OPTIMISED
“Limberger Associates provided an excellent service: keeping track of administrational, organizational, and financial issues, keeping the project team and finally the project itself on track and always with the appropriate tone. Their work was very beneficial for the project and for us.”
"Limberger Associates provided exemplary Project Management, and I was able to rely on them to actively manage OPTIMISED and deal with any and all issues during the project. They have been key to the success of this project and I have no hesitation in recommending them as dependable, reliable, expert project managers, with high standards of integrity, who can apply their expertise and people skills across a broad domain."
About the Project
OPTIMISED (Operational Planning Tool Interfacing Manufacturing Integrated Simulations with Empirical Data) was a 3-year, 10-party consortium project within the Horizon 2020 “Factories of the Future” framework, fully funded by the EU, in the topic area of ICT-enabled modelling, simulation, analytics and forecasting technologies.
OPTIMISED developed digital twins and decision support systems using IIOT solutions to create optimised and reactive planning systems across three industrial demonstrators:
- Demonstrator 1 – optimised and reactive planning system for managing train maintenance operation utilising real-time system awareness and random event resilience concepts
- Demonstrator 2 – optimised factory energy consumption, using factory energy monitoring and control, integrated with simulation capability
- Demonstrator 3 – optimised and reactive planning system for a factory, using smart embedded sensors and pro-active human-machine interfaces to create a digital twin
Our Role
Full Project Management and PMO support, including:
- End-to-end project management, administration and financial management
- This included project setup on the EU portal and project launch
- Implementation of a robust project management structure incorporating; scope, schedule, risk, finance, reporting and change control
- Management of reporting to the EU
- Organisation and facilitation of in-person meetings across Europe
Achievements and outcome
The project delivered on its 9 project objectives, including creating sophisticated digital models and twins of its demonstrators. It achieved excellent recognition and feedback across the industry and from the EU, having won awards in several categories.
Challenges overcome
- Management of significant technical challenges and risks
- Dealing with significant interdependencies between software components and multiple partners
- Negotiation of compromises to address both local (partner) and global (whole project and EU) objectives
- Management of issues including staff turnover, changes in partners’ business strategy and resource constraints
