Industry on Campus - Innovation Talk:
Test and demonstration facilities as a driver for partnerships?
Join our ICDK Innovation Talk and learn from the experiences of Fraunhofer IPA and the Application Center Industrie 4.0 - a leading German test and demonstration facility and European Digital Innovation Hub.
Thursday 29 April 2021 from 13:00-14:30
How can successful business models and partnerships formed around test, development and demonstration facilities? How is the collaboration between research and technology organisations, universities and companies organised, and how to strengthen access for SMEs?
Join our ICDK Innovation Talk and learn from the experiences of Fraunhofer IPA and the Application Center Industrie 4.0 - a leading German test and demonstration facility and European Digital Innovation Hub.
Keynote speaker
We have invited Petra Foith-Förster, who is research group leader for “Assembly system planning and data driven optimisation” at Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart. Foith-Förster will share her experiences with industry on campus collaboration, including on running projects together with SME in Fraunhofer IPA’s demonstration facilities.
The Application Center Industrie 4.0 is a European Digital Innovation Hub and the activities of the hub are well aligned with the German national initiatives for digitising industry, Industry 4.0, Mittelstand 4.0 and Autonomik for Industrie 4.0.
More info on Application Center Industrie 4.0 can be found here and here.
Petra Foith-Förster Peter Tommy Nielsen
Research Group leader, Head of Department,
Fraunhofer institute for Manufacturing 3D Print & AM Technology at FORCE.
Engineering and Automation, stuttgart.
Program
Welcome
13:00-13:10
Ulrik Kjølsen Olsen, Research Attaché, Innovation Centre Denmark – Munich
Experiences from Fraunhofer and Application Center Industrie 4.0
13:10-13:35
How to boost SME collaboration with test and demonstration facilities v/Petra Foith-Förster, Research Group Leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA). Questions to be addressed include:
- How strengthen access to test and demonstration facilities (TDF) for SME’s?
- What business and funding models work in order to establish and run TDF’s, not only for corporates but also SMEs?
- How strengthen access to test and demonstration facilities (TDF) for SME’s?
- What business and funding models work in order to establish and run TDF’s, not only for corporates but also SMEs?
A Danish perspective on Additive Manufacturing: The case of AM Link
13:35-13:50
Peter Tommy Nielsen, Head of Department, 3D Print & AM Technology at FORCE.
Q&A and discussion
13:50-14:30
Petra Foith-Förster. Questions from the participants, moderated by Ulrik Kjølsen Olsen.