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  • 30 June 2021

    OWI-Lab celebrates 10th anniversary

    Belgian companies operating in the wind energy sector are among the world leaders today. Partly because our country was already a pioneer in this type of renewable energy in the 1990s, but also thanks to OWI-lab, a platform for innovation and knowledge bringing together about 40 researchers and engineers from Sirris, VUB and UGent. They help the industry with research and development of new technologies and innovation projects for onshore and offshore wind farms.

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  • 22 June 2021

    Innovation as the perfect response to the challenges of 2020

    2020 was a year full of huge, unseen challenges. The Sirris annual report - unveiled today, 22 June 2021 - shows that many Belgian companies view the crisis as a good opportunity to innovate. This could well be an essential survival reflex.

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  • 17 June 2021

    Belgian tech companies divided: barely half commit to extra quality tests

    Sirris, the collective centre for the technological industry in Belgium, investigated the quality habits of Belgian tech companies at the end of 2020. The survey shows that quality control is highly valued by many, but also that some others can still make great strides. For example, almost half of the companies surveyed do not make use of the potential of additional quality tests.
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  • 9 September 2020

    Deep customer understanding, backed by data

    Software providers increasingly need to focus on the optimisation of their services, including the ability to react to customer preferences. Through its flexible framework and algorithms, the ITEA project Flex4Apps, led by NXP, creates a full loop that allows companies to offer more complex services while advancing the digital transition. For this unique result, the project partners have received the ITEA Award of Excellence during the Online ITEA PO Days 2020, from Vice-chairman Philippe Letellier.
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  • 7 November 2019

    Sirris makes 4.0 Industry real to support digitisation of Belgian manufacturing companies

    New pilot factory with 40 experts in Hasselt and Liège available to manufacturing companies
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  • 6 February 2019

    Flanders has ten new Factories of the Future

    One of the key objectives of Agoria and Sirris is to encourage the technological industry to contribute to a prosperous and sustainable society. Together with other partners, Agoria and Sirris support manufacturing companies to achieve this goal, for example by means of the ‘Factory of the Future’ project.
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  • 10 December 2018

    Lacquering before polishing

    Technical Coatings for Additive Manufacturing

    Additive Manufacturing (AM) has many advantages: custom manufacturing, flexible production and easy customization, for example. Yet many products have a high surface roughness and porosity.

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  • 21 June 2017

    Companies are transforming, Sirris evolves with them

    Results of recent survey as a clear sign of the course we are taking.
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  • 2 February 2017

    Belgium has five new factories of the future

    Agoria, Sirris, Fedustria and Flanders Food crown Daikin, Nuscience, Rousselot, Valeo and Veranneman.
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  • 21 October 2014

    Long-term cooperation between Sirris and the brand new Flanders Make

    The time has finally come: Flanders Make officially got going yesterday. Which is very good news for the manufacturing industry in our country. Companies in the manufacturing industry now have their own strategic research centre that combines and expands the resources and knowledge of FMTC, Flanders' DRIVE and the laboratories of the five Flemish universities. This initiative can support these companies by way of supporting pre-market surveys in order to reinforce their international competitive position. This is being done at the initiative of Agoria with the support from Sirris.
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