ICT for Design and Manufacturing: A Strategic Vision for Technology Maturity Assessment

Abstract

Based on the EU-FP7, ActionPlanT project aims at assessing and ranking Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that will have the most impact on European competitiveness. One of the outcomes is a classification of ICT for design and manufacturing. ICT, used inside companies, can be classified in different levels according to company’s organization. The paper describes layered software architecture for design management and manufacturing execution of company which intensively uses ICT. The ICT classification can link two perspectives which are developed industrial strategy and used design and manufacturing technology. Results of this work were used in the FP7 project for integrating strategy with design and manufacturing levels