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 […]

A big achievement in Productive4.0 was made in work package (WP)9 which focuses on product use cases along the entire supply chain in various domains of the European industry. It demonstrates how product life cycle management will benefit from the capabilities of Digital Industry and IIot and technological and conceptual approaches in fields like service-oriented […]

Aiming at a robust and secure communication environment, the activities in work package (WP)2 focused on setting up a distributed data analytics service to handle big data in real-time. The environment for the Digital Industry should be handled via control networks or monitoring networks. This is where TU/e, the Dutch Technical University of Eindhoven and […]

Inspired by the term Industry 4.0, Productive4.0’s goal was to create a user platform across value chains and industries to promote the digital networking of manufacturing companies, production machines and products. At that point, shedding light on the specific meaning of terms like Semantic Web, Semantic Web Stack and ontology should be helpful to better […]

With industry becoming digitalized and smart, established standards have to be updated following the new paradigms, and new ones will emerge. This goes along with the need for a smooth and reliable wireless communication between cyber physical system (CPS) devices where languages have to be defined and aspects like interoperability must be insured. Interacting with […]

Big achievements in Productive4.0 were made in work packages (WP) 4 and 5. They are substantial for the project’s main aim: to create holistic operating systems reducing customer order waiting times, production lead times and improving an overall quality. Avoiding asymmetric information and optimising processes, virtual company systems enable faster and far more flexible product […]

Envisioning a smart futuristic factory, everybody would spontaneously think of business premises with automatic production lines, self operating robots or autonomous vehicles bringing goods to predetermined places. With Productive4.0 this vision is moving towards reality. Even though some of these applications may have been realised already, the challenge is to set them up in a […]

Representing a systems development lifecycle, the classic V-model may have served well in the past, but when it comes to agility in modern digitalisation, it is reaching its limits. Looking for a more suitable basis of model-based systems engineering (MBSE), work package 8 co-leader Vahid Salehi proposes a new approach. The concept in question is […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]