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In Italy, and across much of Europe, we keep saying that manufacturing is strategic for competitiveness, resilience, sovereignty and growth. Yet, the way Europe approaches innovation for manufacturing SMEs still feels strangely unserious. We fund pilots and we hold panels on AI readiness, but when it comes to the companies that actually make up the industrial backbone of our economies, the support model is still often disconnected from how these businesses operate in the real

We’re excited to share that smartFAB has won 1st place in the Innovation Teams category at the 2025 EIT Awards  with our project AI Automated Industrial Analytics ! While we are proud of the achievement, the significance of this award goes beyond our company.For years, industrial innovation often lived in the shadow of consumer tech and generic “AI hype”. But this year’s awards made something very clear, that  manufacturing is reclaiming its place at the center of technologic

The buzz around “AI” in manufacturing is giving way to a more grounded, high-value reality: digital twins (virtual replicas of factories, production lines or critical assets) are increasingly recognized as the next frontier for industrial performance and resilience.