CRP: Collective Research Platform

For companies faced with the strategic challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, TMG provides a Collective Research Platform (CRP) which enables Virtual Business Teams to connect to Industrie 4.0 Expertise

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Inspiration: The problems the project solves

Companies are challenged by the COVID-19 Crisis in 3 fundamental ways:

1) Shifting Education

The on-premise education and training came to a complete halt during the crisis. People are now in their home office and joining virtual/remote Team environments. Companies can see this as opportunities to make training more efficient and fun. The corona-virus outbreak has disrupted the school year of millions of students in the bloc, including international students. For several weeks, most companies have - completely or partially - closed its education centers as part of their l strategies to fight the spread of the corona-virus.

2) Shifting Knowledge Work:

Re-imagination: Virtual Teams

A shock of this scale will create a discontinuous shift in the preferences and expectations of individuals as citizens, as employees, and as consumers.

These shifts and their impact on how we live, how we work,and how we use technology will emerge more clearly over the coming weeks and months. Institutions that reinvent themselves to make the most of better insight and foresight, as preferences evolve, will dis-proportionally succeed

3) Shifting Manufacturing Operations

The corona-virus pandemic is changing manufacturing operations to a degree never seen. As organizations and leaders seek to ensure the health and safety of their people, they are also reacting to supply-chain shifts that are impacting sourcing and distribution logistics. Supplier resilience is being brought into sharp focus, and labor shortages are bringing many production lines to a halt.

What it does: The solution we bring to the table

The "CRP: Collective Research Platform" enables Virtual teams to leverage the remote collective intelligence for fast solutions. As we incorporate smart technologies further into traditionally human processes, an even more powerful form of collaboration is emerging. This Form of Virtual/Remote Teams have a kind of collective intelligence, an ability to do things that the individuals in the groups couldn’t have done alone. What’s new is that machines can increasingly participate in the intellectual, as well as the physical, activities of these groups. That means we will be able to combine people and machines to create virtual teams that are smarter than any groups or individuals the company has ever known.

How I built it: What we have done during the weekend

The CRP: Collective Research Platform- has the following features:

I. Forming a virtual/remote Team-of Teams

Easy On-boarding of members to their remote/virtual Teams

Enrollment in virtual/remote Teams for Education, Project Work, Industrie 4.0 Transformation

Access to Industrie 4.0 Research Content of the Knowledge Cloud

Guiding to the Virtual Classroom

II. Leading and Operating the virtual/remote Team-of Teams

Audio-visual global Live Learning & Working Platform

Direct interaction of participants in an virtual team room

Practical exercises with best practice feedback

Individual Coaching/Mentoring of remote team members

Interactive knowledge sharing

Real-time networking of lecturer/manager and participant

In this Hackathon we aligned the COVIT-19 Challenges of Companies with the Platform, adapted functionality, technology and processes identified cases, story line of the pitch and prepared the demo .

The solution’s impact to the crisis

Three Key Solutions for Companies will impact Industrie 4.0 research in Europe:.

Solution 1: Shifting to the Virtual Class-room

Using digital technologies to transform the learning experience,” Real online education lets students/employees move at their own pace and includes such features as continual assessments so they can jump ahead as soon as they’ve mastered a skill,

Solution 2: Shifting to Tele-Commuting

Where work happens

Remote working is fully accepted (e.g. 25% of white-collar labor fully remote)

How people organize

Leaner more ”agile” structure leveraging virtual teams for project-based execution

How decisions are made

Strategy remains centrally set and coordinated; all operational decisions de-centralized with empowered execution

Solution 3: Supply Chain Transformation

The crisis will eventually resolve, at which point production facilities will need to move quickly to respond to new sources of supply and shifting customer demands. It is these types of pressures that make digital capabilities so critical, providing flexibility and resilience manufacturers need to mobilize and operate in unfamiliar territory. Yet most companies that have attempted enterprise-wide “digital transformation” have failed to capture the full business opportunities available from new technologies. What lessons can manufacturers learn from the few organizations that have succeeded in moving from successful small pilot projects to scaling digital innovations across their production networks?

Industry 4.0 can unlock significant value

A select group of industry-leading manufacturers are using digital transformation to develop new or enhanced ways of operating their businesses, using a variety of Industry 4.0 capabilities: —Data, computational power, and connectivity, such as sensors, the Internet of Things, cloud technology, and blockchain —Analytics and intelligence, ranging from big data and advanced analytics to artificial intelligence and knowledge-work automation —Human-machine interaction, including virtual and augmented reality, robotics and automation, robotic process automation (RPA), and chatbots —Advanced production methods such as additive manufacturing and use of renewable energy

The necessities in order to continue the project

Go-to-Market Initiative for immediate Deployment For Europe. Virtual teams can be formed on the Collective Research Platform in one day!

The value of the solution(s) after the crisis

This shock will likely give way to a desire to restrict some factors that helped make the coronavirus a global challenge, rather than a local issue to be managed.

Adapting to the fast moving Industrie 4.0 Technologies is a continues improvement task for companies.

The aftermath of the pandemic will also provide an opportunity to learn from a plethora of social innovations (virtual/remote teams) and experiments, ranging from working from home (tele-communting) to large-scale surveillance.With this will come an understanding of which innovations, if adopted permanently, might provide substantial uplift to economic and social welfare— and which would ultimately inhibit the broader betterment of society.

Challenges I ran into

Challenge 1:Companies have still difficulties forming virtual teams or allow work from home

Challenge 2: Changing the Industrial Mindset to Digital Mindset

Challenge 3: Leading virtual teams by creating a deep trust relationship

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Many companies in Germany, Ireland, Norway and Indonesia are using the platform for digital capability building of company employees with 6 Industrie 4.0 Domains or alternatively with 48 Industrie 4.0 online Workshops (4h).

Using Standard-3-Party Cloud Technology for deploying the Knowledge Cloud:

1)Our "German-based Tele-presence-platform "alfaview" has classrooms which could be scaled easily.

2) The scale-able Workspace is on Microsoft Azure Cloud Solution.

Scaling of life-lectures is done by having lectures of all tech partners in Norway, Ireland, Germany and Indonesia.

The Content of all 6 Domains are in the "Knowledge Cloud"

Online Domain: Manufacturing 4.0 8 Modules

   -1)Industry 4.0 Transformation - Understanding the potential of I4.0 transformation
-2)Smart Factory - Getting to know the different smart factory systems
-3)Robotics & Automation - Discovering the new possibilities of Robotics
-4)Big Data & AI - Becoming familiar with big data
-5)Process & Block chain - Introduction to process management & block-chain
-6)Mobile & Cloud Computing - Understanding cloud and mobile computing
-7)Augmented Reality & Iot - Increasing your innovation capacity
-8)Cyber Security - The risks and threats to Industry 4.0

Online Domain 2: Supply Chain Transformation, 8 Modules 

    1.Micro-Plant 4.0 Model: The distributed Product Paradigm
2.Micro-Plant Operating System: The circular economy building blocks
3.Entrepreneurship 4.0: Inventing the sustainable  Business Model
4.Product Co-Creation: Global Collaboration 
5.Production Co-Creation: Local smart factory design
6.Additive Manufacturing: Digital Fabrication Solutions
7.Performance Management/IoT: Managing the life-cycle cradle-to-cradle
8.AM Transformation: Using AM for sustainable factory networks

Online Domain 3:Digital Leadership 8 Modules

    1.Digital Leadership: 5 capabilities to lead digital 
2.Knowledge Co-Creation: The Team-of teams Collaboration
3.Smart factory: Create the manufacturing of the future
4.Industrie 4.0 Transformation: Disruptive Business Models
5.Big-Data and AI: The data analytics advantage
6.Process & Block-chain: How to automate key processes
7.IoT Value loops: Value creation with information
8. Cybersecurity: Mitigating the risks of Industrie 4.0

Online Domain 4: Additive Manufacturing, 8 Modules

1.Future of making things: Advances in Manufacturing
2.Additive Manufacturing : Deep dive in 7 Technologies
3.AM Transformation: Strategic leveraging of AM 
4.Mastering 3D Modelling: Basics of Design Thinking
5.Immersive Design: Using Mixed reality for Design
6.Collaborative Design: Collaborating in Product creation
7.Generative Design. Augmenting the Designer with AI
8.Continuous Engineering: Instant Improvement process

Online Domain 5: Industrial Internet of Things, 4 Week Duration, Max 20 persons, 8 Modules

1.Industrial Internet-of-Things: Understanding the potential of I4.0 transformation
2.IoT Value loops: Value creation with Information
3.Data & Sensors: Creating Information
4.Communication & Network: Transfer of Information
5.IoT Platforms & Scalability: Storing of Information
6.Augmented Intelligence & Analytics: Sense-making from Data
7.Augmented Behavior & Action: Optimized Control
8.IoT Cyber-security: Protecting the IoT Value loop

Online Domain 6: Artificial Intelligence, 4 Week Duration, Max 20 persons,8 Modules

1.Introduction to AI: The new electricity
2.Big data and AI: Sense-making from Data
3.Intelligent Agents: Designing digital assistants
4.Machine Learning in Business: Application of AI
5.Deep Neural Networks: Computer Vision and natural language
6.TensorFlow Open Source Solution: How to get AI Algorithms
7.IIoT and AI: Design for autonomous systems
 8.The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Human and machine co-creation

What I learned

1) Blended project based learning with life lectures/mentoring online are critical for remote learning & working

2)The Business Results of transferring I4.0 Research faster and more productive:

 a) Time -to-Market: 30-75% faster

  b)Quality: 25-75 defect reduction of digital solutions

 c)Productivity: 20-50% increase in Productivity

 d) Engagement: 10-50% happier more motivated employees

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What's next for CRP: Collective Research Platform-

Immediate Roll out to other Countries in Europe: Implementing the Go-to- Market Strategy

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