The kick off meeting of Productive 4.0 project was held in Infineon facilities in Dresden. The main objective of Productive 4.0 is to achieve significant improvement in digitalising the European industry by means of electronics and Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Productive 4.0 is the largest European project to date, with 104 partners from 19 countries, with an overall budget of 114M euros.

Due to its characteristics, this project has been chosen by the European Commission as a Lighthouse Initiative, since it builds on well identified market‐pull demands, structured upon visionary solutions, with a very strong pan-European dimension and a robust business plan.

CISTER is involved in this project and will continue its previous work on the highly successful Arrowhead framework developed during the Arrowhead project. This Service Oriented framework will be the cornerstone for all communications among industrial devices on the Productive 4.0 future manufacturing environment. CISTER leads the work on providing solutions for Quality of Service (QoS) for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments.

This project, which is being led by Infineon, combines a very strong group of European companies like Volvo, Ericsson, Thales, Philips, STMicroelectronics, SAP, Bosch, NXP Semiconductors, ABB, etc.

CISTER has received preliminary information on the ECSEL 2016 call with two proposals, SCOTT and Productive 4.0, favorably evaluated by the Joint Undertaking (JU).

Productive 4.0 will take a step forward towards a hands-on approach and practical implementations focusing on three main product lifecycle pillars of Digital Production (DP), Supply Chain Networks (SCN) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). The results, such as IoT components modelling and simulation methods as well as toolchains for cross-lifecycle and cross domain digitization, will be suitable means for linking all stages of a product lifecycle.