Opening the gates to the digital future
Productive4.0 is an ambitious holistic innovation project, meant to open the doors to the potentials of Digital Industry and to maintain a leadership position of the industries in Europe. All partners involved will work on creating the capability to efficiently design and integrate hardware and software of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Linking the real with the digital world takes more than just adding software to the hardware.
Productive4.0 – Technology Pioneer 2021
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 […]
“Excellent”, ECSEL says
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 […]
Big achievement: machine tool use case
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 […]
ABOUT PRODUCTIVE 4.0
A technology push: hands-on solutions for the European Digital Industry
With 109 partners involved, Productive4.0 is Europe’s biggest research project in the field of Digital Industry. As a brain pool the Framework takes a step further towards hands-on solutions. Means of electronics and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) across the entire value chain are the key to enhanced production efficiency and significant gains.
They will make production more predictable and flexible, change business models, and they will be the basis for more qualified employment. Productive4.0 will furnish the companies with fundamental tools necessary to transform the potentials of the upcoming digital revolution, known as Digital Industry, into business success.
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Funders and supporters
The co-funded innovation project Productive 4.0 receives grants from the European Commissions H2020 research and innovation programme, ECSEL Joint Undertaking (project no. 737459), the free state of Saxony, the German Federal Ministry of Education and national funding authorities from involved countries.
Partners
Our project partners
More than 100 partners from 19 European countries will work on preparing the way for the upcoming digital transformation. The Productive4.0 consortium is composed of highly experienced partners along the entire added value chain.
The University of Limerick (UL) was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick and classified as the University of Limerick in 1989. Within UL the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) was established in 2005 and has very strong industrial linkages, carrying out applied research with companies such as Dell, Sanmina-SCI, Flextronics, IBM, Lucent, Analog Devices, Intel, Glanbia, Dairygold and many SMEs, for example, Aerogen and Ceramicx.
- WP4 Simulation of Supply Chains
- WP5 Validation of Analytical Models
- WP9 Bosch Pilot Case
- Infineon Technologies AG
- Robert Bosch GmbH
- SimPlan AG
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
- FORTISS GMBH
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
- AVL LIST GMBH
- École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne
- STMicroelectronics Crolles 2 SAS
- Applied Materials Belgium
- DANOBAT GROUP
- Engine Power Components Group Europe SL
- Trimek S.A.
- Ulma Embedded Solutions, S. Coop.
- Ideko S. Coop.
- Asociacion de Empresas Tecnologicas Innovalia
- Panepistimio Thessalias
- Politecnico di Milano
- Statwolf Ltd.
- Infineon Technologies Ireland Ltd.
- Unger Fabrikker AS
- Høgskolen i Østfold – Østfold University College
- Koç Üniversitesi
Metso is a world leading industrial company serving the mining, aggregates, recycling, oil, gas, pulp, paper and process industries. We help our customers improve their operational efficiency, reduce risks and increase profitability by using our unique knowledge, experienced people and innovative solutions to build new, sustainable ways of growing together.
Our products range from mining and aggregates processing equipment and systems to industrial valves and controls.
- Metso participates in the pilot on machine and fleet management offered as industrial services.
- Metso participates in the development of systems integration and data combination from different data sources to serve customers with new functionality and analytics.
- Wapice Oy
- Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy
- Tampere University of Technology
- Konecranes Global Oy
- CrossControl Oy
The Bosch Group's operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT company, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, smart cities, connected mobility, and connected manufacturing. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source.
- Development of complex simulation models for Digital Production, Supply Chain Network and Product Lifecycle Management
- Development of powerful supply chain master planning systems for planning, virtualising, operating and controlling
- Modelling of supply chains as a cyber physical system
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
- Universität zu Köln
- SimPlan AG
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
- STMicroelectronics Crolles 2 SAS
- Politecnico di Milano
- Universität Mannheim
- Høgskolen i Østfold – Østfold University College
- AVL LIST GMBH
- École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne
- Unger Fabrikker AS
- Prediktor AS
- LFoundry SRL
- Centro di Ricerche Europeo di Tecnologie Design e Materiali (CETMA)
- University of Limerick
- Koç Üniversitesi
- Infineon Technologies AG
Combitech is a Nordic technical consultancy company combining technology, environment and security. The company has around 1900 employees in more than 20 locations across Sweden, as well as offices in Norway and Finland. Combitech is an independent company within the defence and security group Saab AB. Our consultants have expertise in information security, systems safety, logistics, systems integration, systems development, robust communications, mechanical engineering and technical products.
- Improve the overall security of the Arrowhead platform, so that IoT devices can communicate securely and fulfil the purpose of this platform.
- Contribute to a security solution that is adapted to the requirements and limitations of IoT devices used in the manufacturing industry.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of authentication and authorization mechanisms of local clouds.
- Evaluate possible security weaknesses in the local cloud gateway and propose solutions to these.
- AITIA INTERNATIONAL Informatikai Zártkörűen
- BnearIT AB
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Ericsson AB
- Luleå tekniska universitet
- Midroc Automation AB
- NXP Semiconductors Germany GmbH
- Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
- Volvo Lastvagnar Sverige AB
TNO connects people and knowledge to create innovations that boost the competitive strength of industry and the well-being of society in a sustainable way. This is our mission and it is what drives us, the over 2,600 professionals at TNO, in our work every day. TNO is an independent research organisation. We believe in the joint creation of economic and social value.
- Demonstrate significant steps to a practical solution for Zero Defect, n=1 manufacturing challenge
- Feedforward and feedback in the production line through connected sensors
- Identify the next generation information architecture for (big) data management in production environments
- Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V.
The Chair of Chip Design for Embedded Systems (C3E) at TUBS, led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mladen Berekovic, has vast experience in embedded multi-core systems design, processor architecture and reconfigurable processors for DSP applications (Video, Wireless, Security), mobile robotics and reliable multi-processor systems design. A special focus is placed on transaction level design and design space explorations for multiprocessor systems.
- System-Level-Simulation
- Design-Space-Exploration
- Infineon Technologies AG
- OFFIS e.V.
The research team of the department of Supply Chain Management and Production at the University of Cologne focusses on the development and practical application of mathematical decision models and solution approaches (including simulation and software development) to support Supply Chain and Production Planning. Problems with random as well as deterministic supply and demand are considered.
- Coordinator (Research) of Work Package 5
- Development of dynamic lot sizing approaches for random demand and random yield (WP 5)
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
- Robert Bosch GmbH
SimPlan AG (www.simplan.de) is a company focused on process improvement technologies for manufacturing, logistics, and transportation companies. SimPlan offers simulation studies, simulation software, applications for manufacturing systems control as part of MES systems as well as support, maintenance, training, and consultancy services in these fields. Major sectors served are automotive, chemical, intralogistics, transportation and machinery.
- Industrial lead of Work Package 4
- Provide simulation Know-How and technology
- Support in the implementation of simulation models
- Robert Bosch GmbH
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
- Universität zu Köln
- Infineon Technologies AG
Statwolf is an all-in-one business application platform that delivers tailor-made data intelligence solutions. Statwolf draws on input data from multiple sources, making it easy to monitor and compare. Statwolf helps Companies with custom-built data modelling solution, to manage high complexity problems. To do so, Statwolf platform is customized to individual clients to perfectly fulfill needs related to Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive analytics.
- Identify rights data sources
- Handle data integration and manipulation with state-of-the-art big data technologies
- Develop big-data and advanced machine learning software
- Consult, configure and maintain various databases (both SQL and noSQL)
- Provide web-based and mobile GUIs, designed for each specific user, in order to maximize user adoption and jointly minimize the training phase
- LFoundry SRL
Thales Nederland is the Dutch subsidiary of the Thales Group. Thales Group, headquartered in Paris, France, is present in five main markets: aerospace, space, ground transportation, defence and security. Thales solutions have a role to play, wherever safety and security are critical. In all those markets Thales solutions help customers to make the right decisions at the right time and to act accordingly.
- Introducing a new PLM concept, the Digital Product Footprint
- Developing and testing material planning and tracking software across companies
- BetterSolutions S.A.
- Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V.
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO)
- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
- Wapice Oy
- Mondragon Sistemas De Informacion Sociedad Cooperativa
- G.N.T. SYSTIMATA PLIROFORIKIS AE
Since 1995, Prediktor has delivered advanced industrial IT tools and solutions (ICT) to a wide range of industries (solar, oil & gass, maritime, automotive, food & feed,).
Prediktor’s offerings:
- APIS, a real-time software platform for high performance data collection, storage, processing and visualization.
- Turn-key industrial IT solutions such as MES and APC for production industries
- Spektron, online analytical NIR instruments for real-time measurement of fat, water and protein.
- Prediktor contributes in following work packages: 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9.
- The overall objective is directly relted to the chemical production use-case, which is about making the future production (of chemical products) more efficient and agile.
- Our deep knowledge within technical fields such as data acqusition & storage, soft sensoring, data mining & machine learning, digital twin development and optimal process control, will help us achieve the deliverables in this project.
- Unger Fabrikker AS
- Høgskolen i Østfold – Østfold University College
- Stiftelsen Sintef
- Tellu IoT AS
IFAK, founded in 1991, is a non-profit research institute with about 50 employees (graduate engineers, PhDs, Professors, guest scientists and students). The legal representative of the institute is a registered non-profit association. The focus of IFAK’s research lies in the field of automation in manifold application areas like process industry, environmental engineering, traffic, industrial communication, sensor and measurement technology and information technology.
- Contribute to a robust IoT and SoS based system architecture platform supporting automation and digitization for sustainable production
- Design of editor tools for describing service semantics of production equipment within the Productive 4.0 communication infrastructure
- Infineon Technologies AG
- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
- Luleå tekniska universitet
fortiss is a non-profit research and transfer institute under sponsorship of the Bavarian Ministry for Economics, with the focus on software-intensive systems and services. It provides a co-location center where practitioners work together with researchers for advancing application-driven research and for facilitating an accelerated transfer of ICT research results into industrial practice.
- Open source PLC Environment Eclipse 4diac for smart mechatronic components
- IoT enabled smart mechatronic production components
- Real-time service-oriented architectures
- OFFIS e.V.
- Tampere University of Technology
- Luleå tekniska universitet
- Infineon Technologies AG
The Institute of Material Handling and Logistics (IFL) is focused on stochastic analyses of material handling systems. Simulation models and analytical approaches have been developed and validated based on transfer projects in practice. A core competence lies in the development, application and analysis of discrete-time queueing models. Methods for batch size optimization and the determination of the waiting time distribution of customer orders of a multilevel supply chain have been developed.
- Workpackage 4 Leader
- Methods for analysing the structure of the physical system
- Description and modelling of demand and production processes
- Stochastic models for manufacturing systems
- Model evaluation and validation
- Robert Bosch GmbH
- SimPlan AG
- Universität zu Köln
- University of Limerick
- Universität Mannheim
- Koç Üniversitesi