The contract was won by a renowned Italian manufacturer of agricultural machinery components, with delivery expected by the first half of 2024
If the fourth industrial revolution was that of the internet of things and artificial intelligence, the fifth puts man and the environment at the centre. This is how Enterprise 5.0 developed by the eminent Japanese professor Yuko Harayama who was discussed at the…
INTERVIEW WITH ANNA ROSCIO, Executive Director Sales & Marketing Enterprises of Sanpaolo Intesa, or "the lady of the SMEs" who are customers of the largest Italian bank - "The companies that have overcome the various crises have come out strengthened" and "the…
Neva SGR, a Venture Capital company of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group has invested in CoreTigo, an Israeli company that deals with industrial automation, a key sector of Industry 4.0
To better manage this transition, companies will focus more on human capital - South lagging behind - The analysis of the Tagliacarne Study Center
The initiative is part of the 5Growth project funded by the European Union aimed at developing 5G solutions for strategic sectors such as Industry 4.0, Transport and Energy
The company led by Luigi Gubitosi has activated the new network in Matera to accelerate the development of digital services for the benefit of citizens and businesses and has created the first 5G Open connection in the TIM Innovation lab in Turin…
The new Exor Smart Factory will show the advantages of the digitization envisaged by the Industry 4.0 initiative to manufacturing companies that need to be innovative and competitive in the market
The study carried out by The European House – Ambrosetti in collaboration with Philip Morris Italia highlights the misalignment between the skills required by companies and those offered by the school and university system
According to Banca Ifis' Market Watch PMI observatory, almost three out of four SMEs plan to invest in innovation (or will continue to do so) in the two-year period 2022-2023. Pharmaceuticals and Home are the sectors with the greatest drive
The telecommunications company supports the development of open solutions for new mobile access networks together with other European operators.
Work starts in Bologna for the new Philip Morris center dedicated to advanced skills training for Industry 4.0 - The end of the works is scheduled for summer 2021
The new agreement between the two companies will allow the construction of a DAS plant in the Bologna area, for optimal use of all wireless connected devices and the development of IOT services
INTERVIEW with Professor ANTONIO CAPONE, head of the 5G & Beyond Observatory of the Milan Polytechnic - "In the entirely political clash between the USA and China over 5G, Italy and Europe risk paying a very high price": this is why
The value of Industry 4.0 in 2019 rose to 3,9 billion, and innovation proved to be decisive in tackling the Covid emergency. But now the collapse in demand risks holding back investments. The analysis of the Politecnico di Milano.
INTERVIEW WITH LUCIANO VESCOVI, President of Confindustria Vicenza who tells the Government: "Let the companies work in peace but make the PA pay its debts to companies. Liquidity arrives automatically but then we need to relaunch the…
Among those who would like to resurrect IRI and those who deny any efficacy to industrial policy there is actually a third solution which outlines a balanced relationship between the state and the market and which takes the form of a new industrial policy of the…
An analysis conducted by Banca IFIS on 62 financial statements of small and medium-sized enterprises shows that in the three-year period 2016-18 most of them grew (revenues and employment) thanks to new technologies.
Leonardo will provide Cyber Security solutions to the "Lighthouse Plant" developed by Ansaldo Energia, one of the first four "Intelligent Factories" envisaged by the Mise Industry 4.0 Plan
From a study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group together with Ipsos, it emerges that many Italian companies know and use the incentives of Industry 4.0, but do not fully exploit their potential due to a lack of skills and also…
The new book by Marco Bentivogli, leader of the Fim-Cisl, "Controrder Compagni, Manual of resistance to technophobia for the recovery of work in Italy" published by Rizzoli, of which we publish a summary of the introduction, is coming out these days.
A very recent circular from the Ministry of Economic Development clarifies how to take advantage of the tax credit for personnel expenses for training and what the conditions are for its application
The Budget Commission listened to the appeal of the personnel directors and approved an amendment for the extension of the tax credit for training from an Industry 4.0 perspective for the year 2019.
INTERVIEW with ALBERTO VACCHI, president and CEO of Ima, the jewel of the Bologna packaging valley - "We need a company that perceives the centrality of the company - The Government will be judged on the results without discounts but in the relationship with Europe…
The Industry 4.0 Plan is changing the Italian production system and it would be irresponsible if the new Def did not find the resources necessary to guarantee the continuity of the interventions - Five priorities and the need for a great national confrontation without…
The general secretary of the CISL metalworkers, Marco Bentivogli, and the technologist Chiriatti, have launched a public manifesto in Il Sole 24 Ore in defense of the blockchain which can avoid concentrations of power and become a paradigm for an industrial model…
The personnel training activities in the sector of the technologies envisaged by the Industry 4.0 Plan must be defined by a company or territorial union agreement to benefit from the tax credit
Applications for Agrifood, the smart home, the new Smart Cities and industry 4.0: Vodafone presented the new innovation services aimed at businesses and the public administration in Rome. A revolution that makes the business more profitable but also…
The decree, which represents a step within the broader reform of Industry 4.0, was jointly signed by ministers Carlo Calenda, Pier Carlo Padoan and Giuliano Poletti.
Prato is this year the symbolic city to celebrate May Day - Quality of work and environmental protection for sustainable development - We want to put man at the center of the digital renaissance and we fight for a world where we…
According to an EY survey on behalf of Corriere Comunicazioni, over 7.000 Italian industrial sites do not have a sufficient connection to apply the technological revolution of Industry 4.0 - the Mise plan and 5G experimentation could fill the gap.
With the Industry 4.0 plan and in a completely new competitive scenario characterized by strong innovation and unprecedented constraints such as platforms and the network effect, can the glorious but somewhat musty industrial districts make a comeback?…
The loan to the agri-food company is only the latest in a long series: since 2017 Cassa Depositi e Prestiti has mobilized almost 2 billion in total in favor of more than 900 Italian companies for production innovation.
Interview with RICCARDO ILLY, independent candidate of the centre-left for the Senate in the constituency of Trieste and Gorizia - "Renzi reminds me of Blair while Gentiloni I would compare him to Mitterrand: between the two now the better prime minister would be the second" - "Despite some…
The Industry 4.0 Plan, recalled the minister, "this year is worth 9,8 billion euros" after 20 billion last year, and shifts "the focus towards skills and training".
In an article in Sole 24 Ore, the minister and the leader of Fim Cisl put forward proposals for the next legislature with the aim of accelerating the growth of the Italian economy: from the training of workers to contracts, from competition to the network for…
Giovanni Lombardi's industrial group launches the two-year project aimed at involving young talents with an entrepreneurial spirit and knowledge of the digital world within society. There will be 120 positions offered
Courtesy of the publisher Guida, we are publishing the conclusions of Ricccardo Gallo's new book "Industry makes the 4th revolution, but only where it exists and as long as it survives" in which we take stock of the industrial policy of the last three governments and …
In Vodafone's plans, 5G will cover the entire Milan metropolitan area by 2019 (80% in 2018) with an investment of 90 million and the collaboration of the Milan Polytechnic - 41 projects already ready with technological and industrial partners…
The aim of the service presented at the Maker Faire event is the dissemination of digital culture in SMEs.
Through the portal www.puntoimpresadigitale.camcom.it, promoted by Unioncamere and created by InfoCamere, it will be possible to know in real time all the activities and chamber services offered by the PIDs, the digital business points.
MEDIOBANCA AND UNIONCAMERE R&D SURVEY - Italian medium-sized industrial companies have turned out to be the most dynamic segment of the production system because they grow more, produce more wealth, defend employment and are financially stable - But the demand for…
Now in its second edition, the survey "The performance of European companies: a benchmark analysis" by Assolombarda Confindustria Milano Monza and Brianza explores the constraints, challenges and strategies of the manufacturing sector of five of the most productive European regions - Lombardy, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern , Cataluña, Rhône-Alpes –…
The Italian group has announced the first pilot project at the optical cable plant in Calais, France, in partnership with the transalpine company Dassault Systèmes and other international companies - The goal is to create smarter systems, leveraging…
"The new star wrench" by Edoardo Segantini is an investigative book, published by Guerini, which tells fourteen stories of men and women, workers and technicians, managers and entrepreneurs, protagonists of Industry 4.0 - In the bookstore and available from 25 October also in…
The conference "Goal 2025: Italian industry joins forces for the digital development of the country" is organized in Milan by Prysmian and IATT - Italian Association for Trenchless Technology: we will talk about the opportunities for the economy created by the new National Plan launched…
WEEKEND INTERVIEW with Marco Taisch, professor at the Milan Polytechnic and scientific co-responsible of the Industry 4.0 Observatory, who comments on the plan launched a year ago by the Government and just updated: "Technology will not make jobs disappear but will create more:…
For the general secretary of the CISL metalworkers, the government's teamwork on Industry 4.0 is "positive", but more needs to be done on training and "those who are against the reductions on training and technology want the capital…
The new name of the Government Plan indicates the beginning of a second phase focused on skills and work - In 2017 orders rose by 9%, spending on research and development is growing while ultra-broadband needs to be accelerated - Calenda: "In…
INTESA SANPAOLO REPORT, edited by Serena Fumagalli of the Studies and Research Department - Reconnaissance on the state of health of Italian mechanics at the time of the exit of the crisis (mid-2014), analyzing the various phenomena at the highest possible level of disaggregation…
Over 80% of the Italian manufacturing fabric is made up of small and medium-sized enterprises. These realities must be guided in a gradual path towards Industry 4.0. The book proposes an "Italian road" to the fourth industrial revolution - "The connected factory" is a…
The first doctoral school in Data Science and Computation kicks off in Bologna, aiming to become an international excellence in the field of Big Data and Data Science - The initiative promoted by the Golinelli Foundation and the University of Bologna…
The implementing circular with all the requirements for submitting requests has been published on the website of the Ministry of Development. The benefits can also be combined with the Hyper and Super depreciation intended for companies that invest in new capital goods, in tangible assets…
Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel blocked the acquisition of Aixtron, considered strategic for the industry 4.0 project. He down the stock, but the decision marks a major turnaround in Europe.
The plan presented by the Government to facilitate the introduction of the so-called Industry 4.0, based on technologies and digitization, is robust but has three critical issues that must be overcome: the lack of involvement of the territories, the immediate risks of unemployment and the long lead times…
The plan announced by Minister Calenda also provides for 10 billion more private investments in 2017 alone - Confindustria approves the measures - Federmeccanica: two thirds of companies have adopted at least one of the 4.0 technologies
According to the Observatory of the Milan Polytechnic, 66% of the value of this market consists of Internet of Things applications for industry - A growth rate of 2016% is expected for 20 - The low digital maturity…