All posts by Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Rikalovic

The Industry 5.0 Community of Practice (CoP 5.0), the European Commission initiative, was officially launched on 16 November 2023, marked by the first joint session of its working groups. CoP 5.0 unites a broad range of European innovation ecosystem stakeholders, providing a platform to share best practices, co-create actions to implement Industry 5.0, and network for new collaborations. 

The seminar “Artificial Intelligence and its Business Applications for Belt and Road Countries”, held from November 1 to 14 in Beijing and Shenzhen, gathered many officials from around the world in the field of AI.

Our senior researchers from the Faculty of Technical Sciences and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence R&D in Serbia, Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Rikalovic and Dr. Bojana Bajic had the honor of participating in the prestigious national TV show “Science In Motion,” where they delved into the intriguing topic of “Challenges Of Artificial Intelligence.“

Industry giant Mitsubishi Electric embarks on joint initiatives with the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Institute for Artificial Intelligence R&D, and Tarkett to foster Smart Manufacturing.

Management of new security risks-research and simulation development (NEWSIMR&D) is a Science fund of the Republic of Serbia-supported project. Through cutting-edge research and practical go-to-market applications, the project aims to address important social and industrial risks by bringing together public academic institutions and private enterprises.

Sustainability and productivity needn’t be at odds when enabled by Industry 4.0 technology categories. And with an empowered workforce leading the way, outsize gains can be the result. 

Industry 4.0 technology categories have helped boost operations’ productivity and efficiency. This increased operational performance to support the growth without the need to add more resources or machines that consume more energy. Ninety percent of greenhouse-gas emissions come from electricity. So more than 1,000 Industrial IoT sensors is deployed to more than 500 pieces of equipment and 15 utility systems to gather data and generate analytics insights. This allows us to optimize energy consumption across the entire factory. This is how Industry 4.0 technology categories accelerate digital sustainability. Thus, Digitalization is the key that can unlock net-zero for industry.

The Industry 4.0 is moving the production towards smart production systems, based on new technologies (i.e. Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence). Companies rightfully have high expectations of Industry 4.0. However, one of the major obstacles is how to transform reactive, via proactive, to predictive production systems via data analytics application. The predictive production systems are new type of intelligent production systems enable the implementation of new technologies.