1996 - European Telework Week

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AC064 TECODIS - Teleworking in Co-operative Development of Industrial Software
Teleworking is now viewed as one possible means of achieving a more flexible
allocation of skilled people to time critical projects than is currently possible within a
centralised office environment. In this context the project has two main objectives:
Firstly, to demonstrate the use of teleworking in the software development industrial
area in the most realistic possible way. Secondly, to demonstrate the viability of
teleworking by developing a teleworking support platform and demonstrating its
practical use in a large scale international engineering project.
Link to Telework/Tele-cooperation
TECODIS will be able to contribute to the future deployment of telework, as well as to
the development of guidelines, considerably. The project’s contributions to be expected
are the development of a Teleworking Model, a Cost/Benefit evaluation based on real
users, development of a teleworking platform and in the area of dissemination and
linkage to other programmes.
AC070 TEAM - Team-based European Automotive Manufacture
The project aims at a virtual integration of the entire automotive supply chain in a trial,
demonstrating a variety of multimedia applications. Key issues are the cultural aspects
of including 2nd/3rd tier suppliers & SMEs, integration of complex applications like
CAD, the tariffs by PNOs for broadband communications, confidentiality and security
issues and the necessary training/skills aspect.
Link to Telework/Tele-cooperation
The project will demonstrate tele-cooperation in the full meaning of the word. Doing so
it provides input to the development of guidelines on telework/tele-cooperation, both in
the sense of technical solutions as in overcoming cultural, financial and
confidentiality/security constraints.
AC071 SICMA - Scalable Interactive Continuous Media Server - Design and
Application
SiCMA aims to design a scaleable server for the delivery of images, data and
continuous multimedia information. It will also demonstrate its efficiency by applying it
in a “Virtual Museum”. A server to be used within various testbeds serving a large
number of users under various conditions.
Link to Telework/Tele-cooperation
The design of scaleable interactive media servers will have a strong impact on the cost
of on-line services, and will, therefor, contribute to the place independentness of work.
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