One of the activities planned in the framework
of the EACN initiative is the identification of success stories on industrial
modernisation implemented by small and medium-sized enterprises, in order to
encourage other SMEs to follow these examples and advance in their change
process towards the factory 4.0.
For this purpose, the EACN partners are
launching this call with the aim of identifying companies with successful 4.0 projects
related to any of the following topics:
- Virtualisation for planning processes
(simulation and modelling)
- Robotics & Artificial Intelligence in
production processes
- Elasticity of production processes
- Skills and competences
The most relevant ones will receive an award in
the framework of the EACN high-level conference, which will be organized online
in December this year.
Requirements to participate
Who can participate: any automotive SME (including car makers,
component manufacturers, service or technology providers, research and technological
centres, etc.) coming from any country, who has successfully implemented an
industrial modernisation project related to any of the EACN areas of interest:
virtualization, robotics and AI, elasticity or skills. For each one of these
categories, only one project per company is allowed to be presented.
How to participate: Registration is completely free. Just fill in the following registration form in English to have a full description of your project. All the fields are compulsory and must be completed to have the information required to be evaluated. The covered form has to be sent to the following email: info@eacn-initiative.eu
Deadline for submission: 30 November 2020 11:59 p.m. CET
Evaluation Committee and assessment
criteria
An Evaluation Committee, made up of one representative
from each EACN consortium member, will assess all the projects received
according to the following criteria:
- Impact of the company/benefits achieved
- Possible application in other
companies
- Level of development
- Level of innovation
- Complexity of the project
Through a scoring system, the Committee will be
able to rank the different projects received. In a first stage, the three most
valued projects in each category will be identified. In a second stage, the
finalist candidates will be evaluated again through a new voting system, where the
Committee members will select the winner projects.
The awarded projects will be announced during
the final event of the EACN Project, which will be held online in December this
year.
Awards
There will be an Award for each one of the 4 categories mentioned before. The Award, which consists of a certificate, is a recognition to these best practices on industrial modernisation and to their value as reference models for other automotive SMEs. After the final conference, the EACN initiative will send this certificate to the awarded companies and will disseminate the winning projects in the EACN own communication channels, in order to give them visibility.
Data Protection
In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),
personal data provided in the registration form will be processed by the EACN
Project in order to manage the participation in this call. The name of the
winners will be announced at the final event of the EACN project and will be
made public through the EACN website and social media. By checking the
acceptance box, included in the form, you give your legitimate consent for your
data to be processed in accordance with the purposes described above. You can
exercise your rights of access, rectification, limitation, and deletion of data
at info@eacn-initiative.eu as well as the right to file a claim.
