Galileo Digital Innovation Hub

Overview

Galileo DIH is the non-profit Digital Innovation Hub of Padua, whose aim is to facilitate and promote research, technology transfer and innovation among companies. A Digital Innovation Hub involves and connects the main local areas of innovation. Galileo DIH represents a hub that:

offers all the Galileo services (R&D, Education, Incubator, etc...),
collaborates with local stakeholders in terms of innovation and industry 4.0 (chamber of commerce, university, living lab, competence centre, etc...),
addresses local companies to the right development direction.

In addition, Galileo DIH accompanies SMEs in the definition and knowledge of their values, providing the necessary tools for strengthening and evolution within the competitive context to which they belong, sensitize them in the planification of new and strategic actions for the digital development.

On July 2018, Galileo Visionary District, the first company in Veneto Region and one of the first five in Italy, has obtained the certification of Technology Transfer Centre Industry 4.0 (Decreto Direttoriale MISE 22 dicembre 2017).

The Technology Transfer Centres carry out training and technical consulting activities, as well as technology transfer services to enterprises that works on specific settings/environments/operative fields.

In particular, the certified operative fields for Galileo are:

A - Solutions for advanced manufacturing

B - Additive manufacturing

C - Augmented reality and virtual reality

D - Simulation of product and / or production and / or logistic systems

F - Industrial Internet, Internet of Things and / or Internet of Machines

J - E-commerce systems

M - Geolocation

P - RFID, barcode, tracking & tracing systems

Q - System integrator applied to process automation.

The connected activities to the above-mentioned fields and certified for Galileo are:

2.1 - Technological training

2.4 - Training and consultancy on organizational and / or business, technical and industrial models

2.5 - Design and planning of implementation interventions for Industry 4.0 technologies

2.6 - Industrial research and experimental development including virtual prototyping

2.9 - Analysis, monitoring and technological brokerage services.

The GVD projects are multiple and fit on different industries, refer to companies operating in traditional sectors (Agrifood, Furniture, Mechanics, Fashion, Eyewear, Sportsystem, Carousel production, etc.), or in innovative areas as the Sustainable Packaging, or Biomedical for digital Health, working with high-tech companies and Digital startups. Galileo's modus operandi in supporting companies follows a standard that consists of:

At a strategic level: the company is accompanied in a process of strategy reviewing in a digital and industry 4.0 perspective, using tools such as design thinking, the lean start-up machine, the killer idea, etc. to support it in understanding its needs and identifying the correct pattern of innovative development;
At a tactical level: an operational program is drawn up that originates from the strategic plan at the previous point;
At the operational level: SMEs are accompanied on the 4.0 innovation path identified in the strategic plan.

The IoT Cube was set up at the Start Cube Incubator, with a permanent corner for experiential training, which gives the opportunity to design products concretely able to communicate with each other within the Industry 4.0 paradigm.

At the headquarters of Scuola Italiana Design, Galileo has the availability of some demonstration spaces on the subjects of additive printing and digital prototyping, for the orientation, and accompaniment towards these technologies, as for example “digital gym” equipped with 3D printers where it is possible to "touch" the potential of these systems, testing their effectiveness; or equipped with 60 workstations with state-of-the-art hardware and software, through which students can comprehend the usefulness of digital tools.
The aim of creating these spaces is to provide companies with a practical example on the issues linked to the Industry 4.0 paradigms, seen as a fundamental element for relaunching competitiveness, not only approaching and informing potential users of these technologies, but also showing them use. Digital technologies.