The Italian Ministry of Economic Development includes all our FabLabs in the Atlante i4.0

On 8 July, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) published the Atlante i4.0, a website mapping the 600 structures present on Italian territory qualified to offer services to businesses for the transition to the Industry 4.0 model.

All our research centres and FabLabs are listed among the structures identified by MISE and Unioncamere through the Atlante i4.0.

In particular, our two main Roman FabLabs, located at Garbatella in via Ignazio Persico 32 and inside the Talent Garden Ostiense Campus in via Ostiense 92, are also listed on the global map fablabs.io, as they comply with the international requirements established by the Fab Foundation of M.I.T. Boston for digital fabrication laboratories.

We consider the MISE initiative particularly important, especially because it appears to be framed within a broader programme of stimulus and support for the innovation and digital transformation processes of Italian businesses, essential factors for the recovery of the economy and the increase of competitiveness of our industrial system.

Within these processes it is fundamental that companies, especially small- and medium-sized ones, are supported by qualified partners able to assist them both in the planning phase and during the actual transition towards the models now fashionably identified with the 4.0 suffix.

The Atlante i4.0 responds to this need by providing a search engine to find, on national territory, the subjects able to offer this type of support and who possess adequate competences and capabilities to effectively deliver technology-transfer services.

The Industry 4.0 framework is a complex and articulated set that includes both the enabling technologies and their related application domains.

Chirale is among the Italian structures that can offer consultancy, training and assistance services in this field, strong from its pioneering experience on all the technologies of the i4.0 framework and from a structure dedicated to technological training that has already prepared and qualified more than 5,000 students — technicians, artisans, professionals, entrepreneurs and artists.

Our research centre on Industry 4.0 technologies and processes, located inside the Ostiense Campus in the heart of the industrial archaeology area of the Great Gasometer, has facilities, tools and machines that allow our clients to experiment with all the smart technologies in order to evaluate their impact and applicability within their companies.

Our service portfolio is articulated in modulated and differentiated services to respond to the needs of the different categories of clients.

To large companies we offer management, technological and specialist consulting services, and training services, delivered on the basis of specific projects, agreed and planned with clients, often inserted within broader programmes involving the major international consulting firms.

To SMEs we are able to offer consultancy for access to support measures and European, national and regional funds, corporate training programmes, R&D support services that go as far as the complete outsourcing of research projects, facilities for rapid prototyping and the provision of machines, tools and technologies, according to flexible and scalable pricing and cost schemes.

To micro-enterprises, professionals, artisans and private individuals we offer catalogue training courses — both during the day and in the evening — access to the FabLabs and to the prototyping facilities, and rental of machines and tools on a pay-per-use basis.