Project description
Making sure help gets where it is needed for a digital transformation in manufacturing
The manufacturing industry has been evolving rapidly, and the adoption of digital information and computing is the latest frontier. Digital manufacturing is paving the way for Industry 4.0 an industrial revolution characterised by connectivity, intelligence and flexible automation, leveraging the Internet of Things and robotics. It will also underpin Industry 5.0 the cooperation of humans and robots in a way that integrates the best of both. The EU is creating digital innovation hubs (DIHs) to support European manufacturing SMEs in their digital transformation. The EU-funded AI REGIO project is addressing policy, technology and business barriers facing the AI-focussed DIHs, which prevent them from fully embracing the new digital reality. Addressing regional, cross-regional and pan-European issues will ensure that the EU takes the lead in digital manufacturing, creating new opportunities for innovation and growth.
Objective
The AI REGIO project aims at filling 3 major gaps currently preventing AI-driven DIHs from implementing fully effective digital transformation pathways for their Manufacturing SMEs: at policy level the Regional vs. EU gap; at technological level the Digital Manufacturing vs. Innovation Collaboration Platform gap; at business level the Innovative AI (Industry 5.0) vs Industry 4.0 gap.
POLICY. Regional smart specialization strategies for Efficient Sustainable Manufacturing and Digital Transformation (VANGUARD initiative for Industrial Modcernisation) are so far insufficiently coordinated and integrated at cross-regional and pan-EU level. SME-driven >AI innovations cannot scale up to become pan-EU accessible in global marketplaces as well as SME-driven experiments remain trapped into a too local dimension without achieving a large scale dimension. Regional vs. EU Gap.
TECHNOLOGY. Digital Manufacturing Platforms DMP and Digital Innovation Hubs DIH play a fundamental role in the implementation of the Digital Single Market and Digitsing European Industry directives to SMEs, but so far such initiatives, communities, innovation actions are running in a quite independent if not siloed way, where very often Platform-related challenges are not of interest for DIHs and Socio-Business impact not of interest for DMP. DMP vs. DIH Gap.
BUSINESS. Many Industrial Data Platforms based on IOT Data in Motion and Analytics Data at Rest have been recently developed to implement effective Industry 4.0 pilots (I4MS Phase III platforms). The AI revolution and the new relationship between autonomous systems and humans (Industry 5.0) has not been properly addressed in I4MS so far. AI I5.0 vs. I4.0 Gap.
AI REGIO is following the 4 steps for VANGUARD innovation strategy (learn-connect-demonstrate-commercialize) by constantly aligning its methods with the AI DIH Network initiative and its assets with I4MS/DIH BEinCPPS Phase II and MIDIH / L4MS Phase III projects. AI REGIO: Industry 5.0 for SMEs
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70599 Stuttgart
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76131 Karlsruhe
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01115 Bellignat
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75015 PARIS 15
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20124 Milan
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00185 Roma
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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08008 Barcelona
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5657 BX Eindhoven
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5651 GW Eindhoven
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6525 XZ Nijmegen
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33100 Tampere
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4200 465 Porto
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40129 Bologna Bo
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40126 Bologna
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31191 Cordovilla
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2000 Maribor
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33170 Pordenone
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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00144 ROMA
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47151 Boecillo
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20093 Cologno Monzese
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48930 Getxo Bizkaia
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18000 Nis
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
3013 Limassol
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
8500-794 Portimao
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1080 Bruxelles / Brussel
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
20149 Milano
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24126 Bergamo
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24060 Bolgare
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17400 BREDA (GIRONA)
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66663 Merzig
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85055 Ingolstadt
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01100 Bellignat
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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69260 Charbonnieres-Les-Bains
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2000 Maribor
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1724 Luxembourg
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69260 Charbonnières-Les-Bains
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
20093 Cologno Monzese
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