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Center of Excellence (CoE)

Accelerating Industrial Automation Adoption Through Real-World Enablement

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UB’s Center of Excellence (CoE) helps manufacturers bridge the gap between interest in Industry 4.0 and practical adoption. Through live automation demonstrations, industry-focused training, and talent development, the CoE provides access to technology, expertise, skills, and proven applications that support more confident industrial transformation.

Closing the Industrial Adoption Gap

Workforce Readiness

Develop greater awareness and practical capability to support increasingly automated and digital manufacturing environments.

Industry Expertise

Connect manufacturers with engineering knowledge and practical experience across automation, digitalization, and industrial operations.

Practical Skill Sets

Build relevant technical capabilities through hands-on learning and exposure to real industrial technologies and applications.

Proven Use Cases

Experience automation technologies in practical scenarios to better understand their potential applications before moving toward deployment.

From Exposure to Application

The CoE creates an environment where manufacturers, engineers, and future talent can experience Industry 4.0 beyond presentations and theory. It connecting operating frameworks, certified engineering development, and practical engineering support to help manufacturers move from learning and exploration toward implementation and sustained adoption.

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Automation Demo Center

Showcases proven automation technologies, integrated solutions, and real-world industrial applications.

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Industry Training

Builds practical capabilities in automation, simulation, digital technologies, and smart manufacturing.

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Internship & Talent Development

Develops industry-ready talent through hands-on exposure to real manufacturing and automation environments.

Enabling Industrial Transformation

Build certified industrial engineering capability

SMART Engineer is a structured training and certification program that develops multidisciplinary capabilities across process, simulation, automation, industrial software, and AI-assisted engineering through practical, evidence-based learning.

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Standardize and scale industrial transformation

Global Industrial Operating System (GIOP) brings people, processes, technology, knowledge, and governance into a structured operating system that helps manufacturers execute industrial transformation with greater consistency and scalability.

Extend engineering capability into operations.

SMART Team provides resident engineering and managed automation services to support onsite operations, system adoption, troubleshooting, stabilization, and ongoing automation performance.

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