Open Industry 4.0 Alliance steps up inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion starting with Nether­lands focus

• Alliance will be present at World of Automa­tion in Utrecht, the Nether­lands (Sept. 27–30, 2022)
• New member of the Alliance is TNO, the natural sciences research orga­ni­za­tion in the Nether­lands that has been in exis­tence for more than 90 years
• Shining example of the Alliance’s imple­men­ta­tion power is the first Imple­men­ta­tion Award for the Dutch Duurza­amhei­ds­fab­riek, or Sustain­ability Factory (from February 2022)

Reinach, Switzer­land, 07.09.2022 — The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance is purpose­fully pushing ahead with its inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion approach. The focus in the coming weeks will be on the Nether­lands where its flag­ship project is an inte­grated process factory in the Duurza­amhei­ds­fab­riek (the Sustain­ability Factory) at the ROC da Vinci College in Dordrecht near Rotterdam. The project received the first Imple­men­ta­tion Award from the Alliance in February 2022.

Now the Alliance is orga­nizing contri­bu­tions on Industry 4.0 at the World of Automa­tion (WoTS 2022) in Utrecht from September 27 to 30, 2022, in close coor­di­na­tion with trade fair orga­ni­za­tion FHI (Feder­atie van Tech­nolo­giebranches, the Feder­a­tion of Tech­nology Indus­tries, in exis­tence since 1956). The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance stand is located in Hall 8–8A031.

The Alliance has also announced a new strategic partner and member in the Nether­lands: TNO, the state-owned Society for Applied Scien­tific Research (Dutch: Neder­landse Organ­isatie voor toegepast-natu­ur­weten­schap­pelijk onder­zoek), estab­lished in 1930. The Nether­lands is one of the Alliance’s ‘Local Hubs’. As part of its inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion strategy, these hubs form a regional expres­sion of the work of the Alliance across each of its indi­vidual coun­tries. The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance currently has around 100 members.

Digi­ti­za­tion and Industry 4.0 are happening against a back­drop of supply chain issues, cyber­se­cu­rity chal­lenges, geopo­lit­ical conflicts, the energy crisis, and climate change. In this context, industry trans­for­ma­tion is increas­ingly an urgent neces­sity rather than a “nice-to-have”. To deliver that, problem-solving must be pursued glob­ally. To this end, the alliance wants the initial spark to come from Europe’s industry. With its activ­i­ties in the Nether­lands, the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance is providing a blue­print for this approach.

“The growth strategy of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance is having an impact, including inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion. Part of this strategy is the local member compa­nies and partner orga­ni­za­tions in each respec­tive country, which bring the added value created by the Alliance to the end-customer markets and provide support in scaling Industry 4.0 initia­tives,” explains Ekrem Yigitdöl, Managing Director at the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance. “Through part­ner­ships with estab­lished local orga­ni­za­tions, we are joining forces. I look forward to helping the Alliance’s growth process in the Nether­lands together with FHI and TNO.”

“TNO’s Smart Industry Roadmap is focused on supporting the digi­ti­za­tion of Dutch industry,” says Adam Schmidt, Program Manager at the TNO Smart Industry Roadmap. “However, in today’s tightly connected world, we cannot achieve this alone. That is why it is so impor­tant for us to collab­o­rate with influ­en­tial and recog­nized inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tions such as the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance. In this way, we want to ensure that we don’t rein­vent the wheel and can benefit from the devel­op­ments of others, that we can share our expe­ri­ences and results with the broader commu­nity, and ulti­mately achieve the stan­dard­iza­tion needed for (at least) pan-Euro­pean inter­op­er­ability in the industry.”

Alliance’s appear­ance at the World of Automa­tion in the Nether­lands

The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance will also be repre­sented by part­ners at World of Automa­tion. For example, Alliance member Endress+Hauser will present a multi-vendor wall in line with the Alliance’s objec­tives. In coor­di­na­tion with the FHI trade fair orga­ni­za­tion, the Alliance will also be holding presen­ta­tions on the inte­grated process factory as part of the Sustain­ability Factory Dordrecht, the appli­ca­tion of the Asset Admin­is­tra­tion Shell using the example of multi-vendor condi­tion moni­toring in the food and beverage industry, a project in intral­o­gis­tics (second Imple­men­ta­tion Award), and the orga­ni­za­tion of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance.

“FHI is part­nering with the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance during the World of Tech­nology & Science to show­case an open approach,” said Paul Petersen, Director at FHI. “The current chal­lenges facing end users are too big for indi­vidual compa­nies to solve on their own. Alliance members include industry leaders who are prag­mat­i­cally imple­menting cross-industry solu­tions.”

Learn more about the indi­vidual program items of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance here: https://fhi.nl/wots/seminars/open-industrie‑4–0‑alliance/

You can register for the event at the following link: https://www.databadge.net/wots2022/reg/?link=89e5c8876e89f8b72dc2&lan=EN

Photo mate­rial:

Ekrem Yigitdöl, Managing Director at the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

Adam Schmidt, Program Manager at the TNO Smart Industry Roadmap

Paul Petersen, Director at FHI

© Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

About TNO

TNO, the Nether­lands Orga­ni­za­tion for applied scien­tific research, is an inde­pen­dent research insti­tu­tion founded by law in 1932. TNO’s mission is to connect people and knowl­edge to create inno­va­tions that boost the compet­i­tive strength of industry and the well-being of society in a sustain­able way.

The TNO’s Smart Industry group supports the Dutch manu­fac­turing sector in their tran­si­tion towards Industry 4.0 by providing inno­v­a­tive solu­tions ranging from data connec­tivity and digital twins within facto­ries and sover­eign data sharing across company borders, through collab­o­ra­tive human-robot cells and adap­tive digital oper­ator support systems, to high-preci­sion quality assess­ment systems and zero-program­ming approach to robo­t­i­za­tion of high-mix low-volume produc­tion. More­over, the team is involved in fore­casting of tech­nology trends and moni­toring the impact of digi­tal­iza­tion, as well as intro­duc­tion of new busi­ness models centered around circu­larity and servi­ti­za­tion.