Konecranes-led international research project OPTIMUM awarded by ITEA for Excellence for leaps in smart factory development
The Information Technology for European Advancement (ITEA), part of the EUREKA cluster program, a Europe-wide research and development initiative, has awarded the Konecranes-led research project OPTIMUM with a Special Award of Excellence in all three nomination categories: Innovation, Standardization and Market impact – marking an exceptional achievement in the history of the awards. Focusing on engineering, commissioning and distributed control combined with human-machine interaction, the OPTIMUM research project paves the way for smart factories. The OPTIMUM ITEA research project,