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SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING, AUTOMOTIVE AND MOBILITY SOLUTIONS
More than one half of South Tyrol exports and R&D investments originate from manufacturing companies, above all automotive suppliers. The mix of international industrial enterprises and more traditional handicraft businesses has created unique skills and innovation world-wide.
In order to be prepared for the intense competition in the future, it is important to meet challenges such as worker shortages, bottlenecks in the supply chain, high material and energy costs as well as technologies with disruption potential.
Companies, researchers and students are working, with the support of the tech transfer experts at NOI, on three key issues that have been identified as crucial for the future in an interactive process.
AUTOMOTIVE & MOBILITY
The automotive industry is a strong driver of innovation not only in South Tyrol, as it competes on a global scale and must fulfil the highest quality and safety standards.
An epochal transformation from vehicle manufacturer to mobility provider is currently under way, which is driven by trends for the networking of vehicles, the electrification of vehicles, autonomous driving as well as mobility services.
The development and application of future vehicle components, systems and mobility systems have been defined as a common goal in which the use of locally available skills as well as the geographical characteristics of our alpine model and test region will be optimised.
MANUFACTURING
Manufacturing industries are changing not only with regard to their products, but also their processes.
By means of the complete networking of machines and production systems, Industry 4.0 allows for flexible, adaptive production with smaller batch sizes as well as lower cost manufacturing of large quantities through increased automation in handicraft businesses.
In the future, the increasingly scarce human resource will be the focus (Industry 5.0) of the value-adding activity, whereby intelligent and sustainable production in addition to the economic as well as the ecological and social aspects will be brought to the foreground.
This dual – digital and sustainable – transformation can be best achieved with a cross-company and cross-industry approach.
AGRI-AUTOMATION
Agriculture in mountain areas has always had to face particular challenges such as scarce land, adverse environmental conditions and more labour-intensive work.
As a result, companies in niches have developed special skills and creative solutions that can be used on difficult terrains worldwide. The goal of this field of specialisation is the development and application of solutions for increased automation in agriculture and forest management.
This includes technology such as data-supported precision farming, robotics and the automation of sowing, breeding and harvesting as well as the automatic quality testing of agricultural and forestry products in mountain areas.