In and around Productive 4.0

European funded projects are not meant to be closed shops. With the overarching goal of strengthening the industry in Europe, innovative approaches, successful results or unexpected challenges must be shared with other projects. Only through knowledge transfer findings can further develop their potentials on the next level and in a different context. This applies even […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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. […]

As every year, the renowned Diesel Medal was awarded on 13th April in Munich. The prize is awarded by the Munich based German Institute for Innovation Activities and Quality – Deutsches Institut für Erfindungswesen – in order to emphasize the importance of innovations. At the same time, it is meant to deliver a signal to […]

Progress, exchange amongst partners and new cooperations – the first Productive4.0 General Assembly reflected the dynamic and innovative development of the huge project with 109 partners from 19 European countries. Productive4.0, European ECSEL co-funded innovation and lighthouse programme, hosted its annual Consortium Conference in Athens. From March 6-8, almost one year after the project kickoff, the […]

Productive 4.0 is the first project that was elected as Lighthouse Initiative within ECSEL JU. Since the label is quite new, it appears to be worth taking a look at the recent developments. In fact, they were discussed during the latest European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems (EFECS) in Brussels which was the first […]