Towards Industry 4.0: Digital Technologies in Process Industry
The SPIRE thematic workshop, Towards Industry 4.0: Digital Technologies in Process Industry, explored different digitalization related sub-topics, such as plant and process control, process design, artificial intelligence and big data, as well as platforms for industrial symbiosis.
Digitalization is important to SPIRE because of the tremendous potential it has for the process industries to dramatically accelerate change in resource management, process control, and in the design and deployment of disruptive new business models.
In the SPIRE 2050 Vision document, formally launched at the Stakeholder Workshop on 2 October, digitalization is identified by SPIRE as one of the transversal topics. SPIRE strongly believes that this transversal topic is key to helping support and accelerate the much needed transformation for the process industries. The position and role of digital technologies set out by the SPIRE 2050 Vision is central to achieving the objectives within Horizon Europe.
The event served as a perfect opportunity for the SPIRE community to further discuss digital topics and gain insight from representatives of SPIRE projects, the European Commission and by experts in the field.
Martin Winter from Cefic and the event chairperson, announced a call for expression of interest for the new Digital Working Group, the first of its kind with the purpose of reshaping the SPIRE Working Groups and Advisory structure. This Working Group would also be aligned with the SPIRE 2050 objectives and the Horizon Europe challenges.
For more information on the event, we invite you to have a look at the following items:
- Workshop Programme
- Speaker Presentations:
- Perspective of the European Commission (Anne-Marie Sassen, EC DG CNECT)
- European Roadmap for Industrial Process Automation (Pär-Erik Martinsson, Manager Digital Sweden)
- Digitalisation in Steel Industry, current situation and future trends (Harald Peters, BFI)
- Towards Industry 4.0: How to make chemical plants cognitive, with ability to adapt and predict, using well established advanced control technology (Svein Olav Hauger, Cybernetica)
- IbD: Intensified by Design - Digital Platform for Process Intensification Design and Analysis (Ignacio Montero and Jose Antonio Ibarra - IRIS)
- CoPro: From unit control to optimal management of plants, sites and chemical parks (Sebastian Engell, TU Dortmund)
- COCOP: Advanced scheduling, platforms, communication architecture of plant-wide monitoring and control, and new digital technologies (Matti Vilkko, Tampere University of Technology)
- Monsoon project: Boosting the development and deployment of data enabled predictive control solutions for process industries (Claudio Pastrone, ISMB)
- SPIRE 2050 Vision Document
