Consortium
The Consortium is composed by 15 partners across 8 countries. A strong, experienced, and interdisciplinary cluster that will contribute to the approach and achieve the objectives of the project.
Project Coordinator
Bernhard Moser
bernhard.moser@scch.at
Mario Pichler (Project outreach - synergies with related initiatives)
Mario.Pichler@scch.at
SOFTWARE COMPETENCE CENTER HAGENBERG GMBH (SCCH)
Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) is a non-university research center that has been driving excellence in applied research in the fields of data science and software science for over 20 years. This focus enables optimal implementation of projects in the fields of digitalization, Industry 4.0 (the smart factory) and artificial intelligence. SCCH serves as an interface between international research and domestic industry and conducts outstanding research with its nearly 100 researchers from 15 different nations.
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IDEA-INFORMATICS, DOMOTICS, ENVIRONMENT, AUTOMATION - SOCIETA COOPERATIVA (IDEA)
IDEA is an engineering company operating in automation, electronics, home automation and IT.
Our mission is to develop, together with our customers, products and new solutions to provide them with a high level of innovation. IDEA develops custom turnkey solutions for control and supervision of production processes as well as test and measurement systems. We offer complete modular systems, both in-line and off-line, by integrating third party hardware, designing fixtures and test sequences.
As system integrators we can deliver implementations of robotic and automatic systems customised to fit the customer's specific needs. To achieve this we take advantage of solutions offered by the top players in the field of robotics, both traditional and collaborative. We design and implement computer vision systems for quality inspection and control system feedback and provide robust integration with industrial control and actuation devices.
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UNIVERSITAET MANNHEIM (UMA)
The University of Mannheim is well-known for its distinct profile which is characterized by Mannheim's renowned Economic and Social Sciences being closely intertwined with the Humanities, with the Schools of Law, Mathematics and Computer Sciences. All disciplines closely cooperate with each other on central research subjects, for example on the topics of the political economy of reforms, decisions, governance, data science, artificial intelligence, migration and integration or language acquisition. Especially the Economic and Social Sciences are linked via their quantitative-empirical approach. The University has a budget of ca. 120 mill. EUR. Additionally, the university acquires about 26 mill. EUR third-party funding p.a.
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IDEKO S COOP (IDK)
IDEKO is a reserarch center specialized in industrial production and manufacturing technologies, We are known for the scientific excellence developed in our 4 research groups: manufacturing proceses, design and precisión engineering, dynamics and control and TIC’s and automation. Our specialisation has enabled us to offer advanced solutions to improve the production capacity and competitiveness of our customers in different sectors. Our activity covers the identification and analysis of opportunities, the design and development of products, business lines and production processes and the resolution of problems through the provision of technological services such as technical consultancy and equipment based services.
Our own organisational model encourages interdisciplinary work and we take special care in the qualification and professional development of our staff. We have the most up to date facilities and equipment and we are committed to collaborative work through the establishment of a wide range of contacts with leading centres at an international level.
IDEKO is integrated into the BRTA, BASQUE RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE, an agreement between 16 technology centres and cooperative research centres belonging to the Basque Network of Science, Technology and Innovation, the Basque Government, the Councils of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa and the SPRI Group.
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TYRIS AI S.L.
TYRIS AI S.L. is a technological company specialized in Artificial Intelligence solutions for the optimization of industrial processes. The Tyris AI human is formed by 15 people, including 4 doctors in Artificial Intelligence, and a multidisciplinary group of engineers experts in Machine Learning, industrial communications, and data analytics. Its solutions focus on the optimization of production processes and industrial systems, through advanced data analytics using Machines Learning, and advanced image processing using Deep Learning. Its main industrial application solutions are:
● Intelligent energy efficiency systems through Digital Twins
● Predictive maintenance systems with Machine Learning
● Advanced Deep Learning Vision Systems for object classification and tracking.
● Quality defect prediction systems
Tyris AI has received several awards for innovation technologies, like the 2018 Innovation Award for the development of the Machine Learning system to predict the deterioration of road pavements, granted by the Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation, Pedro Duque, and SACYR President, Manuel Marique.
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Industrias Alegre
Industrias Alegre is a family business, 100% Valencian, founded in 1953 by Vicente Alegre, a mold maker by profession, with which his first activity was as a mold workshop, an activity that continues today.
Its current main activity is the manufacture of injection plastic parts for the automotive sector where it acts as a global provider of full service of the design of the part, manufacture of its tool, its production and even its packaging, which is its second business unit. And throughout this development process, innovation has been and continues to be really key. The R&D Department of the company works further to promote a culture of innovation at all levels and to provide an innovative character to each of the company's strategic lines.
The plastic product range consists mainly of upper and lower pillar lining, trunk parts, Instrument Panel and consoles components, and plastic parts for the seats. The range of parts manufactured by the Company covers practically the entire plastic content of the vehicle interior. With Headquarters based in Valencia, where its central Engineering, Commercial and Administration teams are located, Industrias Alegre is capable of manufacturing parts for its clients in different European countries, in addition to Spain, such as Poland, with own plant and in Romania, India and Mexico, through cooperation with local partners.
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Core Innovation and Technology OE (CORE)
Core Innovation and Technology OE (CORE) is a start-up company offering tailor-made solutions to attach meaning to data in several industrial sectors and use cases using Artificial Intelligence technologies. CORE uses its own innovation management approach to analyze customer needs and form new concepts (Concept and Business Model Engineering). CORE activities are focused on predictive analytics, simulation and optimization algorithms, innovation management, H2020 funding and mentoring, facilitating and co-designing use cases, testing pilots and field trials. The target industries include manufacturing, energy, transport and infrastructure.
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ITUNOVA TEKNOLOJI ANONIM SIRKETI (ITU)
At ITU Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Application and Research Center (ITU AI), our main mission is to build and improve the capacity of knowledge and human resources in artificial intelligence and data sciences relying on envisioned advances along three venues: (1) Research and Development in AI; (2) Product Development Know-How in AI; (3) AI Education. We view those three as the legs of an AI tripod because all three aspects need to be considered to establish a strong base and advance in AI. We build ITU AI Center’s main mission objectives around those three legs. We leverage upon the existing capacity of Istanbul Technical University, from where we strategically kicked-off an ambitious AI initiative. Currently ITU AI has more than 10 affiliated faculty members and 50 graduate students with extensive research experience in machine learning, deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, autonomous systems, computer vision, natural language processing, large-scale optimization, operations research, empirical software engineering and big data analytics.
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FARPLAS OTOMOTIV ANONIM SIRKETI (FAR)
With its +50 years of experience, Farplas is a leading automotive Tier-1 company which designs, develops and manufactures plastic components for global automotive OEMs. Farplas has the vision of beingan innovative and global company holding the leadership in Turkey’s automotive and mobility ecosystem. Co-developing with OEMs, companies, and research institutions from all over the world, Farplas is a solution partner with skilled human resources, 3 manufacturing sites and 2 R&D centers in Turkey and 2 design centers in abroad. Industry 4.0 applications for manufacturing excellence, lightweighting materials & vehicle parts, smart mobility technologies and electrification are the strategic research focusesof Farplas. While having vision to be the innovative and global brand in the transportation and digital transformation ecosystem and holding the leadership in Turkey, Farplas collaborates with partners from different countries to develop innovative projects, to enhance technology level of business and to improve novel technologies.
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GLOBAL EQUITY & CORPORATE CONSULTING SL (SDP)
SD Partners is an M&A, strategic and financial consulting firm based in Madrid (Spain) specialized in advising companies, both nationally and internationally and focused on attracting capital for Start Ups with technological base and elaborating business plans. SD Partners team is comprised of professionals with extensive international experience in investment banking. SDP has access to national and international Venture Capitals and have successfully closed several deals in recent years.
We provide our clients with the commitment, capacity, and benefits of working with a financial boutique that is integrated into the Incotec Group, which has more than 80 employees and whose core business is the R&D consultancy to leading national and international technology companies. It allows clients to benefit from a series of products and synergies, highlighting the area of technology transfer, making available to our customers the emerging technologies of leading research centers and the most suitable industrial partners.
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TIME.LEX (TIM)
Timelex is a Brussels-based leading niche law firm specialised in all the legal aspects of innovation. This includes information technology (IT), privacy & data protection (GDPR), intellectual property, and media & electronic communications, amongst other topics. Timelex also specifically has a strong expertise in dealing with the legal (and ethical) aspects of AI. Next to advising public and private sector clients on all these topics, Timelex is involved in numerous European research projects where it acts as a lawyer to the consortium, advising the consortium on all legal matters that arise during the project implementation.
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GOIMEK S COOP (GOI)
GOIMEK is a company specialised in precision part machining belonging to the DANOBATGROUP (that has over 50 years’ experience supplying high precision equipment and innovative solutions to many industry sectors) offering to the market quality precision machining services based on experience, know-how and constant improvement of their processes, with a view to generating sufficient wealth to provide added-value employment and to help society advance, through the commitment of their workers and their cooperative identity.
GOIMEK is specialised in high-accuracy part machining with the highest standards of quality and service. As a precision part machining specialist, GOIMEK uses state-of-the-art technology and high precision, high output machines, complemented by the latest-generation verification resources. Moreover, it offers total solutions, offering customers the possibility of integrating all the supply chain needs for machined parts requiring high quality and high precision.
These complete solutions are based on the best option in terms of cost, material, weight, environmental impact and the production process required by the sector. So, researching, developing and implementing, methods and technologies that can optimise the scheduling and performance of this manufacturing system and their capability to react and adapt quickly and efficiently to their customers’ requirements is essential.
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WIRTSCHAFTSUNIVERSITAT WIEN (WU)
Vienna University of Economics and Business is the EU’s largest educational institution for business and economics, business law, and social sciences. The Institute of Data Process and Knowledge management (https://ai.wu.ac.at) focuses its research efforts on knowledge management, decision support systems, business process management, intelligent data management, standards and applications of the Semantic Web and Linked (open and closed) Data, Knowledge Graphs, and AI and is highly active in international collaborations with world-class partners. The applicants are also heavily involved in three multidisciplinary research groups: (i) the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab, whose mission is to bring together researchers from different disciplines in order to work together on challenging problems relating to privacy and sustainable computing; (ii) the WU Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics, whose goal is to coordinate research on blockchain and similar technologies, from engineering, economics, business, and social sciences to law; and (iii) the Complexity Science Sub Vienna, which was set up in order to foster collaboration between complex systems scientists dedicated to make sense of Big Data for the benefit of science and society.
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TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY DUBLIN (TU Dublin)
Technological University Dublin (TUDublin) is a first Technological University in the Republic of Ireland. Formed by merging three Dublin based Institutes of Technology (DIT, ITB and ITT) TU Dublin is one of the Ireland’s largest and most innovative higher education institutions. In Teaming AI TU Dublin will be involved in TU Dublin will support the 'human-centric' approach to AI by informing the mapping of the tacit knowledge and guiding the necessary step to adopt an Active Learning Approach for the AI algorithm to be deployed in use case 1 and 2 while in Use case 3 set up the required testing steps for different configurations which are: i) placing operators in different working conditions, ii) introducing work disruptions, iii) analyzing the reactions of operators, iv) designing alternatives to be tested. The experimental setting will collect physiological and subjective measures in addition to success/failure to help quantify the influence of contextual conditions on human performance. Prof John Kelleher and Dr Maria Chiara Leva are the PI involved in the project.
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PROFACTOR GMBH (PRO)
PROFACTOR is a research company, with shares held by the country of Upper Austria (UAR) and Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). It is located in Steyr and focuses on developing new technologies for integrated production technologies. PROFACTOR has a broad spectrum of competencies including Intelligent Automation Systems, Industrial Assistance Systems, and Machine Vision. The Visual Computing (VC) team1 of PROFACTOR, is built up of experts from different fields (machine vision, parallel computing, deep neuronal networks, embedded systems, mechatronics, and software engineering). One main topic of the VC team is to do applied research with systems having higher-value perception and assistance options, often combined with tracking and deep learning. The resulting technologies extend existing, mainly imaging based, hardware components (e.g. 3D sensors, 2D sensors, inertial systems, tracking devices, wearables, etc.) and have increased application potential.
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Teaming.AI Competence Cluster
Human Factors
AI Methodology
Software and Integration Technology
Machine Perception
Use Cases
Dissemination & Exploitation
