Regions and (E)DIHs alliance for AI-at-the-Edge adoption by European Industry 5.0 Manufacturing SMEs

2020年的I4MS项目对于欧洲制造业中小企业的数字化转型来说是一个巨大的成功。该计划的第四阶段侧重于人工智能和高度创新的技术，如数字双胞胎和人工智能。特别是，人工智能区域创新行动在地区、人工智能企业、人工智能解决方案提供商和制造业中小企业之间建立了一个良性联盟，这是由DIHs服务组合和客户旅程分析的新方法、面向AI4EU的数据和人工智能资源工具包、教学工厂网络及其技术和监管沙盒（TERESA）以及由中小企业驱动的实验及其数字化转型途径组成的生态系统实现的。现在是时候将这些重要成果与制造业向工业5.0的发展、云人工智能技术向边缘人工智能的发展、H2020到地平线和数字欧洲计划的发展（例如，EDIH、数据空间和制造业的人工智能tef（测试和实验设施））结合起来了。一些AI REGIO I4MS第四阶段的动机现在正在演变：现在是AI REDGIO 5.0的时候了，以保持制造业中小企业采用AI技术的势头。AI REDGIO 5.0旨在更新和扩展先锋欧盟地区和DIHs之间的H2020 I4MS AI REGIO联盟，以实现工业5.0制造业中小企业的竞争性AI边缘数字化转型。AI区域成果（dih治理和跨dih协作的方法和工具；数据空间和制造业人工智能工具包；教学工厂网络和TERESA设施；14个先锋地区的中小企业驱动实验）将i)扩展到I5.0原则；Ii)由边缘到云连续体的最新可信技术支持；iii)由欧洲开源硬件/软件参考实现支持，保留欧盟价值观和道德原则；iv)与DEP中的EDIH网络以及AI TEF节点和数据空间部署程序互连。

The I4MS program in H2020 has been and is a great success for the Digital Transformation of European Manufacturing SMEs. Phase IV of the program was focussing on DIHs and on highly innovative technologies like Digital Twins and AI. In particular, the AI REGIO Innovation Action developed a virtuous alliance between Regions, DIHs, AI solution providers and Manufacturing SMEs, which is materialised by a new methodology for DIHs service portfolio and customer journey analysis, an AI4EU -oriented toolkit of Data and AI resources, a network of Didactic Factories and their TEchnology and REgulatory SAndboxes (TERESA) and an ecosystem of SMEdriven experiments and their Digital Transformation pathways. It is time now to align such important outcomes to the evolution of Manufacturing towards Industry 5.0, the evolution of cloud AI Technologies to AI-at-the-Edge, the evolution of H2020 to Horizon and Digital Europe programmes e.g. to EDIH, Data Spaces and AI TEFs (Testing and Experimentation Facilities) for Manufacturing. Some of the AI REGIO I4MS Phase IV motivations are now evolved: it is time for AI REDGIO 5.0 for keeping momentum of AI technologies adoption in Manufacturing SMEs. AI REDGIO 5.0 aims at renovating and extending the H2020 I4MS AI REGIO alliance between Vanguard EU regions and DIHs for a competitive AI-at-the-Edge Digital Transformation of Industry 5.0 Manufacturing SMEs. AI REGIO outcomes (methods and tools for DIHs governance and cross-DIH collaboration; Data Space and AI for Manufacturing toolkit; Didactic Factories network and TERESA facilities; SME-driven experimentations in 14 Vanguard regions) will be i) extended to the I5.0 principles; ii) enabled by the newest trusted technologies along the edge-to-cloud continuum; iii) supported by European open source hw/sw reference implementations, preserving EU values and ethical principles; iv) interconnected with the EDIH network in DEP as well as with the AI TEF nodes and the Data Spaces deployment program.