On 23–24 February 2026, the ACCURATE consortium met in Nantes, France, hosted by IMT Atlantique, with both onsite and online participation. The pilot campaign workshop brought together manufacturers, technology providers, and research partners to move from development to real-world pilot validation—with dedicated sessions for the AIRBUS and TRONICO pilots and a joint MAASive–ACCURATE panel.
A shared vision: flexible, networked production that can handle disruption
A key moment of the workshop was the MAASive–ACCURATE panel discussion, which highlighted a common vision for the future of manufacturing: leveraging flexibility and connecting production networks to stay resilient when disruptions occur.
Participants agreed that making this vision viable depends on strong digital foundations—especially the ability to exchange data securely, build models and simulations, and use orchestration and decision-support tools to coordinate actions across systems in temporal and spatial dimensions.
Two major implementation challenges were repeatedly highlighted:
- Interoperability and data sharing across organisations and tools
- Trust and governance, ensuring data and services can be used confidently and responsibly
MAASive and ACCURATE: complementary approaches
The discussion also clarified how MAASive and ACCURATE approach Manufacturing-as-a-Service from complementary angles:
- MAASive focuses strongly on reconfigurability and network orchestration—helping manufacturing actors respond quickly to unforeseen events by activating alternative capacities and enabling guided reconfiguration.
- ACCURATE focuses on end-to-end decision integration within a trusted digital ecosystem—connecting data, digital twins and decision support to enable MaaS solutions to scale across industrial sectors through a federated, trustworthy data space.
What the Nantes pilot campaign achieved
Across the two days, partners worked hands-on to prepare and strengthen pilot validation, with outcomes including:
- A structured approach to validating the Unit Technology Bricks (UTBs), agreeing on how appropriately preprocess and connect data, which assumptions apply, and how experiments should be designed to capture system responses across the conditions associated with disruption scenarios
- Clearer connections between technology components and measurable impact, supported by a matrix that links UTBs to manufacturing key performance indicators and pilot objectives.
- Agreed onboarding principles for how services and components can be introduced, validated and aligned with wider European data space directions.
- A shared positioning of MaaS within the ACCURATE ecosystem, clarifying how the full chain connects—from Data → Digital Twins → Decision Support → MaaS → Data Space → Impact—in both normal operations and disruption situations.
What’s next
The workshop set the foundations for the next steps of pilot validation, where the ACCURATE technologies will be tested in realistic industrial settings and assessed against agreed performance indicators—turning concepts into evidence and actionable results.
