Our mission is to take a step towards more sophisticated interaction design and excel in human-centered innovation in the industry. We are certain that now is the time to put human values and needs in the heart of Industrial Internet research and design for the Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, in order to enable breakthroughs in intelligent, empathic technologies that would lead to Factories of Future. We believe this is the key to fourth revolution industry success. With these thoughts in mind, we develop a IHUB like an approach to the regional industry that starts with a deep understanding of human values, goes through a sequence of technological levels, and results in a new industry transformation. Scope. We expand research and use the best practices of EU projects in Manufacturing to support further industry-centered development of the Internet of Things. Simultaneous focus on the core values, evolving needs, and emerging technologies will makes it possible to reach the balance between the benefits of autonomously controlled environment and pleasure of personal decision making. Our vision is that enhanced cyber physical systems, exponential growth of data, and increased complexity of algorithms, will allow technology to become simpler and more valuable for people and industries. Connected devices will naturally adjust the manufacturing processes according to unspoken wishes, without any personal effort. Thoughtful technologies will increase the feeling of safety, improve health at work, advance personal productivity, and finally bring industry to new business models. I4MSouth engages different actors and stakeholders around technologies to be implemented in the manufacturing industry, focusing in the Industry 4.0 revolution and/or Industrial Internet. I4MSouth supports a four sides approach or strategy around: - Innovation support and Knowledge transfer. - Infrastructure and services. - Business incubation and entrepreneurism. - Funding opportunities. Strategy is performed also in four basic steps. 1. Technical Introduction of results and benefits to integrators ( ICT SME´s) and End Customers manufacturing Industries. 2. Assessment of promotion to fostering agencies (clusters, Technology centers and incubators). 3. Identification of funding opportunities for technology introduction (regionally, nationally and internationally). 4. Consolidation of the HUB, services and self-funding. Digital technologies.

innovation experience HUB (in the following: innexHUB) is a non profit organisation founded in July 2017 and aimed at spreading the digital culture among regional SMEs, making SMEs aware of:

what being digital means;
what are the key enabling technologies;
how the digital is rapidly transforming business models;
the current and future opportunities / threats linked to digital techologies;

innexHUB has two additional purposes:

Help enterprises to understand their digital maturity level and the actions needed to digitally evolve;
Guide enterprises in their digital transformation paths, ensuring they can rely on trustworthy solution providers.
Digital technologies.

The Innovation Cluster Drachten (www.icdrachten.nl) (ICD) is an Public Private Partnership in the nothern part of the Netherlands and therefore a non-profit organisation/collaboration for Large companies  (9) and SME companies (11) eg Philips, BD, Photonis, Neopost Technologies) .

The ICD will act from 2019 onwards also a Digital Innovation Hub. 

Together with 3800 FTE we work on 4 digital fields: 3D metal printing, (remote) sensoring & big data, visual intelligence & deep-learing and robotics ( as producttechnology (systems) and production technology (factory).

Today we are performing 8 precompetitive R&D projects performed by the companies ( 8 million Euro) inclusing also digital twinnig and Machine Learning. The fifth topics is renewable propulsion by solar energy and hydrogen, but we do not consider this a digital topic but a sustainable topic. We share about 20 R&D facilities in the companies and own 2 3D printers and several cobots.

The ICD Digital Innovation Hub will help entities, specially SMEs but also midcaps, big companies, to improve their products, services and processes, by introducing the great advantages of 3D printing, remote sensoring & big data, vision & deep learning, Robotics into their business. The ICD firmly believes that the future of innovation in these technologies is to address the co-creation of the digital future together with other disciplines in research, open innovation and education, aligning business and growth with a sustainable future.

We launch a new collaboration program, with other Northern stakeholders, to accelerate digitalization in every corner of our economy, with the following tracks:

‘Go Digital’ to get all companies to the stage of consciousness/competence with regard to digitalization.

‘Play the Champions League’ to connect our frontrunners with the EU innovation programs and to share our competences with additional regions.

‘Create & Share talents and competences’ by three regional demo factories annex skills labs

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AUTOMATION  AND  DIGITIZATION IN BRANDENBURG GERMANY

Growth, innovation and technology transfer are central topics of the Brandenburg development policy. Due to the prevailing corporate structures in the state of Brandenburg, the concerns of small and medium-sized companies are taken into account.

One concern pursued by the economic policy strategy of the state of Brandenburg is the targeted support of small and medium-sized enterprises in coping with the challenges associated with the technology trend "Industry 4.0".

The Innovation Center Modern Industry (IMI) Brandenburg, located at the Chair of Automation Technology of the Brandenburg Technological University (BTU) in Cottbus - Senftenberg is active since 2015 and it helps the SME’s to master the challenges in the fields of automation technology, digital factory and industry 4.0.

The European Union and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) fund the Innovation Center Modern Industry Brandenburg

Services

Model Factory

In the model factory in Cottbus operated by IMI Brandenburg, will be demonstrated to entrepreneurs the use of new technologies in production or will be obtained information about reference projects that provide starting points and ideas for improving and optimizing their own processes.

On about 1,000-m² area robot-assisted automation solutions, modern milling centers as well as technologies and applications from the fields of virtual / augmented reality and information systems will be presented. The model factory is undergoing constant developing and conversion in order to adapt it to the new needs of the Brandenburg companies

Innovation Lab

Against the background of current trends and developments, it is important not to miss the leap to the digitized value chain. Unlike often suggested, it will hardly give finished solutions "off the peg”. Rather, it is about selecting from the portfolio of options those and integrating them adapted to their own company-specific needs, which promote their own company competiveness and productivity.

The diversity of related concepts and technologies as well as their different levels of maturity make this a complex undertaking. Small and medium-sized enterprises can receive support from IMI Brandenburg.

Knowledge Forum

In lectures, discussions or workshops, knowledge and best practice experiences on technologies, methods and procedures in the fields of Industry 4.0 are conveyed. In addition, by participation in regional and national conferences and trade fairs, such as As the Hannover Messe, the broadest possible audience will be informed and sensitized. Digital technologies.

ICAI is the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) is a national initiative focused on joint technology development between academia, industry and government in the area of artificial intelligence. The Netherlands has the talent, the world-class research and the longstanding tradition in AI education to be one of the world’s top ranked countries in terms of innovation power. ICAI brings these positive forces together in a unique national initiative.

ICAI’s innovation strategy is organized around industry labs, these are multi-year strategic collaborations with a focus on technology and talent development. ICAI will create innovative AI-applications, distribute AI-knowledge for companies and organizations in the form of technology products and tools, train corporate employees through dedicated courses, and simultaneously maintain a connection with other world-level science centers. ICAI will also facilitate commercialization by enhancing start-up and spin-outs.

ICAI is an open national network of academic, industrial and governmental partners that is based at Amsterdam Science Park. ICAI has a growing number of partners: Technical University Delft, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ahold Delhaize, Bosch, National Police, Qualcomm and Elsevier. So far five research labs have been founded: QUVA Lab, Delta Lab, AirLab Amsterdam, AIRLab Delft, Elsevier AI Lab, Police AI Lab, with more to come.

ICAI has a physical presence in the Amsterdam region, specifically at Amsterdam Science Park 904.

ICAI is a non-profit organization, part of the University of Amsterdam, and aimed at knowledge and talent development. ICAI helps to disseminate state-of-the-art know-how in artificial intelligence as part of the Amsterdam Data Science meetup, with close to 5000 members. It connects master students to startups and SMEs, both for temporary assignments and for full time employment.

ICAI helps tech companies (such as Qualcomm and Bosch) and companies in the service industry (such as Ahold Delhaize (retail) and Elsevier (information)) and governmental organizations (Nationale Politie) with digitilization through knowledge development and talent development.

In 2019, ICAI will use the way of working previously established in the national COMMIT program (http://commit-nl.nl) to transfer high science to SMEs. In this setup, relatively small projects are run, jointly with academic participants and SMEs on well-defined tasks defined by the SME(s). Past examples include sentiment analysis on social media data and privacy-aware mobile recommender systems for mobile systems. Digital technologies.

The Innovalia ZDM Hub is a digital innovation HUB immersed in the Automotive Intelligence Centre (AIC) network of international partners in the automotive Sector.

The Innovalia ZDM Digital Innovation Hub has been created and it is coordinated by Innovalia Association a technology agent of the Basque Country Technology Network (Innobasque) and a private non-for-profit technological centre whose primary objective is to foster technological and business innovation in small and medium companies. Innovalia ZDM Digital Innovation Hub brings together the skills, laboratories and experimental infrastructures for local industry advanced manufacturing excellence.

The ZDM-DIH has been created in order to articulate a “one stop shop” with the sufficient critical mass capable of providing a comprehensive and integrated response towards digitisation of local manufacturing industries; with a particular focus on integrated operation of enabling digital technologies for zero defect manufacturing services & solutions.

The DIH activities are focused on

(1) Increasing awareness and knowledge of emerging digital technologies/products for ZDM (Zero Defect Manufacturing).

(2) Easing access to consistent assessments across local industries about their product/process digital readiness level.

(3) Promoting the establishment of digitalisation and digital transformation plans supporting manufacturing process design for ZDM.

(4) Facilitating local industry access to finance and participation in (international/strategic) R&D&i projects on development and industrial application of digital technologies, products and platforms (IIoT, Big Data, Cyber Security, 5G, Cloud)

(5) Simplifying access to advanced quality control instrumentation, assets and pilot manufacturing lines for experimentation, validation and verification of advanced ZDM digital products and processes.

(6) Enabling training, re-skilling and up-skilling on digital products and processes and quality 4.0.

(7) Accelerating innovative digital business models development and access to market to local SMEs.

(8) Assistance in the development of local industrial partnerships on ZDM digital products and platforms for international market access.

 

Vision:

Any local manufacturing industry should master manufacturing excellence through zero defect manufacturing products, processes and services.

Mission:

The DIH mission consists on ensuring that local industry can fully benefit from digital opportunities (technical support, access to experimental infrastructures, financing, skill development, market intelligence…) on the following competences:

Digital automation, Industrial IoT and CPPS

Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) digital platforms

Factory 4.0 Big Data & 3D mobile data visualisation

Cybersecurity and digital trust

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The inNOVA4TECH hub is a digital innovation hub located in the metropolitan area of Lisbon that supports the digital transformation of companies (SMEs and mid-caps), as well as the public sector institutions thanks to the application of a wide range of advanced technologies, including Cyber Physical Systems, Artificial Intelligence, micro-nano electronics, etc.

The inNOVA4TECH hub has been created and is led by UNINOVA. UNINOVA is a multidisciplinary, independent, and non-profit research institute. It was formed in 1986 by the NOVA School of Science and Technology of the Nova University of Lisbon (FCT-UNL - www.fct.unl.pt), a group of industrial associations, a financial holding, and up to 30 companies. In addition, UNINOVA is an active partner of Madan Parque (www.madanparque.pt), a business facilitator and accelerator, incubating Micro and SME’s through several layers of support to entrepreneurial activity.

The main objective of UNINOVA is to pursue excellence in scientific research, technical development, advanced training, and education. Through the inNOVA4TECH hub, by working closely with industry and universities, UNINOVA bridges the gap and transfer technological innovations into profitable business concepts and, existing products further developed to match new industrial requirements. Therefore, inNOVA4TECH hub covers the whole value chain.

inNOVA4TECH hub makes use of the unique opportunities that exist in the interaction between science, sector-oriented research, and engineering activities, through collaborations on joint research and innovation projects. The inNOVA4TECH focuses on developing research-based technologies and solutions to address the societal challenges, and actively invite industrial partners and the business sector (both locally, regionally, nationally and internationally) to assure impact of the research projects in the value chain and society. The hub supports the industrial and public sectors in integrating digital technologies and acquiring digital skills to accelerate the digital transformation in Portugal and Europe.

In addition, inNOVA4TECH hub is a key member of the DIH4CPS project network of DIHs (DIH4CPS: Fostering DIHs for Embedding Interoperability in Cyber-Physical Systems of European SMEs), coordinated by UNINOVA. Within the project, inNOVA4TECH establishes strong linkages and collaboration with other European DIHs to enlarge inNOVA4TECH services. inNOVA4TECH is the interface between SMEs and the DIH4CPS network of DIHs, being able to scout for new technology and innovation services, helping to ensure that every company in the Lisbon region, small or large, high-tech or not, can take advantage of digital opportunities. The support provided through the project contributes to help companies to become more competitive with regard to their business and production processes, products or services using digital technologies, thus providing access to technical expertise and experimentation, inNOVA4TECH facilities and network labs.

inNOVA4TECH’s excellence is reflected through the following drivers as:

 i) by participation in European & National projects;

 ii) by collaboration with the industry and policy makers;

 iii) by the promotion of activities close to the society.

 

The motto of inNOVA4TECH hub is to foster the development of technologies with the objective of catapulting the knowledge valorisation both at economic and social level.

The DIH offers a range of services in the form of collaborative research, concept validation and prototyping, testing and validation, digital maturity assessment, market intelligence, mentoring, education and skills development.

Vision: inNOVA4TECH hub supports enterprises and public sector to integrate technologies and transform digitally to develop the economic sectors of the Greater Lisbon Region. The hub offers unique products and services grounded on advanced research and innovative business models of its partners.

Mission: inNOVA4TECH hub aims at providing advanced technologies services to companies and public sector to digitally transform. In order to bridge the gap between research, public sector and industry (specifically SMEs), inNOVA4TECH provides expertise on the following competences: Big Data Analysis, Blockchain, Cyber-Physical Systems, Cybersecurity, Digital Business Development, Internet of Things, Science and Engineering of Machine Intelligence, Smart products with a focus on Cyber-Physical Systems, Computer Science and Engineering.

The inNOVA4TECH hub has laboratories with computational equipment and access to the NOVA University Lisbon facilities. In addition, the hub is currently expanding its capacities with the construction of technological infrastructure mainly focused on the region (for services to companies and special attention to the SMEs) funded by structural funds from the Lisbon region.

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Innoskart Digital Innovation Center from Innoskart Digital Cluster The Innoskart ICT Cluster was established in 2006 as a classic cluster to support the innovative cooperation of SMEs in the Central Transdanubia Region of Hungary. The structure and scope of activities of the cluster and the cluster management body have been constantly evolving over the years, since 2019 it has been using the name Innoskart Digital Cluster. Today, as a result of its networking activities, it already operates as a Digital Innovation Center. Innoskart DIH is a non-profit actor embedded in the digital innovation ecosystem. As a cluster, it has the Hungarian “Accredited Innovation Cluster” certification and the European level Silver Label certification. In 2021, the cluster has 54 members, mainly SMEs, as well as local governments and a university knowledge centers. Innoskart’s mission Supporting digitization by facilitating and supporting dialogue, knowledge and technology transfer between service and user companies. It plays an “interface” role between very different actors of the ecosystem who are equally involved in digitalization, primarily at regional and domestic level. In the meantime, Innoskart is building an international network to help those actors to strengthen competencies in order to achieve European standards.   Thus, digital innovation is not only supported in the Central Transdanubia Region, Innoskart is also actively involved in the construction of national and European level networks. Participation in consortia of various tenders helped this construction activity. Such partnerships are: COSME Natureef ESCP-4i COSME Connsensys ESCP-S3 Innosup INCluSilver Innosup S3FOOD Interreg Central Europe ProsperAmnet Interreg DTP eDigistars Consortium membership in Hungarian eDIH proposal Innoskart has already participated in the development and implementation of an innovation voucher system on several occasions, the aim of which is to promote the digital innovation of companies, mainly SMEs. We also provide business training and coaching services on industrial technology transfer topics. Innoskart is member of a consortium who has established - in order to ensure long-term cooperation and utilize results - the SS4AF partnership (Smart Sensor System for Agri-food - ss4af.com/), several partner organizations are already DIH. Innoskart agreed to establish closer cooperation with 3 universit and 1 industry knowledge centers on the establishment of a Hungarian unit of a European agri-food living lab network. In addition to Innoskart, the following take part in this: Budapest University of Technology and Economiy, Industry 4.0 Technology Center (http://www.ipar4.bme.hu/), ELTE-Soft Nonprofit Ltd. (http://www.eltesoft.hu/en/), Óbudai University, Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics (http://irob.uni-obuda.hu/?q=en), Campden BRI Hungary Nonprofit Ltd. (https://campdenbri.hu/en/en-magyarorszag.php) In the European innovation support system, several agri-food industry transfer projects with Hungarian participation have already won, in the implementation of which Innoskart actively supported the applicants, who demonstrated well the implementation of digital innovation in the food industry SME sector. Based on these experiences, we created a so-called electronic digital marketplace (https://innoskart.digital/digitalis-piacter/) that allows members to network and create digital innovation collaborations. In terms of the impact of Covid-19, we have implemented a significant community-building innovation by organizing webinars in support of digital innovation, where our goal is to present various success stories. We also support the emergence of digital innovation in a wider social context: as part of our work on Interreg DTP eDigistars, we are supplementing existing tools for digital education for 50+ people with new innovative tools. As a result, industrial employers will have more confidence in employing this age group who acquire more up-to-date digital competencies. Innoskart cooperates with the actors - organizations, clusters, universities, knowledge centers supporting Hungarian digital innovation in a way that fits into European trends - who come together to operate eDIH. Clearly, Innoskart DIH’s activities towards supporting the local SMEs with their digital transformation are as follow (https://innoskart.digital/szolgaltatasaink/): searching partners for digitization of industrial companies’ projects business coaching and training for better understanding of different market actors (interface role) regular information about funding sources for digital transfer in industry access to Hungarian Agri-food Technology transfer Living Labs Initiative in order to test before invest regular webinars to spread knowledge about available digital solutions to answer the industry needs blog on website with professional articles all in relation to digital transformation in order to build trust towards the SMEs and widen the expert pool. https://innoskart.digital/innoskart-magazin/ Digital technologies.

The main goal Digital Innovation Hubs is to help companies become more competitive using digital technologies and aim to implement Manufacturing-as-a-service concept - inlcuding the support in digital transformation. Innomine, a non-for-profit DIH serves this purpose focusing on manufacturing SMEs especially in the automotive / discrete manufacturing sector. Based on previous projects and cooperation activities with international partners we have wide network of both manufacturing companies, research organizations and specialized experts. We have means to access them, and already surveyed their needs in becoming more effective within their everyday practices (like reduce scrap rate, decrease maintenance cost, improve planning and cost control etc.) and how to manage digital transformation.

Our mission is to become the key partner in the South Transdanubian region in SME digitalization and digital transformation projects. We plan to empower manufacturing companies with digital technologies to further improve and maximize innovation capabilities and productivity. Our mission and Unique Value Proposition is offering of our digital transformation expertise, services and previous proven experience in three areas: 1. provide knowledge (what to do, what technology to use, how to solve specific issues etc.), 2. Remove risks connected to digitization project and 3. Ensure (co-)funding from public funds.

Innomine is located in Pecs, Hungary (Southern Transdanubian region). 

Innomine DIH aims to make an impact on Hungarian SMEs, increase their efficiency by using digital technologies therefore contribute to the sustainable development of the country and to build a circular economy.  

Innomine DIH is currently part of Cloudifacturing project (www.cloudifacturing.eu) to design and support experiments to optimize manufacturing processes with the help of cloud and HPC technologies. 

in 2017 we have been selected by EC to be part of the CEE DIH program to upscale our DIH activities - carried out by PWC and Oxentia. In 2018 we have successfully completed the program.

In 2018 we have been selected by a Hungarian program to expand our digital innovation services in the Southern Danubian region. 

Our main thematic focus is smart manufacturing, using digital technolologies to increase efficiency of SMEs. Main technologies: HPC, cloud, human centered production, digital twinning, AI, zero defect manufacturing, networked factory etc.  Digital technologies.

The main goal of Digital Innovation Hubs is to help companies become more competitive using digital technologies on a non-profit basis - this inlcudes to support the digital transformation of SMEs. Innomine serves this purpose focusing on manufacturing SMEs especially in the automotive / discrete manufacturing sector. Based on previous projects and cooperation activities with international partners we have wide network of both manufacturing companies, research organizations and specialized experts. We have means to access them, and already surveyed their needs in becoming more effective within their everyday practices (like reduce scrap rate, decrease maintenance cost, improve planning and cost control etc.) and how to manage digital transformation.

Our mission is to become the key partner in the region in SME digitalization and digital transformation projects. We plan to empower manufacturing companies with digital technologies to further improve and maximize innovation capabilities and productivity. Our mission and Unique Value Proposition is offering of our digital transformation expertise, services and previous proven experience in three areas: 1. provide knowledge (what to do, what technology to use, how to solve specific issues etc.), 2. Remove risks connected to digitization project and 3. Ensure (co-)funding from public funds.

Innomine is located in Budapest and Pecs, Hungary (Central Hungary and Southern Transdanubia). 

Innomine DIH aims to make an impact on Hungarian SMEs, increase their efficiency by using digital technologies therefore contribute to the sustainable development of the country and to build a circular economy.  

Innomine DIH is currently part of Cloudifacturing project (www.cloudifacturing.eu) to design and support experiments to optimize manufacturing processes with the help of cloud and HPC technologies. 

in 2017 we have been selected by EC to be part of the CEE DIH program to upscale our DIH activities - carried out by PWC and Oxentia. In 2018 we have successfully completed the program.

In 2018 we have been selected by a Hungarian program to expand our digital innovation services in the Southern Danubian region. 

Our main thematic focus is smart manufacturing, using digital technolologies to increase efficiency of SMEs. Main technologies: HPC, cloud, human centered production, digital twinning, AI, zero defect manufacturing, networked factory etc.  Digital technologies.