The CEC provide funding for the European ProCoS II project (no. 7071) and ProCoS-WG Working Group (no. 8696) through the ESPRIT programme. Jonathan Bowen is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on grant number GR/J15186.
This article is partly based on information in the ProCoS-WG Technical Annex [10], updated with information on recent developments. Working Group members provided input; in particular Thomas Lindner of FZI made the information on the Production Cell case study [29] available.