{"id":563,"date":"2024-04-01T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.profactor.at\/?post_type=project&#038;p=563"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:46:04","slug":"zero%c2%b3","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.profactor.at\/en\/project\/zero%c2%b3\/","title":{"rendered":"ZERO\u00b3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ZERO\u00b3 tackles a core challenge of Austrian manufacturing: how to increase sustainability in production while maintaining and even improving competitiveness. Many companies are under pressure to enhance environmental, economic and social performance, but often lack a reliable, up-to-date data basis across their value streams and a clear understanding of individual bottlenecks and potentials. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is where ZERO\u00b3 comes in. For the first time, the objective of establishing a comprehensive, value-stream-oriented data foundation is explicitly anchored in a Zero Defect Manufacturing approach. By combining AI algorithms, robotic system solutions and a dedicated \u201cSustainability Monitoring Platform\u201d, production processes can be analysed, assessed and optimised holistically. Companies gain an objective view of their ZERO\u00b3 status \u2013 from quality losses and resource and energy consumption to selected social aspects.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In several industrial use cases, concrete implementation solutions for identified ZERO\u00b3 bottlenecks are developed and tested in real production environments. The impact of these measures on productivity, quality and sustainability is systematically evaluated. ZERO\u00b3 thus delivers actionable answers to key questions: Which investments generate the highest added value? Which KPIs are suitable to measure and improve sustainability? And how can know-how on feasibility and implementation be transferred across the Austrian manufacturing landscape?    <\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project objectives and technical innovation<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The overarching objective of ZERO\u00b3 is to establish a new generation of sustainable production in Austria \u2013 ZERO\u00b3 production: resource-efficient, economically viable and socially responsible. Central to this is a reliable, up-to-date data basis across all value streams and its translation into concrete action fields.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The key innovations are:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Value-stream-based Sustainability Monitoring Platform that integrates production data from multiple sources, reveals ZERO\u00b3 bottlenecks and highlights optimisation potentials.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI algorithms for Zero Defect Manufacturing that detect quality deviations, resource losses and process inefficiencies and generate targeted recommendations for action.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robotic system solutions as enabling technologies to automate inspection, monitoring and optimisation tasks directly within the production process in a repeatable way.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assessment models and KPIs that make environmental, economic and social sustainability in manufacturing measurable and comparable \u2013 as a basis for investment decisions and strategic roadmaps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits for the market, research, and end users<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ZERO\u00b3 delivers tangible benefits for industry, technology partners and the Austrian manufacturing ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For manufacturing companies: Transparent insight into value-stream-related bottlenecks, solid decision support for investments, reduced scrap and downtime costs, improved energy and resource efficiency, and increased productivity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For technology and research partners: Real-world use cases for zero-defect manufacturing, AI in production and sustainability assessment, plus new methods for data-driven decision support.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For Austria as a production location: Enhanced competitiveness and sustainability of domestic manufacturing in line with the FFG and FTI \u201cProduction of the Future\u201d initiative \u2013 and a scalable model for ZERO\u00b3 production across industries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2162,"template":"","categories":[70,51,49],"class_list":["post-563","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automation-for-flexible-manufacturing","category-industry-5-0","category-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profactor.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profactor.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profactor.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profactor.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profactor.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profactor.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}