Project objective: Reduce system integration time to one day

The objective of this project is to marginalize the system integration cost by reducing the system integration time to one single day. The resultant 50% price reduction of fully integrated systems is not even the main effect. The really significant impact will be that the SME’s no longer have to earn back the investment through only one of their short production batches. In one day, the machines can be re-installed for another temporary product line and continue to be useful. Moreover, this opens up the possibility that the robots and other machinery are provided under short-term lease contracts to the SME’s, bringing the investment risk down to zero.

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Factory-in-a-day is funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union.

Supported by the Programme ICT Factories of the Future 2013 (FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FoF). Programme under grant agreement no 609206.

Funding period: 1. October 2013 – 30. September 2017.

Coordinator: TU Delft