We are pleased to invite you to this full-day event, jointly organised by the European CPSE Labs and Platforms4CPS projects.

This event brings together digitisation experts, researchers and policy-makers from across Europe to share insights on challenges and opportunities in the digital transformation of industry, with a focus on industrial automation and automotive.

The programme will particularly look at SMEs and mid-caps and discuss their needs and experiences, and how they can benefit from support on regional, national and European level.

Participation is free of charge but registration is needed.

• Meet European innovators from industry and research.

• Hear success stories from SMEs about experiences and results using advanced digital technologies and platforms to design innovative solutions.

• Get information about technology support from European competence centres and upcoming European funding opportunities.

Workshop Agenda

09:00 Registration

09:30 Welcome and Introduction

• About the event, introduction to the CPSE Labs project, H. Pfeifer, Event Host, fortiss, Germany

10:00 Experiences with CPSE Labs 1: Industrie 4.0 experiments

• Introduction to the Eclipse 4diac platform, M. Wenger, fortiss, Germany

• Experiment in the biogas domain: energy load balancing, E. Murnleitner, Awite GmbH, Germany

• Advancing legacy machine tools to digital manufacturing, R. Gördes, Formtec Gmbh, Germany

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Experiences with CPSE Labs 2: Co-Simulation experiments

• Introduction to Co-Simulation in the INTO-CPS platform, K. Pierce, Newcastle University, UK

• Experimenting with integrated product-production co-simulation, C. Zamfirescu, Sibiu University, Romania

• Integrating Co-Simulation Methods into a real-time Platform for CPS, D. Ciglar, AVL, Austria

12:30 Lunch break

13:45 PlatformArena

• Introduction to the Platforms4CPS project, S. Bageritz, Steinbeis2i, Germany

• BaSys 4.0: An open platform for Industrie 4.0, V. Aravantinos, fortiss, Germany

14:30 Interactive Session

• Deploying digital platforms: user needs, demands and requirements, gaps and barriers

15.30 Coffee break

15:45 Further collaboration and funding opportunities

• From Information to Pilot Projects, F. Schuberth, Mittelstand 4.0 c/o Fraunhofer IGCV, Germany

• Accelerating European CPS solutions to the market: the FED4SAE project, I. Dor, CEA, France

• Introduction to the European “Smart Anything Everywhere” initiative, S. Mortimer, Steinbeis2i, Germany

• Open discussions and networking opportunities

17:00 END OF THE WORKSHOP