Torfs new Executive Director January 04, 2021 Effective January 1, 2021, Dr. ir. Dirk Torfs, CEO Flanders Make (Belgium), has taken over the position of Executive Director of SmartFactoryEU. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Detlef Zuehlke who initiated the association in 2019 and retired at the end of...

TRUST in AI conference November 26, 2020  SmartFactoryEU hosted a workshop on “AI in Industrial Manufacturing” attended by more than 50 participants from EU countries. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Detlef Zuehlke, initiator and Managing Director of SmartFactoryEU, as well as the three founding members...

SmartFactoryEU receives funding of approx. 200,000 Euros  September 23, 2020  The German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate is supporting the establishment of the new European research umbrella association SmartFactoryEU.  The funding amounts to 199,709. The Minister of Economic Affairs,...

VICOMTECH joins SmartFactoryEU august 1, 2020 Vicomtech, member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance, joined SmartFactoryEU as an active member in July 2020. “Vicomtech believes in the vision of a strong and stable European network to strengthen the collaboration on Smart Factory and...

Establishment of SmartFactoryEU September 26, 2019 The signing of a pioneering agreement in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, by three renowned institutions marked the creation of the European association SmartFactoryEU EWIV. The new association will have its headquarters in Kaiserslautern, Germany,...