MIND4MACHINES Open Innovation Space, will be a platform where companies in the manufacturing industry define their digitalization needs, SMEs and startups that produce technology solutions that can meet these needs will come together by presenting their solutions and define their common ideas.

MIND4MACHINES has identified nine main challenges manufacturing companies are facing towards digitalisation. These challenges are also the application areas for the project’s open calls:

• Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS): Production method designed to easily adapt to changes in the type and quantity of the product being manufactured. Machines and computerised systems can be configured to manufacture a variety of parts and handle changing levels of production.

• Predictive maintenance: Technique that uses data analysis tools and techniques to detect anomalies in your operation and possible defects in equipment and processes so you can fix them before they result in failure.

• Resource and energy efficiency: Using the limited resources in a sustainable manner to create more with less and to deliver greater value with less input and/or Using less energy to perform the same task; eliminating energy waste.

• Smart packaging: Offers extended function to package, involving sensors and indicators that monitor the product condition or provide information about the status.

• Decision support systems: Computerised program used to support determinations, judgments, and courses of action in an organisation or a business.

• Safety and security: Security as protecting computer systems against the threats of the external environment, and safety as protecting the environment from potential dangers of computer systems.

• Logistics: The combination of traffic management structuring and navigating traffic for optimal use of traffic system and logistics management (organising, planning, control and execution of the flow goods) by effective usage of data.

• Supply chain management: Handling of the entire production flow of a good or service, starting from the raw components all the way to delivering the final product to the consumer

The Open Innovation Platform has a section dedicated to each challenges, supporting a more focused and productive interaction. Companies are welcomed to share updates, media (videos, photos) or KPIs to any of the sections and comment on content shared by others.