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17/07/2015
Presentation of the Industrial Ring 4.0 Project
In 2006, 6 companies operating in Barcelona, among them SENER headquartered in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park (BSP), participated to the creation of the Industrial Ring, a telecommunication network that offers companies a secure and fast tool to share data from design or simulation-based calculations. The Industrial Ring is operated by the i2cat Catalan center for research and innovation in the Internet and currently gathers about 80 companies, mainly from the automotive sector.

Based on the merger of automation and digitization of production processes, including the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services, the industrial sector experiences a revolution, maybe the fourth one following those of motor, electricity and electronics, successively. With the Smart America initiative or the Industrie 4.0 program, the United States and Germany, respectively, clearly make the Internet a key tool to reactivate their industries.

In this context, the Industrial Ring 4.0 initiative, which is led by i2cat and was presented on July 13, aims at making the current Industrial Ring a collaborative platform between users and providers to give companies all the services the Internet can offer. Among other functionalities, Industrial Ring 4.0 initiators mention secure communication, data storage, monitoring, data control and analysis, etc.

Phase 1 will be focused on automotive, advanced manufacturing and bioinformatics sectors and is scheduled to be operative by the end of 2016. Phase 2 will be implemented after an evaluation of Phase 1 and will consist in extending the initiative to more sectors: the objective is to increase the number of companies involved from the current number (80) to some thousands.

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