In and around Productive 4.0

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 […]

  The time of defining requirements is over, and Productive4.0 is in its first innovation cycle. One of the first results that came up is the blueprint for an online B2B platform making customers’ businesses easier. The so called Solution Finder is developed by Infineon in workpackage 7 Task 7.3. Other projects partners are still […]

  Productive4.0 has started the second project year. During the first innovation cycle more and more results are taking shape. “The milestones reached so far show that we are on the right way”, coordinator Thomas Gutt says. He calls the project “a giant innovation machine with a large number of parts where everything has to […]

“Productive4.0 is like a giant innovation machine”, project coordinator Thomas Gutt says. The numerous partners involved in the biggest ECSEL project are eager to come up with results. When introducing their institutions or companies, their visions and research activities on various occasions, they proudly fly the flag for Productive4.0. Apart from the sheer promotion effect, […]

Productive4.0 is on the way to prepare the European Industry for the digital future. And to a large extend, the 108 partners involved seem to take pride in being part of an outstandingly big and ambitious project. This becomes evident, for example, when they promote it while introducing their research activities, not only in press […]

When in March the Productive4.0 community met again at the General Assembly in Athens, it was not only about taking stock of the progress but also on potential cooperations with other projects. ECSEL projects are not closed shops, they are open and part of one common aim: to prepare the European industry for the future. […]

“Productive4.0 gives us the opportunity to enrich our machine learning skills and competencies”, says project partner Statwolf. According to the Irish based analytics platform that delivers tailor-made data intelligence solutions Productive4.0 is also a chance to share knowledge with market partners and learn best data science practices across a variety of industrial sectors. At the […]

Productive4.0 Consortium Conference in Athens, March 2018: Consortium Presentation

Productive 4.0 Consortium Conference in Athens, March 2018: Video Review