The ceremonial opening of the RICAIP Testbed for Industry 4.0 at CIIRC CTU takes place on Thursday, April 28, 2022 from 9:00 am as part of a multi-day event RICAIP Days 2022.
Testbed for Industry 4.0 at CIIRC CTU is a unique research infrastructure to support Czech industry and the implementation of Industry 4.0 in Czech companies. It forms the core of the backbone network of the European Centre of Excellence RICAIP funded by European and national resources Horizon 2020 and OP R&D totaling almost EUR 48,5 mil for the period 2019-2026. The RICAIP Center connects functionally and institutionally testbeds in Prague with testbeds in Brno at CEITEC BUT and in Saarbrücken, Germany, which is jointly managed by two leading German research institutes DFKI and ZeMA. Together with these partners, it forms the basis of a robust European research infrastructure for industrial artificial intelligence and robotics, the only one of its kind in Europe.
On 28 April 2022, thanks to RICAIP, the crucial phase of the completion of this experimental laboratory will be completed. The CTU thus creates a completely unique environment for testing, simulation and development of various scenarios for modern 21st century factories, which already brings to dozens of Czech companies associated with, among other things, National Centre for Industry 4.0 very specific knowledge and innovative solutions.
The morning program of the event on April 28 has these moments – the ceremonial opening of the testbed in the presence of guests of honor, government and ministries, representatives of universities and Czech industry is immediately followed by the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between RICAIP and the German Fraunhofer IWU. RICAIP and the University of Mining – Technical University of Ostrava (VŠB-TUO). These two institutions join the network of our cooperating partners.