RIMA, the European robotics community for Inspection and Upkeep

The Inspection and Upkeep (I&M) Business represents a big financial exercise spanning throughout a number of sectors akin to power, oil & fuel, water provide, transport, civil engineering, and infrastructure. RIMA venture goals at bringing collectively Digital Innovation Hubs and Facilitators working beneath a standard community that permit them to affix forces and competences in selling I&M robotics in Europe.

The BIS Analysis initiatives’ evaluation of the Inspection and Upkeep Robotic Business forecasts that the I&M market will develop at a major CAGR of 12.73% on the premise of worth from 2020 to 2025. In 2019, Europe dominated the 40% of the worldwide inspection and upkeep robotic market (BIS322A, Mar 2020). Though the European Union hosts a lot of the I&M robotics provide – being France, Germany, and Spain (and U.Okay. till 2021 Brexit) the main manufacturing international locations, there may be nonetheless a bottleneck connecting this provide to the market and excessive potential functions. Due to this fact, it’s the goal of RIMA Community to bridge that hole and enhance the connection between key stakeholders.

The RIMA Community

RIMA (Robotics for Inspection and MAintenance) began in 2019 as a European Union’s Horizon2020 initiative for bringing collectively Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) and Facilitators working beneath a standard community to affix forces and competences in selling I&M robotics. The venture consortium consists of 23 companions together with Universities, Business associations and analysis institutes.

The RIMA venture acquired € 16 Million for establishing a community of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) and business associations to assist the uptake of robotics – and assist European small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) to develop novel options for various business sectors.

The Digital Innovation Hubs provide key acceleration companies for firms. Linked to organisations concerned in analysis and innovation actions, they provide experience in robotics, tools, and companies relevant for, on this case, I&M operations. The Facilitator organisations have the connections and community to achieve a broad set of industries of their domains of experience.

The RIMA Community consists of 13 Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) with an enormous expertise within the subject of robotics and is now accepting new DIHs with the aim to develop the community. All the data and speak to factors can be found on the RIMA Community group platform.

Coaching programs

The RIMA coaching framework focuses on growing using digital expertise and data of robotics throughout the I&M area, amongst a variety of individuals – from college students, by way of the present workforce or managers who want to know the significance and impact of digitisation, and start-up expertise improvement firms that want particular info and assist for getting their expertise to market.

RIMA affords particular trainings on the sphere of I&M in matters akin to financing, present and upcoming robotics applied sciences, optimisation, innovation administration, and dealing with robots or with digital actuality (VR) and simulation.

Data on present and future coaching programs is accessible within the RIMA group and shortly within the RIMA YouTube Channel.

Cross-border experiments

RIMA has supported financially and technically 50 cross-border experiments involving European Small and Medium-sized enterprises by way of two Open Name rounds – the primary one in 2019 and the second in 2020 – with a complete quantity of 8.1M€.

The profitable candidates have acquired equity-free funding for Know-how switch and improvement in I&M robotic functions. We are going to current in future articles some examples of success tales funded by way of RIMA akin to INOWATT, Pipeye RIE, TANGO, ROBUCLEAN, RPIMUS, ACIDRONES, and RAHIP. Keep tuned!

RIMA Community on the European Robotics Discussion board 2022

The European Robotics Discussion board (ERF) is among the most influential occasions for the robotics and synthetic intelligence group in Europe. This 12 months the occasion takes place from the twenty eighth to the thirtieth of June in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Within the session of the twenty ninth of June, “DIH as driver for revolutionary experimentation: The RIMA Community case”, the RIMA venture will provide a holistic method on the sphere of DIH-supported experimentation in robotics to permit the viewers to assemble greatest practices, inspiration, robotic at I&M literacy, reference to the EU DIH Community, and worth propositions to include to their service catalogue.

Extra info could be discovered on the ERF2022 web site or you possibly can contact RIMA’s Communication lead Juan Antonio Pavón Losada.

Be a part of the RIMA Community group

The RIMA Community affords a worldwide on-line group that brings collectively expertise suppliers, service suppliers, asset house owners and operators, with Digital Innovation Hubs and Facilitators. The RIMA Community group platform is a spot to collaborate, share info on I&M robotics and maintain updated on RIMA actions. You may be a part of the RIMA group without cost right here.

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