Change2Twin Ambassador
CurrentI4MS, ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs, is a European initiative supporting manufacturing SMEs and mid-caps in the widespread use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in their business operations. Under I4MS, SMEs can apply for technological and financial support to conduct experiments allowing them to test digital innovations in their business via open calls.Change2Twin will adopt the best practices developed so far in I4MS:helping manufacturing SMEs in their digitalization effortsfocusing on local support provided by DIHskeeping cascade grants as accessible as possibleSpecifically, we focus on three sub-objectives: Developing and providing a truly end-to-end service to the manufacturing SMEs where the end-user receives from its local, trusted party (DIH) a thorough analysis of the digitalization potential and a cross-border, ready-to-use recipe for implementation involving both components providers and an integrator.Providing an architecture-agnostic technology marketplace with dedicated knowledge models supporting the DIH preparing the recipe for a complete solution in selecting the best components and most suitable providers for the SME. Finding the minimal interoperable model facilitating modularity, composability and interchangeability of components used, regardless of the individual architectures or frameworks.