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ESM-Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing

A joint Research and Development package under the Vanguard Initiative umbrella

Giacomo Copani AFIL - Lombardy Intelligent Factory Association 1

Lombardy Intelligent Factory Association

▰ Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing, one of the Specialisation Areas identified by Lombardy Region in its S3 Strategy ▰ Created in 2014 and formally recognized by Lombardy Regional Government ▰ 150 members (more than 70% companies) ▰ Mission ▰ Appointed by Regional Government to technically coordinate the regional participation to Vanguard Advanced Manufacturing activities

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• To represent Regional Manufacturing
• To collect and provide R&I priorities to policy makers
• To support policy makers in R&I governance
• To increase regional manufacturing competitiveness leveraging on S3

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AFIL in Vanguard

Pilot ESM – Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing (Pilot co-coordinator and co-coordinator of 4 demo-cases) Pilot 3DPrinting (co-coordinator of 1 demo-case)

• 4 Regional stable working groups in the Region
• 5 demo-cases mobilising more than 300 stakeholders in 20

EU Regions

• More than 10M€ funding raised for complementary activities

through H2020 and Interreg

• More than 50 private co-funding letters of intents
• One demo-case already discussing with EIB

supported by EU

• ESM in the S3 Industrial Modernisation Platform
• 5 EU Pilot-related events organised in 2017
• ….

ESM Demo-cases

• De- and Remanufacturing
• Digital & Virtual Factory
• Advanced sustainable surface

& Coating technologies

• Energy and environmental efficient

processes

• Adaptive and intelligent

manufacturing

Benefits of Vanguard

▰Cultural growth ▰Exchange of best practices ▰Internationalisation ▰Access to EU innovative supply chains ▰Align goals of regional stakeholders ▰Increase internal cooperation ▰Create critical mass ▰ Make companies aware of policy making processes ▰ Create a governance to participate to Regional and EU policy making

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Increase innovation capability of companies (SMEs) and Clusters Overcome regional internal fragmentation leveraging on S3 Increase industry participation to policy making processes

Barriers and difficulties

• Struggle to keep companies committed
• Troubles for Clusters to sustain interregional cooperation

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• Differences among EU Regions:
• Different type of Clusters and intermediaries in Europe
• Different regional maturity and industrial background
• Lack of knowledge and common mapping of potential partners
• Lack of common innovation governance and method
• Different time horizons and synchronisation of technical and political level
• Funding of strategic interregional cooperation within Vanguard
• Fragmented and non-aligned schemes
• Difficult combination of EU, Regional and National funding
• Lack of funding continuity

In the long run

What we need

▰ Structured inclusive cooperation methods facilitated by Clusters ▰ Transparency, communication and awareness of political processes and framework ▰ Higher alignment between political and technical stakeholders ▰ Ability to address a portfolio of short, medium and long-term

• pportunities

▰ Alignment and improvement of funding schemes for innovation infrastructure entailing set-up, operations and uptake phases in an interconnected logic

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Thanks for attention

giacomo.copani@afil.it