By akademiotoelektronik, 16/11/2022
“With Propuls, we want to deploy the factory of the future in SMEs in six months! »
LA TRIBUNE - What is Propuls?
Pierre LOONIS - This is the second stage of the rocket for the factory of the future in New Aquitaine. Formally, it is an association created in the spring of 2021 to respond to a call for projects from the Future Investment Program (PIA) on the acceleration platforms for the factory of the future. Propuls was the first winner and has a budget of nearly 11.7 million euros over five years, including 3.5 million provided by the PIA, 1.7 million by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region and the remains private. The objective is to co-finance private industrial initiatives and therefore mainly financed by the private sector.
What will be the role of this new platform in a landscape already well supplied with public structures to support businesses?
The objective is to be a catalyst for public support by playing a steering role in collaboration with the many existing tools and structures in the region. There are already diagnostic and start-up tools for the factory of the future, but actually taking action is more complicated. It is at this stage that we intervene when it is a question of going beyond the intention and establishing very detailed and very operational technical specifications to actually deploy modernization tools and solutions in the factories. We want to give coherence to public resources and to the work of the hundred project managers who crisscross the territory to meet businesses.
What are we talking about in concrete terms? What use cases do you envision?
The objective is to promote the use by industrial companies of the most modern technologies in industrial decision-making and/or in the manufacturing process. Concretely, for the software part, we are talking about digital, data collection, processing and storage, artificial intelligence and algorithms, connected objects, internal networks, cybersecurity, human-machine interaction , etc. These are not tools that we find today in the majority of neo-Aquitaine and French SMEs! For the material part, the hardware, we are talking about robots, augmented reality, mobile robots, like those offered by Exotec, camera and sensor systems, predictive maintenance, 3D printing, etc.
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Which companies are you targeting and with timing?
These are typically large SMEs, from 50 employees, and medium-sized companies (ETI) up to 5,000 employees who have already thought about the subject and carried out a diagnosis of their needs. Because the objective is to be operational. We will do little fundamental research, we will rather work on the concrete integration in companies of technologies and mature solutions. We will help remove technical obstacles, propose integration diagrams and draw up technical specifications in conjunction with four technical centers in the region: CEA Tech, Cetim, Tecnalia and Composites Adour. We want to go quickly by deploying new solutions to employees of SMEs between three months and a year, six months on average!
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