The mission is to contribute to Sweden being at the absolute forefront regarding competence in sustainable and efficient datacenter solutions, cloud applications and data analysis. This will be accomplished by increasing innovation capability, helping product and service companies excel, as well as attracting more researchers and companies to Sweden to make the business branch even stronger nationally.

ICE consists of three datacenter pods, where one has an optimized and stable physical environment optimized for IT/cloud-related applications, and one is a flexible construction optimized for facility/utility testing. The ICE facility is operated and owned by RISE SICS North.

The test facility will offer access to a unique environment for testing, demos and experiments.

The ICE offer covers all parts of the stack;
•     Big data and machine learning – Computing capacity, platforms and tools for handling big data and machine learning
•     IT and cloud – testing and experiment environments for software development, scaling and infrastructure optimization
•     Facility and IT HW – possibilities for testing disruptive innovations concerning the facility and hardware of a datacenter
•     Utility – measurements and research securing a sustainable society with efficient datacenters as a part of the energy system

Read more about our ongoing research projects at https://www.sics.se/groups/rise-sics-north#projects Digital technologies.

The mission of InfoDesignHub is to enable regional development by promoting and embedding digital technologies into SMEs and public sector organizations. 

Local city development agency InovaDR  is the founder of InfoDesignHub and responsible for its operation. It is funded by city government and has a non-profit aim, i.e. all its income is used for futher development of digital ecosystem.

DIH will provide support in different fields and support aproaching digitalization in a holistic way.

INFODESIGN HUB will provide a range of basic services to the regional ecosystem ranging from digital skills education, workshops, digital infrastructure, and mentoring. Along these basic services DIH will focus on design services in various stages of digital transformation of organizations and product and service development. 

List of indicative services:

Ecosystem building, scouting, brokerage, networking
Visioning and Strategy Development for Businesses
Collaborative Researchs
Concept validation and prototyping
Testing and validation
Pre-competitive series production
Digital Maturity Assessment
Incubator/accelerator support
Market intelligence
Access to Funding and Investor Readiness Services
Mentoring
Education and skills development

DIH is forming partnerships with institutions, organizations, and institutions that complement each other in strengthening DIHs aim to become a center of excellence for applying digital design to industry solutions, products, packaging, urban planning i.e. in supporting sustainable development goals and initiatives. 

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INFOBALT DIH is non-profit organisation, which aims to increase innovation capacity of SMEs, Midcaps and large companies in the area of digitalization. 
It offers Industry 4.0, HPC, AI, Cyber Security technologies, provides process optimization and automation solutions that help companies quickly and accurately produce, manage workflow, reduce costs and increase capacity. It also organize trainings in respective fields and provides test before invest services for entities aiming to digitize.

INFOBALT, the coordinator of INFOBALT DIH – locally and internationally recognized representative of Lithuanian Information and Communication Technologies industry, which currently has 165 members, including ICT companies and research institutions. Its mission is to promote the use of Information and Communication Technologies to boost the digital economy and benefit businesses and public sector.

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Industrial Technology Knowledge Linares 4.0, DIH-ITKL offers all the space and resources you need to successfully compete in the Knowledge Economy. At Linares Sci-Tech Campus you will find modern infrastructures, advanced services, financing programs and facilities to develop R&D projects. Besides, in Linares you will find the main assets to increase your company’s competitiveness: a highly-qualified human capital and an open innovation system where both companies and students do collaborate to find innovative solutions to business problems. All these points are based on the location within a same space of: -A Scientific and Technological Campus that has advanced infrastructures for research and development in IT and new materials. -The Technology Centre of Metal-mechanical and Transport, that has a great and qualified number of engineers, as well as of diverse laboratories and a climatic chamber (unique in Andalusia) in which to carry out diverse tests (products and materials). -Sicnova Group, national leader in manufacturing and distributing 3D printers and scanners, with a significant representation in Europe and Latin America. -Various companies dedicated to software development, mobile app, gamification, network and telecommunications infrastructures, virtual reality, ... -Public entities such as the City Council and the Chamber of Commerce of Linares, which provide support for the search for funding, search for new business opportunities, and catalyze the system. -Within this location there are also coworking spaces and business incubation, supported by the mentoring and synergies generated by the entities mentioned above. All efforts are focused on improving the competitiveness and development of companies and entrepreneurs based on new technologies and industry 4.0 as a key factor for change. The DIH is coordinated by Commerce Chamber of Linares, a non-profit organization.

The main services offered by DIH-ITK are:

Awareness creation Ecosystem building, scouting, brokerage, networking

Visioning and Strategy Development for Businesses COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

Concept validation and prototyping Testing and validation Simulation and Modelling Virtual Design of product (VR/AR) Digital Maturity Assessment Incubator/accelerator support Product consortia MARKET INTELLIGENCE Education and skills development Access to Funding and Investor Readiness Services Mentoring Digital technologies.

The Industrial Ring brings together engineers, manufacturers (OEM and TIER1), technology providers, associations, research centers, universities and government with the aim to identify, develop and promote best practices around 4.0 Industry or Industrial Internet. In the process of open innovation, companies and the entire value chain participate actively identifying needs that hardly could be solved by a company itself, creating multidisciplinary groups to create and build collaborative solutions that help companies achieve business objectives. The Industrial Ring is a community open to different strategic sectors of Catalonia (defined in RIS3CAT) acting as coordinator and catalyst for collaboration between companies. The collaborator must provide an infrastructure for small and medium businesses in the community to test advanced solutions that enable them to increase competitiveness, improve process efficiency and increase profits. Our objectives: Drive innovation by creating use cases and pilotes. Providing infrastructure solutions to enable testing in real environments. Promote success stories and provide forums for sharing best practices and results. To facilitate the adoption of new technologies in SME companies. Participate in forums and international organizations to develop standards. Our services and infrastructure: Infrastructure bandwidth. Connections with fiber optic or radio link provided by Orange or other providers of telecommunications infrastructures Industrial Platform 4.0 is a digital services marketplace that allows businesses access to new technologies at an affordable cost and reduces barriers to entry for new entrants to the ecosystem. Industry 4.0 Innovation Workshop, to identify ideas, prioritize and define a business case at a high level. Digital technologies.

The IR Hub is a Smart Industry Fieldlab program involving ten partners active in industrial applied AR/VR, including eight companies with technological expertise in AR/VR , the VR Lab of University of Twente and Regional Development agency Oost NL.   

Vision

“The European digital innovation hub for industrial applied Augmented and Virtual Reality, stimulating cooperation and innovation between companies, government and knowledge institutes, resulting in world class business, knowledge and facilities”

Mission

 “Our mission is to enhance the collaboration between human and machine through seamless integration of Data and AR/VR technology, enabling humans to remain the leading factor in the digital society. Moreover, our ambition is to make digital reality accessible, affordable, practically usable and socially relevant for any industrial organisation”.

We focus on the societal challenge of the innovative and inclusive society.

This Digital Hub is build on the roots of Virtual Reality Valley europe,  created 1999. The Hub has received a boost in 2015 with a new focus on accelerating innovation through sharing knowledge and cooperation , specifically AR and VR (XR), and the broader subject of Human Machine Interfaces, AI, Sensors and Big Data. The Hub members distinguis themselves by being a top performers with a focus on digitization of international manufacturing companies and act globally in multiple international supply chain. Key themes are application of AR and VR in guided operations, guided maintenance, VR training and digital twins together with machine learning, AI, Big Data and sensors. 

The 4th Industrial Revolution deals with far-reaching flexibility, robotization and automation. Many companies share the vision: "24 hours a day full automated and error-free production, based on customer questions." But that also raises many questions about the impact on employment. Do you as a company focus on technology or human beings? Due to more flexibility in production, coupled with shorter turnaround times and the desire for error-free production, companies are opposed to the limited information processing capacity of humans. The IR Hub therefore focuses on the development of technological solutions for improving the interaction between human and machine.

Activities

The companies that collaborate within the IR Hub are active in three working groups

Knowledge - development of technology roadmaps
Projects - Development of international cooperation and innovation projects
Internationalisation and Exposure – connecting the Hub on the European level to partners and other Hubs.
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Imec is the world-leading R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technology.
As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and academia we bring together brilliant minds from all over the world in a creative and stimulating environment.
By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of diverse expert partners across a multitude of industries, we accelerate progress towards a connected, sustainable future Digital technologies.

The mission of the iMan Norte Hub - Digital Innovation Hub for Customer-Driven Manufacturing @ Norte - is to foster the digital transformation of manufacturing companies of the Northern Region of Portugal (Norte) and to nurture the respective innovation ecosystem. The main objectives of the iMan Norte Hub are to facilitate and foster manufacturing technology adoption and diffusion in the areas of cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) and robotics, and to improve the collaboration in the ecosystem by linking research institutions, industrial technological centers, industrial associations, incubators, science and technology parks, industrial companies, technology companies, training institutions, and government agencies.

The iMan Norte hub organizes dissemination and matchmaking activities (workshops, seminars, and  open days), offers coaching and connection to funding sources, and promotes the services offered by its service providers group, such as research and development, feasibility studies, technology roadmaps, consultancy on technology selection and implementation, and training. Research institutions, industrial technological centers, industrial associations, science and technology parks, incubators, and technology companies compose the hub’s service providers group.

The iMan Norte Hub is hosted by the Portuguese Production Technologies Cluster -PRODUTECH - a national non-profit association of manufacturing technology providers, and is coordinated by a managing team with members from PRODUTECH, INESC TEC (research institute), UPTEC (Science and Technology Park) and the four industrial technological centers in the region: CATIM (metal working and machinery), CITEVE (textile and clothing), CTCP (footwear), CTCOR (cork). These seven non-profit organizations signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the terms of collaboration among them to manage and sustain the iMan Norte Hub.

The creation of the iMan Norte was funded by the European Project BEinCPPS (Business Experiments in Cyber-Physical Production Systems, http://www.beincpps.eu/) in the scope of the I4MS program (ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs, http://i4ms.eu/) and has the institutional support of the Portuguese Secretary of State of Industry and the Norte Portugal Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR-N). Digital technologies.

Certified in 2005, a clusterwith global ambitions, Images and Network supports innovation stakeholders in their projects. With its specialized partners' network in ITC, Images and Network encouages meetings between, innovators, industrials and funders to collectivly promote technologies, uses and markets.
Our first missions  :
- Support innovation
- Encourage project development
- Support collaborative R&D projects throughout their path
- Support SMEs development and strengthen the links between the members, large companies, SMEs and academics.
- Insure the promotion of know-hows of the communty at a local, national and international scale.
- Animate the stakeholders ecosystem.

I&R  has an agreement with the 11 technopoles present on its territory.

On the DIH notion we are evangelizing the territory with several articles on our web sites explaining our strategy to setup a virtual DIH encompassing all the actors located on our two regions (https://www.images-et-reseaux.com/images-reseaux-en-ordre-de-bataille-p…  and https://www.images-et-reseaux.com/3-questions-a-vincent-marcatte/ ) and organizing of event such as our last general assembly where we had the Munich DIH coming to Lannion to explain how it works (see https://www.images-et-reseaux.com/vers-un-digital-innovation-hub-breton… ) the different actors of the ecosystem https://www.images-et-reseaux.com/qui-sommes-nous/notre-ecosysteme/ Digital technologies.

The ICT4Manuf DIH is coordinated by a no profit organisation performing research, networking, matchmaking and dissemination activities. The aim of the DIH is to support both IT and Industrial partners.

For IT software providers and integrators, the DIH provides support in Information Systems Architecture, IT systems interoperability and Data and Process engineering.
For Industrial companies, the DIH promotes the digital manufacturing transformation towards Industry 4.0 approach, the Value Chain processes and the circular economy methodologies.

The ICT4Manuf DIH provides the following tailored supports for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes enterprises:

Innovation Coaching 
Business Incubation of innovative ideas 
Enterprise Architecture
Business & Functional Engineering
Knowledge Engineering
Requirement Engineering
Technological and Technical Support
Infrastructure Sharing
Testing 
Training 
Access to User 
Brokerage Platform

The seven competencies areas of the DIH allow it to be an expert on wide enterprise engineering activities:

Information system agility
AI & Cyber-Physical System
Big data & digital preservation
PLM for new product development
Supply chain & manufacturing systems, design & optimization
Traceability, LCA & risk management
Cooperative education & continuous training

Some of the supported digital transformations:

Appropriation of new technologies in line with the business needs of the company
Evolution of the functional scope of an information system
Improvement / optimization of business processes
Modelling, analysis and improvement of operational processes

Our modern infrastructures allow us to innovate constantly and to propose tailored solutions to our partners. Digital technologies.