Smart Industry in an existing production environment
The 'Smart Industry in existing production environments' project aims to make industry 4.0 accessible to SMEs without their own IT or service department. To this end, the project aims to realize a didactic demonstration and training setup, to establish best practices for implementing industry 4.0 on an existing industrial machine or production unit and to set up training on implementing industry 4.0 in an existing production environment.
Although many initiatives have already been taken in Flanders to introduce Industry 4.0 in industry, we must conclude, for example in bachelor's theses, that this step cannot often be taken successfully for SMEs without in-house IT support. The industry experience of the researchers and the practice-oriented approach they use in research and education makes VIVES a good actor to tackle this.
The results from this research will also be directly integrated into regular education, so that future technicians are prepared for this need. This project is also aligned with the 'Secure Industrial Networks' research project. The upgrade of the didactic installation will be done in consultation with SIN, so that Smart Industry can work in a safe manner (network security). On the one hand, Smart Industry will function as a test case for SIN, monitoring how SIN's recommendations are workable and acceptable for the automation world of which Smart Industry and these researchers are part of.
Although many initiatives have already been taken in Flanders to introduce Industry 4.0 in industry, we must conclude, for example in bachelor's theses, that this step cannot often be taken successfully for SMEs without in-house IT support. The industry experience of the researchers and the practice-oriented approach they use in research and education makes VIVES a good actor to tackle this.
The results from this research will also be directly integrated into regular education, so that future technicians are prepared for this need. This project is also aligned with the 'Secure Industrial Networks' research project. The upgrade of the didactic installation will be done in consultation with SIN, so that Smart Industry can work in a safe manner (network security). On the one hand, Smart Industry will function as a test case for SIN, monitoring how SIN's recommendations are workable and acceptable for the automation world of which Smart Industry and these researchers are part of.
01/09/2021 - 31/08/2023
