LIT Factory =
- The Austrian Pilot Plant for Smart Process Engineering and Production (I4.0)
- Funded Austrian Major Project (Austrian State Ministry, Province of Upper Austria, City of Linz, Company Partners)
- Organizational Unit of Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) of Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU)
- Open Cluster for Research, Development, Education, Training, Demonstration and Innovation
LIT Factory = High-tech research platform and center of excellence in product and production research
To teach, explore and demonstrate potentials and technologies of digitization for smart cross-industry products and processes
To disseminate and diffuse technology
To reinforce existing strengths
To transfer research results into innovations
To shorten ‘time-to-market’
To cooperate with industry and SMEs
To create smart benefits for partners, human, environment and business
Smart processing technologies for the entire value network:
digitizing companies
raw material manufacturers
plastics machinery manufacturers
plastics processors and converters
OEMs and end customers
Smart cross-industry products, like:
Lightweight constructions for green-mobility
Circular and plastic recycling economy
Composite technologies for durable building constructions
Agile exoskeletons, eLegs and eArms for humanitarian aims