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The “vF Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion” (FIRST) project provides new technology to describe manufacturing assets and to compose and integrate existing services into collaborative virtual manufacturing processes.

The project kick-off meeting took place in March 16-17 2017 at Bournemouth University UK. In attendance were the academic and industrial representatives from the partner institutions.

The FIRST Project kick-off meeting participants at BU[/caption]

The project combines partners from China, Germany, The Netherlands and Germany in the academic and industrial sectors. Together we work on processes in manufacturing context.

• Bournemouth University, UK. Faculty of Science & Technology, Department of Computing and Informatics, Service Computing Group.
• University of Groningen, Netherlands. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Distributed Systems Group.
  Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy. Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche Informatiche e Matematiche, the Smart Applications, Environments, and Communities Group.
• University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. The Department of physics, informatics and mathematics, Department of physics, informatics and mathematics.
• Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, China. The College of EngineeringThe College of Engineering.
• GK software. Germany – world market leader in retail software
• KM Software. China – Specialist in computer aided manufacturing

The kick-off meeting initiated the projected start from March 2017. Topics discussed at the the kick-off meeting included

• Deeper knowledge of consortium partner, research agenda​
• Implementation of working packages and Deliverables
• Presentations of partners
• Discussing Consortium Agreement

Please find more details about the project at

research.bournemouth.ac.uk/2016/09/horizon-2020-funding-for-virtual-factory-research-at-bu/