At the ITEA 2 Symposium 2008, held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 21 to 22 October 2008, the SOCRADES project was presented.

Several posters, representing the various aspects and achievements of the project, were presented to ITEA officials, to representatives of the public authorities and to the press.

Moreover, SOCRADES showed the ‘service orientation’ of a Ford production line using ‘Web Services’ and replicated how SOA works following a so-called “real-virtual integration and application description approach” to automated manufacture.