The latest issue of STUBA’s university magazine SPEKTRUM features an extensive interview (in Slovak language) with Martin Juhás, discussing mainly the topic of digitalisation in manufacturing industry and its case-specific support delivered via the FactoRIS activity, particularly in the STUBA Learning Factory. The full article can be found here on pages 40–45.
The workshop on VR & AR for Training of Operators with over 30 participants, which was held in person on December 15 in Reggio Emilia, concluded with a great success. At the end the participants learned how to build low-cost Virtual Reality applications using the Unity platform and how to conduct an ergonomic assessment thanks …
On December 15 the activity leader Martin Juhás took part in the EITM Info Day organized by the EIT Manufacturing RIS Hub Slovakia, where he was invited to give a talk on our FactoRIS success story and share his experience with attendees from both academia and industry in a panel discussion. We hope some of …
On December 12 and 14 the Slovak FactoRIS team held pilot workshops in their Learning Factory for Smart Manufacturing. Each workshop consisted of 2 modules with the following content:Module 1 – Monitoring of production capacity utilization based on equipment availability data,Module 2 – Automated quality control using collaborative robots and machine vision. The first workshop …
On November 4 some of the Slovak and Austrian FactoRIS team members visited two learning factories at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). The first one was the LEAD Factory operated by the Institute of Innovation and Industrial Management. The assistant Kai Rüdele gave us an introduction to the learning factory and its focus on …
On September 22 we took the opportunity and organized the second consortium meeting of the FactoRIS II project, this time at the STUBA Learning Factory in Bratislava. We were happy that despite tight semester-starting schedules of the partners representatives of all of them could be present. Some of the other joined the meeting remotely. On …
Following the success of the recent visit of youngsters to the STUBA Learning Factory, on September 7 we took the opportunity to welcome a bit older fellows from Slovak high schools who took part in the programme called Summer university for high school students. Within their schedule they visit our learning factory laboratories and took …
While still remembering a very interesting experience from the last year, on July 20 the STUBA learning factory again welcomed dozens of curious small kids from a summer camp organised by the AMAVET – an Association for youth, science and technology. The FactoRIS II team members were more than happy to make them familiar with …
Since FactoRIS II partners STUBA, CUT and FEUP are also the members of the EITM Doctoral School programme, we were pleased to take part also in its Summer School which in 2022 took place in person at CUT and STUBA. Of course, STUBA Learning Factory could not miss at this event, and provided an interesting …
April 4 and 5 marked the first bilateral in-person visit within the FactoRIS II project, when the Slovak team was warmly welcomed by the Austrian partners from TU Wien. Our first steps took us to the Siemens City where we learned about the latest edge computing technologies developed by Siemens and participated in Siemens Industrial …
