Monday, 6/4/2018
On
10 May 2018, in Guimarães, the notarial deed of the creation of the
Collaborative Laboratory in Digital Transformation (DTx) was held.
DTx, which has the
legal status of a non-profit association, aims at applied research in different
areas associated with digital transformation, encouraging cooperation between R
& D units, higher education institutions and the productive sector in new
collaborative and risk sharing, enhancers of value creation and qualified
scientific employment.
The following companies
are members of DTx: Universities of Minho, Évora and Católica; INL and CEiiA,
as well as Accenture, Bosch Car Multimedia, IKEA Industry, Cachapuz-Bilanciai,
Celoplás, ebankIT, Neadvance, NOS, Primavera, Simoldes Plasticos, TMG
Automotive and WEDO Technologies. The affiliated members are the innovation
centres CCG and PIEP. The company Embraer Portugal will also soon integrate
this new association.
The Colab DTx is based in Guimarães, where it will
also have laboratories, such as in Braga, Matosinhos and Évora. In addition to
the funding of its members, it has the support of 7.5 million euros, guaranteed
by the Foundation for Science and Technology within the scope of the Program of
Creation of Collaborative Laboratories. The project and development of
cyber-physical system products, as well as evolutionary systems, integrating,
for example, intelligent materials, digital manufacturing technologies and
solutions based on artificial intelligence, will be the target of this Colab in
the framework of a strong collaboration between entities of the scientific
system and the economic-productive fabric, with international reference
partners, such as MIT.
