This document discusses the Basque Industry 4.0 strategy, which aims to strengthen the Basque Country's industrial base through knowledge-intensive manufacturing. It outlines five strategic objectives: 1) guiding companies towards more value-added manufacturing; 2) promoting technological convergence; 3) integrating local and international value chains; 4) fostering collaboration to commercialize R&D results; 5) supporting education in advanced manufacturing technologies. It also describes initiatives to create a Basque Digital Innovation Hub network to provide SMEs access to testing and demonstration of advanced manufacturing technologies.

1. RIS3 EUSKADI
BASQUE INDUSTRY 4.0

2. 2
PRIORITIES FOR SPECIALISATION
VERTICAL PRIORITIES. RIS3 EUSKADI
Specific strategies for the deployment of the priority areas in Advanced Manufacturing and Energy have
been defined in the framework of the Steering Groups

3. 3
BASQUE INDUSTRY 4.010
Joining visions, steps and
strategies requires a really
intensive-cooperation
driven process
Advanced
Manufacturing
Strategy Mision
To strengthen the position of
the Basque Country as an
economy with an industrial
base through the promotion
of knowledge intensive
manufacturing
SO1. To help and guide Basque companies towards more knowledge
intensive manufacturing activities which have greater added value
Integration of KETs
SO2. To promote
multi-disciplinary and
technological
convergence in a
structured fashion so
as to develop best-in-
class manufacturing
capacities and
solutions while
optimizing existing
resources
SO5. To support education and job training in technologies and
management systems related to Advanced Manufacturing
Global value
chains– Cluster 2.0
SO3. To integrate
local and international
value chains to meet
the challenges of
Advanced
Manufacturing using
the sum of the
particular capacities
of each sector and its
companies
Scaling Up
SO4. To foster
collaboration and
support as a catalyst
for the
industrialization of the
results of R+D+i in
Advanced
Manufacturing
Advanced
Manufacturing
Advanced Manufacturing
Strategic Objectives

4. 4
RIS3 IMPLEMENTATION
STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVEMENT
Steering Groups: participating groups drawn from the administration, companies, clusters and scientific
and technological players. Their main function is to coordinate and drive forward the deployment of the RIS3
strategy and the setting up of spaces for entrepreneurial discovery
COORDINATION OF THE
STAKEHOLDERS
COORDINATION, ADVICE
AND PROMOTION OF
POLICIES AND
INSTRUMENTS
MONITORING AND
EVALUATION OF POLICIES
AND ACTIONS
INTERNATIONAL
NETWORKING AND
PROMOTION OF THE
REGION’S IMAGE
Effective participation
space for enterprises
(market leaders and
SMEs) with the
Steering Group
Coordination between all
positioning actions and
presence of agents in
state, European and
international forums
Dashboard of results
and its contribution to
the strategic objectives
of STIP 2020
Active support in the
design of public-private
instruments for
financing
Science,
Technology and
Innovation
Players
Government
Public Admin.
Companies,
Clusters and
Social Players

5. 5
Technology Areas
BASQUE INDUSTRY 4.012
A commitment to technological development in Advanced
Manufacturing is crucial to maintain competiveness in industry and
to secure positioning in market niches with greater added value.
Advanced Materials
and Processes
Flexible, smart and
efficient manufacturing
systems Digital Connected
Factories
Energy
efficiency

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BASQUE INDUSTRY 4.014
Strategic initiatives
8 Strategic Initiatives capable of transforming
Basque industry to “Basque Industry 4.0”
International
positioning
Offshore 4.0
Electric vehicle
Stem Subjects in
Secondary Education
Smart Training Network
Talent initiatives Core Initiatives
Efficiency and
sustainability initiatives
Connected Assets Network in
Advanced Manufacturing
Basque Open IndustryPlatform4.0
Advanced Services 4.0
Circular Economy
Explotation of heat

7. BASQUE DIGITAL INNOVATION HUB
 A Facility Network to experiment with Advanced Manufacturing and test digital
innovations is being set up in the Basque Country.
 This DIH will consist on a digitally linked network of Competence Centers with
R&D infrastructures, pilot lines and technical expertise specialized in different
areas of Advanced Manufacturing
 The network is co-owned by companies, R&D Centers, Professional Training
Centers and Universities and supported by regional public institutions.
 The aim of this initiative is to provide industrial companies, specially SMEs, with
the technological capabilities required to face the Industry 4.0 challenges.
 The network will be used for developing R&D projects, for scaling up industrial
projects, as a showroom of cutting edge technologies, and also as training
resource and start-up accelerator.

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The aim of the network is to provide easy and efficient cost access to the Basque
industrial fabric, especially to SMEs, to innovative and excellent scientific-technological
capabilities in the advanced manufacturing environment, enabling it to evolve and be
more competitive.
4.0 assets Catalogue in
Advanced Manufacturing
Innovative
Industrial Company
Connected network of
Advanced Manufacturing
assets
Need to
know/test/develop in
Industry 4.0
Visibility of the physical and
logical assets of the Basque
Science, Technology and
Innovation System
Access to managed services to
develop projects (R+D, scaling,
testing), training or
demonstrator (showroom)
Assets
Nodes of
assets
Connected network of AM assets

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BASQUE INDUSTRY 4.017
To date, an initial "Asset Catalogue" has been built with
Research Agents: Technology Centers, Advanced
Manufacturing Centres, Universities, Education Centres
Capitalization: taking advantage of investments already
made.
Excellence: provision of state-of-the-art technologies.
Connectivity: means to connect to a digital network platform.
Multisectoriality: ability to operate for several sectors.
Testing: possibility to test a process / service.
Integration: accessible to various types of agents (applicants,
manufacturers, R&D centers, universities, FP centers, etc.).
Internationalization: connectable with other European hubs
by reference.
Sustainable: with energy efficiency, less environmental
impact.
Comprehensive response to the foreseeable demands of
Basque companies, particularly SMEs through:
State-of-the-art physical assets spanning the value chain
from the raw material to the part.
Logical assets, based on software and ICT libraries,
supporting the design, process simulation and process
monitoring system, artificial vision; 3D scan...
65 assets
Basque Digital Innovation Hub
~ 300 relevant equipment
and facilities
6 competence
centers
10 research agent
Asset catalogue

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Additive
manufacturing
Flexible and
collaborative
robotics
Cybersecurity
Intelligent and
connected
machines
Digital
solutions
Big Data
Analytics

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