Global manufacturing currently faces challenges from geopolitical tensions to material shortages and a decreasing workforce. These challenges generate opportunities. Danish manufacturing companies are reconsidering strategies, favouring digitally driven, resilient operations while seeking to also strengthen their capabilities to handle High-Mix Low-Volume (HMLV) manufacturing. In MADE REACT, 15 companies and experts from five Danish universities and three RTOs will collaborate to explore AI, digital twins, advanced robotics, and real-time data-driven decision-making. REACT will focus on manufacturing challenges inside the manufacturing ecosystem divided into Factory-, Cell and Process level. A coordinated set of research activities will be initiated within these levels in combination with digital research going across all levels. Demonstration environments around the three levels will be established. These will enable integration of research results in realistic scenarios, and will increase visibility, facilitate dissemination and hence enhance impact. By this, MADE REACT will enable Danish manufacturing to be the most efficient in the world for the Resilient High-Mix Low-Volume (RHMLV) manufacturing of the future.
The project builds on Manufacturing's Academy of Denmark’s (MADE), strong experience and capabilities in bridging academic research to industrial practice by governing all stakeholders from academia over RTOs, technology providers and system integrators to end users. This follows a series of previous projects called MADE SPIR, MADE Digital and MADE FAST.
At AU we closely collaborate with CIM, Novo Nordisk, Grundfos and LEGO and we lead a Work Package called “Digital Integration and Decision Support”, where the goal is that we will:
