Brick Reply is part of the Competence Industry Manufacturing 4.0

Brick Reply is one of partner companies supporting "CIM4.0", the competence center manufacturing industry 4.0, which aims to support Italian manufacturing enterprises in embracing the Industry 4.0 revolution. CIM4.0 proposes itself as an integrated reference point for all those activities concerning the push of skills and good practices. Besides, it provides training actions and experiences in the field, technological sectors and industrial areas of the Piedmont region; also spreading this expertise in the overall Italian territory.

Thanks to its 23 industrial partners and two noteworthy research centres (Politecnico di Torino and Università di Torino), the Competence Centre is equipped with two “pilot lines”. These “pilot lines” support the technological maturation of innovative processes and products, giving companies a structure – an actual place – capable of lighten the approach to new technologies or new markets.

Brick Reply is collaborating with Concept Reply and COMAU, to develop the Digital Factory Pilot Line. In the Digital pilot line, it will be possible to find the application and the combination of the following technologies:

• IIOT - It will be possible to observe how Industrial Internet of Things, which combines wireless sensors, cloud computing, big-data analysis, and much more, enables new and more advanced process optimization and business intelligence features; for instance by implementing new AI algorithms to support predictive maintenance.
• Digital Twin - It will be possible to observe how advances in robotics, including cobots, can be integrated with the new cyber-physical systems that merge the virtual and real plant world, through applications that virtually duplicate the operation of a factory (the so-called digital twin).
• 4.0 workers - It will be possible to observe how these innovations represent the tools for tomorrow’s workers; the 4.0 workers, who will be more confident and adequately trained by virtual reality systems. These workers will be able to take advantage of new forms of human-machine interaction exploiting wearable technologies and new multimedia systems as well as autonomous vehicles for logistics or exoskeletons for heavy work.