SMILE-DIH (Smart Manufacturing Innovation for Lean Excellence center - Digital Innovation Hub)

Smile-DIH (Smart Manufacturing Innovation for Lean Excellence Center) is a European-accredited and operational Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) founded in Parma in 2018, as a legally recognized non-profit partnership, by the Unione Parmense Degli Industriali and the Università di Parma. Smile-DIH is part of I4MS (European DiH Network) and the Italian confindustria DIH network and is able to support technology transfer between research centers (universities, centers of competence, institutes and private bodies) and manufacturing industries (in particular SMEs and Mid-Caps), as well as public administrations, in order to transform their business models through: the digitalization of operational processes to make them more efficient and functional; The implementation of innovative and Lean methodologies, supported by smart technologies such as cyber-physical systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT and IIoT), artificial intelligence (AI), robotics (autonomous and collaborative), cybersecurity, and high-performance computing (HPC).