In and around Productive 4.0

Productive4.0 provided evidence for the fact that transparency and cooperation can cause a real digital push to Europe’s industry. This is why it received the Technology Pioneer Award 2021.   At the same time, the award by EU programme ECSEL JU (Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership Joint Undertaking) is a tribute to the […]

When Productive4.0 started in May 2017, its intention to «open the gates to the digital future» raised high expectations of the ambitious European project with 109 partners. Now that the research work is done, they turn out to be more than fulfilled. Apart from the total funding of roughly 50 million euros, it is satisfying […]

With the attempt to boost digitalisation of the European Industry, the success of Productive4.0 to a large degree depends on the expertise of smaller and highly specialized partners involved. As to the SoS-based architecture platform developed in work package1, which can be described as the backbone of all activities, it takes a neat adaptation and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As one of three partners representing the Czech component within Productive 4.0, the Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA) released an evaluation package including application note of a newly enhanced design flow modelled to meet the requirements of innovative IoT-enabling components. According to Dr. Jiří Kadlec who is a main staff member of the […]