Prof. Marco Taisch

Marco Taisch is professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and Advanced Manufacturing Systems at Politecnico di Milano. He has been director of the Executive MBA and director of the International MBA programme at MIP, the business school of Politecnico di Milano. He’s chairman of the IFIP Working Group on Advances in Production Management, member of IFAC, member of IEEE, and senior member of IIE. His area of expertise is focussed in the field of Sustainable, Energy Efficient Manufacturing and ICT for Manufacturing. At the moment, he is coordinator of the IMS2020 project, a EC-funded initiative to support the development of roadmaps for the future of manufacturing at global level. This project involves partners from Europe, USA, Korea and Japan and more than 80 companies worldwide.

Presentation

ActionPlanT: A roadmap of ICT for Manufacturing in the ‘Horizon 2020’ perspective

To boost European competitiveness and speed the recovery from the financial crisis started in 2008, Europe’s manufacturing sector must fundamentally change its attitude and approach to business. Better use of information and communication technology (ICT) offers the key to meeting the challenges by enhancing end-to-end manufacturing processes from shop floor to customer engagement and all along the supply chain and to fully take advantage on new business opportunities based on services. The key objective is to use ICT to make manufacturing more efficient and user friendly, while enabling all European enterprises, irrespective of their location or size, to find opportunities beyond their borders through innovative business models involving people, processes, products and services. This presentation is the result of a synthesis of the ActionPlanT project “Roadmap for FP8” and it is intended to provide a general understanding of the work approach, the roadmap content and his alignment with EFFRA.

 ActionPlanT: A roadmap of ICT for Manufacturing in the ‘Horizon 2020’ perspective