Funded (DEP)

FxC

FactoryxChange

Based in: Waterford, Ireland
Geographical reach: National
Access & eligibility: Service-specific · contact the hub

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Manufacturing Digital Transformation The FactoryXChange (FXC), European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) will enable Industry 5.0 factories to integrate ecological, digital, and societal solutions into their core business models. FxC is best positioned to support the ambitions of the Digital Europe Programme 2021-2027 to ensure that Europe embraces the digital transformation of the economy and society and brings its benefits to businesses and citizens.

FxC will extend digital competencies (high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity) and advanced skills in digital technologies to stakeholders, particularly Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), contributing to Europe’s strategic autonomy, and accelerating deployment and best use in areas of public interest and the private sector. FxC will operationalise Ireland’s Smart Specialisation Strategy priority areas of Manufacturing (Industry5.0) and where industry overlaps with ICT, energy, health, and Key Digital Technologies considering the ethical, security, data, and equality challenges.

The overall objective of FxC is to realise the EDIH as a one-stop-shop with impact. Operationalising an Industry 5.0 EDIH that responds to customer needs in a fast flexible manner, removing financial and operational barriers, by disrupting the way we make things through digital innovations and knowledge exchange. No matter where you are on the island of Ireland you are never more than a 90-minute journey (or a few clicks online) from a trusted broker (Digital Strategist) your connection to the digital capacities offered through FxC.

FXC integrates the world-class technical competencies of ICHEC (the National Centre for high performance computing) and INSIGHT (the National Centre for data analytics) to realise a state-of-the-art offering for Enterprise, augmented by the services of at three additional Digital Innovation Hubs in advanced digital capacity and skills, available through Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR), Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Creative Spark (CSPARK), and Data Value Hub (DVH) with KPMG Future Analytics adding to the digital solutions and digital interoperability, with a particular focus on Public Organisations.

Technology expertise

Additive manufacturing
Artificial intelligence
Big data
Internet of Things
Internet Services & Applications
Robotics
Simulation engineering and modelling
Cybersecurity

How they can help

Circular economy
SME support
Sme Business Development
Knowledge transfer
Finance
Innovation management
Technology transfer
Technological innovation

Sectors served

Education
Financial
Manufacturing and processing
Metal working and industrial production

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