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The SM4RTENANCE EU Project was officially launched!

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Smart Maintenance for Industry 4.0 presentation

Smart Maintenance for Industry 4.0 presentation

Smart Factory Conference 2022 in Athens Read more

Optimizing Solder Paste Inspection

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

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

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

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

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 collaboration

Continental and Fraunhofer IAO collaborate on semantic search technology Introduction. Read more

VTT implements tools to analyze Fagor Arrasate data

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection System TNO

Detection of anomalies in production using repetitively trained auto encoder and unsupervised learning techniques Read more

FIWARE Smart Fest

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Dataspace Connector

Dataspace Connector

Dataspace Connector - The Guardian of Sovereign Data Exchange. Read more

Technology Forum is back, 14th of October 2021

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Metromeet 2022 impulses the Industrial Metrology trough Smart Industry. Digitalization, additive manufacturing, automation and ... Read more

Independent validation and verification software

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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