30/06/2025 - 03/07/2025

The IFAC MIM2025 – 11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, held in Trondheim, Norway (June 30 – July 03, 2025), offered a rich platform for dialogue and dissemination on the future of sustainable and resilient manufacturing systems.

The MAASive project had a strong presence, with contributions from Politecnico di Milano, Aalborg University, École Centrale de Nantes, and other key academic partners, engaging across presentations of the EU-funded Horizon Europe initiative aiming to revolutionize manufacturing by enabling flexible, service-oriented production models that enhance resilience, sustainability, and circularity across European value chains. The presentation focused on servitization strategies, cost estimation, and capability mapping as core enablers of this transformation.

Several contributions presented at MIM 2025 addressed key building blocks of this vision, including:

• Process capability mapping

• Servitization methodologies

• Cost and pricing models

• MaaS platform architecture to enable supply chain flexibility, redundancy, and disruption resilience

Researchers emphasized how the MaaS platform must incorporate risk detection, supply chain simulation, and orchestration models to strengthen adaptability after disruptions, contributing to vibrant discussions on sustainable and circular manufacturing. In particular, the session "Manufacturing as a Service – Enabling & Managing Quantitative Operations" brought together experts from MAASive and the sister project ACCURATE to address pressing questions on:

1. Matchmaking mechanisms

2. Required granularity for skill description

3. Inclusive access models

4. Sharing and exchangeability of tools and functions

The level of engagement and interdisciplinary dialogue, even continuing into lunch breaks, confirmed that MaaS is not just a research trend but a growing strategic imperative.

MAASive is shaping a new manufacturing paradigm, where flexibility, resilience, and sustainability are not trade-offs, but coexisting goals. MIM 2025, An excellent opportunity to engage with the research community and strengthen collaboration across EU initiatives, confirmed the relevance of this direction and the readiness of the scientific community to co-develop scalable, service-based manufacturing ecosystems.