Making Industries Pro²Future

Empowering Humans with Cognified and Sustainable Products and Production Systems

As a COMET competence centre, we conduct research into resilient, energy-efficient and human-centered solutions that make everyday industrial life smarter, safer and more sustainable. Through strong partnerships with industry and science and a clear focus on knowledge and technology transfer, we are paving the way for a cognified and sustainable future of production.

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How to partner with us

We provide an ecosystem for applied research and innovation.

From joint research projects and scientific exchange to research stays and supervision of academic work with international universities.

Applied research on industrial topics; collaborative work from idea to practical implementation throughout the entire product life cycle.

We build long-term partnerships that strengthen regional innovation, support international success and help educate and develop future talents.

We offer an ultimate environment for collaborative projects (industry, SMEs, startups, universities, research institutions) and provide application-driven results for mission-oriented initiatives and innovation programs.

Research with Impact - Your Career at Pro²Future

You want your work to make a real impact and not just stay within the lab? At the intersection of science and industry, you’ll work at Pro²Future on forward-looking topics such as Artificial Intelligence, digitalization and sustainable production. Together with leading industrial partners, you’ll develop data-driven solutions, test innovative algorithms and receive direct feedback from real-world applications. Whether it’s human-machine interaction, smart products or process optimization – with us, you drive genuine innovation.
Whether you’re pursuing a PhD, internship or research position – we offer challenging projects, flexible structures and an inspiring research environment where your ideas truly matter.

About Pro2Future GmbH

Pro²Future is working on the goals and results of the digital transformation and conducting research for industrial implementation in the period thereafter. As a non-university COMET research centre with locations in Linz and Graz, we are working on the next generation of cognitive products and production systems.

Our mission is to cognify industries
by developing resilient, energy-efficient and human-centered solutions that directly address everyday challenges.

Further information can be found here:

Projects

SINPRO

SINPRO

Predictive Maintenance for Production Environments SINPRO

This multi firm project (MFP) will investigate a novel decision support technology for assistance in the manufacturing- and production setting…

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VERICOMP

VERICOMP

Verifiable and Compositional Processor Architecture for Real-Time Systems

The strategic project VERICOMP successfully addressed the central challenge of modern embedded systems: creating architectures that are both highly flexible…

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SUPRA-1

SUPRA-1

Sustainable Production and Assembly 1

SUPRA refers to efficient and sustainable production strategies in batch production, namely peak power reduction. In it, – existing KPIs…

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ASP 2

ASP 2

Adaptive Smart Production 2

The project MFP II 4.2.3‐2 Adaptive Smart Production 2 (ASP 2), deals with two use‐cases: fuel‐cell component assembly and high‐speed…

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RedUsa

RedUsa

Predictive Maintenance for Production Environments RedUsa

The power of the predictive maintenance lies on providing immediate assistance in situations where human judgment disregards the reactions times…

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OnDaA

OnDaA

Online Data Analytics @ voestalpine

This project focuses on data analytics and visualisation for the continuous casting process in large-scale steel production. In modern steel…

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ACTION II

ACTION II

Adaptive Cobot Integration

The complexity and demands of assembly tasks in production have been found to increase cognitive load in assembly workers. This…

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GAP

GAP

Cognitive Guidance for Assembly Processes

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) holds immense significance in computer vision, offering benefits in diverse scenarios. In industrial settings, manufacturing assembly…

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Key Facts*

360+

Publications

45+

Finished & running PhD Theses

167+

Nominations in international Boards

49+ M€

Cumulated project volume

25+

Patents & Patent filings

95+

Scientific & Industry Partners

*as of March 31, 2026

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