Z-BRE4K team members met this week for the 4th periodic meeting, having AIC Academy to host us in their facilities in Bilbao. January 2019, the 16th month of the project, required to gather and evaluate the technical progress and use-cases development of Z-BRE4K during these months of work.
The 16th and 17th of January 2018, Z-BRE4K consortium met in SACMI (Imola, IT), a worldwide leader international group manufacturing machines and complete plants for the Ceramics, Packaging, Food industries and Automation, for the 1st periodic meeting of the project.
The 19th and 20th June 2018, Philips Drachten (Holland) hosted Z-BRE4K consortium for the 2ndperiodic meeting of the project. Philips is one of the three demonstration partners of Z-BRE4K project. In Holland, Philips is part of the Innovatiecluster Drachten (ICD), an internationally active ecosystem of 15 collaborating high-tech companies and knowledge institutes operating at the forefront of innovation and competitive on the global market.
The Z-BRE4K kickoff meeting held on October 5th-6th 2017 in Brussels set the official start of the project. Z-BRE4K introduces a novel predictive maintenance platform capable of preventing unexpected-breakdowns and increasing operating life span of production systems.
The Ζ-fact0r, month 30, plenary meeting was held in Caldicot, Wales, UK on March 26th and March 27th and organized by MICROSEMI. The consortium engaged in interesting conversations regarding the progress of the project and the challenges ahead. The meeting attendants also had the chance to visit MICROSEMI premises and discuss how the Ζ-fact0r solution applies to MICROSEMI processes.
Konstantinos Grevenitis 