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 […]

The MONDRAGON Corporation is a federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. It was founded in the town of Mondragon in 1956 by graduates of a local technical college, and its first product was paraffin heaters. They joined the ADMA initiative as a Supporting Organisation (SO) brought by the partner EURECAT, a tech centre that helps SMEs adopt […]

Last month, in the occasion of the sixth edition of the Factory of the Future Awards ceremony in Zaventem (Brussels), Audi Brussels, Kautex Textron Benelux, Total Specialty Oils Ertvelde and Vandemoortele Izegem received the title of Factory of the Future from Belgian’s Federal Minister of Work, Economy and Consumers. “These production companies have all proved […]

The 3rd ADMA Learning Network session started 10h00 sharp at the Eurecat Cerdanyola premises, where we welcomed 11 attendees from 6 different manufacturing SMEs. Paul Peeters kicked off with the introduction to the ADMA initiative, explaining how manufacturing SMEs not only should work faster, but also smarter to proceed on a successful journey towards Factories […]

A recent study by KU Leuven (Belgium), one of the leading European universities, revealed that factory workers feel too little involvement in the introduction of new technologies and digitisation at their workplace. As a result, elder workers in particular tend to be worried about how their job will change, leading to ’technostress’. “This mainly concerns […]

This is the last in a series of seven articles that the ADMA initiative has produced in order to present the self-assessed current maturities of manufacturing managers in relation to the seven dimensions that European enterprises can advance on in order to improve their manufacturing performances. The seven dimensions are: Advanced manufacturing technologies Digital factory […]