

INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO METALMECÁNICO, MUEBLE, MADERA, EMBALAJE Y AFINES
The Instituto Tecnológico Metalmecánico, Mueble, Madera, Embalaje y Afines, AIDIMME is a private association whose purpose is to contribute to the competitiveness of the aforementioned sectors, and other related sectors, through the design and development of innovative products and materials and advanced and sustainable processes. It also has lines of research focused on Industry 4.0 (connection, through ICT solutions, of machines, supply and distribution chains, in an efficient interoperability); as well as in circular economy (change of models for waste management and production and consumption that involve recycling and reuse, increasing the ecological use of resources, as well as their life cycle) and in the field of industrial safety, in addition to offering R&D&I services to companies, in coordination with the UCV it offers the Master's Degree in Occupational Risk Prevention and the Master's Degree in Integrated Management of Quality, Environment and Safety systems. In addition, it carries out research and development projects together with companies, or financed by public funds, disseminating this R&D&I through the Technological Institute itself.
Tailor-made advice of public (EU/national/regional) and private (such as banking products) funding opportunities, also considering mixed solutions for digital technology projects in industry.
Feasibility study for participation in collaborative R&D projects to support the transformation of innovative ideas into demonstrable concepts. Includes support for the creation of consortia and administrative and technical assistance for the preparation of funding proposals.
Assessment, advice, and organisational diagnosis of the company’s degrees of readiness for the adoption of digital technologies to face the challenges of the coming years. Creation of digital transformation plans to achieve the necessary maturity and assessments of the technological readiness of products or services.
Consultancy and access to portfolio of R&D projects and results, guides, application sectors, best practices and success stories. Assessment to companies looking for innovative digital technologies to incorporate into their portfolio, including ethical assessment to ensure safe and ethical use of digitalisation for SMEs when necessary.
Provision of digital technology infrastructures (access and support to HPC, technology platforms) and access to competence centres/labs/infrastructure for experimentation, development of digitalisation of products/services, and production of prototypes or first series for SMEs.
Access to competence centres for individual/collaborative R&D projects with the objective of applying digital technology innovation to develop new products/services or improve existing ones. Access to design, technologies and solutions for new digitalisation products/services, from TRL4 to TRL7-8. Validation in the lab and with real customers. Textile sensing technologies, AI for data analysis and image processing, digital twin, VR and hearing, to pre-clinical and clinical testing.
Workshops, showrooms, and use cases for potential customers.
Support for certification of performance testing and quality control.
Training in digital technologies is a key tool for keeping up-to-date in today’s world and being able to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the digital era. In the digital sphere, it is increasingly essential to have knowledge of different technological areas, such as Machine Learning, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, HPC…
Demonstrators
The Demonstrators are spaces provided by each center to show application examples and prototypes of the Technologies.
Infraestructures
Access the infrastructures that each member makes available to companies and other centers related to each technology.