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By Jan Pitel on Jun 22nd, 2023

Mapping and analysing current requirements and future expectations in transition of SMEs towards digital business practices.
Active attendance at ISIEA Symposium 2nd International Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Automation: Towards a Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Industry, held on 22nd-23rd June 2023, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. The paper on “Modularity effect on the manufacturing lead time of assembly processes“ has been presented within the section “Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains“.
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UNIBZ intensifies cooperation with TU Graz

By Erwin Rauch on Jun 22nd, 2023

On June 22 and 23, everything at the Bolzano campus revolves around the hot topic of "Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Industry". The 2nd edition of the International Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Automation (ISIEA 2023) brings together representatives from industry and research to share new technological opportunities and scientific findings; with keynote speeches from well-known companies such as Schaeffler Group and Loacker or international universities such as Graz University of Technology (Prof. Franz Haas, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Economics).
In the context of this event discussions further intensified the existing collaboration between the Free University of Bolzano and Graz Technical University in the area of research and teaching. The unibz research team had already involved TU Graz as Principal Investigator in the EU SME 5.0 project. The aim now is to further expand this fruitful cooperation, including by exploring and designing joint didactic offerings.
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SME 5.0 project video online

By Erwin Rauch on Jun 20th, 2023

We proudly present our new SME 5.0 project video. The creation of the video was a collaboration of SME 5.0 consortium partners under the coordination of Chiang Mai University (CMU) in Thailand and Montanuniversität Leoben (MUL) from Austria.
The following link shows the new video on YouTube channel explaining the context of Industry 5.0, the project objectives and goals. With 2 Interviews of Dr. Manuel Woschank from MUL and Dr. Poti Chaopaisarn from CMU. Here the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/@sme50
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Special Lecture on SME 5.0

By Manuel Woschank on Jun 18th, 2023

Corina Pacher and Manuel Woschank were pleased to conduct a workshop on the topic of opportunities, barriers, and requirements of future work in SMEs at Mae Fah Luang University as part of the SME5.0 secondment on Sunday, 18.06.2023. The results of the workshop will be analyzed using qualitative content analysis and published in a paper.

As part of the SME5.0 project, Manuel Woschank was privileged to give a guest lecture at Mae Fah Luang University (June 18 2023), on the topic of Logistics 5.0 research and practice. Thereby, a special focus was placed on recent developments in 1) logistics process optimization, 2) smart logistics, and 3) sustainable logistics. Thank you very much for this great opportunity!
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SME 5.0 Lecture at MFU

By Manuel Woschank on Jun 18th, 2023

As part of the SME5.0 project, Manuel Woschank was privileged to give a guest lecture at Chiang Mai University, on the topic of Logistics 5.0 research and practice. Thereby, a special focus was placed on recent developments in 1) logistics process optimization, 2) smart logistics, and 3) sustainable logistics.

Thank you very much for this great opportunity!
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SME5.0 - This is what successful cooperation and collaboration look like!

By Manuel Woschank / Corina Pacher on Jun 8th, 2023

The SME5.0 project focuses on the development of a strategic roadmap for increasing the competitiveness of SMEs in the areas of artificial intelligence, sustainability, and human-centeredness. Manuel Woschank from Montanuniversität Leoben and Corina Pacher from Technische Universität Graz are currently conducting research on these topics at CMU. Together with CMU Ass.-Prof. Korrakot Tippayawong, Assoc.-Prof. Sakgasem Ramingwong, Ass.-Prof. Wapee Manopiniwes, and Martin Tutko, further research topics are being developed.
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secondment

By Vladimír Modrák on Jun 1st, 2023

Conceptualization of a research paper with a working title Transition of SMEs Towards Digital Transformation: Current Requirements and Future Expectations.
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MUL Professor to visit LSP in Thailand

By Sakgasem on May 26th, 2023

On May 26, 2023, Professor Dr. Manuel Woschank and Ph.D. candiate Mr. Marcus Schlager, the first two secondees from University of Leoben to Chiang Mai University, took chance to visit Nim See Seng Transport 1998 and Nim See Seng Cold Storage.

The discussion was on the implementation of the automation to the labor intensive consolidation operation at the company.

The company is also interested in New Energy Vehicle. Currently, three last mile vehicles were modified into purely Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV).
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Secondment at Endian srl

By Vladimír Modrák on May 25th, 2023

Mapping and analysing current requirements and future expectations in transition of SMEs towards digital business practices.
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