During the first half of the project, research activities have dealt with all above mentioned tussles, as they developed innovative methods and tools for PSS. First, an innovative methodology for requirements engineering for PSS in a collaborative value chain has been developed and implemented; such a method has been applied to the four use cases for testing as well as for identifying stakeholder requirements to be used by the other WPs. These requirements were compared with other general requirements coming from current manufacturing initiatives, such as Industrie 4.0 in order to assess their alignment and their generalizability to companies and sectors others from PSYMBIOSYS use cases.
In WP3-4-5-6-7 work has progressed on a two-fold line. Scientific research has set 5 innovative approaches and procedures for coping with the tussles, undermining the implementation of PSS. Technical research has been focused on the development and the identification of proper tools. In addition, first drafts of modular architectures including selected ICT tools have been created and tested by means of PSYMBIOSYS industrial partners. These platforms have been designed to elicit the application of scientific methods.
Then, first release of manufacturing intelligence tools for Product- Service design was made available with the objective of easing interpretation of RW data streams, the knowledge extraction from big data repositories, the quick development of mobile applications as well as the virtual representation of P-S assets. As for the other platforms, these tools have been tested with the industrial partners of the project.
WP9 designed a reference modular architecture which defines relationships, data exchanges and functionalities of platforms developed in WP3-4-5-6-7. Moreover, it has been tailored for manufacturing phases and contexts specific of four industries: Tools Aircraft Video Surveillance, Furniture and Textile.
In WP10 IT tools coming from the other WPs have been integrated and deployed in the four industrial partners of the project, while defining parameters to be monitored and collecting feedbacks for the further developments during the second half of the project.
Finally, in WP11 principles and strategy for the dissemination, communication and exploitation (individual and joint ones) of PSYMBIOSYS have been set up and objectives and approaches for monitoring have been defined accordingly. Mid-term dissemination, communication and exploitation results have been collected and presented, with a particular focus on social network performance of the PSYMBIOSYS, e.g. number of followers on Twitter.
