Knowledge base

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Welcome to our knowledge base

There is no better way to learn about Digital Factory than through knowledge and examples. BDF helps manufacturing and production companies digitize their production processes and create smart products. Our members are ready to help you become a Digital Factory winner.

Big data

AI, Big Data, Brainport Digital Factory, IoT, Knowledge Base, Machine Learning

What can your organization do with Big Data?

Big Data, these days you can't escape it. Within every company or organization, countless streams of data flow. By collecting this data and putting it to value,...

Digitization

Brainport Digital Factory, Digitalization, Industrial Digitalisations, Knowledge base

Where to start digitizing

To make processes as streamlined and efficient as possible, it is important to start digitizing. Simply put from paper...

software update email

Explanation

Continuous optimization of machines without loss of production

Brainport Digital Factory combines the expertise of its members to keep machines in manufacturing up-to-date by enabling continuously optimized software updates for these production machines...

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5G, Showcases

Vanderlande innovates with 5G in partnership with Dutch telecom provider KPN

From wired to wireless: it's possible thanks to 5G. Because the combination of enormous capacity, extremely high reliability and ultra-low latency make 5G more than just...

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Knowledge Base, News

Slaying the legacy beast in the PLC domain

Fearing substantial machine downtime, the conservative PLC industry is very reluctant to address its legacy software. Based on Bas Beuting's master's thesis, Cordis...

Developing robotic arms

Explanation

Robotics: when innovation goes hand in hand with well-being

Challenge is what drives Marina! Specializing in robotics and automation, Marina therefore did not hesitate for a moment to leave her native Spain to live in the Netherlands,...

Predictive maintenance

Showcases

Predictive maintenance leads to more robust business model chicken slaughter lines

When Alten suggested a chicken slaughter line manufacturer implement predictive maintenance, the software service provider initially met with skepticism. "Predictive maintenance sounded nice," said the customer,...

Data coach

Knowledge base

Organizational optimization using a Data Coach

The CRISP-DM (CRoss Industry Standard Process for Data Mining) model is a methodology developed in 1996 by about five major tech companies. With...

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Knowledge base

SMEs can also make good use of a Digital Twin

Digital twins seem well suited to the manufacturing industry and could even revolutionize it in the form of more efficient production and better...

Visit Cordis and the Brainport Digital Factory

Events Archive

Discover the future of your factory with the Digital Factory Workshop

On Wednesday, June 19, FME, in cooperation with member company KPN, Cordis Automation and Fectar, is organizing a workshop at the Brainport Industries Campus in Eindhoven on...

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Knowledge base

Low-code for machine control

In high-tech mechanical engineering, low-code software development is on the rise. Additive Industries works with Cordis Suite, which, from a graphical model, provides not only PLC code but also...

ICT Group

Knowledge Base, Model-based Development

Knowledge base: Model-driven engineering, where are we now?

Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software development methodology that saves companies a significant amount of time and money and enables them to streamline their operations....

ICT Group

Knowledge Base

Knowledge base: Model-based testing and safe scrum in a safety-critical environment

Dutch railroads are getting even busier. The government and railroad companies have ambitions to improve the quality of the railroad network. The introduction of...

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Knowledge Base

Knowledge base: Tapping into the IoT to unlock the future

The Internet of Things, Machine Learning and artificial intelligence are the biggest buzzwords of the past 2 years. In this session, we look at what...

Industry 4.0

Knowledge Base, Technology

Knowledge base: Digital Factory - The route to an autonomous factory

Data and automation are playing an increasingly important role in new business models. Industries are getting smarter because machines, products, services and people are constantly interacting with each other in...

Digital Twin

AI, Digital Twin, Digital Twin, Knowledge Base

Knowledge base: Achieve gain with a Digital Twin

A digital twin is a working, virtual model of an entire product, process or service. But a Digital Twin is much more than just a...

WMS

Industrial Robotics, Showcases

Kruidvat hypermodern e-fulfilment center means substantial expansion of WMS

A.S. Watson, parent company of Kruidvat and Trekpleister, among others, recently doubled the capacity of its e-commerce DC in Ede by not only increasing the floor space...

automation

Digitization, Explanation

How to measure a planet

In 1998, a not-so-obscure metal band from 's-Hertogenbosch released an album titled "How to measure a planet." The band's name was The...

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Technology

How do you use security as a building block for innovation?

Innovation is wonderful and necessary at the same time. It is the core competency of the Brainport region, which has become the smartest region in the world. Innovation is...

deep learning

Knowledge base

How do you use deep learning to determine apple quality?

Every year, millions of apples are harvested in the Netherlands that must be sorted before they go to consumers. This is done partly by the sorting machine and...

body scanners

Current, Showcases, Technology

How software helps detect contraband

OD Security makes Transmission X-Ray Full body scanners for correctional facilities and prisons, customs and occasionally diamond and gold mines. The scanners scan incoming and outgoing persons....

Datascience

Industrial Digitalisations, Showcases

Data-driven malting helps Holland Malt reduce its carbon footprint

By turning the oven down just 1 percent, Holland Malt can save enough electricity to provide a small village with a year's worth of...

software engineering

Current, Knowledge base

Brainport should export its world-class software & engineering capabilities

"In a world where the demand for increasingly complex cyber-physical systems is increasing, there is a huge opportunity for companies from the Brainport region to increase their...

Visit Cordis and the Brainport Digital Factory

Events Archive

Visit Cordis and the Brainport Digital Factory

On Wednesday, August 21, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Impuls Zeeland and KicMPi are organizing a working visit to the Brainport Industries Campus and specifically to Cordis...

5G capabilities

5G, Technology

5G opportunities for the manufacturing industry

KPN would like to introduce you to 5G. You can find us at the Brainport Industries Campus in Eindhoven, where we are working with partners to develop new applications with...

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Current, Automation, Digitalization, Showcases

"Linking into one system," the basis for optimization

In the manufacturing industry, companies regularly run into the fact that planning for different production lines is a challenge of magnitude. In a complex planning...

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