Lecture by Dr. Emilia Tantar, COO-Black Swan LUX

The industry is unanimous: AI will change the world and be ubiquitous in tomorrow’s economy. AI major gains are likely to focus on productivity, efficiency, automation  and costs, enabling consumers and businesses to capitalise on the digital economy. However, companies that fail to recognise the advent of AI and respond to them by disrupting themselves, innovating and re-engineering their business models will, at best, lose their competitive advantage, and at worst, disappear.

“I4.0 NTP” (Industry 4.0 National Technology Platform) is a national initiative aspiring to boost manufacturing and industry transformation in Hungary in the wake of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The deployment of connected objects is transforming the aeronautics industry and the manufacturing process. The European industry has to invest both in technology and skills to sustain its position in a global market.

Made Different is mainly an industry-driven programme with a very flexible structure which follows a bottom-up approach. The main activities of the Made Different initiative involve the organisation of awareness-raising events, the provision of tailored and long-term guidance services to companies willing to transform their production processes.

Significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have transformed the ways in which products are designed, developed, manufactured, and distributed.