Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Twin4Twin (Twinning to build an industrial ecosystem around the core principles of Industry4.0 and the Digital Twin)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2023-01-01 do 2024-06-30
CORE Innovation Centre (CORE) is a private non-profit research organisation, based in Greece and founded in 2021 as a full subsidiary of CORE Innovation Technology OE, focusing on Industry4.0 technologies, like Machine Learning, IoT, Edge and Cloud Computing, Innovation Management and Communication. The vision of CORE is to become the biggest R&I centre in Southeastern Europe in the fields of Industry4.0. CORE aims to create an industrial ecosystem, composed of manufacturing companies and knowledge/research institutions, around the core principles of Industry 4.0 such as automation, zero-defect manufacturing, and flexible production based on a number of core technologies such as Machine Learning, Robotics, Big-Data and Digital Twins. This vision will be materialised through the development of Industry 4.0 Test Labs, which are practical environments where companies and research institutions develop, test and implement Industry 4.0 solutions under realistic conditions, as well as co-design the associated digital processes and new business models. The overall Twin4Twin goal is to raise the research profile of CORE as well as the research profile of its staff in the field of digital twin technologies. In parallel with the objectives, Twin4Twin’s concept approach is divided into four clusters: a. digital twins – scientific excellence b. research and innovation management upskilling, c. business development, and d. exploratory research project. To do that, CORE will run the twinning exercise with leading EU organisations, namely ITA from Spain (Reduced Order Models research in Digital Twins), SCCH from Austria (Big Data real time streaming technologies) and SSF from Switzerland (test and demo platform to be used as use case and provide the replication potential towards the Greek Smart Factory).Twin4Twin aims to reduce the disparity in production between Greece and top-class leading countries through knowledge transfer in smart manufacturing technologies.
During the first 18 months of the project, in Twin4Twin we focused in the establishment of a smooth collaboration between the partners which led to a very strong planning and implementation of the foreseen activities. Having the project objectives as the main driver for our work, we integrated the twinning process in certain key steps of the implementation. In this way we ensured that CORE, as the project coordinator and main beneficiary of the action, evolves through the project both focusing on its own needs and processes, and at the same time getting as much of the expertise and experience shared by the advanced partners, ITA, SCCH and SSF.
The overall work was focused on 4 pillars:
1. Boosting scientific excellence in the field of Digital Twins and Industry4.0: this was achieved by completing a number of personnel mobility and upskilling activities, such as shadowing weeks of CORE personnel to the twinning partners, training workshops, expert visits, etc. At the same time a new internship program is now up and running.
2. Research and Innovation management upskilling: CORE used the experience and organisational structure and processes of the twinning organisations to setup its own R&I unit focusing on new structure and new processes. A number of new tools for Project and HR management are in place. Moreover, significant work has been done in the field of proposal writing and already 4 new Horizon Europe projects were successful through the collaboration among the partners.
3. Business development: work was focused around the replication of the Smart Factory concept as a test and demo platform for Industry4.0 technologies from the twinning partner SSF (Swiss Smart Factory) towards CORE, in order to pave the way for the establishment of the Greek Smart Factory. An extensive stakeholder mapping fro Greece was completed, while key staeholders were engaged and gave feedback in a milestone inauguration workshop in June 2024. An online tool, the Digital Twin Atlas, was also released during this period.
4. Digital Twin research project: all partners achieved excellent collaboration to kick off a project within the project targeting the development of a full digital twin of a metal 3d printer located in the premises of SSF (Advanced Manufacturing in SIPBB). The overall architecture was developed, as well as a number of physics-based models were tested. The work here is ongoing integrating also data streaming technologies, as well as machine learning algorithms.
Additional work performed during this period concerns activities for the data management and the gender equality in research and innovation, while the preparation has started for the 1st CORE Innovation Days event, an event that longs to be a major innovation related event in Greece in the coming years.
The overall work was focused on 4 pillars:
1. Boosting scientific excellence in the field of Digital Twins and Industry4.0: this was achieved by completing a number of personnel mobility and upskilling activities, such as shadowing weeks of CORE personnel to the twinning partners, training workshops, expert visits, etc. At the same time a new internship program is now up and running.
2. Research and Innovation management upskilling: CORE used the experience and organisational structure and processes of the twinning organisations to setup its own R&I unit focusing on new structure and new processes. A number of new tools for Project and HR management are in place. Moreover, significant work has been done in the field of proposal writing and already 4 new Horizon Europe projects were successful through the collaboration among the partners.
3. Business development: work was focused around the replication of the Smart Factory concept as a test and demo platform for Industry4.0 technologies from the twinning partner SSF (Swiss Smart Factory) towards CORE, in order to pave the way for the establishment of the Greek Smart Factory. An extensive stakeholder mapping fro Greece was completed, while key staeholders were engaged and gave feedback in a milestone inauguration workshop in June 2024. An online tool, the Digital Twin Atlas, was also released during this period.
4. Digital Twin research project: all partners achieved excellent collaboration to kick off a project within the project targeting the development of a full digital twin of a metal 3d printer located in the premises of SSF (Advanced Manufacturing in SIPBB). The overall architecture was developed, as well as a number of physics-based models were tested. The work here is ongoing integrating also data streaming technologies, as well as machine learning algorithms.
Additional work performed during this period concerns activities for the data management and the gender equality in research and innovation, while the preparation has started for the 1st CORE Innovation Days event, an event that longs to be a major innovation related event in Greece in the coming years.
Although still in the middle of the project, a number of significant results have already been developed and more are in the development phase. These results have already contributed towards the vision of the project coordinator, CORE, the widening partner ot become a major R&I organisation in Greece and South-Eastern Europe. Some key results can be highlighted as follows:
1. Increased visibility of the project: the project has been disseminated in 7 major industrial events (conferences, exhibitions, B2B meetings, etc.), while a large number of communication activities has been performed, including significant presence in the social media of the project and the partners, and 3 TV appearances (1. Broadcaster: Naftemporiki, date: November 22nd, 2023; 2. Broadcaster: Naftemporiki, date: April 25th, 2024; 3. Broadcaster: TIF HELEXPO, date: April 26th, 2024).
2. Increased tech savviness on digital twin technologies and R&I processes: knowledge sharing between the twinning partners has been significant during this period with over 40 beneficiaries from all partners getting in touch with new ways to improve their work, new technologies, and gain experience in several topics, from more technical ones, physics-based digital twins, data streaming technologies, production line tech, including a number of real industrial environments (filed visits), to softer ones like project management processes, proposal writing and gender equality in R&I.
3. Greek Smart Factory: being a lighthouse project for CORE, a lot of focus was given to manage to setup awareness in the Greek manufacturing ecosystem and pove the way for the development of the business model and services during the next months of the project. Tangible results towards this way have been a thorough mapping and analysis of the greek ecosystem, a value proposition workshops as a twinning exercise and the release of the Digital twin Atlas, as an online tool.
4. CORE Innovation Days: the 1st version of this flagship yearly event from CORE is underway for the end of 2024. The design and concept has been based on a market search for similar events in Greece, CORE’s main expertise and value creation and the exchange of experience from SSF’s yearly International Smart Factory Summit.
1. Increased visibility of the project: the project has been disseminated in 7 major industrial events (conferences, exhibitions, B2B meetings, etc.), while a large number of communication activities has been performed, including significant presence in the social media of the project and the partners, and 3 TV appearances (1. Broadcaster: Naftemporiki, date: November 22nd, 2023; 2. Broadcaster: Naftemporiki, date: April 25th, 2024; 3. Broadcaster: TIF HELEXPO, date: April 26th, 2024).
2. Increased tech savviness on digital twin technologies and R&I processes: knowledge sharing between the twinning partners has been significant during this period with over 40 beneficiaries from all partners getting in touch with new ways to improve their work, new technologies, and gain experience in several topics, from more technical ones, physics-based digital twins, data streaming technologies, production line tech, including a number of real industrial environments (filed visits), to softer ones like project management processes, proposal writing and gender equality in R&I.
3. Greek Smart Factory: being a lighthouse project for CORE, a lot of focus was given to manage to setup awareness in the Greek manufacturing ecosystem and pove the way for the development of the business model and services during the next months of the project. Tangible results towards this way have been a thorough mapping and analysis of the greek ecosystem, a value proposition workshops as a twinning exercise and the release of the Digital twin Atlas, as an online tool.
4. CORE Innovation Days: the 1st version of this flagship yearly event from CORE is underway for the end of 2024. The design and concept has been based on a market search for similar events in Greece, CORE’s main expertise and value creation and the exchange of experience from SSF’s yearly International Smart Factory Summit.