The Human Collaboration Environment (HCE) component provides collaboration facilities to enhance teamwork by offering user-user, user-developer, and developer-developer interaction using multiple communication channels enabling diverse ways of collaboration. The HCE also aims to ease the relationship between human users and manufacturing assets by providing holistic information and usage description in digital format. The collaboration environment may also include external developers and users who can request services and use communications platforms such as audio and video streaming, forums, workshops, and solutions to support hackathons.
All these collaboration functionalities are available to users through a web application suite and the communications facilities using messages, files exchange, videoconferences and tasks tracking are available on a mobile application.