PARIS, FRANCE: Total SA said that is launching its second Plant 4.0 start-up incubator, joined this year by Air Liquide, AREVA, Eiffage, Solvay and VINCI Energies. This is the very first multicorporate Plant 4.0 start-up incubator in the world. The partners’ common goal is to accelerate the deployment of digital technology in the industry.
Buoyed by the success of the Plant 4.0 start-up incubator launched by Total in 2016, the group decided to repeat the experience, this time opening up the project to include other industry partners, on the narrower theme of innovative solutions offered by the industrial Internet of Things (IoT).
This open innovation approach aims to identify the start-ups that offer practical, relatively mature industrial solutions to meet specialised operational requirements. Total and the other partners will also share their expertise with the successful candidates.
This international call for projects focuses on connected objects in industry in four areas:
- Acoustic detection of leaks or anomalies.
- Corrosion monitoring.
- Non-invasive flow measurement.
- Manual valve position displays.
“Total works in an open innovation process with start-ups and manufacturing partners because we all face the same challenges. Building digital solutions together speed up their deployment in our plants and industrial facilities, Digital tech improves safety and efficiency while reducing costs. It offers a world of opportunities and could increase competitiveness in industry and for start-ups,” said Gilles Cochevelou, chief digital officer, Total.
"Our involvement in the Plant 4.0 incubator reflects our Digital Transformation strategy, whose management of ecosystems is a major axis. It is a long-term, partnership-based approach aiming at accelerating innovation and our Digital Transformation, focused on usages and design, serving the customer experience,” said Olivier Delabroy, VP digital transformation, Air Liquide.
“Industry 4.0 concepts, including IoT, are the first pillar of our digital transformation program. We have over three years of experience with Open Innovation and are very pleased with the results. For New AREVA, joining the Plant 4.0 incubator is in line with this and reflects our willingness to enhance our involvement in industrial collaboration programs,” commented Jean-Luc Delcuvellerie, digital transformation program manager, New AREVA.
“The participation in Total's Plant 4.0 incubator with key industrial players is a way for Eiffage to work within a strong dynamic of open innovation, on the issues already identified. The pool of qualified start-ups and the identified uses will allow us to support the deployment of digital technologies in our industrial activities to improve our performance, also accompanying the Group itself in the digital transformation” stated Valerie David, sustainable development and transversal innovation director, Eiffage.
"The cutting-edge solutions these start-up companies can bring will accelerate the digital revolution that will transform our industrial sites," said Alain Faessler, Solvay Group general manager industrial.
"Partnering with startups and niche experts allows agility, creativity and a degree of solutions customization that accelerate our capacity to design innovative offers for the industry of the future. Our contribution to the Total incubator, one of our major industrial partners, will allow us to go even further in this operational approach of co-innovation, improving the industrial performance of our client,” concluded Olivier Albessard, Brand director of Actemium, the VINCI Energies.
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