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26/08/2026

TechBBQ 2026

Tag: Greece

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AI for Process Reconfiguration in Directed Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing

Test
  1. End-User Benefits: Optimization of process parameters selection, rapid reconfiguration to dynamic market needs

  2. Technology Developer Benefits: opportunity to integrate and validate innovative add-on functions on DED AM processes, access to sensor infrastructure, AM equipment and combined AI and process expertise

Deliverables: Experimentation and validation reports, performance evaluation results

Target Audience

AI for Quality Assessment in Directed Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing

Test, Experiment
  1. End-User Benefits: Early detection of defects and anomalies, improved final part quality and reduced scrap rates

  2. Technology Developer Benefits: Opportunity to integrate and validate innovative add-on functions on DED AM processes, access to sensor infrastructure, AM equipment and combined AI and process expertise

Deliverables: Experimentation and validation reports on AI-based quality assessment solutions for DED AM, performance evaluation results

Target Audience

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AI-driven Palletization & Load Optimization

Test, Experiment

• Validated AI-based pallet loading optimization tool
• Improved loading efficiency and resource utilization
• Adaptation of the tool to product variability
• Benchmarking results demonstrating performance and scalability
• Readiness for deployment in industrial environments

Deliverables: Comprehensive technical report (specification analysis, algorithm adaptation, dataset preparation and training approach, implementation and benchmarking results), validated optimization tool (prototype level), performance evaluation results and recommendations for industrial deployment

Target Audience

AI-driven quality assessment in welding operations

Experiment, Test
  1. Tech provider benefit: Access to advanced RSW and monitoring testbed for assessing the feasibility of different sensing technologies, and the development/retraining of AI-based Quality Assurance solutions.

  2. End User (Product) benefit: AI-based system for Quality Assessment of RSW applications with low data requirements.

Deliverables: Consolidated results reports, Performance assessment reports

Target Audience

AR & VR for operator support & training

Study, Test, Experiment
  1. Tech Provider Benefit: Facilitates partnerships and sales in advanced operator training solutions, providing a variety of training set-ups.
  2. Product benefit: Integration in manufacturing processes, providing training and support, increasing operator efficiency and precision.

Deliverables: Consolidated data reports, AR/VR application demonstrations

Target Audience

Dynamic robot task planning & resources orchestration

Test, Experiment, Study
  1. Tech provider benefit: Cost savings, optimization of industrial processing, precision improvement, user-friendly adaptations.
  2. Product Benefit: Based on previous testing: a) 50% Reduction of assembly cycle time (initial:20min, achieved: 10 min) and b) 2,5x Productivity increase (initial: 16parts/shift, achieved: 40parts/shift)

Deliverables: Reports with consolidated results, physical demonstration in robotic cell, performance evaluation reports

Target Audience

Feasibility Assessment of Vision-Language-Action Models for Industrial Robotics Applications

Study

Tech provider benefit: Analysis on the appropriate AI approach and outlines its potential benefits to the process, enabling for assessment in the expected productivity and efficiency improvements from AI integration.

Deliverables: Report with consolidated results, performance assessment reports

Target Audience

Industrial Digital Twins

Study, Test, Experiment
  1. Tech provider benefit: Enables advanced digital twin demonstrations and customized simulation solutions.
  2. Product benefit: Provides tailored functionality for enhanced process simulation, leading to optimized robot cell operations, and data driven decisions on robot behavior.

Deliverables: report describing the benefits or disadvantages of implementing the investigated scenario or report discussing the performance of the tested AI solution or demonstration of tested solution and report describing the benefits of the solution

Target Audience

Industrial IoT platform, analytics & visualization

Test, Experiment, Study
  1. Tech Provider Benefit: Enhances offerings with a testbed for IoT sensor setup, data processing, and analytics.
  2. Product benefit:Accelerates data-driven decision making, efficiency and optimization in industrial systems.

Deliverables: Data analysis reports, reports with consoidated results, physical demonstrations

Target Audience

Intuitive robot programming

Study, Test, Experiment
  1. Tech provider benefit: Access to AR equipment, Robotic cells, robot programming tool, support by LMS experts.
  2. Product benefit: Familiarization with robots, reduction of training time, reduction of manufacturing process cycles. (based on previous testing: up to 28% less assembly time, 40% production rate improvement, up to 75% reduction of assembly errors by operators)

Deliverables: Report with consolidated results, performance assessment reports, physical demonstrations in robotic cell

Target Audience

Layout planning optimization

Study, Test, Experiment
  1. Tech Provider Benefit: Provides efficient design and layout planning solutions, using AI-driven data collection.
  2. Product benefit: VR-based optimization and AI analytics for spatial layout effectiveness, simplifaction sof processes, productivity increase and safety.

Deliverables: Consolidated data reports, performance assessment reports, simulation models and visualization (2D/ 3D/ VR).

Target Audience

Monitoring & control of milling processes

Test, Experiment
  1. Tech provider benefit: Access to state-of-the-art integrated milling monitored infrastructure for the development of such systems and targeted testing of chatter monitoring and control solutions leading to custom tech offerings.
  2. End User benefit: Product integrity is ensured with effective process stability control, potentially reducing waste and downtime.

Deliverables: Consolidated results reports, Performance analysis reports

Target Audience

Synthetic data for training machine learning models

Study, Test, Experiment
  1. Tech provider benefit:Access to quality data, reduction of testing time, cost reduction in equipment and tech team.
  2. Product Benefit: Increased accuracy, faster integration in the production.

Deliverables: feasibility report, recommendations for improvement

Target Audience

Testing and Experimentation of Vision-Based Perception for Industrial Robotics Applications

Experiment, Test
  1. Benefits for Technology Providers: Access to a state-of-the-art, integrated testbed combining robotic manipulation and advanced vision sensing, accelerated development, testing, and validation of object detection and pose estimation algorithms

  2. Benefits for End Users: Deployment of intelligent perception capabilities for reliable product identification and precise pose estimation, improved flexibility and efficiency in handling diverse products within reconfigurable production lines

Deliverables: Consolidated experimental results and validation reports, detailed performance analysis, including accuracy, robustness, and system efficiency metrics

Target Audience