The service allows you to explore, experiment with, and develop advanced and emerging digital technologies, so you can make informed decisions about which ones to adopt or integrate into your company.
SMILE-DIH can help you prepare or access to:
- Demonstrators and use cases that allow you to experience and verify the potential of digital technologies applied to real-world industrial scenarios. The objectives are multiple: they stimulate technology transfer, demonstrate the benefits of solutions in terms of increased efficiency, lower operating costs, and improved customer relationships, and ultimately generate new digital and sustainable business models.
- Technology infrastructures and platforms (including as-a-service) such as machinery, devices, algorithms, software licenses, IT infrastructures;
- Feasibility studies that include a work plan and planning of the activities necessary for an analysis of feasibility, innovation potential and to outline the resources and technologies necessary for executive implementation;
- Proof-of-Concept (PoC) to conceptually demonstrate the functionality of a product, process or service, to raise the feasibility and effectiveness of a solution (TRL 5 – TRL 7) and is the previous step before proceeding with industrialization;
- Testing and validation to engineer an existing technological solution for a product, process, or service in an industrial context (TRL greater than 7), or to test the technical results under specific conditions, even persuasively.
Collaborations for R&D&I activities at the regional level
Resources made available by Rete Alta Tecnologia (High Technology Network) of the Regione Emilia-Romagna















