Project description
Coming together and agilely responding to the need for digital innovation around robotics
Agile manufacturing refers to the ability of businesses to respond quickly to customer needs with new product development and delivery to market. It is of increasing importance in today’s rapidly changing market conditions and will be supported by next-generation robotic technologies and Industry 4.0. The EU-funded TRINITY project is strengthening Europe’s position by creating a network of multidisciplinary and synergistic local digital innovation hubs focused on agile production that will include researchers and companies implementing solutions. The network will also offer consulting services for business planning and accessing financing, propelling Europe to the forefront of agile manufacturing and robotics.
Objective
The main objective of TRINITY is to create a network of multidisciplinary and synergistic local digital innovation hubs (DIHs) composed of research centers, companies, and university groups that cover a wide range of topics that can contribute to agile production: advanced robotics as the driving force and digital tools, data privacy and cyber security technologies to support the introduction of advanced robotic systems in the production processes. The result will be a one-stop shop for methods and tools to achieve highly intelligent, agile and reconfigurable production, which will ensure Europe’s welfare in the future. The network will start its operation by developing demonstrators in the areas of robotics we identified as the most promising to advance agile production, e.g. collaborative robotics including sensory systems to ensure safety, effective user interfaces based on augmented reality and speech, reconfigurable robot workcells and peripheral equipment (fixtures, jigs, grippers, …), programming by demonstration, IoT, secure wireless networks, etc. These demonstrators will serve as reference implementation for two rounds of open calls for application experiments, where companies with agile production needs and sound business plans will be supported by TRINITY DIHs to advance their manufacturing processes. Besides technology-centered services, primarily laboratories with advanced robot technologies and know-how to develop innovative application experiments, TRINITY network of DIHS will also offer training and consulting services, including support for business planning and access to financing. Services of participating DIHs and dissemination of information to wider public will be provided through a digital access point that will be developed in the project. Another important activity of the project will be the preparation of a business plan to sustain the network after the end of the project funding.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineering
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
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33100 Tampere
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67100 Kokkola
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9019 Tromso
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1000 Ljubljana
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265 04 Rio Patras
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1111 Budapest
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80686 Munchen
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3920 Lommel
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1006 Riga
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3001 Leuven
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33840 Tampere
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91056 Erlangen
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EC1V 2NX London
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01104 Vilnius
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11000 Belgrade
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01104 Vilnius
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1200 Bruxelles / Brussel
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0164 OSLO
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