An outlook of opportunities brought forward by the COVID-19 pandemic

This blog provides an overview of eFactory background and key offerings

eFactory is a federated smart factory ecosystem and a digital platform that interlinks different stakeholders of the digital manufacturing domain. A vital co...

In this blog, we describe the process used to define the architecture of the eFactory platform. This process is based on IEEE 1471 "Recommended Practice for ...

The eFactory project has passed its 1st year of 4-year life time. At the dawn of the 2nd year, in this blog we reflect on the progress and achievements made ...

The Workshop on Digital Platform Ecosystems: From Interoperability to Federation (IFED 2020) will be held in conjunction with the I-ESA 2020 conference, in T...

Data Spine

Industry4.0 primarily focuses on the automation, integration, and optimization of processes and manufacturing lines. This often requires several solutions, a...

Usman Wajid, James Tryend (ICE) Overcomplexity is a feature of many large and distributed IT systems. This is something that often results from building dist...

For any digital platform the vital challenge of attracting users is just the start. Platforms need to develop and maintain user communities across multiple p...

Usman Wajid, James Tryand (ICE) The development of a Digital platform has been a popular discussion topic in information technology in recent times. A digita...

Manufacturing in Europe is seeing tremendous attention both in terms of R&D efforts and also in terms of increasing capacity for innovation. The importance o...

Usman Wajid (ICE), Violeta Damjanovic-Behrendt (SRFG) The eFactory project establishes a federation of four Factories of the Future (FoF) platforms (from H20...

Karl Grün (ASI), Usman Wajid (ICE) “Smart manufacturing” is a commonly used term these days, however only recently ISO and IEC provided a definition for this...

The eFactory project is developing a connected factory platform for agile manufacturing. Agile manufacturing typically relies on the setup, operations and ma...

The eFactory project started on the 01-01-2019. The project has received €13.64m funding from the European Commission to establish a 'European Connected Fac...