The meeting will be attended by representatives of some of the leading companies in the technological and industrial sphere, such as VIRTUALWARE, MAIER, INDARABA and the GRUPO LOSAN, among others.

The head of the ICT area at IK4-TEKNIKER, Aitor Alzaga, will be giving the talk, ‘Industry 4.0. Revolution or Evolution?’ with the aim of sharing the essential foundations that are set to underpin the future of manufacturing.

The seminar will also include various talks given by experts about applying advanced technologies in companies, and a roundtable discussion that will be reporting on success stories, practical examples and strategy models enabling industry to adapt and transform to this new industrial revolution.

From a range of approaches and grounded in a realist perspective, the talks are designed to share the certainties as well as the doubts raised by this new paradigm of industrial development.

The event will conclude with a visit around the facilities of the R&D centre, which has accumulated over 30 years’ experience in research into technology applied to industry and its transfer to the business environment.

IK4-TEKNIKER is a significant player in applied research into Advanced Manufacturing and is a key partner when it comes to getting Basque companies to incorporate the advances achieved through R&D into their production processes and to obtain an optimum positioning on the international markets.

The so-called Industry 4.0 or Fourth Industrial Revolution anticipates a new paradigm of development for industry. It is based on rapidly applying technological advances emerging from R&D&i to manufacturing processes and to the market products themselves.

This new revolution is strengthening the use of innovative manufacturing techniques with the aim of guaranteeing the competitiveness of industry.

In the DOCUMENTS section of the website you can download the Press Release (in English).

LINK: http://t-rex-fp7.eu/index.php/documents/doc_download/589-2015-09-23-np-industry-4-0-ibermatica-en