Public Notice Factories of the Future will allocate R$ 3 million to companies and institutions to carry out testbeds
The Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC) and the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) published this Wednesday the final result of Public Call Notice No. 1/2018 for the so-called “Factories of the Future” (testbeds, in the English term). The 10 projects of qualified innovative factories will be financed with up to R$ 300 thousand each by the Brazilian government.
These factories operate as follows: technology centers from universities or companies develop innovative solution projects to solve real problems. Then they produce prototypes and perform tests. When the initiative is tested and adjusted to the existing production process, it is implemented in the factories of the companies that contributed to the project, speeding up and cheapening the innovation process.
Of the 10 initiatives that will be showcases of industry 4.0 in the coming years, five are from São Paulo, two from Minas Gerais, two from Paraná and one from Rio Grande do Sul. In 2019, another 10 “factories of the future” will be selected to receive federal government funding.
The chosen proposals will have a financial support from ABDI in the maximum amount of R$ 300 thousand per project. Entrepreneurs are responsible for providing at least 10% of the total value of the project, either as an economic or financial consideration. That is, considering investments in goods and services, such as, for example, hours spent by technicians from the beneficiary companies, technical hours of members of governance and availability of spaces (auditoriums, meeting rooms), or resources.
For the Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services, Marcos Jorge, it is essential that the State fulfill the role of inducer in this process of modernization of Brazilian industrial parks. “Encouraging so-called factories of the future is our duty. The gains will be huge. The tested technologies can be applied to production lines or production processes, in general, with more assertiveness. This ensures more efficiency and greater economic and financial return for the private sector, ”he explains. Marcos Jorge also says that the increase in the technological density of the Brazilian productive sector will result in more complex and, therefore, better-paid work opportunities.
MDIC's Secretary for Innovation and New Business, Rafael Moreira, believes that the initiative contributes to Brazil having a kind of “showcase for industry 4.0”, a “showroom”. According to him, until 2019, 20 “factories of the future” will be financed, which will demonstrate how 4.0 technologies can be applied in different sectors of the Brazilian economy.
Check out the selected projects:
Technological Park of São José dos Campos (SP): Internet of Things (IoT) technology will be tested and evaluated in several industry 4.0 applications. The institution proposes monitoring the machine park, cybersecurity, machine-to-machine communication as some of the topics to be worked on in the testbed.
Polytechnic School of São Paulo - São Paulo (SP): Fábrica do Futuro 4.0 will be a multidisciplinary center, focused on the development of practical solutions to increase the competitiveness of the industry and the dissemination of advanced manufacturing knowledge through specific programs.
Federal University of Uberlândia (MG): Manufacturing management systems, augmented reality and computer vision are some of the technologies used by startups that will participate in the project. The testbed will generate business models for technologies such as additive manufacturing, advanced materials, simulation of production environments and artificial intelligence.
Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR) - Ponta Grossa (PR): A digital educational platform will be developed to capture challenges from industry and society. The idea is to stimulate new skills for future professionals. The ability to be replicated is a requirement of the proposal that aims to break boundaries to bring the concepts of Industry 4.0 closer to university education.
Metalsa - Osasco (SP): The project aims to foresee failures and improve the quality of automotive parts to make the process more competitive and easy to interpret and make decisions, thus adding the development of skills and assisting the technological advancement of the national industry, as well as the dissemination of the new process for other companies in the sector.
ABC University (UFABC) - Santo André (SP): The aim is to introduce techniques from industry 4.0 from the perspective of lean culture, to eliminate waste and identify possible flaws. For this, the proposal includes the development of an Advanced Manufacturing system, the creation of an experimentation platform that simulates the scale of production in a real scenario, in addition to the dissemination of knowledge.
Senai - Belo Horizonte (MG): The proposal is to set up a sequence of production processes, fully integrated, that simulates the functioning of a real factory, and that can evolve from a traditional production model to a model that implements Industry 4.0 methods and technologies. The objective is to provide paths for innovation, technical development and specialized labor.
Embraer - São José dos Campos (SP): Construction of a testbed to demonstrate the integrated application of Collaborative & Cooperative Robotics, IoT, Cloud Computing, Computer Vision and Wearable Devices technologies in a complex Aeronautical Structure Assembly process.
Assitencal - Novo Hamburgo (RS): The project aims to support the process of developing applications for customizing shoes. It would be possible to test the comfort of the shoes, foreseeing successive changes during the development of the project, reducing manufacturing time.
Justino de Morais, brothers (Jumil) - Batatais (SP): The proposal consists in the development of a digital platform to integrate data and information online that seeks to provide a better transparency of production through several indicators such as: production stops, real productivity, productive capacity, hours worked, quality and efficiency indexes, among others, using IoT technology.
About ABDI
The Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) emerged at the time of resumption of public policies to encourage industry, in 2004, and legitimized itself as an articulating body for the various actors involved in the implementation of Brazilian industrial policy. In more than a decade of activity, under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC), ABDI is the federal government's intelligence agency for the productive sector and offers the industry complete structure for the construction of business agendas. sectoral actions and advances in the institutional, regulatory and innovation environment in Brazil, through the production of conjunctural, strategic and technological studies.
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