Networks in Smart Manufacturing

The European Factories of the Future Research Association

The European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) is a non-for-profit, industry-driven association promoting the development of new and innovative production technologies. It was the official representative of the private side in the ‘Factories of the Future public-private partnership and nowadays of the Made in Europe partnership under the newest European framework programme “Horizon Europe”.

Training “Artificial Intelligence at the Service of Smart Buildings”

This training provides an overview of the contributions of Artificial intelligence(AI) in this changing context. First of all by a general overview of the uses of AI in the smart building value chain.

Then by focusing on the benefits of AI to meet new uses of buildings, optimize energy consumption, control costs and position the building in its close environment at the scale of a territory.

Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering

The Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), at the University of Maryland, has been serving the electronics industry as a resource and knowledge base for the development of reliable, safe, and cost effective products for more than 35 years.

Supported by over 300 of the world’s leading companies, CALCE conducts fundamental reliability science research in the areas of failure mechanism identification and modeling, accelerated test methods, prognostics and health management approaches, supply chain management techniques, as well as the application of artificial intelligence for remaining life and fault prediction of electronic devices and assemblies.