MADE REsilient manufacturing systems through AI-powered and digitally Connected Technologies

Global manufacturing currently faces challenges from geopolitical tensions to material shortages and a decreasing workforce. These challenges generate opportunities. Danish manufacturing companies are reconsidering strategies, favouring digitally driven, resilient operations while seeking to also strengthen their capabilities to handle High-Mix Low-Volume (HMLV) manufacturing. In REACT, 15 companies and experts from five Danish universities and three RTOs will collaborate to explore AI, digital twins, advanced robotics, and real-time data-driven decision-making. REACT will focus on manufacturing challenges inside the manufacturing ecosystem divided into Factory-, Cell- and Process level. A coordinated set of research activities will be initiated within these levels in combination with digital research going across all levels. Demonstration environments around the three levels will be established. These will enable integration of research results in realistic scenarios, and will increase visibility, facilitate dissemination and hence enhance impact. By this, REACT will enable Danish manufacturing to be the most efficient in the world for the Resilient High- Mix Low-Volume (RHMLV) manufacturing of the future. The project builds on Manufacturing's Academy of Denmark’s (MADE), strong experience and capabilities in bridging academic research to industrial practice by governing all stakeholders from academia over RTOs, technology providers and system integrators to end users.

MADE REACT is the fourth research and innovation programme under the MADE ecosystem. The project focus on resilience and flexibility in production, focusing on the entire value-chain inside the factory - i.e. from manufacturing processes, to cells and machines, and to factory level systems and frameworks. AAU is work package lead on WP1 on factory and system level.