Martins Mozga, a Product Development and Innovation Engineer, has shared his thoughts and experiences on adopting Industry 4.0 technologies in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The main goal of the AUTOWARE project is to help European SMEs to develop digital automation cognitive solutions for their manufacturing processes. One of the possible ways we can achieve this goal is by having a complete understanding of the challenges of SMEs in Industry 4.0. We have asked Martins Mozga, a Product Development and Innovation Engineer, to give us his thoughts on this.

Mathias Haim Raben and Frederik Munch Andersen from Blue Ocean Robotics, a partner in the AUTWARE project team, attended the hi-messe in Herning on the 1st of October.

UMH has attended the IEEE 24rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2019) of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) to present part of the work carried out in AUTOWARE related to 5G communications for the Industry 4.0. The conference was hold in Zaragoza, Spain, from 10th to 13th of September 2019.

Dr. Javier Gozalvez from UMH was invited to participate in the Factories of the Future Community Days organized by EFFRA in Brussels on 22 and 23 May 2019.

Laurent Marquis from the AUTOWARE team attended the FMTX on the 28th of May. FMTX is an abbreviation of Future Manufacturing Technologies Conference & Expo.

The SmartFactory showcased the AUTOWARE technologies Fast Quality Control, Active Product memories and TSN connection with the TTTech Fog Node on the Hannover Fair on the SmartFactory Booth at the Hannover Fair 2019.

At the ICT 2018 Conference, TTTech Computertechnik AG organized a networking session named “Shared Thoughts, Shared Solutions – Automated Driving meets Industrial IoT”, where the main idea was to raise awareness on the common challenges (technical and non-technical) and potentials for shared cross-domain solutions in the domain of automated driving and industrial IoT.

Network Session to raise awareness challenges and potential for shared cross domain solutions in IoT

In December, TTTech is hosting a networking session at the upcoming ICT conference in Vienna. The networking session brings academic and industrial audience together from all over Europe to discuss two of the most innovative research areas in an interactive network session: Automated driving and industrial IoT.

The Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), partner in the AUTWARE project, has attended the IEEE 23rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2018) of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) to present the prototype developed by the UMH to provide reliable and flexible communications for mobile industrial applications. The conference was held in Turin, Italy, from 4th to 7th of September 2018.

The Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) participated in URSI 2018 (XXXIII SIMPOSIUM NACIONAL DE LA UNIÓN CIENTÍFICA INTERNACIONAL DE RADIO) to present the Reference Communications and Networking Architecture defined in AUTOWARE. The Spanish national conference (https://congresos.ugr.es/ursi2018/) was celebrated from 5th to 7th of September in Granada, Spain.

UMH will participate in the IEEE 23rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2018) of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES). The paper ‘An Experimental Evaluation of Redundancy in Industrial Wireless Communications’ accepted to be presented in the conference describes the prototype developed by the UMH to provide reliable and flexible communications for mobile industrial applications, and the results achieved in the trials carried out at Tekniker Neutral Experimentation Infrastructure.

CNR participates in the 16th IFIP International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2018). The conference will constitute a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest results in the field of wired/wireless networks and will aim at providing research directions and fostering collaborations among the participants.

ICPS 2018 is the 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems to be held in beautiful Saint Petersburg, Russia, on May 15-18, 2018. Participation in the first of a premier conference series presenting the state of the art and future perspectives of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems.  CNR will present a research paper about the AUTOWARE project at the ICPS 2018 and disseminate project results regarding Smart Data Distribution in a Special Session co-organized by AUTOWARE.

Partners from the AUTOWARE consortium, TTTech and Fraunhofer IGD, will have a booth at the Hannover Messe this year (April 23-27, 2018). Hannover Messe is the world's leading Trade Fair for industrial Technology. All key technologies and core areas of industry – from research and development, industrial automation, IT, industrial supply, production technologies and services to energy and mobility technologies – can be found at Hannover Messe.

Meet AUTOWARE at ILA Berlin (25.-29.4.2018) through the workshop “Cognitive Human-Robot-Collaboration supported by an ergonomic and safe workplace design”. The workshop is called EMMA-CC and is lead by Fraunhofer (Neyir Sevilmis, Thu Huong Luu, Johannes Mueller-Roemer, Reimar Tausch (FhG)).

Rapid changes in market demand lead to decreasing product life times and more frequent product and product variants launches. This has boosted the worldwide competition on production costs, quality, and delivery time.

Innovalia organised two workshops on “Business Digitalization and Digital Economy” within the CyberTIC training program, that offer a 200 hours program of mixed training in Cybersecurity, Big Data, Advanced Analytics and Cloud Computer System, including references to AUTOWARE technologies and results, and enhancing young employees’ skills to meet Industrial evolution.

The paper “A software defined hierarchical communication and data management architecture for Industry 4.0”, written by M.Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Theofanis P. Raptis, Miguel Sepulcre, Andrea Passarella, Cristina Regueiro, Oscar Lazaro was accepted for participation in the 14th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (IEEE/IFIP WONS 2018), 6-8 February 2018, Isola 2000, France.

Dr. Miguel Sepulcre from University of Elche, Spain, presented the Hierarchical Communication and Data Management Architecture defined in Autoware at the IEEE/IFIP WONS 2018, the 14th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference, celebrated from the 6 to 8 of February 2018, at Isola 2000, France.

The WONS conference is well-known for providing a global platform for rich interactions between experts in their fields related to wireless on-demand network systems and services, discussing innovative contributions in a stimulating environment.

Meet AUTOWARE at the TTECH booth at SPS/IPC Drives 2017 – Industrial Trade Fair, 28-30.11.2017 in Nuremberg, Germany. Martijn Rooker presents the fog/edge node and demonstrates it in an industrial demonstrator.

Partner from the AUTOWARE consortium took place in the European ICT Research & Innovation with a special focus on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme for 2018-20. The outcome was wide dissemination of AUTOWARE results to multiple stakeholders, networking with these stakeholders and fruitful interactions regarding future collaboration as well as partnership building in the themes of AUTOWARE with academics, researchers, industrial stakeholders, SMEs and government actors from all over Europe.

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SQS presented AUTOWARE at QATEST 2017 ‘International Conference on Software QA and Testing on Embedded Systems’. From SQS booth, Batzi Uribarri showed AUTOWARE project and results to all the participants attending the conference. It’s been a great opportunity to build partnerships and get in touch with important international companies and organisations like Intel, Volvo, Roche Diagnostics, VerifySoft, Lean-Agile Partners, etc.

CNR has participated at the IEEE WiMob for the dissemination of project results regarding Smart Data Distribution at WiMob and specifically at the workshop on cooperative wireless networks. CNR presented a research paper and could interact with stakeholders from academia, research centers and industry.

UMH Magazine “UMH Sapiens” published an article about the AUTOWARE project reporting on findings from their Research Report for 2016.  It shows an increase in the resources, compared to the previous year, being also an increase compared to the funding acquired in 2015. The report is written in a special format with the occasion of UMH 20th anniversary, and it can be found at the following link: http://mediaumh.es/memoinvest/2016/#p=4 .MH is also planning various activities to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the academic institution’s founding.

In the 5th edition of U-Ranking of Spanish Universities, UMH occupies the 5th position in the ranking of the best universities in Spain, while it is 6th on the classification for Innovation and Technological Innovation and 11th for employability.

Bojan Nemec  from Jožef Stefan Institute gave a talk at 18th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Hong Kong, 2017.

The NEXT Conference is a two-day knowledge festival, where you get to explore the complexities of the digital era through multidisciplinary perspectives. You can meet Fraunhofer there, presenting their work in the AUTOWARE project.

AUTOWARE and the role of UMH in the project was featured on the website of Onda Cero Radio Station: ‘La UMH participa en un proyecto europeo para diseñar redes inalámbricas para la industria 4.0’, 15 December 2016 / Elche, Spain, Javier Gozalvez, Miguel Sepulcre.

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AUTOWARE kick-off meeting took place in Bilbao on 27-28 of October. All project partners’ attended the meeting, where they presented their roles, expertise and main objective within the project. Moreover, during the WP presentations, first initial technical discussion where generated, showing great interest to achieve expected goals.

Autoware will address advanced human-machine interaction and Cyber Physical Systems by building an open CPPS ecosystem and single community that will lower the barriers of manufacturing SMMEs for cognitive automation application development and application of autonomous manufacturing processes.

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