FactoRIS @ EITM Doctoral School

If you are keen to know about condition monitoring of production systems, join us on November 11 at 10 AM for a presentation given by FactoRIS members from STUBA as a part of the EITM Doctoral School’s INVENT webinar series. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eZq8TCRW

FEUP / FactoRIS open lab visit

On October 25 FEUP organized a visit to its FactoRIS learning factory. During this visit students got acquainted with repurposing, retrofitting and refurbishment concepts and their impact in manufacturing. FEUP’s learning factory wa refurbished from deprecated Festo didactic pneumatic stations. Students got an in-depth explanation of the technical approaches and considerations involved in the refurbishment …

RECLAIM meets FactoRIS

The consortium of the European project RECLAIM is meeting in Porto on the 17th and 18th of November and will visit FEUP’s Learning Factory. RECLAIM stands for RE-manufaCturing and Refurbishment LArge Industrial equipment. This EU funded project intends to demonstrate strategies and technologies that enable the re-use of industrial equipment in old, renewed and new …

FactoRIS meets PowerLIFT

On October 14-15 some of the Slovak and Austrian FactoRIS members met in Wien other members of a larger consortium of the EITM Education activity PowerLIFT uniting a European network of learning factories. During the workshop 17 participants operating Industry 4.0 testbeds from Italy, Slovakia, Finland, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Austria met for the first …

Stellantis company visited the STUBA learning factory

On September 23 the STUBA learning factory was visited by the management of Stellantis Slovakia, a car manufacturing company based in the Slovak city of Trnava. The STUBA researchers presented the testbeds and innovations that are developed within the EITM activity FactoRIS, and discussed the potential cooperation mainly in the form of hands-on courses aimed …

Visit of the learning factory at FEUP

On August 19–21 Slovak members of the FactoRIS team met with their Portuguese colleagues at FEUP in Porto. During the visit they were presented the learning factory testbeds and together discussed their retrofitting and integration into the learning paths and nuggets to be developed within the project’s education framework. The research group lead by Prof. …

It’s never too soon to learn about digitalisation!

There is no doubt that the journey to digitalisation starts with the youngsters nowadays. To keep up with this trend, on August 11 and 18 the STUBA learning factory welcomed dozens of curious small kids from a summer camp organised by the AMAVET – an Association for youth, science and technology. The FactoRIS team members …

Researchers from TU Wien visited STU in Bratislava

On August 10–11 Austrian members of the FactoRIS consortium visited the STUBA learning factory. On the first day they were presented the infrastructure of the Laboratory of Maintenance and Industrial Automation, then the neighboring workshops of the STUBA Green Team – a student team constructing and racing their own, both human-driven and driverless formula cars …

First FactoRIS in-person meeting at TU Wien

On July 22–23 Slovak members of the FactoRIS consortium visited their Austrian colleagues. This was the first in-person visit of the learning factories of TU Wien that was possible after the 2nd wave COVID related travel restrictions. The researchers from TU Wien first presented the TEC-Lab – Laboratory for Production Engineering – with its high-end …

FactoRIS in Tuesdays from Future webinar

On June 22, 2021 we will present and discuss the results of our survey on digitalisation maturity of SMEs within the first innovation webinar titled “Digital Transformation – what for?” from the “Tuesdays from Future” series organised by EIT Manufacturing on Agora – EIT Manufacturing’s social network open innovation platform. The webinar primarily presented results …