MESAP in the Iot Revolution

Submitted by Alessia Menduni on 15 May 2018

MESAP and “IoTisation” of industry: broadering smart production and prosperity.

On April 26th was launch the IoT4Industry project in Sophia Antipolis, France. Also called “Towards smarter means of production in European manufacturing through the use of the Internet of Things technologies”, it aims to enable European manufacturing SMEs to integrate the use of IoT and related components to enhance their productivity, profitability, innovation capacities and keep them competitive on the global scale. The project in the framework of the European H2020-INNOSUP-2016-2017 acts as a “catalyzer”of a new industrial value chain: it will support SMEs interested in the matter of smart manufacturing providing training and matchmaking actions and selecting “champions” SMEs to finance their IoT cross-border and cross-sectoral collaborative projects . The IoT4Industry project consortium includes 3 Advanced Manufacturing clusters : MESAP Innovation Cluster , the french Mont-Blanc Industries (MBI), Pôle MecaTech (PMT) in Belgium and one technology center in United Kingdom (MTC Manufacturing Technology Centre)and 3 ICT clusters [The French Secured Communicating Solution cluster (SCS) the german microTEC Südwest (mTSW) and DSP Valley in Belgium ] including 2 ESCA Gold Labels. IoT4Industry represents a sui generis initiative in the panorama of EU plans because of its direct management of the funds to reduce bureaucracy or potential barriers for SMEs and its synergy with other funds and initiatives (HORIZON 2020, COHESION FUND 2014-2020, SAE, EFFRA, EPOSS, I4MS): this close interaction ensures alignment both in terms of strategies, implementation issues and crossfertilisation between the different countries, regions and actors to strategically empower SMEs support. It also represents a success story in terms of willfulness: in fact in 2016 the proposal received a good score by European Commission but it didn’t pass the selection; the consortium never gave up and tenaciously proposed it in 2017, winning the challenge! Through Iot4Industry MESAP aims at bringing SMEs to an upper level of new value chain of smart manufacturing, increasing the efficiency of their production if possible without moving the production to low-cost countries, that is maximizing the impact of the “IoTisation” of industrial SMEs and contribute to a more prosperous Europe.

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