DIEX - Digital Experience

Overview

DiEX - Digital EXperience - is the first experiential Digital Innovation Hub developed according to the guidelines of the Italian National Industry 4.0 Plan. DiEX acts as a strategic consultancy partner, but also as prototype developer with its network of academic and technology partners and as a testing facility for digital technologies in a real production environment with both operators and machinery in a line producing a mechanical product, further developed in a smart, connected product.

DiEX is made by a group of qualified subjects able to give a relevant contribution to the digital transformation of firms, through upgrading skills, acting as a testbed for the implementation of new technologies and innovative products thanks to additive manufacturing, Artificial and Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twin and a fully operational production facility supporting the introduction of new technologies. DiEX is also a testbed change management journeys, as a group of trained actors performs roleplay activities with participants from the industrial world to enable them to test and overcome the resistance to change in the most efficient and smooth way possible.

The main partner of DiEX is Lean Experience Factory 4.0 (LEF). In May 2016 in Pordenone, Italy, was opened Lean Experience Factory 4.0, an experiential training laboratory to enable participants from the industrial and academic world to “touch and feel” the digital solutions in a real production environment across the whole value chain, in a consistent, structured and measured environment.

LEF is a real production environment specifically developed to train managers, feeling the most innovative technologies showing a demonstrated impact on the main business drivers, such as productivity, quality and innovation in business models.

DiEX is the empowerment and expansion of this already present, trusted and established reality in the national and local business network. Digital technologies.