On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 Damiana Salvalai, a visiting fellow from the Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano has given a special lecture "Application of Machine Learning for prediction of operator intensions in collaborative assembly tasks" to a class of master and Ph.D. students at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Chiang Mai University.
On the 28th of December 2019, Dr. Leos Safar, Dr. Jakub Sopko and a Ph.D. candidate Darya Dancakova from the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Kosice Slovakia (TUKE) started their secondment at the Chiang Mai University (CMU). M.Sc. Damiana Salvalai from Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (UNIBZ) joined them from 9th January 2020, and together they presented their institutions and research on RISE project meeting at Department of Industrial Engineering. Further they discussed preparations for annual meeting, planned industry visits and ongoing research at CMU within the SME4.0.
The introduction of Industry 4.0 in small and medium-sized enterprises is the topic of the EU MSCA RISE project SME 4.0 (Industry 4.0 for SMEs). The results of the first phase of the project from 2017-2018 have now been published in the form of a book with 13 chapters and over 400 pages. The book entitled "Industry 4.0 for SMEs - Challenges, Opportunities and Requirements" was published in January 2020 by Palgrave Macmillan. The editors of the book are the scientific coordinators of the project Prof. Dominik Matt (Free University of Bozen/Bolzano), Matt, Prof. Vladimír Modrák (Technical University Kosice) and Prof. Helmut Zsifkovits (Montanuniversitaet Leoben). The book with ISBN 978-3-030-25425-4 
has been published as an Open Access book and can be downloaded under the following link:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-25425-4#toc
