Ordering your new car from your computer by completely personalizing it, changing your mind when it has already been ordered, monitoring its production and finally picking it up in a chosen place, this is what the 4th industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, allows. During the Swiss Digital Days (November 1-3. 2020), Read more…
The Lab Network Industrie 4.0 (LNI4.0) is a German association founded by companies linked to Plattform Industrie 4.0 in cooperation with the Bitkom, VDMA and ZVEI federations. It aims at helping the German medium-sized sector play a leading role in global digitization. This experimental network makes it possible to test new Read more…
During the virtual SIAMS fair, the Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie professors Claude Jeannerat and Nabil Ouerhani present the MicroLean Lab in a short video then Max Monti, the Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie Partnerships and Valorisation Manager, answers the questions of the virtual visitors. Discover more on this experimentation center aiming Read more…
An agile, iterative approach has been chosen in order to minimise risks and to quickly demonstrate the potential of the concepts that are conceived, studied and developed in the Lab. The project is broken down into three 5-step iterations: Analysis and Specification Dsign Implementation Testing and Approval User Feedback and Read more…
As alarm bells are rung about climate change, more and more people are waking up to the environmental challenges we face. The current generation were born with smartphones in their hands and are no strangers to “Fab Labs” – open places where they can fabricate their own products on demand Read more…
Naturally, for businesses who produce physical objects, Industry 4.0 requires them to get to grips with a whole new culture, the digital one. The digital culture can be harnessed to: interconnect stakeholders within value chains, distribute relevant information through these chains, significantly improve the availability of manufacturing resources through the Read more…
Throughout two centuries of industrialisation, the prevailing strategy has been to imagine what the end user might consume, to overproduce stock at all stages of manufacturing and distribution, and to push the products towards potential customers with copious advertising and promotion. The concepts of digitalisation that have swept through businesses Read more…