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Keynote speakers

Caroline Mondon, AfrSCM

The Demand Driven Skills Model

In an increasingly complex world, the ability of companies to adapt their skills is crucial for their survival and for the personal growth of their employees. The Demand Driven Skills Model allows companies to visually manage their multiple skills in order to meet the challenges of a demand driven business.

Caroline MONDON, former director in SMEs and multinationals, is an executive coach and director of development for the French speaking Association of Supply Chain Management (AfrSCM). Her detective story "The Missing Links" published in the USA by Industrial Press in 2016, tells the story of the turnaround of a company that becomes Demand Driven Adaptive, thanks to the DDMRP methodology she helped introduce in France.

Pr Bertrand Rose, ICUBE CSIP

VIRTFac - Virtual Innovative Real Time Factory

VIRTFac is a European research project that develops a virtual factory platform to make virtual tools accessible to SMEs. A generic solution will be proposed to accompany companies of various levels of maturity in the reconfiguration, optimisation and evolution of their production system.

The equipment and the need of SMEs for tools for the reconfiguration, optimization and evolution of their production systems is heterogeneous.

At the time of Industry 4.0, many companies are not yet equipped with integrated management software packages, simulation and flow optimization tools, and even less with production control or virtual reality systems. Their need for tools and methods to improve or reorganize production systems is proven, but access to these tools is costly, time-consuming and requires a broad range of know-how often unavailable to SMEs. Our project will make this service accessible to SMEs.

The VIRTFac project aims to develop an integrated “virtual factory” platform for the design of production systems for SMEs, including a cyber-physical system.

• Realize a platform integrating various components of a virtual factory (virtual twin) for the reconfiguration and design of production systems, especially those with a cyber-physical system.
• To equip this platform with tools to assist in the inventive design of production systems by creating interfaces between simulation, optimization and numerical tools for inventive design.
• To create on typical cases of company of a field (example field of plastics processing) the generic modules allowing the fast study for small companies. Evaluate the modules on real projects with student projects. Disseminate the results.
• Explore, with showcase companies in Industry 4.0, new ways of approaching continuous improvement, optimization and reconfiguration of production systems for companies with a cyber-physical system.
• To develop research and training synergy in the field of business reconfiguration between partner institutions on the one hand and companies on the other.

VIRTfac is financed by the European Union via the EFRE and the Interreg program and supported by the Offensive Science program.

Pr Julien Pénin, BETA

Intellectual property and open innovation.

How blockchain affects the role of IP ?

Pr Sorin Zaharia, UPB

Major trends in the development of airports from Central and Eastern Europe and Baltic countries between 2012 and 2021

After the liberalisation of air transport in Europe in the nineties, the policy for the aviation market has changed, the European Union becoming a single aviation market. The airline-airport relationship has developed, and the European airports compete now to attract the services of airlines, especially for having aircraft bases which can bring essential business development.

The author presents a comparative analysis of the main parameters of airport development focusing on macroeconomic parameters and airport operational parameters: airport connectivity, passenger traffic, aircraft movements as well as the strategy of airports in relation to air companies for route development policy from across 11 countries in CEE and Baltic Countries.