1. http://www.planet-noe.org European Network of Excellence in AI Planning PIMS - PLANET Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Ruth Aylett Centre for Virtual Environments University of Salford

2. What it is Focus on application area –Manufacturing in the widest sense –Clear link to workflow Website –Covers meetings –Roadmap –Other activities Membership –still rather weak - about 6-8 nodes Roadmap –Covers issues and applications –Relationship to Intelligent Manufacturing

3. Activity Joint meeting with Workflow TCU DynaTool EoI, also with Workflow TCU Also jointly with IM NoE This involved 40+ organisations

4. Problems Few PLANET nodes are working in this area Salford node lacks time for coordination –Also involved in coordinating WP2 –Active in AeroSpace TCU Need to involve nodes with organisation of events –For example Information Day in Prague in May

5. Plans Good contacts with IM network –Turning this into activity is harder –Meeting planned for IFACIMS conference in April –Use of Roadmap as a way of building links How to take DynaTool forward? –IPs are too big for Unis to lead (and SMEs) –Need to find large industrial partner to lead this