eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

New Ways to Work 2000European TeleworkMiddle East Technical University06531 Ankara, TurkeyFax: +90-312-210 1259Email: Asuman@srdc.metu.edu.trURL:http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/mariflow/MAST Managers in Support of Teleworking ADAPT InitiativeAimed at SME managers, the project is producing training and methodological support packages to encourage andhelp Irish companies make more extensive use of teleworking. It is led by the Work Research Centre Ltd. (WRC), aresearch, consultancy and training organisation specialising in the impact of new technologies on working life andsociety in general, and health at work. Its first priority is to address three key issues – the lack of awareness about therealities of teleworking, the lack of knowledge about how to implement and manage it, and the lack of techniques forovercoming these difficulties. An appropriate package of tools and services is then being developed. The consortiumincludes Forbairt, the Irish national development agency, the National College of Ireland, Telecom Eireann, theInstitute of Personnel Management and the Irish Institute of Training and Development. The transnationalpartnership involves German and Greek projects.Project period: February 1998 – December 1999.Contact:Work Research Centre Ltd.1 Greenlea DriveTerenureDublin 6W, IrelandRichard WynneTel.: +353.1/492-7042Fax: +353.1/492-7046E-mail: 100140,1053@compuserve.comE-mail: mt.fanning@wrc-research.ieMOTION Mobile Teamwork Infrastructure for Organisations Networking IST ProgrammeMOTION will design, develop and validate a novel multi-service business architecture to support teamwork withindistributed enterprises. Manufacturing companies increasingly need geographically distributed product development:products are built up of components developed by units located in different cities or countries. MOTION addressesthis need with the objective of developing and validating a multi-service business architecture for supporting TeamWork and distributed working methods, both for cooperative product design and for business management. Theproject will: define a novel, distributed communication services infrastructure; identify and develop a core set ofservices based on such infrastructure; use such core set of services to build up two specific business applications. Thearchitecture will allow end-users to implement new methods of working and achieve business process improvementsin terms of improved product design, improved productivity and reduced time to market. Based on distributed objecttechnology standards, it will integrate intelligent and mobile agents, information push and event-basedcommunication. These will be used in the context of a global information infrastructure supporting mobile workingthrough the integration of hand-held devices. Such techniques will allow configuring and operating a consistent set ofTeam Work Assistants required in the different sites of an application and supporting engineering teams workingacross the sites in a variety of tasks. MOTION will validate the achieved end products in two industrial environments:household appliances and mobile phones production.Project period: January 2000 – July 2002.Contact:Softeco Sismat SpAVico San Barborino 7/82I-16149 Genova, ItalyMarco BoeroTel.: +39-10 6026329Fax: +39-10 6026350E-mail: marco.boero@softeco.itMtoM3d Made-to-measure garments 2D/3D approach INCO-DC ProgrammeMtoM3D is an international research project with the objective to increase the market and the value of the apparelproducts made in Developing Countries. This is reached by enhancing the offer to the plus-size sector, which isconsiderable in Europe and North America.The aim of the project is to offer a new method for fitted garment production especially for plus size people. Theproject develops a system dedicated to evaluating measurements from a standard reference and to computingcorresponding alteration sets for garments directly from a set of physical mannequins defining different anatomicalconformations, according to, and controlled by our state of knowledge. Elements will be integrated in order toevaluate alterations to apply to the 2D patterns of the standard size garment, mounted and displayed on a plus sizemannequin. The vertical balance of the garment influenced by the mannequin volume will be studied on a set ofmannequins defining different anatomical conformations. Fabric mechanical properties will be utilized in order tosimulate fabric behaviour, especially the draping effects caused by the mannequin volume and the constraints due to- 178 -