With:

Michel Wurth, Chairman of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce
Heinrich Flegel, Chairman of ManuFuture High Level Group

Francine Closener, Secretary of State of the Economy
Video message : Commissioner Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation

His Royal Highness Crown Prince of Luxembourg

Werner Hoyer, President, European Investment Bank
Rudolf Strohmeier, Deputy Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Ömer Sahin Ganiyusufoglu, Personal consultant to the Chairman of the Shenyang Machine Tool Co
Gregory Ludkovsky, Head of Global research and development, ArcelorMittal

Promoting creativity and design among children and young people is the objective of the annual GENIAL competition for innovative ideas which is organised by Luxinnovation.

Since its start in 2009, the competition, which is organised in collaboration with the Ministry for Education, Children and Youth, offers children the opportunity to express and develop their ideas. The experiences so far are successful: the first six editions of GENIAL have attracted the attention of more than 1,950 students between 5 and 20 years who have submitted a total of 1118 ideas. The best projects, designed either by individuals or by groups of students, are evaluated by a jury composed of representatives of business, design, culture and education, who take into account the projects’ innovative character, creative spirit and potential for implementation as well as the quality of the supporting argumentation.

The last edition of GENIAL gave the opportunity to the children to invent the factory of the future. Drawings will be showcased during Manufuture 2015.

Handed out by His Royal Highness Crown Prince of Luxembourg

The session will set the focus on emerging technologies, research and development activities, both from academia and private industry. The session deals with the aspect of the improvement of industrial potentials; promotion of innovation, scientific research and technological development.

Emerging technologies like the additive manufacturing, adaptive manufacturing; zero defect manufacturing and others represents opportunities to face the increasing complexity in products and service development. The session will showcase some of these emerging technologies and its successful implementation.

Speakers: 

Chairman: Jose Lorenzo Valles, DG Research and innovation, Head of Unit, European Commission
Didier Vanden Abeele, Manager of European Business, CEA List
Gabriel Crean, CEO, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Kristian Martinsen, Research Director, SINTEF Raufoss Manufacturing AS

Krank Käpper , Business Development Manager, CTI

Martin Schaefer, Corporate technology & chairman additive manufacturing subplatform of manufuture, Siemens AG
        

This session will bring together representatives from European Parliament and employer federations to debate on how to restore and reinforce the competitiveness of the European industry, manufacturing and services.

Speakers:

Chairman: Laurent Probst, Partner, Economic Development & Innovation leader,PwC
Robert Dennewald, Chairman of Fedil
Alexandre Affre, Director for the Industrial Affairs Department,  BUSINESSEUROPE
Claude Turmes, Luxembourg MEP 
Adrian Harris, Director General, Orgalime

Aurel Laurentiu Plosceanu, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee

Heinrich Flegel, Chairman, ManuFuture High Level Group

The session will address the specific needs of SMEs manufacturing in Europe. SME’s capacity for innovation contributes strongly to their competitiveness. Europe can facilitate the innovation process and promote entrepreneurship by providing a strong innovation infrastructure for SME’s.

This session will highlight the different policies and funding schemes designed to support the SMEs. A critical analyse will be made to see if the offer is corresponding to the needs of the SMEs.

Speakers:

Chairman: Lynn Elvinger, Member of the executive board, CEBI
Pierre Roubaud, Head of Sector, EASME Agency
Luis Carneiro, Director for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, EXPLORE
Jeffrey Dentzer, Head of Large Corporates, Public & Project Finance, BIL
Erik Lund , Managing Director, STRECON A/S

European Manufacturing Industries lost round about 1/3 of the Adding Value in relation to the GDP. This is equivalent to 10 Million Employees with many consequences for welfare, unemployment, public budgets (debt) and private income. Production and consumption of industrial manufactured products and some sectors of low technologies migrated to global competitors especially into regions with better economic conditions.  The last economic crisis from 2008/2009 accelerated the process of De-Industrialization in Europe and caused a significant reduction of investment in manufacturing in the last years. On the other hand Europe raised the expenses for R&D in Research programs to fight for global competition and growth with ambitious goals for re-industrialization (20 % of GDP).

The objectives of this session are discussions about:

- Trends and challenges of future manufacturing development

- Changes in manufacturing and opportunities for Industries

- Public Infrastructure Initiatives (e.g. Industry 4.0)

- Fight against unemployment by customization of manufacturing low-tech products

- Economic expectations and limiting conditions for investment in manufacturing

- Business models for adding value

Experts from Science, Industry, Economics and Policy contribute with statements and close with recommendations for initiatives in and fields of action.

Speakers:

Chairman: Engelbert Westkamper, High Level Group of the EU Technology Platform Manufuture 
Antti Peltomaki, Deputy Director-General, DG Growth, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
Guus Boekhoudt, European vice president, Guardian
Maurizio Gattiglio, Chairman, EFFRA
Thomas Bauernhansl, Head of Institute, Fraunhofer IPA

Emerging economies have entered the world of complex and innovative value chains, which were previously considered the preserve of developed economies. A global Research and Innovation ecosystem is emerging. By involving both advanced as well as fast developing Countries, including Brazil, India and China, a shared high value for Advanced Manufacturing is being created.

Through the participation of high level global stakeholders speakers, the Session will present the ongoing and perspective strategic initiatives in the area of research and innovation for manufacturing. Through the debate, the Session will make an outlook on the synergies between those initiatives and on possible recommendations for future win-win cooperation activities concerning a full globalized value chain in sustainable and competitive EU manufacturing.

Speakers:

Chairman: Francesco Jovane, Emeritus Professor, Politecnico di Milano
Olivier Vassart, R&D Structural Long Products, Arcelor Mittal
Klaus Löffler, CEO, Laser Technologies Trumpf
Jens-Günter Neugebauer, Director European Policy and Business Development, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Romain Hansen, Director Global Tire Technology, Goodyear 

This session will showcase concrete results and demonstration activities from the European Union’s ‘Factories of the Future’ partnership. The session will feature examples of ‘Factories of the Future’ projects, presentation of demonstrations of results and approaches to the uptake of results. Furthermore it will present how the ‘Factories of the Future’ Innovation Portal is being used to map projects and their results along the priorities of the ‘Factories of the Future’ strategic research agenda. By bringing experts to the fore, this session will also provide an opportunity for an exchange of views on the experiences of the projects featured and approaches to demonstration.

Speakers:

Chairman: Neophytos Neophytou, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission

Zeljko Pazin, Executive Director, EFFRA

Patricia Wolny, Co Factor

Giuseppe Lucisano, Effective

Odd Myklebust, Focus

Arun Junai, FoFAM

Christoph Hanisch, Research Cooperations, Festo AG & Co. KG

European and non-European companies do not face the same rules and do not get the same chance to succeed. We should prevent subsidies and preferential measures as well as the use of reciprocity principles. consider the new regulatory system in Europe to be a burden that will reduce competitivity.

• Global harmonisation: we have gaps in the regulations. What regulations are relevant and in line with global competition.
• European regulations policy: Do we play on an even playfield? (see China, US)
• How can we be sure that products and good that entered the single market Europe are following our regulations and standards?

Speakers: 

Chairman: Gilles Poncin, Partner, KPMG
René Winkin, Secretary General, FEDIL,
Philippe Portalier, Standardisation & Technical Policy Manager, Orgalime
Axel Eggert, Director General, Eurofer
Filip Geerts, Director General, CECIMO
Anne-Francoise Cutting-Decelle, Professor, Ecole Centrale de Lille, Université de Genève

The aim of this session is to stress the importance of long-term perspectives (as a principle of sustainable development) in financial markets, and to try to identify barriers thereof and opportunities to overcome these barriers.

In today’s financial markets, the balance of investment as a whole has moved too far towards short-termism, in the sense that strategies focus (i) on short-term decision-making behaviour of investors for maximising short-term returns and (ii) on the allocation of investment to financial products or companies that represent short term interests. Taken together, both aspects of short-termism (i.e. investor behaviour and where capital is invested) are underestimating or ignoring the systemic risks, wider impacts, or irreversible consequences of their behaviour.

The session should provide ideas and answers one how to stimulate long-term investment strategies and limit short-term decision making by actors on the financial market.

Another aspect to be (re)considered in that most of the investments are made in high tech R&D and innovation. On the other side low tech industries represent 80% of the products and services offered by companies in Europe. But hardly no investments are granted for low tech production ramp ups (investment less than 3%). Based on the fact that low-tech companies contribute highly to the creation of jobs, this imbalance needs to be questioned and alternative investment incentives, innovation policies and support programs for companies in the low-tech industries have to be elaborated that have the ambition to turn their innovation expenditures into profitable growth.

Speakers: 

Chairman: Marc Hemmerling, Member of the Management Board, ABBL 
Gunnar Muent, Director, Innovation and Competitiveness, EIB
Marc Schronen, CSO, CPPE
Marc Wagener, Director of Economic Affairs, The Chamber of Commerce of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
Yves Nosbusch, Chief Economist, BGL BNP Paribas
Tomas Hedenborg, Goup CEO, Fastems Group
Damien Degros, Member of Management Committee and Head of Commercial Banking, ING

European Convention Center Luxembourg : http://www.manufuture2015.eu/venue-contacts/

European Convention Center Luxembourg : http://www.manufuture2015.eu/venue-contacts/

Music: Fernand Neumann http://www.fern.lu/index.php/fernand-neumann.html

Dress Code: Smart Casual 

Marc Hansen, Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, Secretary of State of Education, Children and Youth, Le Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

Clara de La Torre, Director, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Martin Kern, EIT Interim Director

John Hutson, Diesel Operations Director, Delphi

The session will showcase successful translation of research results into commercialized manufactured goods and services.

The European commission will present the different policies applicable to bridge “the valley of death”. One option are pilot lines, which are needed to initiate the first experience with the new technologies and enable commercial manufacturing. Some concrete examples of successful EU funded large scale demonstrators will be subject of the session (e.g.: pilot lines)
The session will provide of a common understanding of what these pilot lines are and how they can be supported by the European Commission.

Speakers:

Chairman: Andrea Gentili, Deputy Head of the Unit, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission 
Johann Hoffelner, Chief Scientific Officer, Linz center of Mechatronics, 
Eberhard Bessey, European Technology Platform Manufuture
Chris Decubber, Technical Director, EFFRA
Heidi Moens, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs DG Grow, European Commission

In the last decades, ICT and automation have been drivers of innovation in manufacturing companies. Now, with more sensors, more connectivity and more data, the digitisation of industry and the manufacturing sector will reach new dimensions and will challenge existing paradigms and business models. This transition – for which in Germany the title “Industrie 4.0” was coined – goes well beyond the uptake of ICT. It is rather about connecting people, machines, products and companies across value chains and sectors, new product-service combinations and new business models. This offers huge opportunities (e.g. better decisions, more resource efficiency and more customisation), but requires also efforts of industry, researchers and policy makers.

This session will look into the opportunities of this development, but will also identify what is needed from companies and policy makers to master this transition. This session will focus on how organizing the manufacturing process. It will highlight the upcoming needs in IT and how to make technical intelligence available and affordable to increase the process productivity.

Speakers:

Chairman : Doris Schroecker, DG Research and Innovation, Head of Unit, European Commission

Jose Lorenzo Valles, DG Research and Innovation, Head of Unit, European Commission

Max Lemke, DG Connect, Head of Unit, European Commission

Kai Peters, Research &Innovation Manager European Office, VDMA
Arnold Stokking, Managing Director, TNO Industry
Rainer Stetter, General Manager, ITQ GmbH

Albrecht Ricken, Head of Industry 4.0 research in Strategic Innovation Enablement, SAP

Energy and raw materials are essential for the production of goods and services. Its prices and its efficient use affect production costs, and thus, industrial competitiveness. This session should discuss how addressing these issues

• Challenges in energy and raw materials (on a global scale)
• Fostering business and Policy discussion, European regulation, Circular economy, Competitiveness vs Asia & USA, Energy
• Recycling and added value of raw material
• Raw materials / feed stock. European industry will not grow if you have the technology but not the raw materials available. A holistic production approach for Europe is required,
• Critical raw materials : environmental conflict and safety
• Material substitution

Speakers:

Chairman: Jens Kreisel, Director of the Materials Research and Technology Department, LIST
Klaus Sommer , President, SPIRE
Tullio Tolio, Director of Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation
Aurela SHTIZA, Senior Advisor Sustainability & Innovation, IMA
Christophe d’Amico, CEO Tarkett Clervaux

Regional manufacturing involves organizations mostly within a geographical region working together to close the loop through inter-company, inter-industry, community and supply chain collaboration.  Regional manufacturing creates jobs within the region and the community. Regional manufacturing enables us to bring production closer to our customers’ building sites which helps to reduce the environmental impact by reduction in CO2 emissions, greenhouse gases, and other air pollution associated with exhaust emissions and also reduction in energy costs associated with shipping our products. This helps to respond to the needs of customers and allows customization of different products. 3D Printing is one of the enabling technologies which encourages regional manufacturing.

Global value chain includes firm(s) and people involved in the production of goods or services and their activities from its conception to end use coordinated across geographies. The activities such as design, production, marketing, distribution and support to the final consumer can be contained within a single firm or divided among different firms. For example: a firm from one country establishes a new factory or engineering centre in another country or a firm in one country contracts with a firm in another country for production in their plants. It can be producer driven or buyer driven. Producer-driven chains have more linkages between affiliates of multinational firms, while buyer-driven chains have more linkages between legally independent firms. Buyer-driven chains are mainly for simple products, such as apparel, house wares, and toys. Here innovation lies more in product design and marketing rather than in manufacturing know-how and the lead firms outsource the production. Producer driven chains are mainly for technology-and capital-intensive items like autos and complex electronic products. Here technology and production know-how are main competencies and they are developed and deployed in-house or in their affiliate’s facilities.

Speakers:

Chairman: Arun Junai, EU Manager, TNO Industrial innovation
Thorsten Widmer, VP Manufacturing Coordination & Investment Planning, Bosch
John Blankendaal, Managing Director, Brainportindustries
Rikardo Bueno, Director for the Programmes Area, Tecnalia
Robert Young, Professor, UK Loughborough University

The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) stands for creating sustainable growth and jobs by boosting as an ‘entrepreneurship driven impact investment institute’ innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe. The EIT was launched in 2008 and has pioneered dynamic, cross-border partnerships that bring together leading universities, research centres and companies, calling these unique partnerships Knowledge and Innovation Communities or KICs. The first three KICs have been running since 2010 and two new ones since beginning of this year.

Through  the  KICs,  the  EIT  tries  to  accelerate  innovation  and  to  help  create  multidisciplinary  and  interdisciplinary environments   where   innovation   is   more   likely   to   thrive   and   to   generate   breakthroughs   and in   the   way   higher education,  research  and  business  collaborate.  This  approach  helps  address  the  increasingly  complex  and  interlinked societal   challenges   set   out   in   Horizon   2020   combining   sectoral   and   cross-sectoral   innovation   and   bringing together   excellent   people   from   different   sectors,   backgrounds   and   disciplines (people who   otherwise   would   not necessarily  meet) to  jointly  find  solutions  to  the  challenges.

As an integral part of Horizon 2020 and as part of EIT’s policy to expand its portfolio of KICs, a call for a new KIC on Added Value Manufacturing will be officially launched in January 2016. A  KIC  on  added-value  manufacturing  is expected to help  meeting  Horizon  2020  priorities  in  terms  of  advanced  manufacturing and   processing in wide perspective mobilising investment  and  long-term  commitment  also from  the  business  sector.

The objective of this session is to discuss and highlight the possible impact KICs can create in enhancing Europe’s innovation capacity. Expert insights from EIT and KIC practitioners form an excellent basis for this discussion.

Speakers:

Chairman : Reijo TUOKKO, Prof. at Tampere University of Technology

George CHRYSSOLOURIS, ManuFuture views on the forthcoming KIC on Added Value
Manufacturing, University of Patras

Guy Vekemans, KIC Innoenergy

Stephane Amarger, Director of Paris Node, KIC EIT  Digital

Karl Vrancken, KIC Raw Materials

The session will showcase some successful setup of manufacturing sites in Europe. It should also highlight the geographical criteria for setting up a production, the current characteristics of Europe from manufacturing point of view and what differs Europe from other places for manufacturing.

The audience will learn about the challenges faced during the set up and will discover the applied business models.

The session will conclude on the lessons learned and will make an outlook on the recommendation for the future to improve competitive position of Europe.

Speakers:

Chairman: Johnny Brebels, Head of Sector Development, Luxinnovation
Ömer Sahin Ganiyusufoglu, Personal consultant to the Chairman of the Shenyang Machine Tool

Vytautas Kieras , Development Director, Soli Tek

Yves-Simon Gloy, Head of Division, Textile Machine, Institut für Textiltechnik der RWTH Aachen University

Dr. Rolf Giesen, President of International Can and the Maxim Group

Heiner Hells, CEO, Maxim Group

The world leading research results need to be translated to successful products using efficient production methods. Studies reveal that talent-driven innovation is the major enabler of this process. Thus, access to high-quality labor is critical for manufacturing competitiveness. Skills gaps and shortages hinder though today industry’s innovation performance world-wide. Moreover, new approaches to skills development and competence building are required in view of the foreseen change of employment pattern in industry. Forecasts show today a considerable shift in labor demand towards skilled workers implying that future jobs will become more knowledge- and skills-intensive.

The session will look at relevant challenges, and elaborate on a multi-perspective view to the future discussing issues, such as re-shaping the education landscape, ensuring the availability of a highly qualified workforce, integrating education with research and innovation, enabling the development of trans-disciplinary skills and competences, attracting young people to manufacturing etc.

Speakers:

Chairman : Denis Crowley, Head of Unit – Innovation in education, EIT and MSCA, European Commission,

Egbert Jan Sol, Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen

Robert Dennewald, Learning Factory

Marco Taisch , Professor,  Politecnico di Milano

Johan Stahre, Head of Production Systems Division, Chalmers University of Technology

Dimitris Mourtzis, Professor, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation, University of Patras

The aim of this session is capture the specific needs of complex/innovative manufacturing projects in terms of project funding and discuss how different approaches and instruments can address such barriers. The intention is to have different perspectives including private companies, a country or region and the financial sector in order to understand complementarity / gaps.

The main purpose of the session is to share best practices on how to implement different instruments in order to leverage private companies RDI investments.   

Speakers:

Chairman: Pascal Fabing, Head of National Funding, Luxinnovation
Jose Carlos Caldeira, President, Agencia Nacional de Inovacao
Christina Ugarte , Porject Management, MANUNET 
Marc Hufkens, Chairman, Flanders’ Bike Valley & BikeVille Incubator      
Shiva Dustdar , Head of Innovation Finance Advisory at EIB
Cecilia Warrol, Director of Manufacturing and advanced production, Teknikforegaten and Director Produktion2030
Marek PRZEOR, Team Leader in DG REGIO’s Competence Centre Smart and Sustainable Growth, European Commission

Laurent Federspiel, Director, Sector and Cluster Development, Luxinnovation
Clara de La Torre, Director responsible for “Key Enabling Technologies” in the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission
Jose Carlos Caldeira, President, Agencia Nacional de Innovacao

With:

Michel Wurth, Chairman of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce
Heinrich Flegel, Chairman of ManuFuture High Level Group

Francine Closener, Secretary of State of the Economy
Video message : Commissioner Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation

His Royal Highness Crown Prince of Luxembourg

Werner Hoyer, President, European Investment Bank
Rudolf Strohmeier, Deputy Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Ömer Sahin Ganiyusufoglu, Personal consultant to the Chairman of the Shenyang Machine Tool Co
Gregory Ludkovsky, Head of Global research and development, ArcelorMittal

Promoting creativity and design among children and young people is the objective of the annual GENIAL competition for innovative ideas which is organised by Luxinnovation.

Since its start in 2009, the competition, which is organised in collaboration with the Ministry for Education, Children and Youth, offers children the opportunity to express and develop their ideas. The experiences so far are successful: the first six editions of GENIAL have attracted the attention of more than 1,950 students between 5 and 20 years who have submitted a total of 1118 ideas. The best projects, designed either by individuals or by groups of students, are evaluated by a jury composed of representatives of business, design, culture and education, who take into account the projects’ innovative character, creative spirit and potential for implementation as well as the quality of the supporting argumentation.

The last edition of GENIAL gave the opportunity to the children to invent the factory of the future. Drawings will be showcased during Manufuture 2015.

Handed out by His Royal Highness Crown Prince of Luxembourg

The session will set the focus on emerging technologies, research and development activities, both from academia and private industry. The session deals with the aspect of the improvement of industrial potentials; promotion of innovation, scientific research and technological development.

Emerging technologies like the additive manufacturing, adaptive manufacturing; zero defect manufacturing and others represents opportunities to face the increasing complexity in products and service development. The session will showcase some of these emerging technologies and its successful implementation.

Speakers: 

Chairman: Jose Lorenzo Valles, DG Research and innovation, Head of Unit, European Commission
Didier Vanden Abeele, Manager of European Business, CEA List
Gabriel Crean, CEO, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Kristian Martinsen, Research Director, SINTEF Raufoss Manufacturing AS

Krank Käpper , Business Development Manager, CTI

Martin Schaefer, Corporate technology & chairman additive manufacturing subplatform of manufuture, Siemens AG
        

This session will bring together representatives from European Parliament and employer federations to debate on how to restore and reinforce the competitiveness of the European industry, manufacturing and services.

Speakers:

Chairman: Laurent Probst, Partner, Economic Development & Innovation leader,PwC
Robert Dennewald, Chairman of Fedil
Alexandre Affre, Director for the Industrial Affairs Department,  BUSINESSEUROPE
Claude Turmes, Luxembourg MEP 
Adrian Harris, Director General, Orgalime

Aurel Laurentiu Plosceanu, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee

Heinrich Flegel, Chairman, ManuFuture High Level Group

The session will address the specific needs of SMEs manufacturing in Europe. SME’s capacity for innovation contributes strongly to their competitiveness. Europe can facilitate the innovation process and promote entrepreneurship by providing a strong innovation infrastructure for SME’s.

This session will highlight the different policies and funding schemes designed to support the SMEs. A critical analyse will be made to see if the offer is corresponding to the needs of the SMEs.

Speakers:

Chairman: Lynn Elvinger, Member of the executive board, CEBI
Pierre Roubaud, Head of Sector, EASME Agency
Luis Carneiro, Director for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, EXPLORE
Jeffrey Dentzer, Head of Large Corporates, Public & Project Finance, BIL
Erik Lund , Managing Director, STRECON A/S

European Manufacturing Industries lost round about 1/3 of the Adding Value in relation to the GDP. This is equivalent to 10 Million Employees with many consequences for welfare, unemployment, public budgets (debt) and private income. Production and consumption of industrial manufactured products and some sectors of low technologies migrated to global competitors especially into regions with better economic conditions.  The last economic crisis from 2008/2009 accelerated the process of De-Industrialization in Europe and caused a significant reduction of investment in manufacturing in the last years. On the other hand Europe raised the expenses for R&D in Research programs to fight for global competition and growth with ambitious goals for re-industrialization (20 % of GDP).

The objectives of this session are discussions about:

- Trends and challenges of future manufacturing development

- Changes in manufacturing and opportunities for Industries

- Public Infrastructure Initiatives (e.g. Industry 4.0)

- Fight against unemployment by customization of manufacturing low-tech products

- Economic expectations and limiting conditions for investment in manufacturing

- Business models for adding value

Experts from Science, Industry, Economics and Policy contribute with statements and close with recommendations for initiatives in and fields of action.

Speakers:

Chairman: Engelbert Westkamper, High Level Group of the EU Technology Platform Manufuture 
Antti Peltomaki, Deputy Director-General, DG Growth, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
Guus Boekhoudt, European vice president, Guardian
Maurizio Gattiglio, Chairman, EFFRA
Thomas Bauernhansl, Head of Institute, Fraunhofer IPA

Emerging economies have entered the world of complex and innovative value chains, which were previously considered the preserve of developed economies. A global Research and Innovation ecosystem is emerging. By involving both advanced as well as fast developing Countries, including Brazil, India and China, a shared high value for Advanced Manufacturing is being created.

Through the participation of high level global stakeholders speakers, the Session will present the ongoing and perspective strategic initiatives in the area of research and innovation for manufacturing. Through the debate, the Session will make an outlook on the synergies between those initiatives and on possible recommendations for future win-win cooperation activities concerning a full globalized value chain in sustainable and competitive EU manufacturing.

Speakers:

Chairman: Francesco Jovane, Emeritus Professor, Politecnico di Milano
Olivier Vassart, R&D Structural Long Products, Arcelor Mittal
Klaus Löffler, CEO, Laser Technologies Trumpf
Jens-Günter Neugebauer, Director European Policy and Business Development, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Romain Hansen, Director Global Tire Technology, Goodyear 

This session will showcase concrete results and demonstration activities from the European Union’s ‘Factories of the Future’ partnership. The session will feature examples of ‘Factories of the Future’ projects, presentation of demonstrations of results and approaches to the uptake of results. Furthermore it will present how the ‘Factories of the Future’ Innovation Portal is being used to map projects and their results along the priorities of the ‘Factories of the Future’ strategic research agenda. By bringing experts to the fore, this session will also provide an opportunity for an exchange of views on the experiences of the projects featured and approaches to demonstration.

Speakers:

Chairman: Neophytos Neophytou, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission

Zeljko Pazin, Executive Director, EFFRA

Patricia Wolny, Co Factor

Giuseppe Lucisano, Effective

Odd Myklebust, Focus

Arun Junai, FoFAM

Christoph Hanisch, Research Cooperations, Festo AG & Co. KG

European and non-European companies do not face the same rules and do not get the same chance to succeed. We should prevent subsidies and preferential measures as well as the use of reciprocity principles. consider the new regulatory system in Europe to be a burden that will reduce competitivity.

• Global harmonisation: we have gaps in the regulations. What regulations are relevant and in line with global competition.
• European regulations policy: Do we play on an even playfield? (see China, US)
• How can we be sure that products and good that entered the single market Europe are following our regulations and standards?

Speakers: 

Chairman: Gilles Poncin, Partner, KPMG
René Winkin, Secretary General, FEDIL,
Philippe Portalier, Standardisation & Technical Policy Manager, Orgalime
Axel Eggert, Director General, Eurofer
Filip Geerts, Director General, CECIMO
Anne-Francoise Cutting-Decelle, Professor, Ecole Centrale de Lille, Université de Genève

The aim of this session is to stress the importance of long-term perspectives (as a principle of sustainable development) in financial markets, and to try to identify barriers thereof and opportunities to overcome these barriers.

In today’s financial markets, the balance of investment as a whole has moved too far towards short-termism, in the sense that strategies focus (i) on short-term decision-making behaviour of investors for maximising short-term returns and (ii) on the allocation of investment to financial products or companies that represent short term interests. Taken together, both aspects of short-termism (i.e. investor behaviour and where capital is invested) are underestimating or ignoring the systemic risks, wider impacts, or irreversible consequences of their behaviour.

The session should provide ideas and answers one how to stimulate long-term investment strategies and limit short-term decision making by actors on the financial market.

Another aspect to be (re)considered in that most of the investments are made in high tech R&D and innovation. On the other side low tech industries represent 80% of the products and services offered by companies in Europe. But hardly no investments are granted for low tech production ramp ups (investment less than 3%). Based on the fact that low-tech companies contribute highly to the creation of jobs, this imbalance needs to be questioned and alternative investment incentives, innovation policies and support programs for companies in the low-tech industries have to be elaborated that have the ambition to turn their innovation expenditures into profitable growth.

Speakers: 

Chairman: Marc Hemmerling, Member of the Management Board, ABBL 
Gunnar Muent, Director, Innovation and Competitiveness, EIB
Marc Schronen, CSO, CPPE
Marc Wagener, Director of Economic Affairs, The Chamber of Commerce of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
Yves Nosbusch, Chief Economist, BGL BNP Paribas
Tomas Hedenborg, Goup CEO, Fastems Group
Damien Degros, Member of Management Committee and Head of Commercial Banking, ING

European Convention Center Luxembourg : http://www.manufuture2015.eu/venue-contacts/

European Convention Center Luxembourg : http://www.manufuture2015.eu/venue-contacts/

Music: Fernand Neumann http://www.fern.lu/index.php/fernand-neumann.html

Dress Code: Smart Casual 

Marc Hansen, Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, Secretary of State of Education, Children and Youth, Le Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

Clara de La Torre, Director, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Martin Kern, EIT Interim Director

John Hutson, Diesel Operations Director, Delphi

The session will showcase successful translation of research results into commercialized manufactured goods and services.

The European commission will present the different policies applicable to bridge “the valley of death”. One option are pilot lines, which are needed to initiate the first experience with the new technologies and enable commercial manufacturing. Some concrete examples of successful EU funded large scale demonstrators will be subject of the session (e.g.: pilot lines)
The session will provide of a common understanding of what these pilot lines are and how they can be supported by the European Commission.

Speakers:

Chairman: Andrea Gentili, Deputy Head of the Unit, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission 
Johann Hoffelner, Chief Scientific Officer, Linz center of Mechatronics, 
Eberhard Bessey, European Technology Platform Manufuture
Chris Decubber, Technical Director, EFFRA
Heidi Moens, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs DG Grow, European Commission

In the last decades, ICT and automation have been drivers of innovation in manufacturing companies. Now, with more sensors, more connectivity and more data, the digitisation of industry and the manufacturing sector will reach new dimensions and will challenge existing paradigms and business models. This transition – for which in Germany the title “Industrie 4.0” was coined – goes well beyond the uptake of ICT. It is rather about connecting people, machines, products and companies across value chains and sectors, new product-service combinations and new business models. This offers huge opportunities (e.g. better decisions, more resource efficiency and more customisation), but requires also efforts of industry, researchers and policy makers.

This session will look into the opportunities of this development, but will also identify what is needed from companies and policy makers to master this transition. This session will focus on how organizing the manufacturing process. It will highlight the upcoming needs in IT and how to make technical intelligence available and affordable to increase the process productivity.

Speakers:

Chairman : Doris Schroecker, DG Research and Innovation, Head of Unit, European Commission

Jose Lorenzo Valles, DG Research and Innovation, Head of Unit, European Commission

Max Lemke, DG Connect, Head of Unit, European Commission

Kai Peters, Research &Innovation Manager European Office, VDMA
Arnold Stokking, Managing Director, TNO Industry
Rainer Stetter, General Manager, ITQ GmbH

Albrecht Ricken, Head of Industry 4.0 research in Strategic Innovation Enablement, SAP

Energy and raw materials are essential for the production of goods and services. Its prices and its efficient use affect production costs, and thus, industrial competitiveness. This session should discuss how addressing these issues

• Challenges in energy and raw materials (on a global scale)
• Fostering business and Policy discussion, European regulation, Circular economy, Competitiveness vs Asia & USA, Energy
• Recycling and added value of raw material
• Raw materials / feed stock. European industry will not grow if you have the technology but not the raw materials available. A holistic production approach for Europe is required,
• Critical raw materials : environmental conflict and safety
• Material substitution

Speakers:

Chairman: Jens Kreisel, Director of the Materials Research and Technology Department, LIST
Klaus Sommer , President, SPIRE
Tullio Tolio, Director of Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation
Aurela SHTIZA, Senior Advisor Sustainability & Innovation, IMA
Christophe d’Amico, CEO Tarkett Clervaux

Regional manufacturing involves organizations mostly within a geographical region working together to close the loop through inter-company, inter-industry, community and supply chain collaboration.  Regional manufacturing creates jobs within the region and the community. Regional manufacturing enables us to bring production closer to our customers’ building sites which helps to reduce the environmental impact by reduction in CO2 emissions, greenhouse gases, and other air pollution associated with exhaust emissions and also reduction in energy costs associated with shipping our products. This helps to respond to the needs of customers and allows customization of different products. 3D Printing is one of the enabling technologies which encourages regional manufacturing.

Global value chain includes firm(s) and people involved in the production of goods or services and their activities from its conception to end use coordinated across geographies. The activities such as design, production, marketing, distribution and support to the final consumer can be contained within a single firm or divided among different firms. For example: a firm from one country establishes a new factory or engineering centre in another country or a firm in one country contracts with a firm in another country for production in their plants. It can be producer driven or buyer driven. Producer-driven chains have more linkages between affiliates of multinational firms, while buyer-driven chains have more linkages between legally independent firms. Buyer-driven chains are mainly for simple products, such as apparel, house wares, and toys. Here innovation lies more in product design and marketing rather than in manufacturing know-how and the lead firms outsource the production. Producer driven chains are mainly for technology-and capital-intensive items like autos and complex electronic products. Here technology and production know-how are main competencies and they are developed and deployed in-house or in their affiliate’s facilities.

Speakers:

Chairman: Arun Junai, EU Manager, TNO Industrial innovation
Thorsten Widmer, VP Manufacturing Coordination & Investment Planning, Bosch
John Blankendaal, Managing Director, Brainportindustries
Rikardo Bueno, Director for the Programmes Area, Tecnalia
Robert Young, Professor, UK Loughborough University

The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) stands for creating sustainable growth and jobs by boosting as an ‘entrepreneurship driven impact investment institute’ innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe. The EIT was launched in 2008 and has pioneered dynamic, cross-border partnerships that bring together leading universities, research centres and companies, calling these unique partnerships Knowledge and Innovation Communities or KICs. The first three KICs have been running since 2010 and two new ones since beginning of this year.

Through  the  KICs,  the  EIT  tries  to  accelerate  innovation  and  to  help  create  multidisciplinary  and  interdisciplinary environments   where   innovation   is   more   likely   to   thrive   and   to   generate   breakthroughs   and in   the   way   higher education,  research  and  business  collaborate.  This  approach  helps  address  the  increasingly  complex  and  interlinked societal   challenges   set   out   in   Horizon   2020   combining   sectoral   and   cross-sectoral   innovation   and   bringing together   excellent   people   from   different   sectors,   backgrounds   and   disciplines (people who   otherwise   would   not necessarily  meet) to  jointly  find  solutions  to  the  challenges.

As an integral part of Horizon 2020 and as part of EIT’s policy to expand its portfolio of KICs, a call for a new KIC on Added Value Manufacturing will be officially launched in January 2016. A  KIC  on  added-value  manufacturing  is expected to help  meeting  Horizon  2020  priorities  in  terms  of  advanced  manufacturing and   processing in wide perspective mobilising investment  and  long-term  commitment  also from  the  business  sector.

The objective of this session is to discuss and highlight the possible impact KICs can create in enhancing Europe’s innovation capacity. Expert insights from EIT and KIC practitioners form an excellent basis for this discussion.

Speakers:

Chairman : Reijo TUOKKO, Prof. at Tampere University of Technology

George CHRYSSOLOURIS, ManuFuture views on the forthcoming KIC on Added Value
Manufacturing, University of Patras

Guy Vekemans, KIC Innoenergy

Stephane Amarger, Director of Paris Node, KIC EIT  Digital

Karl Vrancken, KIC Raw Materials

The session will showcase some successful setup of manufacturing sites in Europe. It should also highlight the geographical criteria for setting up a production, the current characteristics of Europe from manufacturing point of view and what differs Europe from other places for manufacturing.

The audience will learn about the challenges faced during the set up and will discover the applied business models.

The session will conclude on the lessons learned and will make an outlook on the recommendation for the future to improve competitive position of Europe.

Speakers:

Chairman: Johnny Brebels, Head of Sector Development, Luxinnovation
Ömer Sahin Ganiyusufoglu, Personal consultant to the Chairman of the Shenyang Machine Tool

Vytautas Kieras , Development Director, Soli Tek

Yves-Simon Gloy, Head of Division, Textile Machine, Institut für Textiltechnik der RWTH Aachen University

Dr. Rolf Giesen, President of International Can and the Maxim Group

Heiner Hells, CEO, Maxim Group

The world leading research results need to be translated to successful products using efficient production methods. Studies reveal that talent-driven innovation is the major enabler of this process. Thus, access to high-quality labor is critical for manufacturing competitiveness. Skills gaps and shortages hinder though today industry’s innovation performance world-wide. Moreover, new approaches to skills development and competence building are required in view of the foreseen change of employment pattern in industry. Forecasts show today a considerable shift in labor demand towards skilled workers implying that future jobs will become more knowledge- and skills-intensive.

The session will look at relevant challenges, and elaborate on a multi-perspective view to the future discussing issues, such as re-shaping the education landscape, ensuring the availability of a highly qualified workforce, integrating education with research and innovation, enabling the development of trans-disciplinary skills and competences, attracting young people to manufacturing etc.

Speakers:

Chairman : Denis Crowley, Head of Unit – Innovation in education, EIT and MSCA, European Commission,

Egbert Jan Sol, Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen

Robert Dennewald, Learning Factory

Marco Taisch , Professor,  Politecnico di Milano

Johan Stahre, Head of Production Systems Division, Chalmers University of Technology

Dimitris Mourtzis, Professor, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation, University of Patras

The aim of this session is capture the specific needs of complex/innovative manufacturing projects in terms of project funding and discuss how different approaches and instruments can address such barriers. The intention is to have different perspectives including private companies, a country or region and the financial sector in order to understand complementarity / gaps.

The main purpose of the session is to share best practices on how to implement different instruments in order to leverage private companies RDI investments.   

Speakers:

Chairman: Pascal Fabing, Head of National Funding, Luxinnovation
Jose Carlos Caldeira, President, Agencia Nacional de Inovacao
Christina Ugarte , Porject Management, MANUNET 
Marc Hufkens, Chairman, Flanders’ Bike Valley & BikeVille Incubator      
Shiva Dustdar , Head of Innovation Finance Advisory at EIB
Cecilia Warrol, Director of Manufacturing and advanced production, Teknikforegaten and Director Produktion2030
Marek PRZEOR, Team Leader in DG REGIO’s Competence Centre Smart and Sustainable Growth, European Commission

Laurent Federspiel, Director, Sector and Cluster Development, Luxinnovation
Clara de La Torre, Director responsible for “Key Enabling Technologies” in the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission
Jose Carlos Caldeira, President, Agencia Nacional de Innovacao