The pharmaceutical industry is being challenged to become more cost-efficient and responsive when developing and making drugs. Scientific and technological breakthroughs, increasing societal pressures, stringent regulations, and fast-changing markets are pushing the pharmaceutical supply chain to the limit. Recent findings confirm that the industry is struggling to maintain the right levels of innovation to ensure R&D productivity.

The main objective of the DM4Manufacturing project is the integrated development of advanced robotics with decision making methodologies to maximize the productivity of the factories of the future. Robots will be able to collaborate with humans in a shared workspace in the shop-floor, creating a co-working partnership, and will receive manufacturing orders in a completely flexible manufacturing scenario.

The m-SSChain project address the research questions how to design, plan and operate Sustainable Supply Chain (SSC) under an uncertain environment. Within this scope, the project aims to develop comprehensive and innovative general models for the design, planning and operation of resilient SSC under uncertainty. These models will be validated using real industrial cases.