Manufacturing as a Service: Technologies for customised, flexible, and decentralised production on demand (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA)

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May 24, 2024 11:16:07 PM

CALL UPDATE: FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS

HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01

EVALUATION results

Published: 07.12.2022

Deadline: 07.02.2024

Available budget: EUR 251,000,000

The results of the evaluation for each topic are as follows:

* Proposals with the same score were ranked according to the priority order procedure set out in the call conditions (for HE, in the General Annexes to the Work Programme or specific arrangements in the specific call/topic conditions). 

Summary of observer report: 

The evaluation for the HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01 call was done completely remote. The evaluation process was clearly visible and transparent to the Observer at all times. The Independent Observer had at all times complete freedom to perform her work and was served promptly with information when asked for. The Call Coordination team of the HaDEA Unit provided the Observer with all the briefing materials and presentations issued to the experts in the remote phase including a SEP account for monitoring.

Throughout the process, complete fairness and transparency were evident and each proposal was evaluated according to defined procedures against the defined award criteria. No case of non-impartial behaviour of experts could be observed. Evaluation criteria were handled in a transparent and fair manner regarding all proposals and in all call topics.

The entire evaluation process with its applied procedures was assessed by the Independent Observer. The overall quality of the complete remote evaluation process can be stated as excellent in the European context, impartial, and highly efficient. It was very professionally managed by the HaDEA Unit.

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Feb 7, 2024 8:55:13 PM

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

Call HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01 was closed on 07/02/2024. 

270 proposals have been submitted. 

The breakdown per topic: 

HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-03: 85 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in the 2nd half of June 2024.

Sep 19, 2023 12:00:04 AM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-03(HORIZON-RIA)

Manufacturing as a Service: Technologies for customised, flexible, and decentralised production on demand (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA)

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-03

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: TWIN GREEN AND DIGITAL TRANSITION 2024 (HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01)
Type of action: HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Lump Sum Grant [HORIZON-AG-LS]
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned opening date: 19 September 2023
Deadline date: 07 February 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time

ExpectedOutcome:
Easy access to flexible and decentralised manufacturing and remanufacturing capacities, especially for SMEs, reducing the required investments for manufacturers while enabling them to use more sustainable and circular facilities.
Availability of automation, emerging and digital technologies for the servitisation of manufacturing assets assuring optimal performance, fast reconfiguration and upgrade with minimal downtime, remote monitoring and predictive maintenance via trusted, secure and interoperable cross-company data exchange.
Improved value chain integration through the availability of technologies and models for securely exchanging and leveraging life-cycle data of servitised manufacturing assets, also in view of the reuse or recycle of assets, components, and materials.
Scope:
Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) is a distributed system of production in which resources (including data and software) are offered as services, allowing manufacturers to access distributed providers to implement their manufacturing processes. The servitisation of manufacturing resources contributes significantly to production flexibility and responsiveness, enabling production on demand for many product categories. Suppliers of manufacturing systems and of integration technologies design and offer interoperable services in close partnership with manufacturing companies, while other providers in the value chain can offer additional services. Secure, real-time data exchange between the companies involved enables quick response times.

This topic aims at further developing and integrating the technologies needed for the successful implementation of MaaS allowing to manufacture “on demand” a large choice of customised products, with high flexibility and short lead time, by using distributed facilities as a service and exploiting unused production capacities, also by rapid re-purposing of manufacturing machines. The objective will be achieved through platforms for fast data exchange and seamless, data-driven, standards-based automation of inter-company processes beyond the factory boundaries.

Integration with digital design, development of design libraries and workflow templates, and advanced technologies such as digital twins, real-time AI-based decision support systems, and next-generation Manufacturing Execution Systems should also be considered where appropriate, with the objective to optimise the entire life-cycle of the product in terms of circularity, sustainability and reusability, using product life cycle assessments whenever appropriate.

Interoperability is a core requirement for MaaS; for this reason, research will build on existing standards or contribute to standardization where relevant, taking also into account the contributions of upcoming EU initiatives like the Digital Product Passport or the Manufacturing Data Spaces.

Results should be demonstrated through at least two realistic use cases, based on different supply chains or industry sectors.

Proposals should explain how the proposed approach contributes to the competitiveness of industry and the sustainability and circularity of production and logistics, through measurable targets.

Proposals submitted under this topic should include a business case and exploitation strategy, as outlined in the introduction to this Destination.

This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership “Made in Europe”.

Specific Topic Conditions:
Activities are expected to start at TRL 4 and achieve TRL 6 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.