Digital Innovation Hubs
Advanced Manufacturing Digital Innovation Hub PAŽANGIOS GAMYBOS SKAITMENINIŲ INOVACIJŲ CENTRAS
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Contact Data
Coordinator (Industry association)
Public establishment “Intechcentras”
Coordinator website
http://intechcentras.lt/?lang=en
Year Established
2007
Location
Savanorių pr. 176c-804, LT-03154, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Website
http://intechcentras.lt/services/advanced-manufacturing-digital-innovation-hub/?lang=en
Social Media
Contact information
Description
Description
Advanced Manufacturing DIH is led by non-profit public organisation - Intechcentras.
The one-stop-shop center provides business enterprises with up-to-date information, expert assistance and access to technology for testing digital innovations. It also helps to carry out and conduct experiments with products, processes or business models.
The Hub seeks significant changes in the field of digitizing industry in Lithuanian companies, thus increasing their competitiveness and added value.
- Access to the centers of competences
- The heart of the innovation ecosystem
- Mediation services
- Aid for funding
- Education, training and consulting services
MISSION: By integration of Lithuanian ecosystem participants, in usege of digital technologies, to increase the competitiveness of Lithuanian enterprises. SCOPE OF SERVISES: DIH consulting services: • Search for innovations; • Establishing the company's digital level and providing recommendations; • Preparation of company's digital strategic plans and necessary investments; • Training and consulting in the field of digitization and innovative technologies; • Mediation between science and business and business and business; • Studies. FieldLab Contracted Services: • Practical Digitization; • Technology design / installation services; • Demonstration, testing, production of prototype small quantities, including 3D printing methods; • Testing of new functional materials for the engineering industry; • Identification and harmonization of related and interactive activities; • Collection and processing of data for statistical analysis of characteristics; • Quality control of products, validation of produced batches, characterization; • Safety tests and assessment of environmental and health impacts; • the preparation of the technical documentation required for CE marking under the Machinery Directive; • Finance attraction service / EU project preparation and initiation.
Lietuvos inžinerinės pramonės asociacija LINPRA siekdama Lietuvos gamybos sektoriaus inovacijų ekosistemą integruoti į Europos inovacijų ekosistemą, dar 2012 m. įsteigė Pažangios gamybos skaitmeninių inovacijų centrą ( Advanced Manufacturing Digital Innovation Hub), kurį šiuo metu koordinuoja asociacijos steigtas ne-pelno siekianti viešoji įstaiga „Intechcentras. Šis centras turi platų partnerių (paslaugų teikėjai, produktų kūrėjai, universitetai, tyrimų institutai ir kt.) tinklą bei yra pripažįstamas visoje Europoje besikuriančių skaitmeninių inovacijų centrų grandinės dalimi. Pažangios gamybos DIH kartu su partneriais yra pasirašęs Jungtinės veiklos sutartį, kurios tikslas apjungti savo pastangas, darbą ir žinias bendrai veiklai, turint tikslą vystyti Pažangios gamybos DIH. Šioje sutartyje taip pat numatytos centro koordinatoriaus, eksploatatoriaus ir kitos funkcijos.
Centras vieno langelio principu teikia įmonėms naujausią informaciją, ekspertų pagalbą ir galimybę naudotis technologijomis skaitmeninių inovacijų bandymams, padeda atlikti ir vykdyti eksperimentus su produktais, procesais ar verslo modeliais.
DIH siekia reikšmingų permainų Lietuvos pramonės įmonių skaitmeninio srityje, taip didinant jų konkurencingumą ir kuriamą pridėtinę vertę. Tai:
- Prieiga prie kompetencijų centrų
- Inovacijų ekosistemos širdis
- Tarpininkavimo paslaugos
- Pagalba finansavimui gauti
- Švietimas, mokymai ir konsultavimo paslaugos
MISIJA: Sutelkiant Lietuvos ekosistemos dalyvius, skaitmeninėmis technologijomis, padidinti Lietuvos įmonių konkurencingumą PASLAUGOS: DIH konsultacinės paslaugos: • Inovacijų paieška; • Įmonės skaitmeninio lygio nustatymas ir rekomendacijų teikimas; • Įmonės skaitmeninio strateginių planų ir reikalingų investicijų parengimas; • Mokymai ir konsultacijos skaitmeninimo ir inovatyvių technologijų srityse; • Tarpininkavimas tarp mokslo ir verslo bei verslo ir verslo; • Studijos ir tyrimai. FieldLab kontraktuojamos paslaugos: • Skaitmeninimo praktiniai sprendimai įmonėms; • Technologijų projektavimo / diegimo paslaugos; • Eksperimentavimas, bandymai, prototipų mažų kiekių gamyba, įskaitant pridėtinės gamybos metodus; • Naujų funkcinių medžiagų inžinerinei pramonei testavimas; • Susijusių ir sąveikaujančių veiklų visumos nustatymas ir suderinimas; • Charakteristikų statistinės analizės duomenų kaupimas ir apdorojimas; • Gaminių kokybės patikrinimas, pagamintų partijų validavimas (validation), charakterizavimas; • Saugumo testai ir poveikio aplinkai ir sveikatai įvertinimas; • techninės dokumentacijos reikalingos CE ženklinimui pagal Mašinų direktyvą parengimas; • Finansų pritraukimo paslauga / ES projektų rengimas ir iniciavimas.
Link to national or regional initiatives for digitising industry
The activities of the HUB are well aligned with the Lithuanian national initiative for digitising industry, Pramonė 4.0.
Advanced manufacturing Digital Innovation HUB participates in National Industry Digitisation Platform ‘Pramonė 4.0’ and is involved to thematic working groups. The platform operates at different levels and it compose the National Industrial Competitiveness Commission ‘Pramonė 4.0’ (Commission ‘Pramonė 4.0’ ), the Coordination group of the National Industrial Competitiveness Commission ‘Pramonė 4.0’ (Coordination group) and the thematic working groups that work in the areas of digital manufacturing, services promoting digitization, standardisation and legal regulation, human resources and cyber security. (https://industrie40.lt/platform-pramone-4-0-structure/ ).
Advanced manufacturing Digital Innovation HUB is a member of informal cluster of Lithuanian HUBs, which also includes Laser Digital Innovation Hub (LaserLT DIH), Lithuanian robotic DIH (LTroboticsDIH), Sunrise Valley Digital Innovation Hub (SV DIH), Baltic Maritime Digital Innovation Hub, Lithuanian Innovation Center, Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Advanced manufacturing Digital Innovation HUB in 2018 was “Lithuanian industry digitalization roadmap 2019-2030” one of the authors, which was funded by European Commission.
Alignment with RIS3 strategies
In addition, Advanced manufacturing Digital Innovation HUB strategic objectives align with the following RIS3 strategies:
- To focus investment and create synergies
- To improve the innovation process
- To develop and implement strategies for economic transformation
- To respond to economic and societal challenges
This HUB is a participant in the several international projects:
- I4MS project Smart Factories in the New EU Member States (https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/implementing-digitising-european-industry-actions/digital-innovation-hubs-smart-factories-new-eu). This project involves partners from 13 different European countries.
- EIT Manufacturing project “Made by Europe” (https://eit.europa.eu/eit-community/eit-manufacturing). This project involves partners from 50 different European countries.
- Erasmus+ project “UPSKILL: The Skills for the Digital Future of Plastics Factories”. (https://www.upskill-project.eu/).
- Erasmus+ project “„Industry 4.0 Challenge: Empowering Metalworkers for Smart Factories of the Future (4CHANGE)“ (http://change4industry.eu/).
- H2020 project “MARKET 4.0: A Multi Sided Business Platform for Plug and Produce Industrial Product”. (http://market40.eu/).
- Interreg Baltic Sea Region project “Diginno: Digital Innovation Network” (https://www.diginnobsr.eu/about).
- This HUB is a participant in in a newly won project coordinated by the VDTC of the Fraunhofer IFF “Interregional cooperation network on Digital Engineering”. This project involves partners from 11 different European countries.
- This HUB is participant in National project “InoTech for Industry”. The activities of this project are focused on the innovation audits for Industry companies.
Market and Services
Market sectors
- Electricity, gas and water supply
- Construction
- Education
- Manufacture of rubber and plastic products
- Manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products
- Manufacture of machinery and equipment
- Manufacture of electrical and optical equipment
- Other Manufacturing
TRL Focus
- TRL4 - Component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environment
- TRL5 - Component and/or breadboard validation in relevant environment
- TRL6 - System/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
- TRL7 - System prototype demonstration in an operational environment
- TRL8 - Actual system completed and qualified through test and demonstration
- TRL9 - Actual system proven through successful mission operations
Services provided
- Awareness creation
- Ecosystem building, scouting, brokerage, networking
- Collaborative Researchs
- Concept validation and prototyping
- Testing and validation
- Pre-competitive series production
- Commercial infrastructure
- Incubator/accelerator support
- Education and skills development
- Other
Service Examples
Industrie 4.0 training and audits, consultations, roadmap for digital transformation
InTechCentras is the official representative of the German Innovation Center Industry 4.0 (Germany Innovation Center for Industry 4.0) in Lithuania. We provide a three-level training course at the end of which is considered to be the final exam assessment and the Industry 4.0 Driver License.
WHY IT IS USEFULL:
During the course you will systematically understand digitization processes;
Get acquainted with specific accesses for your business;
You will learn about the already implemented industry 4.0 projects;
Participate in intensive exchanges with other course participants and lecturers;
You will take part in interactive workshops;
Participants: Altas komercinis Autotraspotas, Vakarų laivų gamykla, SKF, Vilnius Gediminas Techncal University, Vilnika, Kitron, BCT, Novameta
Energy data collection and monitoring
Main problem
Companies with energy-intensive equipment are subject to high energy costs. The possibilities of reducing these costs are sought through a variety of different types of measuring instruments. The problem is that each modified parameter or indicator can affect the change in the next parameter. This way, a company may be even more likely to suffer further losses. As a result, part of corporate decision-making in general tries to rely on intuition and random guesses because it does not have an integrated analytical system.
Solution
The Advanced Manufacturing Digital Innovation HUB, which involves several different engineering companies, has developed the Analytical Energy Efficiency Monitoring System, which has been introduced to Lithuanian companies. This system has:
• Monitoring of production costs and production data;
• Data collection and mapping, effectiveness evaluation;
• Integration of other systems (Siemens, Schneider, ABB etc.).
Applicability
Using the system, the Lithuanian company Nordic Sugar has made the following actions:
• Integrated 15 energetically sensitive objects;
• Data is collected from electricity, water, gas accounting systems, network analyzers, frequency converters, temperature, humidity sensors, weighing scales;
• Integration of existing systems has reduced investments into data collection equipment;
• Integrated information systems of different manufacturers have been able to provide real-time data on how much energy resources are used to produce one ton of product.
More details: http://intechcentras.lt/?lang=enDevelopment and integration of an Automated Equipment Performance Tracking System
Main problem
When considering Industry 4.0 development, companies are often limited to the perception that it is enough to invest in new machines and technologies. However, this represents only 10 % of the company's total change in digitization, and the biggest challenge is the integrity of the existing and newly acquired equipment, combined with existing production management ERP systems and the know-how of genuine capabilities and free resources. When companies purchase state-of-the-art CNC machines, they must not blindly rely on manufacturer's performance calculations, companies themselves must be able to check whether the data presented is in line with reality. Lithuanian industry has encountered an unpleasant situation when the purchased CNC machines automatically generated parameters of equipment performance were far from reality, so they started looking for solutions to solve the problem.
Solution
Advanced Manufacturing Digital Innovation HUB companies joined a consortium to create a service to solve this problem. Initially, there were two companies that were able to create an electronic device that could be connected to any manufacturing facility. The gadget was then made visually appealing, with integrated TouchScreen management feature and data analysis on the Cloud platform. Subsequently, a consultancy company joined the team that analysed the data and provided recommendations for companies to identify and use available spare capacities.
This system has the following features:
• Fewer manual calculations for employees;
• Minute precision in real time;
• Elimination of Human Factor Errors;
• Avoiding misuse.
Applicability
Lithuanian companies such as LESTA, CMG, Raguvos baldai, Lironta started using this system.
The company worked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Its decision was to buy a new device that would create new spare capacity. The device costs 200.000 Eur. By applying this automated equipment performance monitoring system, up to 35 % of the available capacity was found, and the company saved 200,000 Euros, which were already approved for the purchase of new equipment.
More details: http://intechcentras.lt/?lang=enOrganization
Organizational form
Networked organization, without formal structure
Turnover
250.000-500.000
Number of employees
1-9
Evolutionary Stage
Fully operational
Geographical Scope
National
Funding
- Horizon 2020
- European Social Fund
- COSME
- National basic research funding
- Private funding
- Partner resources
- Memberships
Customers
Number of customers annually
>50
Type of customers
- Start-up companies
- SMEs (<250 employees)
- MidCaps (between €2-10 billion turnover)
- Large companies, multi-nationals
Partners
Kaunas University of Technology
Partner Type
University
Website
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Partner Type
University
Website
https://www.vgtu.lt/index.php?lang=2
Vilnius City Municipality
Partner Type
Regional government
Website
Ministry of the Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania
Partner Type
National government
Website
Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology
Partner Type
Economic development agency
Website
European Social Fund Agency
Partner Type
Economic development agency
Website
Public Institution Lithuanian Business Support Agency (LBSA)
Partner Type
Economic development agency
Website
Lithuanian Plastics Cluster
Partner Type
Networked, cluster organization
Website
Invega
Partner Type
Incubator/accelerator
Website
Aedilis
Partner Type
SME
Website
Polyhedra
Partner Type
SME
Website
Baltled
Partner Type
SME
Website
Gamybos kodo technologijos
Partner Type
SME
Website
Teracode
Partner Type
SME
Website
Santavilte
Partner Type
SME
Website
Proftools
Partner Type
SME
Website
German Innovation Cetre for Industry 4.0
Partner Type
SME
Website
IT VISION
Partner Type
SME
Website
Arginta Investment
Partner Type
SME
Website
http://www.arginta.lt/en/arginta-investment-en/
Lithuanian engineering industries association LINPRA
Partner Type
Industry association
Website
University of Management and Economics (ISM)
Partner Type
University
Website
Pažangios inovacijos (formerly - Bemetas)
Partner Type
SME
Website
http://www.arginta.lt/en/home-2/
3D Creative
Partner Type
SME
Website
Precizika Metrology
Partner Type
SME
Website
https://metrology.precizika.lt/
Elgama Elektronika
Partner Type
SME
Website
Lithuanian Robotics DIH
Partner Type
Networked, cluster organization
Website
http://www.ltrobotics.eu/en/digital-innovation-hub/
Civitta
Partner Type
SME
Website
Elseta
Partner Type
SME
Website
Precizika metal
Partner Type
SME
Website
Elinta
Partner Type
SME
Website
Vilnius Jeruzale Labour Market Training Centre
Partner Type
Educational institute
Website
https://www.vjdrmc.lt/apie-mus-2/
Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists
Partner Type
Industry association
Website
Baltik vairas
Partner Type
Large enterprise
Website
Research institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology
Partner Type
Research & Technology organization
Website
Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation
Partner Type
Research & Technology organization
Website
Fraunhofer IFF
Partner Type
Research & Technology organization
Website
https://www.iff.fraunhofer.de/en.html
German Baltic Chamber of Commerce
Partner Type
Chamber of Commerce
Website
Lithuanian Innovation Center
Partner Type
Economic development agency
Website
Vakarų centrinė laboratorija
Partner Type
Large enterprise
Website
http://www.wsy.lt/en/subsidiaries/companies/vakaru-centrine-laboratorija
Technological competences
- Sensors, actuators, MEMS, NEMS, RF
- Photonics, electronic and optical functional materials
- Robotics and autonomous systems
- Internet of Things (e.g. connected devices, sensors and actuators networks)
- Data mining, big data, database management
- Simulation and modelling
- Software as a service and service architectures
- Cloud computing
- Additive manufacturing (3D printing)
- Laser based manufacturing
- ICT management, logistics and business systems