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Today’s globalised market has created various challenges for European manufacturing companies. To overcome those, EU companies are called to adopt technologies that will help them adapt and improve product quality while reducing costs.

Smart manufacturing can transform traditional factories into high-performance plants with increased productivity and quality, resource efficiency, and flexibility in production. At the same time, novel product development strategies will ensure and optimise the efficient manufacturing of new products or variants in low-volume production systems.

This is where PIONEER comes in to develop an open innovation platform and a digital pipeline that connects various technologies towards optimising the design of industrial systems through simulation and improving the efficiency of production processes. PIONEER connects materials modelling and characterisation, simulation-based digital twins, and data-driven models, updated through production data from embedded IoT edge devices and product quality.

PIONEER enables multidirectional data-flow throughout the material value chain by connecting the production’s various stages. Combining a design-by-simulation approach with manufacturing and quality data, PIONEER will optimise product development strategies in high-mix/low-volume production schemes.