DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WITH PROJECT RIDE

As an innovative company in the retail sector, Pan Oston is constantly looking for improvements that will benefit our customers. Therefore, it is essential to take a critical look at our processes. By doing this we ensure that our products increase functionality and quality, but we also create an attractive working environment for our entrepreneurs. Within this framework, we cooperate with various schools and universities, but we also participate in regional and international initiatives that stimulate the industry as a whole.

Within Project Ride, Pan Oston in cooperation with several project partners wants to

the introduction, (further) development, implementation and integration of (extensive) automation, robotisation and digitisation within factories/companies in the East Netherlands metal industry, from joint knowledge development and investments in the field of new manufacturing technologies, connected systems and digitisation. The sub-objectives of the project are:

1. The stimulation and realisation of digitisation steps so that (SME) companies in the metal industry can make use of the possibilities and opportunities offered by digitisation;
2. Knowledge assurance and further development of shared facilities;
3.  Increasing the (long-term) sustainability of the above steps and realising a more flexible, robust and smarter value chain by connecting external SMEs from the region.

Besides Pan Oston, the other participants in this project are: Stichting Laser Applicatie Centrum (LAC), Aebi Schmidt Nederland BV, Gunnebo Doetinchem BV, Contour Covering Technology BV, Stichting Regionaal Opleidingencentrum van Twente, Breman machinery BV, Almi Machinefabriek Vriezenveen BV, Broshuis BV, Evers Agro BV, Dulasta Metaalbewerking BV, Hoopman Machines BV and Schouten en Visschers' Metaalwarenfabriek BV.

Ride is co-funded as part of the Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.