Connected Everything II: Accelerating Digital Manufacturing Research Collaboration and Innovation

互联万物II （CEII）网络将提供一个网络的网络，该网络将加速多学科合作，促进工业界和学术界之间的新合作，并解决新出现的挑战，这将巩固英国学术界在支持数字制造的人员、技术、产品和系统方面的研究。通过一系列的活动，包括可行性研究、网络和专题研究，CEII将在一个多学科社区内汇集新的团队，探索新的想法，在数字制造的背景下展示新技术，并加速研究对工业的影响。该网络的灵感来自工业4.0的四大原则：互操作性；信息透明度;认知和身体援助；分散决策和行动。它将使多学科社区能够考虑跨领域的主题，其中一些将在网络的生命周期内出现，但其他主题- -创造力；数据丰富的社会技术系统；和法规——它们是由网络管理团队的工业界和学术界成员共同创建的。正如Made Smarter报告所强调的那样，CEII Network Plus与数字制造的国家和国际优先事项保持一致。它将通过考虑未来分布式制造系统中连接对象和数据的数字技术的进步，为互联国家的交付做出贡献。它将通过开发从其他领域汲取概念并将其应用于数字制造的示范项目，以及一系列支持未来领导者发展的活动，为一个富有成效的国家做出贡献。

The Connected Everything II (CEII) Network Plus will deliver a network of networks which will accelerate multi-disciplinary collaboration, foster new collaborations between industry and academia and tackle emerging challenges which will underpin the UK academic community's research in support of people, technologies, products and systems for digital manufacturing. Through a range of activities, including feasibility studies, networking, and thematic research, CEII will bring together new teams within a multidisciplinary community to explore new ideas, demonstrate novel technologies in the context of digital manufacturing, and accelerate impact of research into industry. The Network is inspired by the context of the four tenets of Industry 4.0: Interoperability; Information Transparency; Cognitive and Physical Assistance; and Decentralised Decisions and Actions. It will enable the multidisciplinary community to consider cross-cutting themes, some of which will emerge during the lifetime of the Network, but others - Creativity; Data-rich sociotechnical systems; and Regulation - which have been co-created by the industrial and academic members of the Network management team. The CEII Network Plus aligns with a National and International priority of Digital Manufacturing, as highlighted in the Made Smarter report. It will contribute to the delivery of a Connected Nation, through consideration of how advances in digital technologies which connect objects and data in future, distributed manufacturing systems. It will contribute to a Productive Nation, through development of demonstrator projects that take concepts from other domains and apply them to Digital Manufacturing, as well as a range of activities which will support the development of future leaders.