May 25, 2018
From 24 - 25 May 2018 the University of Leoben in Austria was the venue for the second annual meeting of the EU project SME 4.0, which aims to introduce Industry 4.0 in small and medium-sized enterprises and to develop suitable technologies and methods for this purpose. Nearly 30 professors, scientists and young researchers from Austria, Slovakia, Italy, the USA, Thailand and India as well as 2 representatives of the Slovakian partner company Elcom sro met in Leoben to discuss the transfer of Industry 4.0 topics to SMEs and to determine the next steps in the project. The meeting also provided an opportunity to evaluate the progress of the project and the work carried out together with the EU project manager from Brussels, with particular praise for the communication and dissemination to date.