With about 3.2 million employees, Europe's mechanical engineering industry is fundamental for employment, growth, and prosperity. Industrial equipment and machinery is considered a key factor in industrial development. The EU has always held a strategic position in this field, and it thrives on technological leadership in this highly competitive environment. To maintain this position, it will be crucial to make new technologies, such as AI technologies, accessible to all European stakeholders to ensure resilient design, deployment, and reuse of industrial assets, improve global competitiveness and strengthen the EU's industrial strategic autonomy and resilience.

The aim of the AIDEAS project is to develop AI-technologies to support the entire lifecycle of industrial assets (design, manufacture, use and repair/reuse/recycling) as a strategic tool to increase the sustainability, agility, and resilience of European engineering companies.

AIDEAS will develop 4 integrated suites:

1. Design: AI technologies, integrated with CAD/CAM/CAE systems, for optimising the design of industrial equipment, structural components, mechanisms, and control components.
2. Manufacturing: AI technologies for the selection and procurement of components for industrial equipment, manufacturing process optimization, sequencing, quality control and customisation.
3. Use: AI technologies with added value for the industrial equipment user, providing enhanced support for installation and initial calibration, production, quality assurance and predictive maintenance for working on optimal conditions.
4. Repair-Reuse-Recycle: AI technologies for extending the useful life of machines through prescriptive maintenance (repair), facilitating a second life for machines through smart retrofitting (reuse), and identifying the most sustainable end-of-life (recycle).

The AIDEAS solutions will be tested and validated in four pilots of machinery manufacturers that provide industrial equipment to the metal, stone, plastics, and food sector.

For further information please see: https://aideas-project.eu/

Project duration

10/2022 – 09/2025

Project coordination

• Centre for Research & Technologies Hellas (Greece)

Project partners

• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA (Spain)
• UNINOVA-INSTITUTO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DE NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS-ASSOCIACAO (Portugal)
• IKERLAN S. COOP (Spain)
• TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR (Finland)
• UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE (Italy)
• INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE INFORMATICA (Spain)
• CE.S.I. CENTRO STUDI INDUSTRIALI SRL (Italy)
• IANUS SIMULATION GMBH (Germany)
• XLAB RAZVOJ PROGRAMSKE OPREME IN SVETOVANJE DOO (Slovenia)
• FUNDINGBOX ACCELERATOR SP ZOO (Poland)
• FUNDINGBOX COMMUNITIES SL (Spain)
• DIN DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FUER NORMUNG EV (Germany)
• PAMA SPA (Italy)
• D2TECH D2 TECHNOLOGY - MAQUINAS E EQUIPAMENTOS INDUSTRIAIS LDA (Portugal)
• BBM MASCHINENBAU UND VERTRIEBS GMBH (Germany)
• MULTISCAN TECHNOLOGIES SL (Spain)

Project funding

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.