Implementing and improving rapid reconfigurability and digitalization in manufacturing processes.
The R3GROUP project is an initiative funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme that aims to support the resilience of European manufacturing firms by providing tools to enable rapid reconfigurability.

OBJECTIVES

Establish an end-to-end digital pipeline linking the production steps vertically and horizontally.

Develop digital tools fostering reconfigurability.

Implement tools to support rapid production requalification.

Integrate user experience in the reconfiguration process through human-
centred digital developments.

Integrate knowledge from the whole value chain to support strategic
reconfiguration choices.

Integrate flexible intra-process logistic modules, supported by reconfiguration
tools.

Demonstrate the project approach in a number of industrial pilot lines.

R3GROUP’s goal is to develop human-centred solutions and put a special focus on reskilling to support the adoption of novel technologies.
PROJECT RECONFIGURABILITY PRINCIPLES
- Modularity: The compartmentalization of operational functions into units that can be manipulated between alternative production schemes
- Integrability: The capability of integrating modules rapidly and precisely by hardware and software interfaces
- Customization: System or machine flexibility around a part family, obtaining thereby customized flexibility within the part family
- Convertibility: The capability of transforming the functionality of existing systems and machines to fit new production requirements
- Diagnosability: The capability of real-time monitoring the product quality, and rapidly diagnosing the root-causes of product defects
- Scalability: The capability of modifying production capacity by adding or removing resources and/or changing system components.
SECTORS OF DEVELOPMENT
The R3Group technologies will focus its efforts on the following sectors:

Automotive

Fabricated metal products

Rubber and plastics

Wearing apparel

Home appliances
SOLUTIONS
R3GROUP is developing new techniques that will improve rapid reconfiguration such as:

Digital twins of process and production assets

In-line quality assurance modules

Supply chain digital twinning tool

High-level decision-making tools

Adaptive digital work instructions

Tools to support UX and human interaction with DT, QA modules

Real-time planning and rescheduling algorithm
PROJECTS PARTNERS
The R3Group technologies will focus its efforts on the following sectors:


Fundingbox

CT-IPC
CT-IPC is the French Industrial & Technical Centre for Plastics and Composites industry, with more than 2500 affiliated industries (mainly SMEs) directly connected to CT-IPC

Panepistimio Patron

Asociación de Investigación Metalurgica del Noroeste

ENSAM
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers () is a higher education engineering school in France including 8 Education and Research Campuses and 3 Institutes across France. Arts et Métiers is a “Public Scientific, Cultural and Professional Institution” (EPSCP) under the authority of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

Universidade de Coimbra

Fundación Zaragoza Logistics Center

Universitatea Tehnica Gheorghe Asachi Din Iasi

Netcompany-intrasoft
Netcompany-Intrasoft is a leading European IT Solutions and Services Group with strong international presence and expertise, offering innovative and added-value solutions of the highest quality to a wide range of international and national public and private organizations

Casp

Emphasis Digiworld

Fill

Avenir Vision Industrie

GLNMOLDS

Sqetch

Made2Flow

Innovation Engineering

EIT Manufacturing CLC South East
EIT Manufacturing Single Member P.C., located in Athens is one of the six EIT Manufacturing Co-Location Centers (CLCs), with the aim of strengthening the innovation and entrepreneurship capacity on South East European manufacturing while acting as a connection point with the rest of the EIT Manufacturing Pan-European ecosystem

GLNPLAST

Autotech Engineering
Gestamp is an international group dedicated to the design, development and manufacture of metal automotive components. The Group specialize in developing innovatively designed products to achieve increasingly safer and lighter vehicles, thereby reducing energy consumption and environmental impact.

ElvaHalcor

Katty Fashion
Katty Fashion is an innovative SME from North East Romania, founded in 2003 ,with 2 decades of expertise in offering bespoke services of collaborative design , product development and excellent garment manufacturing of all categories of womenswear for more than 50 EU brands

Gorenje Orodjarna
GORENJE ORODJARNA, d.o.o., a company owned by the international goup Hisense Europe, is the largest toolmaker in Slovenia and one of the largest toolmakers in Central and South-Eastern Europe, boasting a 70-year tradition in the field of toolmaking.

AMVALOR
AMVALOR is a subsidiary of the Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology (ENSAM), dedicated to innovation and technology transfer.

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