The Experimental and Digital Factory (EDF), a flexible modular factory and Innovation Laboratory at the Professorship of Factory Planning and Factory Management at Chemnitz University of Technology, represents an important basis for excellent research and development in the field of factory planning and factory operations and logistics.

The EDF is understood as a representation of a "complete mini-factory" with all the essential manufacturing and logistics components of general cargo as well as components whose production planning and control. The immediate interplay between planning and operation enables application-development / adaptation of methods and tools for factory planning and operation as well as the behavioral study of factory and logistics processes and configurations. Research and development priorities include smart factory, industry 4.0, automation (e.g. automated guided vehicles), identification (e.g. RFID/NFC), digital factory, adaptability and energy efficiency/management. Digital technologies.

The mission of the e!xperience DIH is to promote the competitiveness of cultural and experience-based industries (creative industries, tourism and sports) through applied research, innovation and knowledge transfer. The main objectives of the DIH are: • To promote innovation based on creativity (soft innovation) to encourage a better introduction of emerging digital technologies in cultural and creative industries, including experience-based industries. • To promote new dynamics of development of cultural and creative activities based on collaboration between companies, research and innovation agents and public cultural services providers in Catalonia. • To strengthen the visibility and the link between production and cultural experiences with their public broadening, diversifying and personalizing their consumption, access and/or interaction The DIH offers companies applied R+D and technology consultancy, high specialized training and promotion and dissemination of technological innovation in the Cultural and Creative Industries and industries based on the experience. Digital technologies.

The Digital Innobation Hub Northern Netherlands / Region of Smart Factories (DIH/RoSF) is a n non-profit organization to encourage and support digitalization of the economy and the industry in the Northern Netherlands, follwiing 3 action lines: 

‘Go Digital’ to get all companies at the stage of conscious/competence with regard to digitalization.
‘Play the Champions League’ to connect our frontrunners with the EU innovation programs and to share our competences with additional regions.
‘Create & Share talents and comptences’ by three regional demo factories annex skillslabs.

  Digital technologies.

ETICOM, is a business association with more than 300 companies, associated organizations and collaborators, non-profit. ETICOM is the cluster of the Digital Economy in Andalusia, one of the most important ICT and content groups in Spain. Its purpose is to defend the interests of entrepreneurs in the ICT sector and since 1999.

 ETICOM has developed its own formation path, - ETICOM Corporate University - where offer masters, formation and capability courses accompanied of our associated, providing since 2001 best manners in IT sector.

ETICOM is a partner of two main multisectorial associations of IT sector in Spain (AMETIC and CONETIC), providing our voice in the high representation councils of the technology sector at national ratio, in defense of our members.

As reference in Digital Economy sector, ETICOM has participated with National Agency Red.es, in training and skills development for youth, promoting the specialized training in order to prepare students and professionals to the specific market needs.

In local focus, ETICOM has participated in digitalisation process for SME through provincial goverment Diputación de Sevilla, with conferences about digital marketing, and a mentoring project with SMEs in Lean method for low-digitalized procedures.

Nowadays, ETICOM participates with Diputación de Sevilla organizating conferences with our experts, about the uses of cloud enviroment for SME, ERP systems and new jobs and opportunities in technological envirment.

  Digital technologies.

Espaitec is the Science, Technology and Business Park of the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón managed by the non-profit organisation Fundació General de la Universitat Jaume I (General Foundation of University Jaume I). An innovative area that started in 2007 made up of technology-based companies, research groups and public organisations that work in different economic sectors to contribute in a quantified and acknowledged fashion to the socio-economic development in the province of Castellón, and also to the diversification of its business fabric through innovation.

Espaitec provides a high technology environment for user-driven testing called e'LivingLab (https://youtu.be/1hhG-c9PLKE) as one of the main services for helping our SME to develop their products using a co-creation environment with their clients (one example of prototyping was published "LivingLab services for Business support and internationalisation" https://issuu.com/enoll/docs/living_lab_services_for_business_su/42 published by ENOLL). e'LivingLAB is member of European Network of LivingLabs (https://enoll.org/network/living-labs/?livinglab=espaitec-living-lab#de…)

Soon we will launch our FabLab that will help to develop prototyping under this user-driver philosophy. 

After more than 10 years of work, we have created a reference environment in the province of Castellón which intends to host, support and promote, and help develop, innovative business initiatives, to facilitate the transfer of technology developed at the University, supporting the digitalization of SMEs and to act as an acknowledged delegate in the innovation field.

In short, it is an area of the Universitat Jaume I where experimentation can be done through innovation; create new professional opportunities by generating technology-based companies; bring talents and disciplines together; promote 360º innovation as a way of life; generate wealth through transferring knowledge to society. Digital technologies.

The EOSC-hub Digital Industry Hub is a non-profit multi-dimensional entity that allows research e-Infrastructures to support business organisations to stimulate the innovation potential of research infrastructures, as well as helping SMEs, start-ups and other innovative actors to tap into the academic world both in accessing knowledge as well as technical services. The final goal is to create a one stop shop that brings IT services, research data, and expertise into a single place to support innovation in industry.

The value proposition of the EOSC-hub DIH can be summarized in five key areas:

Brokerage and innovation

In this regard, the EOSC-hub DIH aims to:

Facilitate effective collaboration within local and international networks.
Promote “open innovation” as the concept used to leverage resources available in the e-Infrastructure network and strategically manage business innovation processes.
Generate innovation ecosystems around e-Infrastructures.
Create a wider community adding researchers, web-entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, investors and corporates from different sectors and geographies.
Expose startups/SMEs to new markets, cultures and business opportunities.

Provide the means for business incubation of innovative ideas

Activities in this space include, but not limited to:
Identifying and refining innovative ideas and facilitating the start-up of operational groups.
Providing the necessary expertise and infrastructure (data, hardware, software, platforms).
Creating conditions for showcase of benefits of new services and products within the e-infrastructure.

Access to public and private funding and facilitate market uptake  

A dedicated unit aims to support both pilots and Competence Centres (CCs) to build-up successful market take-up and commercial boost strategy, through tailor-made coaching, market insights and network with investors/corporate. A business oriented coaching team will be established with the mission to accelerate pilots and CCs market uptake and exploitation of main achievements/ results.

Support entrepreneurship

Creating opportunities for industry to obtain resources (i.e. products, services, data, platforms and testing facilities) to establish new business

Gaining new competencies and skills within research and academic spaces for supporting spin-outs.

Fostering the re-use of open e-infrastructures ecosystems for innovation.

Improving exploitation of thematic/community-driven services among e-infrastructures.

Training

service specific tutorials, business coaching webinars and formal certification in service management according to FitSM

Digital technologies.

EnergyDataDK is a digital innovation hub for testing and development of innovative and sustainable energy solutions based on data and digital technologies to support and accelerate the development of an intelligent and sustainable energy system.

The specific focus of EnergyDataDK is digitalization of the energy system, including IoT, AI, real-time data management, energy data analytics, and real-time energy system simulation, in order to make the energy sector more sustainable, cost-effective and able to operate with a large penetration of renewable energy.

 

A non-profit organization

EnergyDataDK is a non-profit national hub for digital innovation with the aim of pushing the digital agenda in the green transition. The hub is based on a real-time data platform for collecting, storing, analyzing and sharing time series and event-based data from a wide variety of living labs and testbeds across Denmark. It is the aim of the hub to help startups, SMEs, and other organizations within both research and industry to develop and explore new services and technologies in the smart energy area for the benefit of society.

 

Digital services

Data is the source of intelligence when it comes to developing a future smart energy system ready to undertake 100% renewable energy, and solid enough to run cost-effective on market terms. Therefore, EnergyDataDK is based on a data management platform collecting nationwide real life energy data and making it assessable as open data.

 

Data management:

EnergyDataDK can provide access to real-time data from serval different living labs and testbeds. Real-time and historic energy data can be exchanged via website APIs and provided as open data.

 

Data analytics and Energy system simulations:

EnergyDataDK offers the possibility of connecting datasets to both real-time simulator, high-performance computing and advanced optimization and control algorithms based on machine learning and AI.

EnergyDataDK provides a combination of data management, data simulation and data analytics in such quality and quantity that the hub is a unique test facility – currently not available anywhere else in the world. 

 

Digital transformation of SMEs and Midcaps:

The EnergyDataDK hub provides a number of novel and innovative services to its users. These services will enable test and verification of digital energy solutions as well as lowering the technical and economic barriers of the industry in their development of these solutions – and thereby facilitate an accelerated development.

The availability of the services are especially important for startup and SME’s, who may not have the financial or technical capabilities to develop the data and analytics facilities needed for developing digital applications. Digital technologies.

ESDALAB DIH is part of Embedded System Design and Application Laboratory (https://www.esdalab.ece.uop.gr) of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (https://www.ece.uop.gr) of the University of Peloponnese (https://www.uop.gr) in Greece. As part of a public Greek University, ESDALAB DIH is a non-profit organization.

The main goal of the hub is to provide local and European SMEs & Slightly Bigger Companies support towards their digital transformation and innovation by:

Enhancing their Digital Skills
Providing know-how on state-of-the-art technologies related to Internet-of-Things and Cyberphysical systems
Technology transfer, that will allow them to enter the digital era through novel services and coaching that will strengthen their position, both in the regional and the global market
Identifying and supporting cross domain business opportunities

ESDALAB DIH is part of the European Network of DIHs. Digital technologies.

Eliko is an embedded electronics and software development company. We design and develop intelligent and future-proof control systems for different industries including industrial manufacturing and healthcare.

Eliko custom develops solutions based on novel algorithms and communication models for devices that continuously need new functionalities in the Internet of Things (IoT).

Eliko's engineers have broad experience in embedded product development and IoT/M2M communication. We focus on inertial motion capture, machine vision and Ultra Wideband technology.

For the past decade, Eliko has been one of the main sources of industrial R&D competence for the Estonian IT and electronics industry. Eliko has been involved in developing government digital standards and public services. Digital technologies.

 

The EGI Digital Innovation Hub (EGI DIH) is a non-profit virtual space where companies and technical service providers meet to test solutions before investing. EGI DIH offers different services on advanced computing to help companies in digitalization improving their productivity.
 

EGI DIH is managed by the EGI Foundation, a non-for-profit organization that coordinates a federation of 350 resource providers offering compute, storage and data infrastructure. The main goal of EGI is to empower data and compute-intensive research and innovation. 

 

Services

 

Test before invest: Technical facilities to support companies and SMEs test before investing or to validate services or solutions. The technical focus of the EGI DIH is:

HPC 
Cloud 
Data management 
Research datasets 
Big Data, Data analytics 
Modelling, Simulations
AI /ML /DL

Skills and training: Provide knowledge on the technical offer through webinars or consultancy services. FitSM certification: Learn IT service management according to a lightweight standard
Support to find investment: Facilitate the access to funding opportunities and investment mechanisms to sustainable support the innovation.
Networking and community building: Bring SMEs and communities together with the EGI community and facilitate the interaction and open new market opportunities.
Digital technologies.