The research areas of the Network focus primarily on five fundamental aspects:

 

The development of leveraged technology 5.0 applied:

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• Development of connected, remotely configurable and autonomous industrial objects for real-time monitoring and control of operations;

• Development of cloud computing systems for the sharing of industrial information (ex., product design and industrialization) and the coordination of value creation networks;

• Development of applied and dedicated data analysis technologies predictive maintenance;

• Develop standardization and system integration tools for multidisciplinary optimization of product and production system design;

• Develop machine learning and machine vision technologies for quality inspection in complex product environments;

• Develop augmented reality technologies applied to support complex operations;

• Develop hybrid systems applied to the planning and control of operations (ex., simulation, optimization, machine learning);

• Develop IT security technologies for distributed industrial operations management systems;

• Develop technologies to monitor the physical efforts of human work in real time.

 

 

The development of technology 5.0 applications in partners:

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• Development of an Internet-based business control system for industrial objects in a company;

• Development of a system to assist the design of manufactured parts in a partner using machine learning to predict the service life of parts;

• Development of an agile control system for handling in a partner’s mines;

• Development of an intelligent product distribution system in a future hospital.

 

 

The deployment of technology 5.0 in organizations and society:

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• Studies of the deployment of an Internet based operation control system of industrial objects to a partner;

• Studies of strategies and approaches for the digital shift of manufacturing SMEs (ex., diagnostics, digital business models, transformation approaches, manufacturing strategies and distribution);

• Reengineering method development 5.0 of the organizations;

• Study of humans place in transformation 5.0;

• Studies of innovation processes 5.0 in organizations and ecosystems of technological innovation.

 

 

The design of connected and intelligent systems:

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• Development of methods for designing and evaluating the performance of agile reconfigurable manufacturing systems;

• Principles and design methods for intelligent autonomous industrial and logistics systems;

• Development of an agent-based methodological framework for the design and coordination of agile production and logistics networks;

• Development of a modeling framework for the design and evaluation of value creation networks.

 

 

Analysis of the impacts of these technologies:

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• Studies of the impact of 5.0 technologies on employee work and communication structures in organizations;

• Studies of the economic impact of innovation 5.0;

• Studies of the impact of 5.0 technologies on the ergonomics of human work.