ENGINEERING Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. (ENG)
ENGINEERING Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. (ENG) is the leading Italian software and services group, with 11,600 employees and more than 40 sites distributed in Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Republic of Serbia, Switzerland, Sweden, South America (Brazil, Mexico and Argentina) and United States, a consolidated revenue portfolio in 2021 of 1.32 billion Euros. ENG has a consolidated presence on all vertical markets and operates through its 4 business units – Public Administration & Healthcare, Telco & Utilities, Industry & Services, Finance – supported by cross-business unit centres of competence and by the Research and Innovation Department which has the dual role of promoting research on software at an international level and transferring innovation to the production cycle of the business structures.
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FUNDACION CARTIF
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CARTIF is a horizontal, private and non-profit technology center. Its mission is to offer innovative solutions to companies to improve their processes, systems and products, improving their competitiveness and creating new business opportunities.
CARTIF develops R&D projects, directly funded by companies or public funds raised through competitive calls for national and international level. CARTIF also advises public authorities (municipalities and regional governments) in the planning and development of innovative projects with high economic returns. CARTIF manages s-X-AIPI project acting as the coordinator.
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Eiffage Infraestructuras
Eiffage Infraestructuras carries on its business activities within the public sector construction and building; concrete and aggregates production; mortars and prefabricated binders and roll-out of agglomerates and road surfaces, leading company in the sector at national level. Eiffage Infraestructuras was born from the merger of renowned companies within the public works and construction sector: PANASFALTO, RUS, GRUPO LOS SERRANOS and TRIALSA. Each of these companies contributes with its professionalism, experience, human team, strong industrial potential and client closeness. Alliance that increases the competitiveness and efficiency of these large companies, being able to access larger works, without forgetting their roots.
Furthermore, Eiffage Infraestructuras has stakes in other companies in the sector such as SGASA, PABASFALTO, MEBISA and MASFALT, among others, which enables the Company to expand its services.
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Sidenor Aceros Especiales S.L
Sidenor Aceros Especiales S.L is a steel company, leader in the European steel industry for the production of special steel long products. It is also an important supplier of cold finished products in the European market. The company has production centers in Basque Country, Cantabria and Catalonia as well as business delegations in Germany, France, Italy and the U.K. Sidenor offers a wide range of rolled (wire rod, bars, flats, billets), cold finished (cold drawn, peeling/turning and straightening) and semi-finished products (continuous casting billets, rounds and blooms), obtained from several steel qualities (carbon steel, free cutting steel, alloyed steels, spring steel, microalloyed steel, cold forming steel, bearing steels, tool steel and stainless steel). Sidenor’s steel production capacity exceeds one million tons annually, primarily destined to the automobile, machinery, capital equipment, railway, energy, mining and petrochemical industries. In all of these industries, Sidenor’s special steel is used to manufacture reliable products. The company is at the frontline of the sector thanks to their intense research commitment. Having one of the largest R&D centers in the European steel sector, Sidenor’s technological developments offer optimization of products and processes.
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Mondragón Sistemas de Información (MSI)
Mondragón Sistemas de Información (MSI) is a group of companies specialized in services related with Automation, Control and Digitalization of the production and logistic Processes. MSI is a turnkey solution supplier to support customers with the digitalization transformation projects of their production lines. These projects are based on automation and data management with the focus on becoming more competitive in terms of productivity, resources efficiency (materials and energy). Therefore, MSI is a supplier of the following services:
Automation of production processes (PLC´s, SCADA´s…)
Production control systems or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Energy Efficiency via Energy Monitoring System (EMS)
Industry 4.0, particularly in data analysis for process improvement, Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and Cibersecurity.
MSI belongs to Engineering and Services division in Mondragon Corporation, one of the most important industrial group in Spain with more than 80.000 employees worldwide. The high qualification of the more than 100 engineers, specialized in electronics and ICT, together with 20 years of experience are a guarantee for a successful Project realization.
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VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH
VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH (abbreviation: BFI) is a non-profit research institute located in Düsseldorf, Germany. BFI offers innovative ideas through applied cutting-edge research that are turned into customised, operational solutions for the process industry, especially with close connections to the steel industry. BFI cooperates with many industrial partners and with a huge number of research partners around Europe. The institute addresses emerging issues of major relevance for the process industry in four strategic areas: „Decarbonisation and Energy efficiency“, „Process and process chain optimisation“, „Circular Economy“ as well as „Industry 4.0 and Measurement technologies“. By dealing with these four strategic fields of activity in research and development work simultaneously, many synergetic effects can be realised which is a significant strength of BFI.
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DEUSER
DEUSER is a R&D performing SME located in Córdoba (Spain) aimed at the automation of all type of industrial processes by developing products, both hardware and software, to successfully carry out the projects demanded by our customers. Currently we are considered as one of the Spanish references in the field of process control by large firms such as Siemens, Panasonic, Rockwell, etc. We are Global Partner certified by Siemens in industrial communications, being the only one in Spain, with prospection for turnkey projects related to machine integration in the cloud and in plant processes. Over time, DEUSER evolves by specializing in the nexus of union between the fields of OT (Operation Technologies or manufacturing plant) and IT (Information Technologies) in each production process, so we have differentiated ourselves from our competition, fully focused on the OT field.
Therefore, DEUSER has become a leading company in Industry4.0, by expanding our following business lines: Automation of physical machines or entire process lines, both in the discrete manufacturing industry and in the process industry. Robotic: Programming and integration of robotic cells for any type of manipulation, both in traditional and collaborative robotics. Cybersecurity: Cybersecurity plans implemented for the industrial sector. Digitization: Digital twin, MES, APS, GMAO and Computing Techniques: Machine Learning, Big data, Artificial Vision, Augmented Reality.
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AIMEN
AIMEN Technology Centre, with more than 50 years of history, is currently a national and European benchmark in research, development and technological innovation in the areas of advanced manufacturing and laser manufacturing, digital technologies for manufacturing, smart materials, smart systems and recycling; as well as in the provision of differentiating technological services to the industry in the areas of manufacturing with advanced joining technologies, robotics and process digitization, a flexible cross-engineering service highly specialised in welding, corrosion, equipment calculation, product simulation and material tests.
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Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di Milano is the most important technical university in Italy and one of the best in Europe, according to recent rankings. Since 1863, Politecnico di Milano has been active in several scientific and technical fields and is involved in the project through the Manufacturing Group of the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering. This team groups almost 50 researchers and its specific competences lay in the fields of Manufacturing Strategy, ICT for Manufacturing, Social and Environmental Sustainability in Manufacturing, Product and Service Development, Manufacturing Systems Design, Production and Maintenance Management, Education in Manufacturing in which the group can be considered the leader among the Italian Universities and Research Centers.
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CORE Innovation Centre is a non-profit RTO, subsidiary of CORE Innovation & Technology OE, aiming to provide individuals, industries and companies with opportunities to reach their true potential, to make industries smarter and greener, more sustainable and more socially inclusive. Industry 4.0 is where CORE IC chooses to focus its research and innovation efforts. Advances in a range of technologies i.e. IoT, big data, machine and deep learning, edge and cloud computing are deployed to maximise the potential of both people and entities in multiple sectors.
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The Research Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering is a global leader in pharmaceutical engineering sciences. We help our partners to create and manufacture advanced medicines for patients around the world, through optimising products and processes. RCPE’s services encompass the entire value chain of pharmaceutical product development: continuous API synthesis, advanced formulations, next-generation manufacturing, and also device design and optimization. As a non-profit, private company owned by Graz University of Technology, University of Graz and JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, we link outstanding science, application and industry in a business-oriented approach. RCPE is a K1 Competence Centre within the COMET programme, operated by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).
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The Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE) is legally designated as the National Standardization Body of Spain. It is the national representative and member of the European (CEN/CENELEC), International (ISO/IEC) and Panamerican (COPANT) Standards Organizations, and member of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). More than 33.000 standards in catalogue, 200 national technical committees and 150 responsibilities (chairs, secretariats, convenors) in international standardization committees are a sample of the experience developed as national standards body during more than 30 years. Formally, it is a non-profit-making, private, independent and multisectoral organisation, recognised at National, European and International level. Through the development of technical standards, UNE helps improve the quality and competitiveness of companies, products and services.
UNE is participating in many Research and Innovation projects like InComEss representing the European Standardization Organizations CEN and CENELEC to support and manage the integration of standardization activities. Standardization is a tool to boost the impact of the projects by promoting compatibility, providing the distribution and transfer of knowledge, fostering the dissemination of their results to the relevant European stakeholders and facilitating their introduction into the market.
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Since 1984, Ibérica de Aleaciones Ligeras (IDALSA) has been manufacturing aluminium ingots in different formats and chemical compositions, from the recycling and smelting of waste and scrap. With a wide experience and know-how, IDALSA grows constantly and sustainably through continuous improvement, anticipating the needs of a market in continuous evolution and with a deep commitment to the environment. Our high level of customisation and adaptability to our customers allows us to supply a wide range of products to a variety of sectors such as automotive, furniture, domestic radiators and steelwork, among others. At IDALSA we work every day to be a national and international benchmark in offering sustainable solutions, and to be an example of Green Industry that bases its business model on the Circular Economy and Sustainability in its three areas: environment, social and economic.
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Nissatech is an innovation-driven SME with strong international cooperation and vision to become one of European top innovators in the domain of advanced AI and cognitive industrial solutions. The main objective is to develop own technological building blocks through an efficient implementation of the cutting-edge research and their usage for resolving very challenging real-world problems in different industrial domains.
The major competitive advantage is based on a very high innovation potential and strong engineering skills that enable an efficient early adoption of technologies that can improve our core competencies. Our social responsibility is driven by awareness of the need for green and social innovation in any technological progress.
Main focus is on the light-green solutions for manufacturing SMEs, a novel type of innovative and affordable systems for monitoring and controlling eco-friendly process and product quality
Main commercial product is D2Lab (Data Diagnostic Laboratory, the Framework for Advanced Data Analytics, d2lab.nissatech.com) which has been used in various application domains for the development of the advanced data analytics and cognition-based applications, focused on main areas: Manufacturing, Oil&Gas and Fitness/Sport (Platform smart4.fit)
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