About Smarter Factory
The Smarter Factory Technology Gateway strategy is based on a clear mission to support innovative companies with digital technologies to help them achieve efficiencies, cost reductions and performance improvements to strengthen their businesses.
Priority Themes: For SMEs the immediate need is around Smart Manufacturing, Data Acquisition through Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) & IoT and the development of data-driven decision making. The availability of data is a key foundation on which the future adoption of intelligent systems, robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can effectively be addressed. For companies with more advanced digital maturity, opportunities to scale cognitive vision systems and to increase productivity through automation is key to maintaining and expanding production capacity.