20 different success stories from more than 10 EU-supported projects exhibited this year at Hannover Messe, the world's leading trade fair for industrial technology. They showed how companies have digitised their businesses with the help of Digital Innovation Hubs and through the use of High Performance Computing (HPC), Internet of Things (IoT), photonics, robotics and other cutting-edge technologies.
The stand attracted a lot of attention, both at the fait and in the digital sphere. With the hashtag #HannoverMesseWow, participants were invited to take pictures of the projects at the European Commission stand and to promote them through their twitter accounts. More than 170 users took part in the contest, publishing more than 500 posts. You can check here the projects and users that triggered the highest engagement online.
Projects that triggered the most tweets
- Fortissimo: The Lamborghini sports car was one of the highlights at the stand for many participants. The car is part of the experiment conducted in the Fortissimo project, where they combined High-Performance Computing (HPC) and could-based software to optimise automatically the shape of a particular mechanical system, such as that of the Lamborghini car.
Huge thank you from @FortissimoPro to @Lamborghini for loaning the Aventador S for the Hannover Fair. Beautiful car - beautiful technology. pic.twitter.com/WlffZlwmLT
— Mark Parsons (@mark_epcc) April 23, 2018
- BEinCPPPs: This project aims to integrate cyber-physical systems in a cloud service platform for machine factories. At Hannover Messe, they showed the successful cases of two companies that have implemented these solutions: Pernoud in France and Kyaia in Portugal.
Cyber-physical systems are kicking off, what a bright future ahead ! #H2020 #HannoverMesseWow #HM18 #cloud #EuropeanCommission #SME @BEinCPPS pic.twitter.com/dt86fNO0gW
— Cassandra Holden (@cecholden) April 24, 2018
- CPSE Labs: With the goal of integrating cyber-physical systems in the production systems, this project has developed a prototype in the IPP4CPPS experiment, where real-time information about machines, production process, product and perturbations is collected into a platform that allows coping with uncertainties for the automatic scheduling and control.
Come and meet our @CPSE_Labs team at the @hannover_messe #HM18 presenting their #IPP4CPPS experiment on #cyberphysical #modelling in #automation & participate in the #HannoverMesseWow contest! Find us at booth of the @EU_Commission@4diac @IntoCps @SAE_EU @DigIndEU @ULBSibiu pic.twitter.com/db3kAo5KRf
— fortiss (@fortiss) April 25, 2018
Users that had the most retweets
- Thilo Zimmermann: he works at Fraunhofer IPA, where he is involved in European robotics projects such as SMErobot, euRobotics, SMErobotics or ROBOTT-NET (which was one of the exhibitors at the European Commission stand this year).
This @ROBOTT_NET exhibit @EU_Commission stand @hannover_messe is the best! We have a fantastic team @TeknologiskInst, @the_MTC_org, @tecnalia & @Fraunhofer_IPA working day & night making it a yuuge success! You will love it! #MakingEUgreatAgain@RoboticsEU#HannoverMesseWow #hm18 pic.twitter.com/PHUEvMaoK0
— Thilo Zimmermann (@ThiloZimmermann) April 23, 2018
- Mark Lange: Director of EU Institutional Relations at Microsoft Europe since 1998, his highlights were the mixed reality smartglasses and the Lamborghini at the European Commission stand.
Fun surprises at the European Commission's Digital Innovations Hub stand @hannover_messe : a Microsoft #Hololens, and a Lamborghini. #hm18 #HannoverMesseWow pic.twitter.com/who68TUeXk
— Mark Lange (@T_Mark_Lange) April 25, 2018
- Liza Ocklenburg: Student Associate in the field of Marketing at CloudSME UG, a spin-off company from the EU project with the same name, where they developed a cloud-based HPC platform where SMEs can run simulations in an affordable pay-per-use basis.
The #cloudSMEteam @hannover_messe on the Booth of the @EU_Commission supporting the #InnovationActions of #H2020 @ProjectCOLA & @CloudiFacturing - my personal #HannoverMesseWow moment.#bestteam @cloudSMEproject #HPConDemand #madeinEurope #clusterondemand #softwaresolutions pic.twitter.com/RgGqEy84g5
— Liza Ocklenburg (@liz_ock) April 26, 2018
A special mention goes as well to the EU initiatives SAE and I4MS, Clesgo, Régis Hamelin and Pierre-Damien Berger, who were among the most active users in the twitter contest.