https://cvelazquezr.netlify.app/tag/manufacturing-as-a-service/Manufacturing as a ServiceWowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-usSun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cvelazquezr.netlify.app/media/icon_hu0b7a4cb9992c9ac0e91bd28ffd38dd00_9727_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_3.pnghttps://cvelazquezr.netlify.app/tag/manufacturing-as-a-service/https://cvelazquezr.netlify.app/project/raasceman/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cvelazquezr.netlify.app/project/raasceman/<h2 id="about-the-project">About the project</h2> <p>Supply chain disruptions can stop production across entire networks of factories. RAASCEMAN aims to <strong>mitigate and prevent these disruptions</strong> and to help manufacturers and suppliers adapt quickly to change. It does this within the <strong>Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS)</strong> paradigm, where factories offer their production capabilities as services.</p> <p>The project connects factories into networks using <strong>digital twins and AI</strong>. It is developing:</p> <ul> <li>a tool that quantifies the likelihood and impact of unexpected production events;</li> <li>a recommendation engine that generates supply chains dynamically;</li> <li>an audit tool that matches service providers' capabilities to new product requests;</li> <li>a digital platform for exchanging information within factories and across supply chains.</li> </ul> <p>The results are validated in pilots in the <strong>automotive</strong> and <strong>bike</strong> industries and on <strong>interconnected pilot lines</strong>.</p> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Key facts</th> <th></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Programme</strong></td> <td>Horizon Europe (grant agreement 101138782)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Duration</strong></td> <td>3 years</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Budget</strong></td> <td>€4.6 million</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Coordinator</strong></td> <td>DFKI, Germany</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Consortium</strong></td> <td>9 partners: universities, research and technology organisations, and industry, including Flanders Make</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="my-contributions">My contributions</h2> <p>I lead a large part of the technical work in the Flanders Make pilot, from definition and implementation to deployment and testing:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Standardised digital twins</strong> of production assets using the Asset Administration Shell (AAS), designed to be reused across projects.</li> <li><strong>Deployment and integration</strong> of the project&rsquo;s interoperability middleware in a real production environment.</li> <li><strong>Tools for testing and demonstration</strong> that allow the full solution to be validated continuously under realistic production conditions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Related publication:</strong> <a href="https://cvelazquezr.netlify.app/publication/intelli2026/">Accelerating the Adoption of Asset Administration Shells through AI Agents</a> (INTELLI 2026).</p> <p><em>Technologies: Asset Administration Shell (IDTA templates), industrial middleware, digital twins, edge deployment.</em></p>https://cvelazquezr.netlify.app/project/unimaas/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cvelazquezr.netlify.app/project/unimaas/<h2 id="about-the-project">About the project</h2> <p>UniMaaS is building a platform for <strong>flexible, agile and decentralised manufacturing</strong> based on the <strong>Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS)</strong> paradigm. Production resources are modelled in a unified way and scheduled automatically across sites.</p> <p>The platform is demonstrated in four pilots:</p> <ul> <li>aircraft maintenance;</li> <li>automotive seat manufacturing;</li> <li>3D construction printing;</li> <li>logistics and warehouse management.</li> </ul> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Key facts</th> <th></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Programme</strong></td> <td>Horizon Europe, European Partnership <em>Made in Europe</em> (grant agreement 101177842)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Consortium</strong></td> <td>17 partners from research and industry across Europe and Canada, including Flanders Make</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="my-contributions">My contributions</h2> <p>I lead a large part of the technical work in the Flanders Make pilot, from definition and implementation to deployment and testing:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Process modelling and semantic integration</strong> of production capabilities using ontologies.</li> <li><strong>Scaling from a single production cell to multi-cell scenarios</strong> in a real production environment.</li> <li><strong>Cloud-based monitoring services</strong>, containerised and validated on both historical and real-time production data.</li> </ul> <p><em>Technologies: process modelling, ontologies, Asset Administration Shell, Docker, cloud monitoring.</em></p>