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Manual work is a crucial and expensive component of manufacturing.
Globalization causes companies to reduce manual work costs by offshoring
and global outsourcing. This poses problems such as increased lead
times, lower quality products and services, and weaker management.
Because of the pressure of globalization and the decline of the working
age population in Europe, the situation will get worse in sectors with a
large proportion of high value manual work that cannot be automated or
outsourced. The ManuVAR project aims
to provide a timely and systematic solution to this problem.
The objective of ManuVAR is to develop an innovative technology platform, and a framework to support high value manual work throughout the product lifecycle. One crucial building block of this platform is Ice, the preferred communication mechanism for all ManuVAR components. ManuVAR will cover ergonomics, safety, work assistance, and training. It includes various people from designers to factory workers, operators, maintenance personnel, and end-users. ManuVAR consortium comprises 18 partners representing industry, research and academia. In ManuVAR, there are five synergistic application clusters in different industrial areas: terrestrial satellite assembly, assembly line design, remote maintenance of trains, maintenance of nuclear reactors, large machine assembly process design. |
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