{"id":13515,"date":"2026-06-18T09:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/?p=13515"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:24:50","slug":"viewpointsytem-is-part-of-manufactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/en\/blog\/viewpointsytem-is-part-of-manufactor\/","title":{"rendered":"MANUFACTOR: Why We Joined an EU Consortium to Reimagine Manufacturing\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"gb-text\"><strong>What is MANUFACTOR?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">MANUFACTOR is a three-year&nbsp;EU&nbsp;research and&nbsp;innovation&nbsp;project (June 2026 \u2013 May 2029), coordinated by the University of&nbsp;Sk\u00f6vde&nbsp;in Sweden. Its focus: human augmentation in industrial manufacturing &#8211; using AI, wearable sensors, and real-time data to make factory work safer,&nbsp;smarter&nbsp;and more ergonomic.&nbsp;<br><br>The project runs across two dedicated learning factories first, before moving into three industry pilots with&nbsp;Volkswagen, Hitachi Energy, and&nbsp;FILL&nbsp;&#8211; three companies&nbsp;representing&nbsp;very different&nbsp;manufacturing environments, from automotive assembly in Portugal to energy infrastructure components&nbsp;in Sweden&nbsp;to metallurgic production in Austria. That diversity is deliberate. It means the technology will be tested against real-world conditions,&nbsp;not&nbsp;only in&nbsp;controlled lab settings.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-text\"><strong>Three technologies at the core<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">MANUFACTOR is built around three complementary systems:&nbsp;<br><br><strong>OMNI-SENSE Suite<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; a multimodal sensing stack that combines eye-tracking smart glasses with&nbsp;wearable&nbsp;biosensors,&nbsp;tactile and portable inspection tools,&nbsp;and 3D shopfloor cameras. Together, they give a real-time picture of operator&nbsp;posture, fatigue, stress,&nbsp;their&nbsp;surroundings&nbsp;and task progress.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>AI Agent Suite<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; a conversational AI assistant grounded in each company&#8217;s own knowledge base. Think of it as an expert colleague who has read every manual,&nbsp;observed&nbsp;every experienced worker, and is available at the point of need &#8211; on the floor,&nbsp;in&nbsp;the moment.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>Human Digital Twins<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; live models of each operator&#8217;s physical and cognitive state. The goal:&nbsp;anticipate&nbsp;fatigue, predict overload, and adapt recommendations before problems occur &#8211; not after.&nbsp;<br><br>These three systems&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;operate&nbsp;in isolation. They form a continuous loop: sensors feed data, AI contextualizes it, and the Digital Twin translates it into actionable guidance for the operator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-text\"><strong>Viewpointsystem&#8217;s&nbsp;role: capturing what the eye sees<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">Our contribution is the VPS Next eye-tracking smart glasses, which form a core part of the OMNI-SENSE&nbsp;suite.&nbsp;In practical terms: the glasses capture where operators look, what they focus on, how their visual attention&nbsp;shifts&nbsp;and&nbsp;what&nbsp;their cognitive load&nbsp;is&nbsp;during complex tasks &#8211; in real time, without interrupting the work.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>That data feeds directly into&nbsp;AI Agent&#8217;s&nbsp;knowledge graph and into the Human Digital Twin models.&nbsp;It&#8217;s&nbsp;not just about recording what happens.&nbsp;It&#8217;s&nbsp;about building a system that understands the difference between a confident operator executing a routine task and one who is uncertain, overloaded, or working outside their usual environment.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Beyond our core&nbsp;eye tracking&nbsp;contribution, we are also developing new hardware features to deliver contextual information directly to&nbsp;operators and&nbsp;integrating solutions from our consortium partners to extend the support layer further.&nbsp;<br><br>At the kickoff in Sweden, Katarzyna ran the first live demo for the full consortium. The response exceeded expectations &#8211; every partner wanted to try the glasses.&nbsp;&#8220;What surprised me wasn&#8217;t just the interest in the glasses themselves,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was how quickly everyone started thinking about what becomes possible when you combine them with the rest of the system.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-text\"><strong>The part that gets overlooked: the workers themselves<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">Technology projects in manufacturing often focus on what the system can do. MANUFACTOR is focused on who will use it &#8211; and what they think about it.&nbsp;<br><br>From day one, the project includes structured work groups that involve factory floor workers and their representatives. These groups&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;just test the technology after&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;built. They shape how&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;designed, what it measures, how it communicates, and what boundaries it respects. Workers can flag concerns, propose changes, and define the conditions under which&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;comfortable participating.&nbsp;<br><br>This matters because wearable technology in a workplace context carries real questions: Who sees the data? Can someone say no? Does this help me, or does it measure me?<br>&nbsp;<br>MANUFACTOR&#8217;s approach is to answer those questions together with the people affected, not for them.&nbsp;That&#8217;s&nbsp;not&nbsp;just good&nbsp;ethics &#8211;&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;good&nbsp;design.&nbsp;Technology that workers trust and want to use is technology that actually works.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"13536\" src=\"https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2335-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2335-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2335-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2335-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2335-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2335-1600x1200.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2335-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2335-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"13532\" src=\"https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2344-1-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2344-1-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2344-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2344-1-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2344-1-1-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2344-1-1-1600x1200.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2344-1-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2344-1-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"13534\" src=\"https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2316-1-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2316-1-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2316-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2316-1-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2316-1-1-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2316-1-1-1600x1200.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2316-1-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/viewpointsystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2316-1-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-text gb-text-257bd472\"><strong>What&#8217;s&nbsp;next<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">For&nbsp;Viewpointsystem, MANUFACTOR&nbsp;represents&nbsp;something&nbsp;we&#8217;ve&nbsp;been working toward for a long time: the chance to deploy eye-tracking technology in sustained, real-world industrial environments &#8211; alongside partners who are equally committed to getting it&nbsp;right.&nbsp;<br><br>Over the next three years, the consortium will move through development, testing, and full pilot deployment.&nbsp;We&#8217;ll&nbsp;be sharing updates as the project progresses.&nbsp;<br><br>In the meantime, you can learn more about the project on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/manufactorproject\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vps-green-color\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MANUFACTORS LinkedIn Page<\/span><\/mark><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is MANUFACTOR?&nbsp; MANUFACTOR is a three-year&nbsp;EU&nbsp;research and&nbsp;innovation&nbsp;project (June 2026 \u2013 May 2029), coordinated by the University of&nbsp;Sk\u00f6vde&nbsp;in Sweden. 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