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

CoExCo

CoExCo

Cognitive Polymer Extrusion and Compounding

Polymer processing plants show a nonlinear relation between extruders and downstream equipment, so this MFP will investigate and develop novel…

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GUIDE

GUIDE

Guidance and Assistance

GUIDE will investigate novel worker context recognition, assistance and guidance technologies for use in the manufacturing- and production setting. The…

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VIVARIUM

VIVARIUM

Self-Learning System for Anomaly Detection

Monitoring multivariate sensor data in automated welding can be critical for ensuring product quality. However, gaining actionable insights from data…

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CAVL-SD

CAVL-SD

Cognitive AVL: Smart Development

Whether manufacturing physical products or delivering virtual services, corporations engage in a variety of sub-processes which are interrelated both within…

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ZEWAS

ZEWAS

Zeitreihenanalyse zur Erkennung von Wartungsarbeiten an Schweißgeräten

The Perfect Welding division of Fronius International offers welding devices and services to customers on five continents. Data analytics and…

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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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CompEAS-BSW

CompEAS-BSW

Compositional Embedded Automotive System Basic Software

Embedded systems for vehicles are still implemented in a strictly static way: The individual functions are first implemented and tested…

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CORVETTE

CORVETTE

Cognitive Sensing for Vehicle Fleet Driven Data Services

The CORVETTE project aims to establish a robust software infrastructure for cognitive vehicle fleet monitoring, enabling comprehensive datadriven services. The…

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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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