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The SM4RTENANCE EU Project was officially launched!
The EU Project SM4RTENANCE was launched on November 6th in the Automotive Intelligence Center in Boroa, Spain. The Digital Factory ... Read more
DFA was present in the TEMS EU Project Launching Event
The TEMS EU Project on Trusted European media data space flagship European initiative presentation took place in the EITB Basque ... Read more
50 projects attend the Manufacturing Partnership Day
In the Manufacturing Partnership Day on September 26th, 2023, the Digital Factory Alliance (DFA) found a great opportunity to showcase ... Read more
The EOSC Symposium 2023 an opportunity for the DFA!
The DFA presents and maximizes the value of research data and dataspaces at the EOSC Symposium on 20-22 September 2023 while discussing Read more
DFA at the Conference on Data Sharing in EU last September 19
Since the recent adoption of the Data Act and entry into force of the Data Governance Act by the EU, there is a widespread interest to ... Read more
The Future of Data in Manufacturing: EU Data Space 4.0 Week is Here!
The EU Data Space 4.0 Week is a collaborative effort to bring together various dissemination actions under a joint initiative. Its ... Read more
International panel at the Hannover Messe
The recent panel discussion at the Hannover Messe, organized by Plattform Industrie 4.0, brought together industry experts from ... Read more
Data Spaces Symposium: common vision and future
The Data Spaces Symposium hosted by the Center of Excellence for Data Sharing and Cloud (TNO) and International Data Spaces Association Read more
Have Your Say: Survey on Industrial Data Spaces Needs
Nowadays, the manufacturing industry is undergoing a radical transformation towards intelligent, data-driven solutions. To unleash its ... Read more
The Horizon Europe Program and the DFA
The Horizon Europe Work Program for 2023-2024 has recently been published. The Digital Factory Alliance is no stranger to the ... Read more
Level-Up in Spain’s List for Best Practices in Circular Economy
2022 is coming to an end and, as every year, reports by different European governments are published to share noteworthy developments ... Read more
Join the Data Space 4.O data platform inventory
The new flagship initiative of the Digital Factory Alliance, Data Space 4.0, has started its work. One of its first actions will be the Read more
Wrap-up Webinar on Data Spaces in Manufacturing
On the 7th of the December was held a webinar on Data Spaces in Manufacturing organised by DG Connect and EFFRA. The webinar was the ... Read more
2nd Review Meeting of Level-Up, how digital can help save on tools
The Level-Up project is coming to an end. On November 16, the partners of Level-Up, gathered in Brno (Czech Republic) for the second ... Read more
Webinar on Data Spaces in Manufacturing
On the 7th December, the European Factory of Future Research Association (EFFRA) and European Commission's DG CONNECT are organising a ... Read more
Qu4lity and Data Space 4.0 at Connected Factories Final Event
In recent years, the Digital Factory Alliance and EFFRA have been working to promote a sustainable, smart, secure and data-driven ... Read more
A common data space 4.0 for European manufacturing
The EU funds the DATA SPACE 4.0 project to identify common principles for sharing manufacturing data at the EU level, set the pathway ... Read more
The DFA in the meeting of the DSSC in Valencia
Data spaces are getting closer and closer and the Digital Factory Alliance is participating in this work. On October 18, a meeting of ... Read more
DFA: New market opportunities for Level-Up innovations
Zero is an important number for the Digital Factory Alliance. Since the beginning the initiative has sought to have the manufacturing ... Read more
The DFA at the European Big Data Value Forum
The European Big Data Value Forum is a Big Data Value flagship event, which gathers the whole European data-driven AI research and ... Read more
Enhancing data analytics and cybersecurity for ZDM
Ikerlan has developed IKCloud+ and IKSec that enhance proprietary cloud platforms with advanced AI-based data analytics capabilities ... Read more
Quality at BIEMH
Ideko had the opportunity to present the Quality project in the BIEMH. The machine tool trade fair of Spain that took place from 13th ... Read more
Paper presented at ECCOMAS 2022
Fraunhofer IGD presented GPU-accelerated simulation of the additive manufacturing process for metal additive manufacturing. Read more
Qu4lity: The biggest European Project in AQ and ZDM
Over the last 3 years QU4LITY has set its vision to achieve a more digitalized production through corrective, preventive and predictive Read more
The Kolektor Digital Platform through the Qu4lity project
As part of the European Qu4lity project for Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) in Industry 4.0 Kolektor has improved the Kolektor Digital ... Read more
Paper accepted at ASME 2022 IDECT-CIE
Fraunhofer IGD presents scientific results on interactively defining spatially varying functional graded material (FGM) on B-Rep CAD models. Read more
Interesting talks during the European Research & Innovation Days!
A small piece of news with the latest technology trends and EU events. An interesting action is organised and QU4LITY project is in ... Read more
QU4LITY project presented in 21st KSS conference
The outcome of QU4LITY project, Cognitive Digital Twin technology, was presented in the 21st International Symposium on Knowledge and ... Read more
Final evaluation of Airbus Pilot
Airbus Pilot final evaluation was successfully carried out on June 14th at Hamburg Airbus-ZAL Facilities. Read more
Next-Generation Manufacturing and Autonomous Quality
Next generation manufacturing is all about production systems that can act for themselves without the help of any human operator, ... Read more
New Age Technology Equipment join the ZDM approach
The Qu4lity Project and the Digital Factory Alliance have organized a fifth Deep Dive for the 10th of June on the issue of how ... Read more
Holistic approach to ZDM by digitalizing the factory
The Qu4lity Project and the Digital Factory Alliance have organized a fourth Deep Dive for the 27th of May on the relation between ... Read more
QU4LITY goes Hannover Fair
We invite you to visit our partner IDSA at the world fair, Hannover Messe. There you can learn more about the QU4LITY project and how ... Read more
Data analytics in ZDM production systems
The Qu4lity Project and the Digital Factory Alliance have organized a third Deep Dive for the 13th of May on the topic of data ... Read more
Paper accepted at CAIN Conference
The Fraunhofer ISST and the Mondragon pilot wrote a collaborative paper on the topic “Data Sovereignty for AI Pipelines” and their ... Read more
QU4LITY results presented at JSI open house
The results of QU4LITY project were presented at the annual open house of Jožef Stefan Institute. The presentation included JSI ... Read more
PLM 2022
Product Lifecycle Management in transition times: the place of humans and transformative technologies Read more
Towards High-Quality Processes in Industry 4.0
The Qu4lity Project and the Digital Factory Alliance have organized a second Deep Dive for the 22th of April with the purpose of ... Read more
Optimizing Solder Paste Inspection
To strive for Zero Defect Manufacturing a decision support system based on inspection data and Machine Learning techniques has been ... Read more
The First Functional Prototype of XR systems
This application abstract introduces the first functional prototype of XR system for additive manufacturing (AM) system’s maintenance ... Read more
Danobat digital platforms
Based on the work done for the last 6 years and enriched with the new developments in Quality project, Danobat is preparing its new ... Read more
7th Annual Smart Manufacturing Summit in Barcelona
The 7th Annual Smart Manufacturing Summit will take place in Barcelona, Spain on April 6th – 8th Read more
Philips pilot enters testing phase with TTTech Industrial
A pilot led by Philips, with contributions from TTTech Industrial, TNO and Fraunhofer IPA, is currently being tested. Read more
Continental and Fraunhofer IAO collaboration
Continental and Fraunhofer IAO collaborate on semantic search technology Introduction. Read more
VTT implements tools to analyze Fagor Arrasate data
In the QU4LITY Project Fagor Arrasate joined forces with partner VTT for data analysis solutions. Read more
Part Quality Digital Twin Environment for GF Machining Solutions
As part of the Qu4lity project and new Digital infrastructure of GF Machining Solutions, the Part Quality Digital Twin has gone live at Read more
IK-SEC and context-based authentication for Fa-Link platform
IK-SEC provides a solution that enhances MFA for cloud platforms Read more
Autonomous Data Quality in the IDS
We extended the IDS ecosystem with a Data App for data quality management that helps to achieve the QU4LITY goal of Zero-Defect ... Read more
Systematic Planning of Quality Inspection Strategies in MS
Quality inspection planning is an integral part of the production planning process. It is often derived from the experience of the ... Read more
QU4LITY project highlighted in APMS and CIRP Conferences
During the last year two research papers dedicated to QU4LITY project were presented at important conferences APM and CIRP CMS during ... Read more
Leading the change Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 is the current transformation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices through the digitalization. Read more
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection System TNO
Detection of anomalies in production using repetitively trained auto encoder and unsupervised learning techniques Read more
FIWARE Smart Fest
Meet users and experts from leading industries, advisory boards, etc. to discuss about the current state of play of the development of ... Read more
DFA lighthouse factories address human aspects
As part of the Zero-X manufacturing initiative, the QU4LITY project and the DFA lighthouse factories are taking part in a dedicated ... Read more
20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics
A major international conference in the field of robotics has been organized by Jožef Stefan Institute. Read more
Integration of IDS in the Mondragon Process Pilot
The Mondragon Process Pilot validates different technologies and standards with the goal to achieve zero defect and autonomous Quality ... Read more
Industry 5.0 Award
The European Commission recognises EU-funded projects that make an outstanding contribution to the industry 5.0 vision. Read more
Just in Time – Business validation phase of QU4LITY!
Go–to-Market Strategy and Commercialization of the QU4LITY services through the project’s market platform is realized by one of three ... Read more
Session at IFAC MIM-conference 2022
Partners of the QU4LITY-project propose a session on Ontology-Based Industrial Systems Development at the conference on Manufacturing ... Read more
Technology Forum is back, 14th of October 2021
Technology Forum is back, 14th of October 2021, Thessaloniki, Greece. QU4LITY partner ALTANTIS Engineering participated at the ... Read more
Industry 4.0 International Days 2021
Global Industrie Networking event, September 7 - September 8, 2021, Chassieu, France. QU4LITY partner ATLANTIS Engineering participated Read more
I-ESA 2022 (11TH International Conference)
Interoperability in the context of enterprise applications: the ability of a system to work with other systems without special effort ... Read more
Industry Leaders Found UniversalAutomation.org
Industry Leaders Found UniversalAutomation.org to Launch New Automation EraVendors, end users, systems integrators, OEMs, start-ups, ... Read more
QU4LITY at CIRP CMS 2021 Conference
The technische Universität of Braunchweig publishes two papers in the context of QU4LITY in course of the CIRP CMS 2021 Conference: ... Read more
QU4LITY at the European ZDM 2021 webinar
The next generation industrial IoT and emerging needs for agility, flexibility and resilience in production. Next generation IIoT will ... Read more
QU4LITY project and WHR use case presented at EMS
European QU4LITY project aims to create and subsequently validate, in a measurable and replicable way, a Zero-Defect Manufacturing ... Read more
Augmented Reality in Operation @ Continental
In the QU4LITY Project Continental joined forces with partner PACE for Augmented Reality solutions Read more
IEC 61499 at the IEEE INDIN 2021 conference
The IEC 61499 standard is one of the enabling technologies in QU4LITY. It can be used for engineering advanced automation systems under Read more
Metromeet 2022 impulses the Industrial Metrology
Metromeet 2022 impulses the Industrial Metrology trough Smart Industry. Digitalization, additive manufacturing, automation and ... Read more
Independent validation and verification software
Software validation and verification activities are a key process in ensuring compliance with software specifications and user needs. ... Read more
Development of a Furnace 4.0
GHI is a world-reference engineering company on the manufacture of smart furnaces for a smart world. In order to fulfil the request, by Read more
Data Sovereignty in Zero-Defect Manufacturing
On average 50% of production ends as scrap. This indicates a considerable innovation potential, nonetheless companies struggle to ... Read more
Progress on the Philips OneBlade pilot line
Philips Drachten is one of the biggest development and production centers in Europe within Philips. It is a globally oriented site. On ... Read more
Zero defect control loop in manufacturing – Qu4lity project
Kolektor participates in the most important European project for autonomous quality and zero-defect manufacturing (ZDM) in Industry 4.0 Read more
Remaining Useful Life (RUL) at DANOBAT
ATLANTIS Engineering and DANOBAT Corporation are working together in one of the pilot cases of the QU4LITY project. The focus is on the Read more
A reconfigurable robot workcell
In scope of the European Qu4lity project for Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) in Industry 4.0, Jožef Stefan Institute is demonstrating a Read more
Pushing manufacturing towards ZDM with IKCLOUD
Quality on an industrial production relays on the used resources as well as on the manufacturing processes. Every single failure in any Read more
QU4LITY project highlighted in APMS and FAIM conferences
A series of research papers about QU4LITY project were presented in two important conferences APMS and FAIM during the second week of ... Read more
M3MH at the EMO MILANO 2021 event
Unimetrik, as part of Innovalia Metrology, presented at the EMO MILANO 2021 event the M3MH metrological software for machine tools. ... Read more
TTTech presents Nerve at SPS 2021
Meet TTTech Industrial at SPS 2021 and discover the edge computing platform Nerve, which is further developed and used in the QU4LITY ... Read more
Non-intrusive machine assets monitoring
Within a production line, a lot of data can be monitored. This data is often relative to an unique part, which creates a dataset of ... Read more
Zero defects manufacturing
Zero Defects Paradigm aims at guaranteeing excellence in all the steps of the production process, from concept and design to ... Read more
Presentation of Qu4lity Project
The European QU4LITY project aims to create and subsequently validate, in a measurable and replicable way, a Zero-Defect Manufacturing ... Read more
QU4LITY enables the Interoperability and ZDM at MONDRAGON
To make the new industry paradigm (Industry 4.0) a success, companies need to implement more complex, interoperable, reconfigurable and Read more
QU4LITY in APMS and CIRP International Conferences
During the last year two research papers dedicated to QU4LITY project were presented at important conferences APM and CIRP CMS during ... Read more
DFA Smart Rapid Response: a EU R&I Spotlight
DFA shared the need for European manufacturing rapid response and repurposing capabilities to increase resilience at two European R&I ... Read more
The DFA, in the spotlight of Europe
Aligned with the Manufacturing Global Response Initiative, the DFA, represented by Eur3ka project, has been invited to participate in ... Read more
New Award under DFA’s Guidance
Following the guidelines and Zero-X manufacturing reference models defined by the DFA, Innovalia Metrology, a Basque Enterprise that ... Read more
Consorzio Intellimech joins the DFA
Consorzio Intellimech is pleased to join the DFA Community, recognizing it as a remarkable opportunity to reap the benefits associated ... Read more
DFA meets GAIA-X Italian Hub
During the Kick-off meeting of the Italian Regional Hub of GAIA-X, Engineering Informatica S.p.A. has introduced the DFA initiative to ... Read more
675K€ available to implement ZDM solutions
With the 2nd Open Call, Qu4lity project and the Digital Factory Alliance will bring together suppliers and end users of products and ... Read more
Innovalia Group strongly supports the DFA
Innovalia Group is a Spanish group of high-tech SMEs with headquarters in Bilbao, comprised of two divisions: Innovalia Digital and ... Read more
Swiss Smart Factory joins the DFA
The Swiss Smart Factory (SSF) and its network of more than 60 innovative companies join the DFA to engage in the digital transformation Read more
Manufacturing Repurposing in Europe
In May 2020, the European Commission launched a second emergency call and 24 projects were awarded. Among these, 4 projects were ... Read more
Atos joins the DFA as founding member
Atos, the global leader in secure and decarbonized digital solutions along with consultancy services, digital security and ... Read more
Atlantis Engineering becomes a new DFA member
Atlantis Engineering expects a significant added value by its active participation in the DFA Community Read more
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. joins the DFA
The corporation, one of the leading companies in the digital transformation of companies and public and private organizations, aligns ... Read more
The DFA joins forces with LEVEL-UP Consortium
Innovalia, representing the DFA, is working in close collaboration with LEVEL-UP consortium for the adoption of the Digital Service ... Read more
ZDM Frontiers publication reaches 15.000 views
DFA Data-Driven Cognitive Manufacturing - Applications E-book has been well received, with a rampant increase on views. Read more
Signing Ceremony: First Major Milestone
Today is a memorable day for the Digital Factory Alliance. The three Founding Members (AtoS, Engineering and Innovalia Association) ... Read more
Catalogue of Zero-Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) Assets
A small overview about ZDM Assets and how the catalogue acts as an enabler containing all the information in the same place and easily ... Read more
DFA launches the Resiliency compass Survey
Innovalia representing the Digital Factory Alliance (DFA) and in collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), Software Quality ... Read more
How to repurpose a factory in a crisis
Lack of PPE and ventilators at the start of the coronavirus pandemic occurred partly because few companies knew where their supplies ... Read more