UAE unveils second Industry 4.0 Enablement Center ‘District 4.0’

UAE unveils second Industry 4.0 Enablement Center ‘District 4.0’

It will include an area to demonstrate cutting-edge technologies, a space for collaboration, as well as a testing and innovation lab

By WAM Published: Wed 15 Feb 2023, 9:37 PM

The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UAE University (UAEU) to establish the country’s second Industry 4.0 Enablement Centre within UAEU’s District 4.0.

The new centre, as part of the UAE’s Technology Transformation Programme, will promote Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) applications, sustainability best practices, and stimulate technology adoption and development across the manufacturing value chain.

It will include an area to demonstrate cutting-edge technologies, a space for collaboration, as well as a testing and innovation lab to promote co-development and testing of technologies and processes, and to support the commercialisation and upscaling of new 4IR technologies.

Sarah Al Amiri, Minister of State for Public Education and Advanced Technology, and Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Cultural Advisor to the President of the UAE and Chancellor of UAEU, witnessed the signing of the MoU.

Omar Al Suwaidi, Under-Secretary of Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology, signed the MoU alongside Dr. Ghaleb Al Breiki, Acting Vice-Chancellor, UAEU, on the sidelines of the World Government Summit taking place in Dubai.

Al Amiri said, “This new