Call Smart Industry open for applications

The NWO divisions Physical Sciences, Humanities and STW invite applications for the Open Call Smart Industry (SI2016). Deadline for submitting preproposals is June 9, 2016. SI2016 aims to encourage excellent application-oriented research in the area of smart customized solutions for industrial processes with reliable and safe data usage in the Netherlands, in order to strengthen the Netherlands' competitive position in this area internationally. The total budget is € 3.4 million. In this call the focus is on smart use of huge amounts of (heterogeneous) data (from sensors, wireless connections to outside world, databases, other fabs, models, and so on) enabling:

Customer participation in the design process, product personalization, flexibility in low and high volume series;
Decision support (data mining & visualization for operators);
Context-aware and adaptive entities in manufacturing lines (self-configurable, easy programmable, high degree of autonomy, securely operating);
First-time-right product and process engineering, zero defect manufacturing;
Condition-based and predictive maintenance;
Integrated life cycle management.

The NWO contribution is up to € 750,000 for each project. In projects of an investment nature (> € 250,000 in equipment), the maximum NWO contribution is € 1 million. In order to ensure that R&D proposals will address issues with applied relevance, co-funding with a minimum of 30% (of which at least half in cash) by private partners is required. The programme has a maximum duration of six years.