eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

New Ways to Work 2000European Teleworkexploiting and continuously improving the information and communication services offered by Epri-COMEpri-COM continues work started by EPRI-Watch in 1995. It targets politicians interested in information societyissues, provides them with information about European IS legislation and developments, and facilitatescommunication among them. The priority target group of EPRI-Watch were the Members of the EuropeanParliament who might be more in need of communication technologies that other parliamentarians because of theirthree workplaces in Brussels, Strasbourg and in their constituency. When the service was launched, only a fewMembers of the European Parliament had e-mail facilities. Currently the service has about 800 users.Epri-COM has organised a large number of events including last year, including the participation of Europeanpoliticians at Telework ’99 in Aarhus. The project has continued to support the initiative for meetings amongnational Parliamentarians in Europe about the use of ICTs in the work of Parlimentarians in order to better legislate,to better control government and to better communicate with citizens. The first event took place in the AssembléeNationale in Paris in March 99, this was followed by a second meeting in Athens in February 2000. The third eventis planned at the House of Commons in London in September 2000.Project period: April 1998 - July 2000Contact:Teleport Sachsen-AnhaltBrussels EPRI-OfficeBoulevard Clovis 39,B-1000 Brussels, BelgiumKlemens GutmannTel.: +32-2-258 46 26Fax: +32-2-230 69 29E-mail: gutmann@tsa.deEPSYLON Enhanced Process modelling System for Lean Operations Esprit ProgrammeManagementThis project is aimed to define, implement and validate a new software for managing process information at thehighest possible semantic level, thus allowing manufacturing firms to achieve the following benefits: improvedmanagement of process data formalising the whole knowledge of the shop floor; control over complementaryoperations like recycling and resource maintenance; improved planning and decision-making functions for bothoperative and strategic decision-making.EPSYLON will produce process modelling software supporting: (i) abstract operation types, to represent all kinds ofshop-floor activities in a context-free and resource-independent fashion; (ii) aggregation of operations into processes;(iii) parameters and constraints to capture product-dependent and resource-dependent aspects; (iv) resource typesdefinition in terms of structure, variable features, capabilities and independent behaviour; (v) partial or completeinstantiation of process features in different product, resource and factory scenarios.Furthermore, three decision support applications are developed: (i) for recycling processes originated from taken-backproducts, scraps and by-products, (ii) for maintenance, with the management of auxiliary operations; (iii) forsimulation and strategic analysis. The integration with other software tools is pursued: (i) with respect to the STEPstandard, (ii) with respect to existing schedulers (iii) and existing monitoring packages.Project period: December 1997 – June 2000Contact:Democenter s.c.a.r.l.Viale Virgilio 5541100 ModenaItalySebastiano SighinolfiTel.: +39 59 848810Fax: +39 59 848630E-mail: s.sighinolfi@democenter.itURL: http://193.207.81.209/democenter/EXTERNAL Extended Enterprise Resources, Network Architecture and Learning IST ProgrammeThe EXTERNAL project addresses the challenges met when forming an extended enterprise (EE), characterised by adynamic and time-limited collaboration between business partners. The goal is to provide solutions that make thiscollaboration effective and repeatable. The objectives involve developing methodology, infrastructure/tools andbusiness solutions for EE modelling, analysis, engineering and operation. The process learning, deployment of openknowledge-sharing infrastructures and validation of results will also be addressed. Three usage cases, will integrateand test the approach, the methodology, and the tools. They concern EE deployment in SMEs, EE consultancyservices and the project itself. The results of the project will increase the competitiveness of European enterprises andprovide new ways of knowledge-work collaboration.The following activities will be undertaken: Development of a methodology for EE engineering and operation;Development of tools for application of EE methodology; Supporting process learning at the level of individuals,teams and organisations; Development and deployment of an open knowledge sharing EE infrastructure; Developingbusiness solutions from the EE methodology and infrastructure; Validating EE methodology and EE infrastructureand Ensuring early and continuous exploitation and dissemination of results- 172 -