{"id":6276,"date":"2025-04-15T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T08:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indpuls.tech\/en\/blog\/\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T08:58:02","slug":"advanced-factories-2025-a-strategic-milestone-on-indpuls-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indpuls.tech\/en\/blog\/advanced-factories-2025-a-strategic-milestone-on-indpuls-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Factories 2025, a strategic milestone on Indpuls’ agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\n\t
\n\n

From April 8 to 10, we attended Advanced Factories 2025 Expo & Congress, where we took part in an open innovation challenge<\/a> through the Open Innovation Challenge initiative led by ACCI\u00d3. Advanced Factories is the benchmark fair for industrial transformation, held in Barcelona, now in its ninth edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advanced Factories is a key event for Industry 4.0 leaders.<\/strong> Every year, it brings together top companies in automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, systems integration, and advanced software \u2014 all with the goal of boosting competitiveness and efficiency through technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than just a trade fair, Advanced Factories also hosts the Industry 4.0 Congress, Europe\u2019s leading conference on new business models, on-demand manufacturing, and mass customization. It also features events such as the Leadership Summit, the CIO\u2019s Summit, the Factory Innovation Theatre, and the Factories of the Future Awards \u2014 creating a unique environment for knowledge sharing, innovation, and networking among industry professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the slogan \u201cRedefining Automation with Green Tech,\u201d Advanced Factories strengthens its role as a key meeting point for driving the sustainable transformation of the industrial sector.<\/strong> This year, the fair focuses on how technology becomes a strategic ally to enhance energy efficiency, streamline production processes, and move toward a more decarbonized industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor INDPULS, Advanced Factories is a strategic milestone. The event brings together major players in automation, digital manufacturing, and Industry 4.0 technologies, allowing us to detect trends, build connections, and create opportunities for collaborative innovation.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The INDPULS team attended the opening keynote by Xavier Marcet<\/strong>, president of Sarah Marlex<\/strong>, who addressed the challenge of AI by highlighting the need for a strategic and humanistic perspective in organizations, to build intelligent alliances between humans and machines.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t

\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t\"xavier\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t
Marcet advocates for a humanistic approach to innovation, where combining intelligences does not mean losing values such as empathy, vision, or leadership. In this hybrid context, we need to rethink management, innovation, and talent to balance data and algorithms with human judgment. A European humanistic management model is needed \u2014 one that delivers results, but not at any cost.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

As part of the Advanced Factories Congress, ACCI\u00d3 led the Open Innovation Challenges initiative, which consists of business matchmaking sessions aimed at connecting companies or public entities with tech firms offering innovative solutions. At INDPULS, we contributed a challenge to identify use cases of AI-based internal search engines and chatbots already deployed in industrial environments.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are seeking solutions that facilitate intuitive and efficient access to information, enhance corporate knowledge management, and support different business units in developing their product portfolios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"accio\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"advanced\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

We had the chance to meet with several tech companies aligned with the AI challenge, as well as others that can address our partners\u2019 needs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n