Laboratory for the Technologies of Industry 4.0 is inaugurated in Porto
23rd May 2019
iilab, which is located at Hipercentro (Rua Dr. Eduardo Santos Silva, 261, 4200-293 Porto – GPS coordinates: 41°10'43.5"N 8°35'18.7"W), will be inaugurated by the Secretary of State of Economy, João Correia Neves, the Chairman of the Board of the Portuguese National Innovation Agency (ANI), Eduardo Maldonado and the Chairman of INESC TEC's Board, José Manuel Mendonça.
iiLab’s mission is to demonstrate and to disclose concepts and advanced technologies for the digitalisation of production including robotics, automation, simulation, virtual and augmented reality, and decision support and cyber-physical systems. The lab will be an experimentation, prototyping and advanced training space, specially geared towards industrial companies that use and develop technologies.
The laboratory is already equipped with 12 robots with applications in different industrial sectors. Some examples are the automotive and aerospace industries, represented by ColRobot that helps the human operator in the assembly processes inherent to these sectors, the food industry, which has Triho to assist in the distribution of hospital meals or other heavy loads with a transport that is inefficient or harmful. Other examples of applications transversal to the industry will be available in the laboratory.
“We want our lab to be an open space for enhancing the collaboration between industrial and academic communities. By using the technological solutions that we have and our scientific know-how, our goal is to have a decisive role in the competitiveness of the national economy”, explains Luís Carneiro, Member of the Executive Board of INESC TEC.
iilab's inauguration is integrated within the Technological Demonstrator “Tecnologias de Produção e Sistemas Ciber-fisicos” (in English Manufacturing Technologies and Cyber-physical Systems”), which was promoted by ANI. This event SIAC – Initiative of Knowledge Transfer aims at involving the national business world with the results of innovation and scientific and technology-based entrepreneurship.
iilab’s opening ceremony will be organised as follows:
- 09:00 a.m. – 09:30 a.m.: Welcoming of participants at INESC TEC’s headquarters
- 09:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.: Opening session at the Main Auditorium of INESC TEC with interventions by:
- José Manuel Mendonça, Chairman of INESC TEC
- Eduardo Maldonado, Chairman of ANI’s Board
- João Correia Neves, Secretary of State of Economy
- 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.: Visit of some of the members of INESC TEC’s delegation to iilab
- 10:15 a.m. – 12:15 a.m.: Inauguration and visit to iilab and to INESC TEC’s technological demonstrators (INESC TEC’ Laboratory of Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles)
- 12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Closing session by António Bob Santos, Member of ANI’s Board
The Initiative of Knowledge Transfer is an ANI’s project co-funded by COMPETE 2020 through the Portugal 2020 and the European Regional Development Fund.
The video of the laboratory is available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf9z--JHy-s
iiLab is co-funded by the Interface Programme FITEC.
For more information:
Joana Coelho
INESC TEC’s Communication Service
FEUP’s Campus Rua Dr Roberto Frias 4200-465 Porto Portugal
Tel.: +351 22 209 4297
Mob.: +351 924 444 321