Industrial digital transformation
Technologies and processes that previously operated in isolation within organisations are now being integrated through digital systems and data sharing. As a result, the former professional domains are increasingly merging within companies, which therefore are looking for employees with interdisciplinary skills..
Through our applied research activities, we explore the needs, barriers and requirements that companies experience when encountering new digital technologies in manufacturing.
The research centre revolves around three sub-themes:
Through the Research Centre for Industrial Digital Transformation, UCN aims to further develop and refine the research niche that will provide the greatest benefit to our programmes, employees and employers across the region.
Only three years after the establishment of the research centre in 2022, our research is already making an impact in the North Jutland region through practical, application-oriented research, closely aligned with the needs production companies and basic and further education and training programmes of the North Denmark Region. This is done through systematic knowledge development and extensive research collaboration with the SME segment in North Jutland.
In addition, the research centre is well on its way to establishing itself as an academic community that is acknowledged as a professional and agile partner and making a visible impact on international research. This is particularly evident through a number of EU projects. Collaborations provides us with valuable knowledge from our project partners, just as we impart our knowledge with them and thus bring our research knowledge into international contexts.
VALUE4SEA
The Interreg project Value4Sea aims to contribute to more sustainable and efficient supply chains. This will be achieved through increased digitalisation, integration, automation and energy and CO2 management. The project involves 19 partners from Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
FIT4FOF
In collaboration with a number of other European knowledge institutions and businesses under the Horizon2020 project FIT4FoF, we are considering the need for skill development among industrial workers. We analyse trends in six areas of industry to arrive at new job profiles and skill requirements for future industrial workers. Based on these analyses, UCN is developing a co-design tool for designing industrial continuing education programmes.
HEI4FUTURE PROJECT
The purpose of this project is to develop entrepreneurship and innovation capacity in students and staff in higher education institutions. Through co-design and open innovation, we aim to generate is to generate new knowledge of how to prepare the employees of the future for technological developments. This project is financed by the European HEI Initiative.