Periodic Reporting for period 1 - AIM (Advanced Manufacturing Ecosystem improvement)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2017-10-01 do 2018-12-31
AIM project overall objective is to find out which are the main elements for designing an efficient and customer-oriented supporting ecosystem for Advanced Manufacturing technologies. The aim is to reinforce and taking advantage from existing innovation infrastructures that should provide an integrated support to manufacturing SME in the technological upgrade/transfromation. The project aims at sharing and exchanging knowledge, experiences, good practices and know-how, for mutual learning purposes to strengthen specialized capacities of the innovation agencies’ staff that is beneficial for all participants.
A pilot action has been delivered to support the Design Option Paper drafting. Scope of the pilot action was to verify “on the field” the companies’ point of view for what advanced manufacturing technologies are concerned. The scope is to be in touch with real industries and get from them a clear picture (not theoretical or even top-down) of what really means advanced manufacturing for small and medium enterprises in order to analyze strengths, weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats affecting the companies’ transformation and technology transfer. The pilot action was carried out through company visits and in the form of interviews ad companies have been asked to provide their suggestion on how to improve the range, quality and type of services related to the technology transfer offered by BSOs and RTOs. A total of 16 companies have been involved by the means of bilateral meeting and door-to-door interviews. The companies have been identified by narrowing the choice among them that are showing a specific interest in an advanced manufacturing technology and/o rare currently using it in their productive systems. The focus has been made on Additive manufacturing, Robotics and Automatization, Surface Technologies and Advanced Materials.
Main findings of Pilot Action have been then used for drawing out conclusion of the design option paper. The document is the results of a joint work delivered by all Project consortium partners with the support of the facilitator.
A final event has been organized in Udine in October to set out financing opportunities on advanced manufacturing mainly coming from H2020 work programme.
During the project implementation some initiatives have been organized (as Open Days, periodical meetings with companies to assess needs and offer collaborative schemes) that will be further replicated in the future. Moreover, in Friuli Venezia Giulia region, the Regional Innovation Hub model took its first steps thanks to the launch of the Additive Manufacturing laboratory. It’s expected therefore a significant increase of competences on AMT as well as an improvement of the quality of services to be provided, new start-up and a better knowledge of main technological and industrial trends.