First Time Right, One Piece Flow is the mission of SWF with Welding Automation. The robotic welding process must be automated from A-Z, where the start is the 3D-model and the end is the finished product including certificates. In this Innovation Hub several companies work together to innovate and automate the complete robotic welding process. Where brand independency is a very important issue. The vision of the producing industry is here very important and market development is stimulated in this process. Since 2014 we have been very successful in our approach. Digital technologies.

More than any other technological development before it, digital technology is shaping and transforming our society, economy and industry. For many companies, digitising their businesses has therefore become a number one priority. With Dresden combining strong research with an even stronger industry landscape, the hub offers a perfect combination of knowledge and skills. The Dresden Hub is pursuing a smart systems strategy, aiming at ‘enabling IoT’, and focusing on combining hardware, software and connectivity as the bases for our digital future. It will provide end-to-end IoT solutions which can be developed quickly and deployed by a wide range of different users. The Dresden hub is working with a number of skilled partners from academia and the industrial sector, innovative IT companies, creative start-ups and established networks. Based at the heart of the city, the hub offers a dynamic digital ecosystem. Whether it is micro-electronics and sensor technology – all areas in which Dresden has been able to leverage considerable investment, synergies and expertise – the fast-growing software sector, big data, high-performance computing or high-speed mobile phone connections, Dresden has the skills needed to supply all business sectors with the smart equipment they need in the digital age and the Internet of Things. There are ‘trails’ that help interested parties obtain an overview of the wide variety of products and services provided by all the stakeholders involved and that provide information on the hub’s academic partners including TU Chemnitz, TU Dresden, HTW Dresden, the ENAS, IPMS and IWU Fraunhofer institutes, as well as the hub’s business partners including Infineon, Globalfoundries, SAP, T-Systems MMS, iSAX, N+P und many others. Digital technologies.

The Smart manufacturing DIH serves manufacturing industries in digitalization and co-creation. The focus is on boosting renewal and innovations in Finnish machine and manufacturing sectors incl. microelectronics. Examples of activities are e.g. cutting edge research services with access to European networks; co-creation and ecosystem building for companies; testing and piloting of solutions for SME`s; small series fabrication for microelectronics. Services are offered by key partners SMACC (Smart Machines and Manufacturing Competence Centre), Micronova and DIMECC (Digital, Internet, Materials & Engineering Co-Creation). However, the ecosystem is open and new partners are joining. Digital technologies.

The Smart Industry Hub South is a non-profit collaboration between economic development agencies, branch organizations and knowledge institutes in the south of the Netherlands. Through this cooperation all parties active in the field of Smart industry coordinate their activities and can act locally where needed, regionally if possible and connect nationally. As one Hub we communicate efficiently towards companies, who can find easier access to initiatives, shared facilities and fieldlabs. We bring together existing initiatives and organize new events together. 

Focus themes: smart manufacturing and smart maintenance/services

Aim: to extend the reach of Smart Industry projects, fieldlabs and facilities in the South of the Netherlands (Noord-Brabant and Limburg). More companies in manufacturing and maintenance that start digitizing their production processes, products of services. 

Activities towards the digitalisation of SMEs: We act as one network, so that SMEs with questions get the right information and get refered to the right expertise. We try to move SMEs from inspire, to experiment and then implement. We start with inspiring and informing SMEs about the possibilities of digitization by organizing large scale events. Interested companies can go a setp further and really experiment with new techniques. These SMEs we refer to fieldlabs and knowledge institutes. There are financial incentives available at this stage. Then we hope companies arrive at the last stage of implementation. Digital technologies.

The vision of the SmartIC hub is to ensure that Estonian manufacturing SMEs, big or small, can fully benefit in innovations in the field of ICT and robotics and thus improve its business and production processes and adapt its business models to the digital change to be globally competitive. Smartic is establishing a new digital research infrastructure. Smart industry (Industry 4.0) is a field that includes R&D activities related to distributed infrastructure at Tallinn University of Technology and Estonian University of Life Sciences in mechanical and industrial engineering, automation, mechatronics, materials science and engineering, and ICT. A new R&D virtual unit Smart Industry Centre (SmartIC) was established to enhance significantly the field of smart industry research, cross-usage of research infrastructures in Estonia (universities and partners), as well as internationally (R&D cooperation projects, applied research with international companies, e.g. in sectors such as aerospace, automotive industry, ship-building, and other industries) through co-operation, marketing and jointly defined services. Composing of the Centre was motivated from the current state of Estonian economy and industry – in addition to extensive low-priced and low-skilled outsourcing is more and more needed to develop value adding high-tech production. Estonia has not any longer advantage of a low-cost industrial country. To cope with this, also universities should show a clear direction and become more capable partner in R&D to the industry in modernizing of technology and in preparing industry's top professionals. Digital technologies.

Smart Health DIH is non-profit organisation which developing the health care innovation ecosystem based in Vilnius (Lithuania). It aims at innovative solutions to promote health, prevent disease and provide resilient, accessible and effective patient-centered care that meets European citizens’ needs.

Smart Health DIH was established to build appropriate frameworks and amounts of high quality patient-centered health data for high performance computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence, which can help design and test new healthcare products, provide faster diagnosis and better personalized health interventions

Smart Health DIH solutions aim at contributing to increase in citizens’ secure access to and sharing of health data across platforms, better data to advance research, disease prevention and personalized health care, providing digital tools for citizen empowerment and person-centered care

As Smart Health DIH was established to facilitate the full innovation chain, from basic research to market uptake, it consists of participants from academia, the public sector, and the private sector: major national healthcare centers and research / educational institutions, international healthcare equipment manufacturers, NGOs, technology providers and facilitators.

Smart Health DIH partners join their resources to implement the new care models and the digital evidence based results, which provide the necessary means for delivery of efficient and cost-effective prevention and care in the European societies facing the ageing of the population together with the growing burden of chronic conditions and multi-morbidity.

Smart Health DIH is open for collaboration with international partners to accelerate innovations for delivering advanced, personalized, effective health care solutions. Digital technologies.

Smart Energy DIH is non-profit organisation which developing the smart energy innovation ecosystem based in Vilnius (Lithuania). The Digital Innovation Hub that brings together major research, business and public stakeholders in Lithuania for the common development and implementation of digital transformations in the renewable energy, greenhouse gas reduction, eco-design, recycling, environmental protection, circular business model development and associated sectors that meets European citizens’ needs. 

Smart Energy DIH was established to build appropriate frameworks and amounts of high quality  of renewable energy data for high performance computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence. 

As Smart Energy DIH was established to facilitate the full innovation chain, from basic research to market uptake, it consists of participants from academia, the public sector, and the private sector: major national renewable energy center’s and research / educational institutions, international smart energy equipment manufacturers, NGOs, technology providers and facilitators.

Smart Energy DIH partners join their resources to implement the new models and the digital evidence based results, which provide the necessary means for delivery of efficient and cost-effective renewable energy in the European societies. 

Smart Energy DIH is open for collaboration with international partners to accelerate innovations for delivering advanced, personalised, effective smart energy solutions.

The strategic mission of Smart Energy DIH is to contribute towards achieving goals stated in the EU “2030 framework for climate and energy policies”, which are the following:

·       At least 40% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions (from 1990 levels);

·       At least 32% share for renewable energy;

·       At least 32.5% improvement in energy efficiency. Digital technologies.

Smart Digital Farming is a non-profit organisation in Flanders, Belgium

We stand for digital transformation in the agrifood sector

SDF is non-profit initiative of companies (members >70% SME's in 2019) active in innovative precision farming -and livestock breeding with as main objectives. It is partly subsidized by the Flemish Government and has a 3 year working program.

1) Deploy economic potential and enhance the competitiveness of Flemish SME's via active and sustainable collaboration within the AgriFood 4.0 environment.

2) Contribute with solutions to the societal/agricultural challenges with a direct economical added value for Flemish SME's.

3) Stimulate open innovation, market -and product innovation, and international exposure of the SDF initiative.

We are a Digital Innovation Hub within the H2020 DT-RUR-12 project SmartAgriHubs

Together with our host ILVO (BE), the University of Wageningen and TNO (NL), we are building a network of Digital Innovation Hubs for European agrifood sector in order to connect innovation on an interregional scale. As of 2019, Smart Digital Farming is a DIH within SmartAgriHubs acting as the one-stop-shop for the digital transformation in agrifood.

We will become an EDIH in the Digital Europe Program

Together with the Flemisch government VLAIO/EWI, ILVO and Flanders' Food, we are leading the way towards a Belgian Hub for Food Systems according European standards and guidelines. Smart Digital Farming is also a partner in the DIHHELP program of the European Commission for that matter. Digital technologies.

The Smart Data Solution Center Baden-Wuerttemberg (SDSC-BW) is a neutral and independent institution that facilitates the entrance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany into Smart Data technologies.
The SDSC-BW consults the SMEs on the benefits and possible uses of Smart Data and offers a potential analysis of companies' data free of charge. Digital technologies.

Objective: 20% higher productivity of the supplier network,through fast, secure and interoperable exchange of information across company borders.

Manual data management is prone to errors

Digital collaboration in the supply chain is one of the goals of Smart Industry, the Dutch national Industry 4.0 programme. However, it is not easy to link ICT systems between companies, especially covering the supply network as-a-whole. Current practice shows that many companies solve this manually: Employees transfer information from an incoming order into their own system. SCSN is a communication standard enabling the machine building industry to share data across company borders in an easier, safer, and more reliable way.

Manual data management is prone to errors

The Dutch industry focuses specifically on the so-called low volume and high mix, high complexity machine building industry. The success of the supply chains in this industry increasingly depends on sharing large amounts of data across company borders.

Especially for SMEs that have a central role in these supply chains, receiving and sending data is not automated. This means that data received from their customers must be read, interpreted, and usually entered manually in their own ERP system. This often takes a lot of time and is prone to errors.

SCSN enables the automatic flow and processing of data. There are also strict agreements about the semantics of the messages, so that there is only one way to interpret them.

SCSN solves the disadvantages of EDI and cloud services 

Nowadays, a lot of data is exchanged between two companies via an EDI link. If a company wants to exchange data with a new partner, it will have to set up a new EDI connection. This is not necessary with SCSN. Companies must register once with an SCSN Service Provider and can exchange data with all other affiliated companies in the production chain, such as orders, invoices, technical product data, etc. It is therefore not necessary to connect to each company separately.

Using cloud connections to exchange data in between companies often means that data is stored outside the company and becomes visible to the cloud service provider. With SCSN, a company keeps a grip on its own data; it determines which data is shared with whom. The use of SCSN results in higher productivity of the supply chain through fast, secure, and interoperable exchange of information between companies.

Finally, this community of service providers and manufacturing companies is managed by the not-for-profit Foundation Smart Connected Supplier Network. This foundation is chairing the community and managing the SCSN-standard, which is published as open source standard. The Foundation SCSN is supervised by an elected Supervisory Board consisting of two manufacturing companies, service providers, sector organizations, and knowledge providers.

Benefits of SCSN

Connect once, communicate with the entire supply chain.
SCSN works for the OEM, 1st, 2nd and 3rd suppliers, wholesalers and steel producers and works with most available ERP software.
Manufacturing companies in control over their own data all the time.
Managed by an open source community chaired by a not-for-profit foundation.
Digital technologies.