The factory of the future will have only two employees – a man and a dog. This quote from the MIT researcher Warren Bennis indicates. While much is being shown in the literature and in marketing in the area of digitization and intelligent data use, very little of this is being used in SMEs in Europe. The software provider DatenBerg offers software for this purpose to support manufacturing companies in their digital transformation. With the software, subjectivity can be removed from the production process and people can be supported in their decision-making. This enables manufacturing companies to maintain their sites in Europe in a tough global market environment with large margin pressures and generate wealth through work for society. The goal of the CTDM project is to solve complex use cases in production with the help of data analysis. For this purpose, two prototypes are to be created, which solve specific problems for a manufacturing company. In addition to the implementation of concrete applications, further possibilities for the application of data-based approaches are to be evaluated and suitable technical implementations selected. Project partner DatenBerg - itself a small company with limited resources - benefits from the project with support from an Innovation Associate with deep knowledge of data analytics. The funding enables the SME to implement the application fields and offer added value to its customers, which otherwise would not have been possible in the short time due to lack of capacity. This creates an effect of scale and other SMEs in the European market benefit indirectly from the funding. The project brought the SME DatenBerg a big step further in technical development and benefited from the Associate in various levels. In addition to the technical support with a deep understanding of methods, the internationality could also enrich the work in the company.
