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On June 9th the fourth ADMA Learning Network Event (LNE) took place. Answering to current developments, it took place virtually for the first time. The topic was “Digital Technologies for Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management”, spanning over several ADMA transformations. The working language was German. The virtual format allowed for a streamlined webinar spanning over […]

During the first year of the project, the ADMA team mainly focussed on the development of a sound methodology to support European manufacturing SMEs assess the possibility of adopting advanced manufacturing solutions and transforming their organisation towards human-centred next-generation factories with more competitive, modern and sustainable production. The past 12 months the team concentrated on […]

Polargos is a Polish SME that offers automatic smart gates controlled by mobile devices that redefine the concept of comfort. They create safe, durable fenceswith a timeless design for your home. After participating in the ADMA Scan and Transformation Plan, we interviewed their team to learn more about their experience: What are the main positive and negative aspects of the ADMA scan?The scan gives […]

Boz Group is a manufacturing SME from The Netherlands that produces strategic metal products. They “engineer, innovate and manufacture”, as they say in their website. Boz Group took part in the ADMA short term pilot, and we have interviewed Corné van Opdorp, the Managing Director, to discover how their experience was: Did you complete the ADMA quick and long scans?Yes, we completed the […]

Having focused the last 1,5 year on providing European manufacturing SME’s a holistic, consolidated view on their Advanced Manufacturing maturity and where they can go to, now the time has come to take the ADMA-approach one step further. Let us inspire you on how to start making things real, ie how to implement those transformations […]

Having signed the Letter of Support in March 2019, the Bulgarian Innovation and Technology Hub – DigiTech 4.0, managed by the ICT Cluster Bulgaria, officially became an ADMA Supporting Organisation. One year and a few months later, their ADMA journey has been quite impressive: April 2019  – Eindhoven (Netherlands) Ms. Krasimira Shindarova participated in the […]

Manufacturers taking the lead toward the implementation of a sustainable development strategy A linear economy, that extracts resources at increasing rates, according to the principles of take-make-use-dispose, without consideration of the environment in which it operates, cannot continue indefinitely. However, as remarked by Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal: “Today, our economy is […]

Exchange challenges & solutions related to the highest ADMA FoF maturity levels On the 27th of March, the 3rd Belgian LNE gathered (remotely) twelve Factory of the Future SME leaders and transformation experts to exchange best practices, discuss remaining barriers as well as possible solutions with respect to the highest ADMA FoF maturity levels. Participants: […]

In March 2020, the number of ADMA Supporting Organisations reached 100! Our nº 100 is Huninno Association and we met them to know a little more about their organisation. They accepted to share with us some insights on what made the Hunnino Association a successful initiative. What work have you been carrying out with SMEs so far? […]

The ADMA Initiative, performed on behalf of the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), strongly builds on a holistic approach.  Next to addressing technology oriented transformation areas (T1 – Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, T2 – Digital Factory, T4 – End-To-End Customer Focussed Engineering and T6 – Smart Manufacturing), it also explicitly includes non-technological transformations (T3 – ECO Factory, T5 – Human-Centred […]