WP7: Knowledge Transfer, Exploitation and Foresights
This work package focuses on: (1) the transfer of knowledge developed in AESOP, (2) the exploitation of results, (3) The definition of next steps required in research and technology development. These three main objectives entail activities targeted to both academic and industrial communities.
This work package is critical for AESOP: since the application of the service-oriented paradigm is a new highly innovative approach in a conservative context such as process automation. As such it requires the specific attention of all involved people i.e. academy, industrial engineers as well as managers, and the overall industrial community. Hence,
specific effort in creating awareness on this new approach needs to be address not only towards academic but, even more important, towards industrial community. The aim is to provide key industrial and academic groups with enough information to understand the underlying concepts, the potential benefits coming from the adoption of this new paradigm, and finally to develop in a cooperative manner the necessary next steps.
Both academic and industrial partners will actively contribute in the dissemination of research results coming from AESOP, through several publications. These publications will be planned in the dissemination plan as strategic collaborative (cross-partner) research outputs. Dissemination of results will be performed through an active participation and submission of results in prestigious well-known conferences. In addition, international conference special sessions and workshops will be organized to present and promote AESOP results.
In order to specifically address industrial community, participation to fairs will be carefully planned. This in order to show results of the project and to generate awareness on the concept developed in AESOP within the industrial community.
Exploitation will also be actively sought as part of this work package. The aim is to prepare a plan on how to utilize research outputs coming from the project. This will be done taking into consideration the overall industrial ecosystem, technology providers, system integrators and end-users.
Training will be fundamental to push dissemination of project results among the industrial community. The industrial events organized for training activities will include technology demonstrations, debates, and presentation of emerging/upcoming scenarios for the application of service-oriented embedded distributed systems and new ways of working.
Finally, foresight studies will be core of this work package. Since the Service Oriented Approach is a new ground in industrial automation (and in particular in process automation), a road mapping activity will be fundamental in order to define future required R&D steps and clarify future expectations (also in terms of potential benefits) in the domain of service oriented process monitoring and control, i.e., a new SoA-based generation of SCADA systems.
