DFactory, the factory of the present prepared for the challenges of the 21st century

What better welcome to enter a 21st-century industrial building, the DFactory Barcelona center, than to finde-Miles, a prototype of an electric quadricycle manufactured with 3D printers. A new concept of urban mobility designed and manufactured by Malena Engineering, an Abrera-based consultancy specializing in engineering services, management, and software development. Malena Engineering's project is disruptive. The car measures 2.5 meters in length, although it can be extended from two to four seats, and has no steering wheel or pedals: it is driven with ajoystick airplane type. To develop it, engineering has collaborated with Leitat and will count on Windforce, a distributor of industrial 3D printers also based in DFactory Barcelona. Collaboration and synergies to evolve towards the new economy and industry 4.0 through digitalization. This is thealma máterfrom the center of the new economy promoted and managed by the Barcelona Free Zone Consortium (CZFB) and where state-of-the-art technology can be felt in every corner.An innovation attraction hub ---disruptive in most cases-- that attracts and creates talent in the territory.DFactory Barcelona is a 4.0 industry hub in Southern Europe that contributes to transforming the productive framework of the local, national, and international fabric through its digital transformation. This generatesan ecosystem based on talent, innovation, and investment in cutting-edge technologythat lead large business corporations,startups, research and innovation centers, and laboratories of different entities and companies. It has not yet completed its first year in operation and already has an occupancy of 40%. 30 companies have been installed with about 150 people who enjoy an open workspace, in a 17,000 square meter building spread over four floors, where theConsorcio de la Zona Franca de Barcelona has invested 30 million euros. When only 10% of its surface remains free, the Consortium will expand the project to the adjoining land in the same industrial estate, which corresponds to the old industrial area that Seat had in the Zona Franca.This second phase is even more ambitious. It involves 72,500 meters, where several buildings will be constructed for different technologies, with a planned investment of 70 million euros.The expansion has no execution date because the objective and its financing must be defined, once the current project has become profitable. DFactory Barcelona with all its planning executed will be ahubof innovation with more than a hundred companies and 1,500 employees and will have generated 5,000 indirect jobs.

The CZFB plans to invest 70 million euros in the second phase of the project, which will add 72,500 square meters.

Companies such as Malena Engineering, through The e-Miles Company, and Windforce are examples of the innovation, research, and talent contained within the glass and steel walls ---2,000 tons of this material--- of DFactory, located two minutes from the Port comercial-La Factoria stop on metro line 10. The building has been designed by Turull & Sørensen Arquitectos, in collaboration with Torrella Engineering, PGI Engineering, and Ágora Project Management - Tüv Sud. It also responds to an architecturally innovative model that combines the industrial style of old factories with glass finishes, open-plan interiors, and the latest technology in sustainable construction systems. These characteristics and the nature of its tenants have made the facility aa living space, where the people who work in it move 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The professionals who now enjoy this work environment belong to entities or companies such as:

Leitat Technology Center, the main tenant of DFactory. The center has installed Leitat-IAM 3D HUB, a 3D manufacturing laboratory, which works for all areas of development of 4.0 technologies. It also operates a robotics laboratory, the HERMES AI Excellence Center project, and is developing a photonics and vision laboratory.HP,digital 3D printing factory, with an applications laboratory dedicated to the capabilities of this technology and additive manufacturing to help companies grow.Oryon Universal, a company that invests instartupsand talent to develop innovative projects and accompany them until their market launch. In DFactory, it acts aspartner of thestartupsof the complex and dynamizer of innovative entrepreneurial projects. It works with a hybrid model that combines investment with accompaniment to design and grow businesses.Robotnik, a mobile robotics company, which will launch its most avant-garde projects with the robotics laboratory, and will work alongside other companies expert in this technology already installed in the DFactory Barcelona ecosystem.AsorCAD, from the 3D technology area of the Mastertec Group, specialized in advanced engineering services such as 3D scanning, reverse engineering, metrology, and 3D printing, contributing theirKnow Howand its optical measurement technologies.Mastertec 3D, also belonging to Grupo Mastertec's 3D area, along with AsorCAD. It offers companies from a wide variety of sectors an improvement, streamlining, and optimization of their production systems, providing customized 3D technology solutions that are easy for their human team to use.Alisys, the first dynamic robotics team that offers companies exclusive access to Boston Dynamics' Spot Enterprise robot, and develops solutionscloud, artificial intelligence,blockchainand robotics. PICVISA, a company dedicated to the design and manufacture of automated material selection and separation equipment managed by artificial intelligence systems.Nexiona, a Spanish software company that develops solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT).Innovae, a company specializing in augmented and virtual reality, will offer exclusive access to its technology demonstrators to the rest of the companies installed in the ecosystem through shared access laboratories.Ferrovial Services Environment (Cespa),that innovates in the development of solutions and processes for its clients.OnRobot, a company specializing in the development of robotic arms (grippers

El presidente de la República, Gabriel Boric, se refirió este lunes a la conmemoración de los 50 años del golpe de Estado, que se cumple el próximo 11 de septiembre, y aseguró que “no hay ninguna justificación para una violación a los derechos humanos”.

En un punto de prensa desde el Palacio de La Moneda, el Mandatario fue consultado sobre las declaraciones del exsenador Eugenio Tuma (PPD), quien sostuvo que “no hay que tenerle miedo a la palabra ‘cómplices’”, en referencia a quienes apoyaron el golpe de Estado de 1973.

Al respecto, Boric señaló que “lo que yo he sostenido, y lo que sostengo, es que en un golpe de Estado como el que vivimos en Chile, que terminó con 17 años de dictadura, con violaciones a los derechos humanos, con un quiebre de la democracia, no hay ninguna justificación para una violación a los derechos humanos”.

“Y en eso, creo que tenemos que ser muy claros, muy categóricos, y no relativizar en ningún caso lo que significó la dictadura cívico-militar en Chile”, añadió.

El jefe de Estado también se refirió a la importancia de la memoria y la verdad, y afirmó que “es fundamental que las nuevas generaciones conozcan lo que pasó en Chile, para que nunca más se repita”.

“La memoria es un ejercicio de futuro, no de pasado. Y la verdad es un derecho de las víctimas y de la sociedad en su conjunto”, concluyó.

IMHOIT, of the Cloud Space group, with a focus on the development of IoT projects with triple impact: social, environmental, and economic. NTT Data, global IT services company for businesses.Dow Chemical Ibérica, is at the center for 3D and sensor developments.Girbauit has a collaborative innovation platform to boost the laundry industry and generate added value in terms of sustainability and digital transformation, with solutions such asMobile LaundryorGirbau Sapphire.Simon, manufacturer of electrical material that is developing automation systems for its manufacturing lines from the robotics laboratory.Amphos21, specialized in new energy sources, such as the green hydrogen storage project in aquifers.Siocast, through 3D printing, has developed a revolutionary new injection molding technology in silicone rubber molds. The company is aspin-offof the CONIEX group, specialized in the manufacturing of silicone rubber, and proposes a solution that can fill the gap between 3D printing and industrial injection in steel tools.KUKA Robots Ibérica, provider of intelligent automation solutions.