The Swedish government focuses on Testbed Sweden, a national initiative to strengthen Swedish industry's competitiveness, as well as to distribute knowledge and development resources across the country.
Produktion2030 strengthens Testbed Sweden by announcing SEK 50 million for test bed projects. The expected effect goals are to:
- increase the competitiveness of Swedish industry;
- increase the Swedish manufacturing industry’s use of test beds for testing new production methods, production systems and production technologies;
- utilize already existing test bed environments, laboratories or advanced test equipment at Swedish industry, academy and institute;
- establish a network of openly available test beds in Sweden; and
- increase the digitalisation of Swedish manufacturing industry.
Project proposals for this Testbed Project Call should (all criteria must be met):
- clearly describe what to test, i.e. which functionality, production methods, production systems, production techniques etc.;
- clearly describe why this test(s) is important for Swedish industry;
- clearly describe where and how the tests are to be carried out.