFPF Review a full success

Peter Rosengren 2nd September 2020

EFPF is a federated smart factory ecosystem and a digital platform that interlink different stakeholders of the digital manufacturing domain. The
EFPF platform offers unified access to a vast number of interoperable tools and services that include among others digital solutions for factory connectivity, distributed workflow design & execution, distributed production planning, shop-floor monitoring & alerting, digital twins, risk management and data analytics. The platform is based on common interoperability standards and security protocols, which allow seamless interactions and data exchange between multiple tools and service while preserving security and privacy concerns. The platform enables users to utilize innovative functionalities, experiment with disruptive approaches and develop custom solutions to maximize connectivity, interoperability and efficiency across the supply chains.

The second review for the EFPF consortium was a complete success, despite the limitations and requirements that a global pandemic brings with it. The project convinced in the evaluation with good progress and good cooperation.​ Now in the final stage, we continue with the blockchain pilots and start opening the platform for open-call experiments between September 2020 and August 2021. More information about the call and the achievements is available on the project’s website:

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Peter Rosengren2nd EFPF Review a full success

EFPF now Teleworking

Peter Rosengren 30th March 2020

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.

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Peter RosengrenEFPF now Teleworking

EFPF Meeting in Stockholm

Peter Rosengren 4th February 2020

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. 

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Peter RosengrenEFPF Meeting in Stockholm