A Nov 2016 Jan 1 – 2021 The “Industry 4.0 Research and Innovation Center of Excellence” project between 29 and 5 aimed to develop resource-efficient, robust production planning and management systems, develop models for cooperative and adaptive logistics networks, and introduce cloud computing-based production IT services. Within the framework of the project, a unique I4.0 cyber-physical production and logistics sample system was created at the SZTAKI university site in Győr, which became one of the excellence research infrastructures registered by NKFIH in Hungary. Many research results are directly integrated into this system, which is also open to industry and education and connected to an international network.
The “Industry 4.0 Center of Excellence for Research and Innovation” project is in line with international research and development guidelines for industrial digitization. it targeted a high-tech field where the need for high-level basic research was integrated with the burning practical, industrial needs in an almost unparalleled way. The project has achieved results in the following main areas:
- Situation-conscious, resource-efficient and robust production planning and management
- Design and operation of cooperative and adaptive production and logistics networks
- Robust cooperative control in cyber-physical systems
- State-of-the-art solutions to support energy efficient and sustainable production
- Cloud computing production IT services
- An I4.0 demonstration production and logistics sample system
was established at the SZTAKI Győr site, in the New Knowledge Space building of the University of Széchenyi, in cooperation with the departments of SZTAKI, SzE, and BME GPK GTT and KJK ALRT
The scientific results of the project have been presented by participants in international journals, conferences and books: a total of 45 international journal and 78 conference articles and 8 book chapters have been published during the project, as well as two separate journals. number and a book were edited on cyber-physical manufacturing systems, sustainable manufacturing, and
To summarize the results of the project, one doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and five PhD dissertations were written and successfully defended in the fields of scheduling, production system configuration, technological design and production informatics, and 15 more. diploma thesis, dissertation, resp.
Several major international conferences in the field were organized: 17th IMEKO TC 10 and EUROLAB Conference (2020), 17th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2021), and 10th CIRP Digital Enterprise Technology Conference, 2021 (DET 2021) – the latter are held online due to the pandemic. In order to disseminate the results in Hungary, the participants organized new academic-industrial workshops on industrial digitization (INDIGO days), regularly performed in public forums such as HUNGEXPO Industry Days, Researchers’ Night, and Ipar4.0 National Technology Platform meet-up events. . Some results were presented at the European Robotics Forum and most recently at the Hannover Messe (online) in 2021.
The project was largely provided by Production Informatics, established in 2017 under the EU Horizon 2020 Widening Teaming program. and Management Center of Excellence (EPIC). Three key members of the Fraunhofer (FhG) chain in Germany, Fraunhofer Austria, BME, and EPIC InnoLabs Kft., An innovation transfer company founded by SZTAKI and FhG, participate in the work of the EPIC Center of Excellence led by SZTAKI. accelerating the process, creating industrial solutions, educating new generations of highly qualified experts, and creating a sustainable and competitive manufacturing ecosystem that provides a background for various industries.
Industry4.0, a unique cyber-physical manufacturing and The logistics sample system will also provide the research infrastructure of several industrial research projects utilizing the results of the project, a European R&D project and the National Laboratory of Autonomous Systems launched in the summer of 2020. In accordance with its original goal, it is still open to providing an experimental, testing and demonstration environment for Hungarian, and especially for industrial companies and SMEs in the vicinity of Győr, within the framework of educational and industrial cooperation.
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