TECNALIA is a leading Research and Technological Development Centre in Europe, whose mission is to transform technology into GDP to improve people’s quality of life, by creating business opportunities for companies, being member of BRTA (Basque Research and Technology Alliance). The company works with an increasingly strategic business relationship model based on trust, collaboration, and a shared technological approach, whereby our main scopes of action are: digital transformation, advanced manufacturing, energy transition, sustainable mobility, health, and the urban ecosystem. www.tecnalia.com/en/

R2M Solution is a research and innovation company passionate about making the world a better place.  Half of their activities are in Research and Innovation – the realization of new knowledge, products and services typically in the framework of collaborative European research. The other half or their activities focus on the commercialization, early adoption and scaling of new products and services that disrupt markets, solve problems and make our clients more competitive.  R2M operates most in the sustainability sector where they are deeply engaged in energy, buildings, construction and the smart grid. www.r2msolution.com

SCM Group was established from the strategic vision of SCM, a company founded in 1952 with the mission of offering the widest range of solutions available in the woodworking sector. Over time the Group has developed technologies and taken over leading brands to complete all the processes involved in secondary woodworking and then expanding to include composite materials, plastic, glass, metal and marble. www.scmgroup.com/en

IDENER R&D is a private research SME company with a sound scientific background in fields comprising the branch of system engineering. IDENER is mainly focused on i) electronics and computers, ii) systems integration and control, and iii) optimisation of engineering processes. IDENER has vast experience acting also as scientific coordinator by supporting technical developments and their execution. The company provides solutions for software development and digitalisation to ensure the proper integration of the provided optimisation solutions on existing manufacturing systems. Moreover, IDENER counts with vast capabilities to perform holistic modelling (energy, manufacture, optimisation) and to develop sustainable driven decision support tools. The complete approach results in a high added value that sharpens the competitive edge of complex manufacturing systems by providing improvements in performance and cost-effectiveness for the industrial sector. In DENiM, IDENER is leading WP7, dedicated to the integration of the developed systems within the project. Moreover, IDENER is the main responsible for the development of the digitalisation framework and for the execution of GORENJE’s pilot case. www.idener.es/

Erre Quadro srl is a consulting and R&D company, specialized in the development of algorithms and software for the automatic analysis of technical texts, with the aim of supporting the enterprises in their needs for intellectual property protection, knowledge management and retrieval, and business intelligence. The company is a spin-off the University of Pisa. Erre Quadro uses its software and expertise to map and analyse the Intellectual Property landscape, to support clients both at R&D level (design around, identification of white spaces to guide the design process, …) and at strategic level (early detection, assessment of the potential of new technologies, evaluation and due diligence, technology and skills foresight, definition of the right up-reskilling activities, support to decision making…). www.errequadrosrl.com

Bag-Era is specialized in the domains of integration and coordination of hardware and software components with an emphasis on security, safety and dependability. Our tools and background allow us to design and deploy solutions taking into account legacy and ready to consider in an incremental way future extension. www.bag-era.fr

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd is a state owned non-profit limited liability company, ranked among the leading European Research and Technology Organisations. VTT is impact-driven and takes advantage from its wide multitechnological knowledge base to strengthen Finnish and European industrial competitiveness. VTT’s research is guided by global challenges: climate action, resource sufficiency, good life, safety and security and industrial renewal. In DENiM, VTT is to play a major role in system performance modelling, co-simulation, and to support industrial pilots, including LCA and LCC. www.vttresearch.com/en

K-LOOPS is an innovative start-up, spinout of the European research project AREUS, with the mission to bring to the market industrial solutions based on the research outputs of the project and university researches. K-LOOPS provides high level AI, industrial robotics and realistic simulation solutions excellence, and it is focused on the development of digital twins of manufacturing systems, edge-based intelligent manufacturing planning and control, as well as the design and development of robotic manufacturing cells. www.k-loops.com