COTEMACO SME support success: Over 1250 jobs maintained and 280 new jobs created

Last month, Flanders Make welcomed companies, researchers, and robotics and digitalisation enthusiasts to their Leuven facilities for COTEMACO’s last-ever project conference. ‘Future-proofing European SMEs through Digitalization & Robotization’ marked the culmination of the 4-year long Interreg North-West Europe project which has supported 65 companies from the automotive, agro-food, and flexible assembly sectors in future-proofing their…

Future-proofing EU businesses through automation

Since 2018, COTEMACO has supported more than 50 companies in future-proofing their business through automation. As part of the free COTEMACO SME Support Programme, funded by the Interreg North-West Europe Programme, the project partners have engaged with manufacturing SMEs through field labs. These regional field labs in the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium and Germany have…

13. Montage-Tagung

13. Montage-Tagung On 21 and 22 April 2021, ZeMA – Zentrum für Mechatronik und Automatisierungstechnik gGmbH organised the 13th Assembly Conference as an online event. The conference was a virtual meeting place for decision-makers, planners and developers from production and engineering. The focus was on applications, technologies and procedures for the digital transformation of industry,…

Enquête Commission at ZeMA

Enquête Commission at ZeMA On 21.09.2020, the Enquête Commission Digitalization of the Saarland visited ZeMA.In a tour, various projects, such as the COTEMACO project and applications around smart materials, Industry 4.0, assistance systems, commissioning of autonomous driving vehicles and robotics were presented. The visit was used to exchange views on current technologies, the advantages and…

Interreg tour at ZeMA

Interreg tour at ZeMA On August 26th 2020, ZeMA welcomed a group of thirty visitors as part of an Interreg tour to present its two current Interreg projects COTEMACO and Robotix Academy. The visit was organised by Europe Direct Saarbrücken, an information center of the state capital, which informs citizens about EU topics on behalf…

Two Belgian companies to integrate cobots after completing COTEMACO SME Support Programme

Two Belgian companies to integrate cobots after completing COTEMACO SME Support Programme Food processing SME Mariën Bakkerij Producten N.V. and manufacturer of innovative health, sport and fitness products Aminolabs, are well on their way to cobot adoption, having made it through the COTEMACO SME Support programme.  The SME support programme guides manufacturing SMEs through the process of adopting…