Ucimu joins the ForgIA hi-tech platform

'Those who do not integrate artificial intelligence into their machines,' explains Ucimu general director Davide Della Bella, 'will inevitably be expelled from the market. "This is by no means a technical argument," adds Assolombarda president Alvise Biffi, "but rather a strategic issue, a necessity in order to govern and not undergo this radical transformation.

Aligned thoughts, which in fact lead the machine tool manufacturers' trade association to join Assolombarda's ForgIA project, the data sharing platform that aims to create homogeneous standards across supply chains, thus making information interoperable and useful for competitive purposes.

Ucimu is the first trade association to join Confindustria's largest territorial association, a logical and natural choice considering its sector of activity, which includes precisely those machines that represent the basic building blocks for the functioning of production processes.

Lathes and machining centres, presses and laser systems producing myriads of data, now more valuable than ever with the arrival of new artificial intelligence algorithms.

ForgIA (For Generative IA), which recalls 'traditional' manufacturing in its name, aims to provide the manufacturing system with a shared platform, where through the pooling of data (which remain protected) it is possible to create homogeneous standards and mechanisms. 'Minimum common denominator,' Biffi explains, 'which looks at use cases, so as to address and solve concrete problems. I am thinking of healthcare, where data sharing can serve to improve service. Or the warehouses of the same supply chain, where reasoning on upstream and downstream stocks can improve supply efficiency. Or again to sustainability issues, finding shared and unambiguous ways to establish the total environmental impact of a product along an entire supply chain'.