On January 16, a delegation from the Basque Government participated in a trade and institutional mission to China, where members met with Basque companies operating in the Asian company, among them, Fagor Automation.
During the five-day visit, the delegation held meetings with the local government in the region of Jiangsu, as well as the chamber of commerce in this area, the largest in China, with more than 170,000 member companies.
On November 2-6, Science, Technology and Innovation Week was held, organized by the University of the Basque Country (UPV) in all three Basque capital cities (Bilbao, Vitoria and San Sebastián). Workshops, scientific stands, educational itineraries, exhibitions, contests, samples, excursions, guided tours and much more were all part of the 16th edition of Science Week.
Fagor Automation has collaborated in two open houses organized by the Intaima Group (Taiwan) in Mexico City and Stuttgart.
The Intaima Group is currently made up by three Taiwanese companies: L&L, Jainnher and Millstart. This alliance of companies has been created to promote the development of the companies in the areas of R&D, production and sales and marketing.
Following the retirement of Pedro Ruíz de Aguirre after 8 years in the position, Jóse Pérez Berdud has been chosen to fill the position of Chief Executive Officer of Fagor Automation, as of July 1, 2016.
After four years of research, the Power-OM project, led by the IK4-Tekniker center, is complete, having featured the participation of Fagor Automation and others. The companies that make up this consortium are Goratu (Basque Country), Artis (Germany), Predict (France), Monition Limited (United Kingdom), and the Luleå University of Technology (Sweden).
Last June, a presentation was held on the new features of Fagor Automation’s CNC 8065M and Industry 4.0 of was held in the CDRSP Marinha Grande Development Center, in Portugal.
Fagor Automation has developed a mobile app for instant access to all the information on its products and services.
The company tasked with designing the interface was Irontec, one of the Basque Country’s free software and open source pioneers. Simple browsing was the priority on designing the app interface, which was developed using the Ionic framework, ideal for HTML5 developments in record time.
The Basque Government has approved the FATIMA Project, which, within the ELKARTEK call, leads AOTEK, the corporate R&D unit of Fagor Automation, in cooperation with the IDEKO and ETIC technology centers and the MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY.
The first Valencia Autonomous Vocational Training CNC Championship was held last February at the IES Molí del Sol, in Mislata (Valencia) and Fagor Automation was one of the partner companies at the event.
Fagor Automation is involved in the ReBorn European project, as end user to demonstrate the project developments. This consortium consists of 17 partners from around Europe and is working to demonstrate strategies and technologies that support a new paradigm for the re-use of production equipment in factories.
