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 […]

Experience VOLA’s new factory with self-propelled robots (you can activate the English subtitles on the bottom right of the video on the CC button) Vola’s factory of the future is a unique solution to factory automation, where the robots support Vola’s employees by automating the many logistical processes, ensuring productivity and product quality. MADE had […]

Light and strong carbon fibre composites, known from Formula 1 and race bikes, face sudden, brittle and dramatic fracture behaviour. In order to tackle this problem, REIN4CED has developed and patented a brand new more impact resistant composite material than carbon. This Belgian SME was nominated as a Finalist in the JEC Innovation Awards 2020, and took part in the ADMA short-term […]

Continental, Newtec, Rousselot and Duracell have been awarded the prestigious title of “Factories of The Future“. What are the sources of such dynamic development of Industry 4.0 in the Benelux countries and why should we take an example from them? FACTORY OF THE FUTURE IS AN AWARD AND EXAMPLE FOR EVERY PRODUCTION COMPANY Factories of the Future is an annual competition in which Agoria experts use […]