Objective The production landscape is changing. Traditionally, energy costs represented a small part of the production expenses, meaning that the design of production facilities usually neglected efficient energy usage in favour of maximization of production throughput; the energy consumption of factories has been always high, but energy cost has increased dramatically in the last decades, pushing industrial representatives to search for higher level of efficiency. According to the International Energy Agency, manufacturing is responsible for approximately 37% of global primary energy consumption being the largest energy consumer and CO2 producer. Improvement of energy/resource efficiency is the key to reduce environmental impact and is mentioned as driver to reach European 20/20/20 goals.In order to achieve such results, an overall optimization of the whole concept of Factory has to be pursued, introducing a new holistic vision of the production environment both at methodological and technological level. Factory-ECOMATION project will aenable European manufacturing industries to overachieve Europe 2020 program targets developing breakthrough innovations for cost-effective, highly productive, energy-efficient and near-zero-emissions production systems, by means of:• Definition of a holistic perspective of the economically and ecologically oriented production environment;• Development of a comprehensive sensing, monitoring and data evaluation system which could grant access to an organic view of all the materials, energy, wastes and emissions flows within the factory;• Extension and development of new technologies to increase energy efficiency by reducing its consumption at machinery and production level, and by recovering it whenever wasted;• Development of advanced emissions abatement technologies• Introduction of a new adaptive management and automation platform to optimize production taking into account not only productivity targets but also eco and energy-oriented ones.Factory-ECOMATION will focus on two industrial sectors, relevant for European economy and crucial to achieve the EU 20/20/20 objectives: the iron&steel industry, a highly energy intensive industry, and the woodworking industry, a high carbon footprint industry, to demonstrate the effectiveness of project outcomes on low-energy domains characterized by discrete processes. This two-pilots approach will grant the inter-applicability of the project results to other continuous and discrete industrial sectors as well.To assure the impact on European economy, Factory-ECOMATION partnership includes relevant Industrial players in technology development and manufacturing, together with highly-recognized Research Centres and IMS partners granting a global scope to the project objectives. The project results will therefore lead to a sustainable, as well as economically profitable, energy efficient, near-zero emissions factory framework, based on new measurement and control technologies. Fields of science social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomationsocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivityengineering and technologymaterials engineeringwoodworking Programme(s) FP7-NMP - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies Topic(s) FoF.NMP.2012-1 - Adaptive production systems and measurement and control equipment for optimal energy consumption and near-to-zero emissions in manufacturing processes Call for proposal FP7-2012-NMP-ICT-FoF See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-IP - Large-scale integrating project Coordinator SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA PROFESSIONALE DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA EU contribution € 977 500,00 Address STABILE LE GERRE 6928 Manno Switzerland See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Ticino Ticino Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Paolo Pedrazzoli (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (11) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Italy EU contribution € 773 750,00 Address PIAZZALE ALDO MORO 7 00185 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Antonella Decorato (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SWEDWOOD INTERNATIONAL AB Sweden EU contribution € 302 000,00 Address KUVETTGATAN 2 26271 ANGELHOLM See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Holger Sigbo (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SCM GROUP SPA Italy EU contribution € 576 000,00 Address VIA EMILIA 77 47900 Rimini See on map Region Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Rimini Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Giuseppe Lucisano (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data SPIRAX-SARCO LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 416 650,00 Address CIRENCESTER ROAD CHARLTON HOUSE GL53 8ER Cheltenham See on map Region South West (England) Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area Gloucestershire Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact John Senior (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BREMBO POLAND SP ZOO Poland EU contribution € 297 500,00 Address Ul. 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EUGENIO GARZA SADA 2501 64849 Monterrey Nuevo Leon See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Arturo Molina (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SPINDOX UK LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 299 250,00 Address 10 FOSTER LANE 3RD FLOOR EC2V 6HH London See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Administrative Contact Giuseppe Vullo (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data NXTCONTROL GMBH Austria EU contribution € 583 100,00 Address AM EUROPLATZ 2 STIEGE 6 3OG 1120 WIEN See on map Region Ostösterreich Wien Wien Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Arnold Kopitar (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SYNESIS-SOCIETA CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA Italy EU contribution € 689 250,00 Address VIA CAVOUR 2 22074 Lomazzo Co See on map Region Nord-Ovest Lombardia Como Activity type Other Administrative Contact Chiara Tagliaferri (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data CTP CHEMISCH THERMISCHE PROZESSTECH GMBH Austria EU contribution € 471 500,00 Address SCHMIEDLSTRASSE 10 8042 GRAZ See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Sophie Thalhammer (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SIMON PROCESS ENGINEERING GMBH Germany EU contribution € 205 250,00 Address ELLERBACHSTRASSE 16 55546 NEU-BAMBERG See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ralf Simon (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data