Events

  • SME 5.0 - Research cooperation across continents

    SME 5.0 - Research cooperation across continents

    By Florian Ried on Oct 2nd, 2023

    @Florian Ried from @TUM fml – future.meets.logistics started his secondment at @Chiang Mai University, Thailand this week. Joining the team at CMU, including Asst.-Prof. @Chawis Boonmee, Asst.-Prof. @Korrakot Tippayawong, and Assoc.-Prof. @Sakgasem Ramingwong, he is going to work on the EU-funded SME 5.0 project, developing a strategic roadmap towards the next level of intelligent, sustainable and human-centred SME.
    The challenges SME face across different economic environments and cultures vary greatly and need to be addressed accordingly. One of SEM 5.0’s goals is to collect, analyse, and evaluate these factors to consider them in the development of the strategic roadmap. #SME50 #horizoneurope #CMU #fml

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  • Working in NOI, Brunico

    Working in NOI, Brunico

    By Sergio Salimbeni on Oct 2nd, 2023

    During September and October 2023 secondment at UNIBZ, Dr. Sergio Salimbeni visited the NOI technology center in Brunico. He worked for a week on sustainability aspects in relation to Industry 5.0 factors.
    During the visit there was an excellent exchange of knowledge with the postdocs of said center.

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  • Interview mit Prof. Sergio Salimbeni from USAL, Argentina

    Interview mit Prof. Sergio Salimbeni from USAL, Argentina

    By Erwin Rauch on Oct 1st, 2023

    TN has interviewed Dr. Sergio Salimbeni, scientific coordinator in SME 5.0 of Universidad de Salvador from Argentina regarding Industry 5.0 and SME 5.0. According to Dr. Salimbeni people and the environment are at the heart of digital transformation and Industry 5.0.
    In this project USAL will work together with a highly international network of researchers and companies to develop guidelines and solutions for introducing Industry 5.0 in SME factories. Below a picture of Dr. Salimbeni in the Smart Mini Factory lab of the Free University of Bolzano during his research stay in Italy in autumn 2023.
    Link to the interview: https://tn.com.ar/opinion/2023/10/01/industria-50-el-ser-humano-y-el-medioambiente-en-el-centro-de-la-transformacion-digital/

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  • Industry 5.0: humans and the environment at the center of digital transformation

    Industry 5.0: humans and the environment at the center of digital transformation

    By Sergio Salimbeni on Oct 1st, 2023

    The project is called SME5.0, SME means SME in English, and is a strategic roadmap to the next level of smart, sustainable and people-centered SMEs. The project contains nine areas of study: analysis of requirements for future work in SMEs, for inclusion and diversity, to empower workers, for the implementation of artificial intelligence, biointelligence, cybersecurity and for environmental sustainability, resilience and analysis of ethics and value requirements for stakeholders. It was also defined that the applicability of the study results and guidelines be ensured through close collaboration with non-academic partners, with the aim of validating the results through demonstrations and case study investigations. Three companies and 13 universities from the following countries are participating: Germany, Australia, Austria, the United States, Slovakia, Italy, Malta, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand and Argentina, through our University, which is why I am currently in Bolzano. In the last ten years, many efforts have been made to transfer I4.0 from research to practice. Great progress has been made to also introduce SMEs to the use of I4.0. The next great challenge for them will be to implement the dual transformation, in the sense of a Digital Transformation towards smarter production, while addressing and accelerating the sustainability transformation to improve economically, socially and environmentally sustainable processes, factories and value chains. . In this project, we aim to take SMEs to the next level by developing a strategic roadmap to make them not only smart, but also sustainable, resilient and people-centric. This next level of SMEs will be driven by data and Artificial Intelligence, so they will use the available data to acquire new knowledge and apply it for optimization purposes using Artificial Intelligence safely. Furthermore, great attention is paid to how manufacturing and value chains in SMEs can become circular, green and resilient by considering ethical, human and social values for more socio-centric factories. In this next level of SME 5.0 factories, humans will play a much more important and changing role. SME workplaces will be more inclusive and diverse and they must be empowered to achieve greater well-being and make working in an SME more attractive.
    https://tn.com.ar/opinion/2023/10/01/industria-50-el-ser-humano-y-el-medioambiente-en-el-centro-de-la-transformacion-digital/

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  • Dr. Molinaro gave a seminar to PhD students of WPI

    Dr. Molinaro gave a seminar to PhD students of WPI

    By Margherita Molinaro on Sep 29th, 2023

    On September 29, 2023, during her secondment at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Dr. Margherita Molinaro, assistant professor in Management Engineering at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, delivered the seminar “Circular economy and climate change mitigation: do Reduce, Reuse and Recycle practices affect CO2 emissions?”. The seminar, organized within the “PhD Seminar Series” of WPI, aimed at introducing the SME 5.0 project to the audience as well as presenting the preliminary results of the research study carried out by Dr. Molinaro and prof. Joseph Sarkis during her secondment at WPI.

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  • Seminar in UNIBZ

    Seminar in UNIBZ

    By Sergio Salimbeni on Sep 25th, 2023

    During the secondment at UNIBZ, Prof.Dr. Sergio Salimbeni explained to the SMF team the progress of the SME5.0 project in Argentina. The seminars and conferences in which USAL participated to that date were described, and the next steps by the Institute of Science and Technology of the USAL Faculty of Engineering were described.
    On this occasion, the particularities of the country and the profile of Argentine SMEs were also presented.

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  • SME 5.0 is partnering with EPIEM

    SME 5.0 is partnering with EPIEM

    By Erwin Rauch on Sep 20th, 2023

    SME 5.0 collaborates with EPIEM - European Professors of Industrial Engineering and Management. EPIEM is a growing Europe-wide network connecting researchers and professors at European universities in the academic IEM field. The aim of EPIEM is to initiate and promote collaboration between IEM academics across Europe to improve the field of IEM. Several members of SME 5.0 are members of EPIEM. Prof. Erwin Rauch, Dr. Manuel Woschank and EPIEM President Prof. Bernd Zunk are looking forward to joint activities between SME 5.0 and EPIEM. Several employees of EPIEM members have already been able to exchange experiences based on SME 5.0 (see pictures).

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  • USAL “Industry 5.0” in Italy

    USAL “Industry 5.0” in Italy

    By Sergio Salimbeni on Sep 20th, 2023

    Continuing with its research work in “Industry 5.0”, and as part of the Marie-Curie SME5.0 Program, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Salvador, represented by Eng. Sergio Salimbeni, Director of the Industrial Engineering and Director of the Institute of Science and Technology, is visiting the University of Bolzano – UNIBZ, Italy. The objective of this 30-day secondment plan is to deepen learning and experiences regarding the use of Cobots and Artificial Intelligence in small and medium-sized companies. The University of Bolzano is located at the crossroads between the German- and Italian-speaking economies and cultures. Its trilingualism in teaching and research, its high level of internationalization, as well as an ideal study environment guaranteed by its excellent facilities, are some of the reasons why UNIBZ regularly reaches the top positions in national and international rankings.

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  • SME 5.0 at APMS 2023 Conference

    SME 5.0 at APMS 2023 Conference

    By Erwin Rauch in on Sep 19th, 2023

    From 17— 21 September 2023 the APMS 2023 IFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems took place in Trondheim, Norway. SME 5.0 organized a Special Session on "SME 5.0: Exploring Pathways to the Next Level of Intelligent, Sustainable, and Human-Centred SMEs". Papers will be published in the Springer Series AICT. SME 5.0 partners KTH and UNIBZ discussed recent research results in the conference and shared the SME 5.0 project with other international scholars in the scientific community.

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