Smart industry: digitisation of the manufacturing industry
Making optimum use of digitalisation. Forming smart connections between products, machines, and people. And using the latest production technology. That’s smart industry. At TNO, we’re keen to contribute, because only in this way the manufacturing industry in the Netherlands can maintain its leading role worldwide.
The benefits of smart industry
Smart industry is essential for the Dutch manufacturing industry to remain a major player worldwide. To maintain this role, we must work to create Europe’s most flexible and digitally best connected production network. This brings added benefits, such as greater competitiveness, scope for employment, and increased independence of production. As a result, design and manufacturing companies will make major savings in energy and materials. Both during production and afterwards.
Steps towards smart industry
Digitalising and roboticising of factories is the first essential step towards automation. It’s also an essential step towards flexibility in manufacturing companies’ own production lines. It also ensures that value chains are digitalised and allows the companies in such chains to connect to each other. To enable the digitalisation of the Dutch manufacturing industry, the parties involved must work together to accelerate technological developments in Smart Industry. Only then will the technologies also take root in the Dutch business community.
Five propositions for Dutch manufacturing companies
In the national action agenda, 8 transformations have been defined that manufacturing companies in the Netherlands need to implement in order to have and retain sufficient earning capacity (see illustration Smart Industry). We’re focusing on 4 of these 8 transformations: flexible manufacturing, smart work, digital factory, and connected factories. To achieve these transformations, we offer 5 practical propositions to manufacturing companies, their ICT suppliers, and public authorities:
- Flexible manufacturing: faster, faultless production with smart robotics
- Smart work: how humans and machines work together effectively and flexibly
- Data sharing: collecting data and using them for smart production
- Digital twinning: using a digital replica to study and predict industrial processes
- Smart response: analysing and implementing innovative technologies.
The path to a fully circular industry is in fact a digitalisation challenge. Start today with digitalisation and work on the maximum reuse of materials, complete reduction of waste, CO2-neutral production, and sustainable energy generation. Digitalisation is essential for documenting the use, loss, and condition of the materials used across the entire production chain.
Digitisation is crucial for circular industry
Want to know more? Read the whitepaper ‘digitisation is crucial for circular industry’.
Contact us
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Mark Courage
Functie:Director Smart Industry-
Standplaats:Delft - Stieltjesweg
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Telefoon:+31 6 11 49 81 29
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Email:Email Mark
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LinkedIn:Mark on LinkedIn
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Claire Stolwijk
Functie:Senior researcher and consultantClaire Stolwijk is a senior researcher and consultant in the Strategy & Policy department, focussing on digitalisation of the manufacturing industry, digital sovereignty, data spaces and industrial innovation policy. She combines her scientific work with a practical approach and coordinates various national and European projects on these topics.
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Standplaats:Den Haag - New Babylon
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Telefoon:+31 6 46 96 60 61
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Email:Email Claire
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LinkedIn:Claire on LinkedIn
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Gregor van Baars
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Standplaats:Eindhoven - High Tech Campus 25
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Telefoon:+31 6 21 13 45 40
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Email:Email Gregor
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LinkedIn:Gregor on LinkedIn
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Jeroen Broekhuijsen
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Standplaats:Groningen
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Telefoon:+31 88 866 77 15
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Email:Email Jeroen
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Lotte de Groen
Functie:Adjunct research manager-
Standplaats:Den Haag - New Babylon
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Telefoon:+31 6 31 79 28 11
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Email:Email Lotte
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LinkedIn:Lotte on LinkedIn
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Matthijs Punter
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Standplaats:Soesterberg
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Telefoon:+31 88 866 21 29
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Email:Email Matthijs
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LinkedIn:Matthijs on LinkedIn
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