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HEIs have multiple roles, one of them identifying as shaping the future of labor force, but an outstanding issue is how to assure constantly the readiness of the graduate students to enter the labor market with up-to-date knowledge.Therfore information regarding the actual industrial trends are necessary to be provided for the students because they will work with and within advanced technologies. The Industry 4.0 and 5.0 paradigms have significant impacts on competitiveness and sustainability of the SMEs around the world. The methodologies and technologies that are associated with these must be applied in our region too. There are many key concepts that have contributed to form a critical line in this development, among which, intelligent manufacturing, digital twin, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoTs), Cyber-physical systems (CPS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Metal Additive Manufacturing (MAM), cloud technologies. Our university, through the Faculty of Technical and Human Sciences, wants to be not only a key role player for labor force supply, but also a solid partner in innovative thinking. Therefore, for our MSc students it is mandatory to understand the development of Industrial revolution from a technological perspective with all technologies developed in Industry 4.0 are elaborated as well as a clear understanding of triple-helix concepts in Industry 5.0. Through this mobility project, our Department of Mechanical Engineering, will acquire from UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) - a know-how, with which it will assure a short-term, as well a long-term development to fulfil the stated mission. The short-term benefits will be through the student mobility, so students will obtain a guided practical experience in the labs of the DS Partner. Parallel to this action, the mobility of the teaching and administrative staff to and from DS will assure the know-how transfer for the long-term development needed for sustainability of the post project period.
Summary of project results
The Industry 4.0 and 5.0 paradigms have significant impacts on competitiveness and sustainability of the SMEs around the world. The methodologies and technologies that are associated with these must be applied in our region too. There are many key concepts that have contributed to form a critical line in this development, among which, intelligent manufacturing, digital twin, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoTs), Cyber-physical systems (CPS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Metal Additive Manufacturing (MAM) and cloud technologies.
The project was awarded for funding, but with lower budget as requested. After restructuring the mobilities there was possible a 3-month period mobility for 1 outgoing student, 4 STA outgoing mobilities (2 mobility x [4 days + 2 days travel] and 2 mobilities x [3 days + 2 days travel]) and 1 STA incoming mobilities (1 mobilities x [4 days + 2 days travel]). The above mobilities assure the role of our educational institutes: shaping the future of labor force, and to assure constantly the readiness of the graduate students to enter the labor market with up-to-date knowledge. T
hrough the mobilities, the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the applicant HEI, had acquired from his donor state Partner - UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) - a know-how, with which it will assure a short-term, as well a long-term development to fulfil the above stated mission. The short-term benefits are through the student mobility, so the student obtained a guided practical experience in the lab of the DS Partner in the form of traineeships. Parallel to this action, the mobility of the teaching staff to and from DS assures the know-how transfer for the long-term development needed for sustainability of the post project period. The cooperation results of the done mobilities are visible through a paper of the student grantee on the XXV. Scientific Student Conference on Technical Science(MTDK) held at Timisoara on 10th-12th May 2024 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/11c-Mzhdw0QEkBpK5kygEJTdAJQwY_SXz/edit, page.3), as well a common paper was sent to the 2024 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10417242).
Summary of bilateral results
Belonging to the Norwegian academic partner, from the DS side there were directly involved 3 (three) persons in the project: prof. Bjorn Solvang, prof. Hao Yu and PhD student Beibei Shu. The Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology from the UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Campus Narvik, possesses the knowledge in order deliver a comprehensive topic needed to understand the concept of Industry X.0. The mobility project was the perfect opportunity to share the theoretical and practical knowledge using presentations, hand-on experiences to fulfil the project objectives.In each phase of the mobility project, the role of the partner HEI was considerably. The theoretical presentation of the Industry X.0 during the lectures was conducted based on the experience accumulated during many years of educational and research activities in this field. These also stem from both theoretical work and industrial cooperation project. This justification entitled the Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology to host the outgoing student. The available workforce, equipment in the Campus laboratories and competed projects – as already seen by the previous visits – makes the UiT the perfect partner for teaching us about the topic of relevance. The report and presentation (at the mobility ending) of the student mobility grantee underlines this fact: he was able to learn new technologies and he was able to implement, to develop new robotic system using IoT technologies.