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Author: CEITEC VUTDigitalisation is a topic that resonates throughout society today, not only in terms of technological progress but also as an economic, ethical and general societal challenge. That is why CEITEC Brno University of Technology joined the national initiative Week for Digital Czechia and on 23 November organised a conference entitled “Digitisation: trends and practices”. The morning programme of the conference belonged to companies, while in the afternoon, our gates were opened to schools and the general public – especially the gates of our “factory of the future”, the so-called Industry 4.0 RICAIP Testbed. Due to the interest from businesses but also from experts, journalists, schools and the general public, a total of 148 participants passed through our testbed during the day.
The morning conference was intended for representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises, for whom a rich programme consisting of presentations and panel discussions on the topics of digitisation, automation, and Industry 4.0 was prepared in cooperation with our partners CzechInvest, the Agency for Enterprise and Innovation (API), Eurocentre and Europe Direct.
The event was opened by Prof. Pavel Václavek, Head of the Cybernetics and Robotics research group, Head of the Technical Cybernetics research area and coordinator of a number of projects related to the Industry 4.0 RICAIP Testbed at CEITEC BUT. And what is this testbed? A testbed is a kind of smart factory with high-tech equipment including robots, production machines, artificial intelligence systems and software solutions for designing and simulating production processes. It is used not only for research but primarily as a testing environment for companies. It can be particularly beneficial for small and medium-sized enterprises that may have interesting ideas for innovative processes but may not have the equipment to test them. That is what testbeds are for. Testbeds are equipped with software solutions for designing or simulating the product, the production process and the programming of individual production machines. A testbed is therefore a scientific workplace open to cooperation with business.
The Brno Industry 4.0 RICAIP Testbed was inaugurated in 2022 and was created within the framework of the Research and Innovation Centre on Advanced Industrial Production (RICAIP) project, which is an international project focused on the transfer of knowledge and skills in the field of industrial production. Besides the Brno testbed, the project also includes the Prague testbed at CIIRC CTU and German partners – Saarbrücken companies DFKI and ZeMA.
How does cooperation with the Brno testbed even work? Since the Industry 4.0 RICAIP Testbed in Brno is also part of the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH -DIGIMAT), experiments and tests run there can be 100% covered for companies with up to 499 employees.Full article at CEITEC BUT website