In and around Productive 4.0

As catchy linguistic pictures may be, they cannot always describe complex relationships 100 percent accurately. The term in question is “The Three Pillars” Digital Production (DP), Supply Chain Network (SCN) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) which Productive4.0 focuses on. Even though they are individual aspects in the digitalisation, they collaborate and influence each other. On top, […]

Industrial robots are designed and programmed to do desired tasks proficiently, efficiently, robust, and reliably. Productive4.0 partner ABB, in terms of turnover the second largest robot provider worldwide, sees significantly increasing requirements on the skills of the robot systems due to the rising demand on the flexibility of production and the ease of using them. […]

What does a bank do in a project which is meant to push the digitalisation of the European Industry? At first sight, SEB, one of the biggest banks in Sweden, appears to be rather exotic amongst all the companies, start-ups and institutes doing research on optimising their production. Taking a closer look, however, it becomes […]

Digital twins and simulation play an important role in Productive4.0. They allow for different scenarios in order to optimise the production or test completely new ways and processes without risking disruptions. In real life, unforeseen mistakes, asymmetric information and occurring problems may easily jeopardise the intended effect with constant adjustments eating time and burning money. […]

ECSEL JU project Productive4.0 – has released a new descriptive video from Mondragon Group partners, about the objectives and achievements in the Productive 4.0 project. Check it out!

An overwhelming amount of demonstrators, posters, workshops and a number of new cooperation opportunities characterized the second Productive4.0 General Assembly reflecting the dynamic and innovative development of the huge project with its 109 partners from 19 European countries. Consortium Conference at the Continental Hotel in Budapest turned out to be a highly successful summit. Almost […]

Be it for household detergents, personal care or institutional products, chemical precursors are not only expected to be produced on a top level, their quality must also be maintained when stored and shipped overseas or transported on a truck. Exposed to changing temperature, humidity or pressure, the delicate raw material may easily lump deep inside […]

Simulation plays a major role in the digitalization project Productive4.0. Each year, the issue is on the agenda of the Winter Simulation Conference which was held at Gothic Towers Hotel in Swedish Gothenburg last December. The event is regarded as the leading international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of simulation. During three […]

With 109 partners and numerous use cases Productive4.0 reflects on one of the overall challenges in digitalizing the industry: How to engineer flexibility into the production system in order to adapt to new products and services? Without a roadmap based on simplified and efficient engineering it will become expensive when a big chunk of the […]

Innovating the Digital Industry with Productive4.0….but what is it all about?   Klick here or above to watch our video! With the key message in images and words it gets the whole project right to the point. It takes 2 minutes to catch the idea: Connectivity is everywhere – Productive4.0, Europe’s largest innovation project, is going […]

A flying robot was in the focus of attention during the first review in July. Developed by German Productive4.0 partners IEMTEC, Kinexon and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg FAPS, it is subject of a use case together with the car manufacturer BMW Group in work package 8. It is meant to make parts of the production safer […]

Innovation is not an end in itself; new techniques and hands-on solutions that are generated within the project must be well exploited, communicated and integrated in digital reference and sales & marketing platforms, so they can be scaled up for widespread use. The following example makes this abundantly clear. A new device which is suitable […]

After the beginning of the second year and during the first innovation cycle, the first Productive4.0 project review was held on July 18th and 19th at the charming country hotel Limmerhof south of Munich. The coordination team, all of the 20 work package leaders and the demonstrating partners came to present the progress of their innovation activities […]

Spanish Mondragon corporation is one of the big partners of Productive4.0. The ecosystem consists of eight different organisations involved in the project being active in most work packages. Apart from Mondragon University representing the academic side and Ideko as an RTO (research technology organization), there are six businesses focusing on various areas: Mondragon corporate office […]

Lot sizes can be optimized a lot better than before and result in significantly lower overall production costs. During the first review in July, Production4.0 partner Bosch demonstrated the result of its use case in work package 4 and mainly 5. It is the prototype of a computer model which will solve a classical dilemma […]