Funded experiments about AI application in manufacturing for SMEs

The Horizon 2020 project KITT4SME has announced the second open call providing up to €200 000 of European funding per consortia. KITT4SME project provides the IT-infrastructure and core AI-based software modules to support the production by SMEs and mid-caps from the manufacturing world. This open call invites small teams composed of solution providers and manufacturing end users to conduct pilot experiments. Swiss SMEs are encouraged to participate.

The Use Cases should focus on the area of discrete manufacturing and should cover problems related to the production processes. Small teams (min.2 max.3 entities) consisting of at least 1 Solution Provider having a mature AI solution for the manufacturing industry and at least 1 Manufacturing End User operating in discrete manufacturing. The participating entities must be both SMEs or mid-caps The experiments need to identify a manufacturing challenge, which can be usually faced by manufacturing SMEs, around the three prioritized application areas. This challenge should be specified and elaborated in a detailed use case of the specific manufacturing SME where the experiment will be demonstrated.

Three application areas as game changers for the target experiments have been defined:

Artificial Intelligence for Quality Control that aims in early and automatic error-detection and better run time decisions
Artificial Intelligence for Reconfiguration or product personalization – on both levels of production optimization and of optimization of scheduling, and
Artificial Intelligence for Human-Machine Interaction.

The following points have also to be taken into consideration: 

the main technology underlying the solution has to be AI;
the main technologies used (AI) should have a high maturity level (from TRL5 and above);
the focus of the solution should be placed on one of the three project’s application areas; however, proposals addressing other manufacturing challenges can be accepted provided that their value is clearly pointed out.

of information can be sent to Andrea Bettoni: andrea.betton@supsi.ch

The Open call details and form can be found here : Homepage