Mediterranean Wood Factory (MEDWOOD) participates in the NARRATE project as an industrial pilot within the framework of children’s furniture manufacturing.
MEDWOOD is a custom-driven Spanish company that manages a wide variety of suppliers and customers, which can be direct customers and sub-contractors.
Challenges related to delivery dates, resilience, and reactions when disruption occurs should be considered to become competitive in the market. Any adjustment in the supply chain caused by delays from the supplier side, or updates in the demand from the customer side requires a lot of effort and takes time, which is exacerbated by the low level of communication available through the entire supply chain.
For the MEDWOOD pilot perspective, the NARRATE project should cover two main aspects. On the one hand, the optional monitoring of some suppliers would increase the awareness of any anomaly in the supply chain, enabling the company to react accordingly. On the other hand, the company needs to find substitute partners (for example, for material supply) when some delay in the delivery is detected. The selection of the possible options will be provided by NARRATE solutions following sustainability criteria to the maximum extent possible.
MEDWOOD, with the support of the consortium, continues to work on the project development lines on a sophisticated platform that through the Intelligent Manufacturing Custodian (IMC) and the use of artificial intelligence, digital twins and loT will address different issues raised in the Manufacturing-As-A-Service (MaaS) value chain resilience environment. The platform’s goals include:
- Providing complete visibility and control over supply chain operations.
- Facilitating proactive decision-making.
- Enabling real-time monitoring
MEDWOOD, as an industrial (pilot) company within NARRATE, has raised functional and non-functional requirements, so that technology partners can take them into account in their developments and thus be able to address issues in the environment of risk detection and disruptions along the supply chain. Historical data has been collected (and continues to be collected), as well as working in different production and supply chain scenarios, taking into account both production and energy criteria.
As an industrial company, we consider very relevant the technical developments in NARRATE to address the problem of how to proceed in the most efficient way when we have an unexpected disruption and we want to solve it as soon as possible in the most efficient way and above all meeting the deadlines agreed with customers.
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