1. Digitising European Industry
Platforms and Pilots
Arian Zwegers
European Commission
DG CONNECT
#DigitiseEU

2. Digitising European Industry COM(2016) 180 final
Strengthening leadership
in key parts
of the digital value chain:

3. Partnerships Digital Value Chain
Autonomous driving
Robotics
Micro-electronics
Focus on building blocks
Increase role of PPPs
For actual applications, you need to bring different technologies together
E.g. connected automated driving: vision, robotics, AI, 5G
How does it all come together? How does it all work together?
You need to design that, you need to specify that
Middleware, integration of different technologies
Some functionalities added, e.g. data aggregation
Interfaces are made available, APIs
Serving users and application providers
 platforms
Cloud computing
Healthy aging

4. Digital Industrial Platforms What do we mean?
A place or opportunity for public discussion
e.g. European Platform of National Initiatives
An operating system that integrates different technologies and various applications and services
Online platforms in the consumer world
e.g. Facebook, Nest, Android
Industrial platforms in the business world
The world platform has a different meaning which depends on the context it is used in. Before moving forward, it is important to clarify what do we mean by platform in the context of WG2.
A digital industrial platform can be an essential part of a reference or system architecture. Platforms are like operating systems that bring together different technologies, applications and services via clearly specified interfaces. They open up data, make it accessible, and allow third-parties to develop applications on top. They connect different stakeholders, such as users and application developers.
In different ways and to varying degrees they may take in:
a community role
an infrastructure role
a data role

5. Digital Industrial Platforms Smartphone analogy
Applications
Platform /
Operating
System
Sensors /
Connection with
physical world

6. Digital Industrial Platforms Examples
Community-led sector-specific (vertical)
Community-led cross-sector
(horizontal)
Commercial with open interfaces
IDS
ISOBUS
Photo: TRUMPF
FITMAN

7. Digital Industrial Platforms Alignment of R&I efforts
EU actors join forces along common interests
Future global standards & platforms driven by interests of EU actors
Focus investments on:
Integration of key digital technologies
Digital industrial platforms, reference architectures, …
Reference implementations, large-scale piloting, experimentation environments
Ecosystem building and standardisation
Go alone  small market. Go together  big market
Need to agree with many different stakeholders / organisations
EU companies should take the lead
Specify reference architectures, including platforms
Develop a reference implementation of the platform
Validate via Large-Scale Piloting
Increase take-up, build ecosystem
Standardise specifications
Build on what is available in Member States
Connected Smart Factories, Agriculture, Health, Energy, Construction

8. Digital Industrial Platforms Pooling Investments
Regional Investments
Close-to-reality experimentation in xxx model factory
Member States Investments
Large scale experimentation in yyy lab
Best practice Experimentation in zzz lab
Development and integration of platforms, reference architectures, …
EU Investments FoF/SPIRE/ ECSEL / …
Best practice Experimentation in xyz lab
SME testing facility at zyx digital innovation hub
Real production OEM x with supply chain
Industrial Investments

9. WP 2018-2020 Topics pan-European platform-building and piloting
Digital Manufacturing Platforms
- Agile Value Networks: Lot-size One
- Zero-defect Processes and Products
- Machines & Human Competences
- Sustainable Value Networks
A digital 'plug and produce' online equipment platform for manufacturing …
Agricultural Digital Integration Platforms
- Optimize farm operations
- High-precision farming
Digital Service Platforms for Rural Economies
Smart Hospital of the Future
Smart and Healthy Living at Home
- Healthy & independent living
- Early risk detection and intervention
Interoperable and Smart Homes and Grids
Big Data Solutions for Energy
Cross-cutting issues, IoT, Big Data, Security…

10. Draft WP 2018-2020 Focus Area LEIT-ICT SC1 (LEIT-NMBP:
Focus Area 'Digitising and transforming European industry and services', Platforms and Pilots
LEIT-ICT
DT-ICT : Digital Manufacturing Platforms for Connected Smart Factories M€
DT-ICT : Agricultural digital integration platforms 30 M€
DT-ICT : Digital service platforms for rural economies 30 M€
DT-ICT : Interoperable and smart homes and grids 30 M€
DT-ICT : Big data solutions for energy 30 M€
DT-ICT : The smart hospital of the future 25 M€
DT-ICT : Digital Platforms/Pilots Horizontal Activities 4 M€
SC1
DT-TDS : Smart and healthy living at home 60 M€
(LEIT-NMBP:
DT-NMBP : A digital 'plug and produce' online equipment platform for manufacturing M€ )

11. For more information Digitising European Industry WG2 report
Industrial Innovation Information Days
Brussels, 3-4 Oct 2017
Workshop "Digital Manufacturing Platforms for Connected Smart Factories"
Brussels, 19 Oct 2017
ICT Proposers' Day 2017
Budapest, 9-10 Nov 2017
Digitising European Industry
@DigIndEU