The need to find new customer segments to increase turnover pushes manufacturers to diversify both production systems and supply chains....

Many SMEs lack fundamental digitisation that can allow them to connect their machines and devices to digital networks without significant...

In the aerospace manufacturing sector, highly customised commercial aircraft products often require precise solutions developed and...

In an I4.0 manufacturing environment, typified by large quantities of proprietary data moving rapidly between businesses and their supply...

EFPF is the co-organiser of the Invited Session on "Semantics-Driven Cyber-Physical Systems" at the 25th International Conference on Knowled

Through their wide ranging applications in the manufactuirng environments, it is increasingly evident that Artificial Intelligence...

With all its twists and turns 2020 is eventually going to end with a good few achievements in the EFPF projects. The last 12months period...

The EFPF project is approaching the end of its 2nd year. Where the first 12 months of the project focused on establishing the core...

Data Interoperability in EFPF Federation In this blog we address the Data Model Interoperability Layer in the EFPF architecture. The...

This blog describes the ongoing standardisation activities in the EFPF project

This blog describes the orchestration functionality offered in the EFPF platform

API management refers to control, distribution and analysis of APIs, it ensures that the needs of the applications and users that make...

This blog describes the ecosystem creation and evolution requirements in the context of federated digital platforms

This blog describes the integrated marketplace framework functioanlity

An outlook of opportunities brought forward by the COVID-19 pandemic

This blog provides an overview of eFactory background and key offerings

EFPF is a federated smart factory ecosystem and a digital platform that interlinks different stakeholders of the digital manufacturing...

In this blog, we describe the process used to define the architecture of the EFPF platform. This process is based on IEEE 1471...

The EFPF project has passed its 1st year of 4-year life time. At the dawn of the 2nd year, in this blog we reflect on the progress and...

The Workshop on Digital Platform Ecosystems: From Interoperability to Federation (IFED 2020) will be held in conjunction with the I-ESA...