MANufacturing through ergonoMic and safe Anthropocentric aDaptive workplacEs for context aware factories in EUROPE, project Man Made, will hold a kick off meeting of the WP Demonstration today 24th April in Whirlpool Europe HQ in Biandronno (Italy). This workpackage aims at implementating and validating Man_Made system on real jobs. IBV will take part in as partner of this project.

18th Month Review Meeting

Last mont was held in Brussels the 18th month review meeting of Man made. Manfacturing through ergonomic and safe anthropocentric adaptive workplaces for context aware factories in Europe (MAN-MADE) is project approved by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration until 2016.

The MAN-MADE project aims at defining new socially sustainable workplaces where the human dimension is a key cornerstone. Workers are foreseen at the centre of the factory, on the one hand, in terms of workplace adaptation (and production planning, at large) to skills, expertise and characteristics of each single worker and, on the other hand, in terms of capability to make the most out of worker's knowledge and potentials across all age groups and different roles, simultaneously fostering enhanced worker's safety.

Moreover MAN-MADE promotes the vision of an effective integration of this anthropocentric factory within the social environment toward the implementation of context-aware factories that encourage and take advantage of extended services to the workers in terms of accessibility, inclusiveness, work-life balance and work satisfaction.
The project partners are, besides IBV, SUPSI (Switzerland), POLIMI (Italy), ATSA (Spain), SYNESIS (Italy), WHIRLPOOL (Italy), TTS (Italy), ITESM (Mexico) y FRAMOS (Germany).

This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 609073