📋 Tender Overview
On April 28 2022 the largest decentralized German-Czech experimental laboratory for the distributed production in the Industry 4.0 paradigm. On this occasion two further agreements on cooperation with the German Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU and the Czech VB-TUO University in Ostrava were signed in the presence of government representatives.The Czech-German RICAIP center is the largest project in Europe in the field of industrial artificial intelligence for Industry 4.0 funded by the European Union the Czech Ministry of Education and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF together with seed funding of over 50 million EUR is financed. The director of RICAIP based in Prague is the German scientist Dr. Tilman Becker who researched AI topics at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrcken for more than 25 years before moving to the Czech Republic.The two connected testbeds for Industry 4.0 in Prague and in Saarbrcken form the core of the RICAIP network of experimental production facilities. In Saarbrcken the joint Power4Production center of DFKI and ZeMA Center for Mechatronics and Automation Technology is the largest German node which is also connected to the SmartFactory-KL is connected to the DFKI Kaiserslautern. The Czech universities in Brno and Ostrava and the FhG Institute IWU in Dresden are also setting up further interoperable testbeds as partners RICAIP. Together these six connected testbeds form the basis of a robust European research infrastructure for the further development of distributed production in the Industry 4.0 paradigm which is unique in Europe. So far the use of the distributed testbed has mainly focused on cooperation with the automotive and aviation industries in addition to application-oriented basic research.The opening ribbon for the new phase of the distributed testbed infrastructure was cut in the presence of the Czech Minister for Science Research and Innovation Ms. Helena Langslov and the German Ambassador in Prague Andreas Knne.The scientific director of the CIIRC and board member of RICAIP Prof. Vladimr Mak highlightedThe testbed offers a real environment for research at the European level but it also offers solutions or research services intended directly for Czech companies. We are thus able to cover the entire innovation cycle from testing scientific theories to transferring new technologies and processes to industry.In the Czech Republic and Germany there is already a total of 5700 square meters of hall floor with the latest types of robots including collaborative and mobile robots 3D printers machine tools 5G campus networks and machines for additive manufacturing using different materials. All devices are connected via IoT platforms edge clouds and industrial cloud systems and have access to the latest AI technologies such as machine learning and agent systems for active digital twins.
