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Saturday, 26 January, 2019
Engineering students at University College Dublin (UCD) will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with Industry 4.0 principles using an automated football factory demo donated to the University by (opens in a new window)Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.(NASDAQ: MXIM).
The demo integrates several of the company’s adaptive manufacturing technologies, including the recently announced (opens in a new window)Go-IO industrial internet of things (IIoT) reference design.
In a world of rapidly evolving production technologies, the donation to the UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering will help current students and future engineers learn the principles of a smart factory and how to design fully automated and intelligent production equipment with self-diagnostic and adaptive capabilities.
The Research Director of LAMS, Nikos Papakostas was interviewed by Christine Young, Maxim Integrated about the donation and the potential advantages of Industry 4.0 technologies.