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Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Factories of the future

Factories of the future are future-oriented manufacturing companies embracing industry 4.0 opportunities to their full extent.

Their manufacturing of high added-value products responds to fast-changing market demands in an agile way, enabling these companies to keep playing an important role in a dynamic and often global production network.

Factories of the future focus on digitising their processes, getting the most out of new production technologies, as well as managing energy and materials in an ever more circular way.

Next to technological innovation, social innovation is also a top priority, thereby focusing on personal involvement, creativity and autonomy of teams and individual employees.
Factories of the future not only work faster, but smarter.