TECNALIA inaugurates its new Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory to anticipate industry demands

This new laboratory, ‘Proactive Factory Lab’, allows TECNALIA to increase its capacity by 62% compared to the previous laboratory

With an investment of €5.5 million from its own funds and a new surface area of 476 m², this new space expands the current facilities and consolidates TECNALIA as a benchmark in advanced manufacturing

Its objective is to accelerate the transfer of knowledge to companies, allowing the technologies associated with this new advanced manufacturing to mature to a higher state of maturity and be integrated into industrial solutions

The TECNALIA research and technological development centre has inaugurated its new Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory. This is a new space created to respond to the growing demands for applied and scalable innovation currently facing the industry.

This expansion will enable TECNALIA to increase its capacity by 62% compared to the previous space, from 765 m² to the current 1,241 m², and respond to the growth in industrial demand for advanced manufacturing required by companies. This demand is estimated to increase by between 8% and 10% annually, driving the adoption of new smart technologies and strengthening TECNALIA’s position as a strategic partner for organisations in the development of key technologies that improve the productivity, sustainability and competitiveness of the industrial fabric. A 30% increase in the number of industrial tests that can be carried out annually is also estimated, significantly improving the maturity of technological developments for their transfer and scalability in the market.

With an investment of €5.5 million of its own funds and a new surface area of 476 m², the new laboratory, located in the TECNALIA building on the Donostia Campus of the Basque Country Technology Park, has been created with the aim of proactively anticipating the needs of companies, helping them to convert new smart manufacturing technologies into sustainable competitive advantages over time. Specifically, it is expected to reduce the development or validation time of new technologies and increase their maturity for industrialisation in key sectors such as machine tools, automotive, aeronautics, energy, etc.

This new space, called the ‘Proactive Factory Lab’, is characterised by testing and maturing pre-competitive technological solutions in fully functional and scalable environments. The aim is to carry out tests on our own machines and production resources and those of other organisations in the most realistic conditions possible, reproducing a factory in a real environment in order to validate the already competitive solution, ready for deployment, thus reducing the risk of its implementation and speeding it up. In fact, a 30% growth is expected in the companies served over 4 years in developments related to advanced manufacturing projects.