The Consortium
Festo SE & Co. KG
Festo is an internationally operating family-owned company in the field of automation technology. Festo is a global leader in the factory and process automation sector and the world market leader in technical training and industrial education. Festo strives for high customer satisfaction and high productivity of customers worldwide. Festo is the coordinator of the EUREKA SmartCoNeT project as well as of the German partner project ReKoNeT, and plays a dual role as technology enabler and user.
More information of https://www.festo.com/group.
KITECH
The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology KITECH was established for the purpose of strengthening SMEs' autonomy, which allows them to bear any external pressure, and leading Korea's industrial growth by providing technical nourishments to SMEs. Manufacturing system technology is one of KITECH’s focus research areas. In the SmartCoNeT project, KITECH serves as a solutions provider in the fields of simulation, dashboard and analysis modules etc. for the Korean use case.
More information of http://eng.kitech.re.kr.
Orkli
Our capacity for innovation, together with our technology and the professionalism of each individual working at ORKLI has allowed us to position ourselves as worldwide leaders in innovation and in sectors such as gas safety. We have production plants in Europe, Brazil and China, where we are leaders in the market, and branches worldwide. This allows us to be where our customers are and to adapt to the needs of each location. We are pioneers in Gas Safety, we are at the forefront of sectors such as heating and we are #1 in innovative solutions for heaters and solar generation, with solutions that are unique in the market such as Ceramat and OKSOL. This positioning does not stop our zeal to continue working to offer the most effective solutions. Therefore, we keep researching, innovating and improving each product so that every customer is at the vanguard of their sector.
In this specific project, Orkli participates as an enabler for logistics. Currently in logistics there is a lack of real data and visibility of processes. This is a barrier for optimizations of the processes and leads to overload management. Hence, this is intensified by growing and complex supply networks. With an own development, the ekanban system, Orkli wants to improve the situation providing real-time data to redefine the intermediate storage, logistic and production and thus reducing costs and establishing direct communication between customer and supplier.
More information of
https://www.orkli.com/en
http://www.ekanban.es/en/.
4flow AG
4flow combines logistics consulting, logistics software and 4PL services in a unique business model.
4flow consulting accompanies companies in the field of logistics and supply chain management from strategy to implementation. 4flow offers software for network and transport optimization as well as for delivery optimization. As a neutral 4PL and outsourcing partner, 4flow management takes over the daily optimization of logistics networks and transports.
More information of https://www.4flow.de/.
wbk Institut für Produktionstechnik
The wbk Institute of Production Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with its almost 100 employees is thematically located in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The three areas of manufacturing and materials technology, machines, plants and process automation as well as production systems are dedicated to application-oriented research, teaching and innovation in the field of production technology. They are supervised by the three professors Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Volker Schulze, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Fleischer and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza. The wbk offers scientific staff and students excellent conditions for theoretical and experimental research through extensive experience and equipment. The aim is to convey an integrative understanding of processes, plants, automation and networked factories. In cooperation with industrial partners, the wbk develops solutions for diverse problems in production technology and develops innovative methods and processes for tomorrow's production with a view to the future.
More information of https://www.wbk.kit.edu/ .
ariatech
Ariatech Inc. is a software company founded in 2003 by LG Electronics with a team that developed CDMA / WCDMA mobile communication systems. In the last years, the team has focused on industrial IoT platforms, IoT devices, and gateways as well as on the development of Factory Energy Management and Manufacturing Execution Systems. In the SmartCoNeT project, Ariatech Inc. serves as IoT solutions provider for the Korean use case.
More information of https://www.ariatech.kr.