ACTIVITY REPORT 2021-2022INDUSTRY OF THE FUTURE 2021-2022

In 2021, the Cluster made its projects a reality...

2021 was rich in successful projects and equity capital. The Cluster’s objective is still to help our companies initiate the industrial transformations critical to their sustainability.

The COVID pandemic, reinforced the need for local, competitive, connected production sources, which are the very purpose of the acceleration platforms to the industry of the future (PAIF) in which the Cluster has heavily invested.

THE ACHIEVEMENTS

For Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Cluster moved closer to the teams of ADI, CCI, REGION, PROPULS and ECOSYSTEME, to co-build a monthly seminar program (operational since January 2022) for project managers who cover the region, to enhance their tool box for the factory 4.0 and help them to better grasp each requirement encountered in the field.

This collaboration also enabled to share anonymous data (8000 lines) from several hundred Factory of the Future assessments (usages) in order to define the priority topics to be developed as well the technological responses to be implemented in parallel.

Finally, the development of meetings bringing together industrial companies, suppliers[ms1] and academics, with support from institutional bodies, with a focus on complementarity and coherence, enabled in just a few months to significantly increase (+100%) the flow of visits and the emergence of topics to be transformed into projects.

For Occitanie the Pad’Occ acceleration platform project was realized with Government accreditation in December, 2021 and an agreement with the BPI in June, 2022; hiring has begun and after an exhibition at the SIANE show in October, 2022, the investment program which will enable to equip this platform with a 4.0 full-size factory will be launched in order to open to companies in the second half of 2023.

Pad’Occ will be a scale 1 factory within a university (Maison de la Formation Jacqueline Auriol – MFJA) enabling to bring together in the same place students, teachers, and CEOs, and to showcase the technologies and organizations of the future, but also to tailor training to supply companies with the required skills.

A mixed reality center is also under construction alongside the PAIF with the same commissioning date. The goal is to inject these new technologies into companies and teaching.