Offer

The Center Smart Industrial Agriculture offers companies a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exchange that enables joint research and development in bilateral and consortial projects. They have the opportunity to actively contribute their company products to real laboratories. This allows them to integrate their own solutions and approaches into demonstrators to illustrate the functionality of their products.

Potential partners of the Center Smart Industrial Agriculture

Membership

Companies can enroll as members in the Center Smart Industrial Agriculture and thus gain access to the scientific expertise of the involved research institutes of RWTH Aachen University, best practice solutions within the community and results from consortial studies from a unique network of stakeholders and scientists.

Membership

• Access to RWTH Aachen Campus Community
• Temporary use of shared desks
• The right to lease conference rooms
• Use of the RWTH Aachen Campus membership logo

Community

• Annual congress on the topic of Smart Industrial Agriculture
• Various topic-specific workshops

Research & Development

• Consortial R&D projects
• Bilateral R&D projects
• Involvement in consortial research studies and benchmarking
• Involvement in the development of project topics
• Participation in strategic planning
• Consortial establishment of living labs

Further education

• Company-specific in-house courses
• Open seminar offering on the topic area of Smart Industrial Agriculture

Services

• Consulting services in the field of Smart Industrial Agriculture
• Strategy meetings on the orientation of the center and the alignment of member companies
• Use of living labs to test innovative solutions

Depending on the type of membership (Premium, Business or Basic), members will be assigned different rights within the five benefit categories:

We are happy to provide you with an individual offer in a non-binding conversation.

Areas of expertise

In the context of soil-based production, CSIA is working together with research institutes of RWTH Aachen University on approaches to significantly increase productivity.

Through interdisciplinary research in the fields of production engineering and biotechnology, the potential for off-ground-based food production is being investigated.

Research topics of CSIA

The Center Smart Industrial Agriculture (CSIA) addresses the following research topics to promote visionary solutions in modern agriculture:

• Communication technology
• Value chains and business models
• Resource efficiency in agricultural management
• Routing of autonomous vehicles
• Situational awareness (AI, Big Data, sensor fusion)
• Trailer machinery electrification
• Cultivation process automation
• Control technology (control system technology)
• Interlinking of processes and intralogistics
• Disruptive industrial production
• Crop science
• Vertical farming

Are you interested? We would be happy to explain the advantages of the Center Smart Industrial Agriculture for your specific application and look forward to hearing from you without obligation.