Launch of WalHub EDIH Industry 4.0

The EDIH WalHub project aims to speed up the digital transformation of manufacturing businesses in Wallonia by adopting four key technologies: AI, the IoT, HPC and cybersecurity. It fits in with the dynamics of Digital Wallonia’s “Industry of the Future” programme.

Led by a consortium of partners, the purpose of the EDIH project (European Digital Innovation Hubs) “WalHub” is to speed up the digital transformation of manufacturing businesses with a view to developing Industry 4.0 in Wallonia.

This EDIH project is based on the adoption of four key technologies :

• Artificial Intelligence,
• the Internet of Things,
• high-performance computing,
• cybersecurity.

These technologies will be applied to all of the elements that form the foundations of an industrial manufacturing organisation :

• human resources,
• innovation,
• energy,
• production processes,
• supply chain,
• etc.

It will tackle all of the processes involved at all the different stages of managing the flow of goods, production and the associated information exchanges.

The EDIH will identify a user experience that should be able to help businesses gradually become more technologically mature. There will be a particular focus on experimentation, thanks to the involvement of research centres and access to Industry 4.0 demonstrators. The approach is designed to be multi- and cross-sectoral, with specific activities aimed at logistics.

The EDIH project is being run by different stakeholders :

• Agoria Wallonie, Wallonia’s federation of technology companies, encompassing Walloon stakeholders involved in Industry 4.0.
• 4 approved research centres :
• Cenaero, specialised in digital simulation and optimisation and processing of data,
• Cetic, Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technologies,
• Multitel, specialising in Networks & telecoms, the IoT & embedded systems and AI,
• Sirris, specialising in Industry 4.0, business of the future, product of the future and factory of the future,