Industrial Ring

Spain: Catalonia

Overview

The Industrial Ring brings together engineers, manufacturers (OEM and TIER1), technology providers, associations, research centers, universities and government with the aim to identify, develop and promote best practices around 4.0 Industry or Industrial Internet. In the process of open innovation, companies and the entire value chain participate actively identifying needs that hardly could be solved by a company itself, creating multidisciplinary groups to create and build collaborative solutions that help companies achieve business objectives. The Industrial Ring is a community open to different strategic sectors of Catalonia (defined in RIS3CAT) acting as coordinator and catalyst for collaboration between companies. The collaborator must provide an infrastructure for small and medium businesses in the community to test advanced solutions that enable them to increase competitiveness, improve process efficiency and increase profits. Our objectives: Drive innovation by creating use cases and pilotes. Providing infrastructure solutions to enable testing in real environments. Promote success stories and provide forums for sharing best practices and results. To facilitate the adoption of new technologies in SME companies. Participate in forums and international organizations to develop standards. Our services and infrastructure: Infrastructure bandwidth. Connections with fiber optic or radio link provided by Orange or other providers of telecommunications infrastructures Industrial Platform 4.0 is a digital services marketplace that allows businesses access to new technologies at an affordable cost and reduces barriers to entry for new entrants to the ecosystem. Industry 4.0 Innovation Workshop, to identify ideas, prioritize and define a business case at a high level. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Accommodation and food service activities - Accommodation - Food and beverage service activities - Other manufacturing - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
Technology
Communication networks - Internet of things - Mobility & Location based technologies - Advanced, or high performance computing - Software as a service and service architectures - Cloud computing