What is KInd & your added value

KInd (Kognifizierte Industrie, “Cognified Industry”) is a tailor-made training programme for manufacturing companies. It aims to qualify employees for the introduction and use of intelligent and cognitive technologies in production and to actively support your transformation.

The KInd programme equips your company for the future of cognitive industry. Benefit from:

Our core principles

  • Practical relevance: Direct reference to your operational challenges and objectives.

  • Company focus: Customisable content and formats.

  • Experienced trainers: Experts with industry experience from Pro²Future.

  • Sustainable transfer: Guided follow-up and implementation support.

  • Strategic focus: Cognitive products, human-centredness and sustainability.

Your added value

  • Individual practical transfer: Tailor-made content, precisely aligned with your business objectives.

  • Future-proof expertise: Access to R&D-experienced specialists to build sustainable competencies in Industry 4.0/5.0.

  • Increased innovation & efficiency: Solve operational challenges using cognitive technologies and unlock potential for product and process improvements.

  • Individual follow-up support: Professional guidance during the first application steps ensures sustainable learning transfer directly at your company.

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Specific training offers tailored to your needs

Our trainings are customised and come with the following benefits:

  • On-site at your company, 1–4 days (blocked or split as desired)
  • Delivered directly by Pro²Future (no third-party organisation involved)
  • Focused selection of course units from existing training modules
  • Targeted competence and staff development
  • Flexible number of participants and scheduling
  • Intensive follow-up / competence transfer possible

Competence Trainings

for Pro²Future partners without an ongoing project

Focus on competence building based on a catalogue of existing training units.

Example courses:
  • CT1: Human-centred and sustainable engineering
  • CT2: Vision & visualisation
  • CT3: Data preparation and machine learning
  • CT4: Federated machine learning

Use case: training an entire department

Competence trainings

Project-related Trainings

for Pro²Future partners with an ongoing project

Focus on intensive competence transfer and guided application within the project.

Example projects:
  • PT1: Causal analysis & machine learning
  • PT2: Life-cycle analysis & distributed systems
  • PT3: Non-functional requirements, safe AI

Use case: applying cognitive industry methods to a company project

Project-related trainings

Transformation Take-off

for new projects

Focus on kick-starting transformation topics based on tailored trainings and practical exercises.

Example topics:
  • TP1: LLMs, AI assistants and agents
  • TP2: UWB/BLE localisation
  • TP3: Safe human-robot interaction

Use case: starting a transformation within a company project

Transformation take-off

Training content

Technical basics

  • Technical fundamentals
  • Human-centredness, development processes and inclusion
  • Cognitive principles & applications
  • Computing platforms
  • Sensors & actuators
  • Communication technology
  • Project development/processes

Data processing for cognitive systems

  • Analysis techniques, vision, visualisation, machine learning
  • Analysis, visualisation
  • Experimental design
  • Machine learning
  • Multi-task ML
  • Causal analysis
  • Computer vision

Sustainable and human-centred system design

  • Sustainability, life cycle and cognitive system development
  • Non-functional requirements
  • Life-cycle analysis
  • Interoperability
  • Distributed systems
  • Stakeholder inclusion/integration

Optional University Certification

Cognitive Industry Engineering

The KInd programme can optionally be completed with an academic certification awarded by TU Graz.

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Interested?

We are happy to advise you without obligation on your individual qualification measures. Get in touch with us today!

Contact Markus Jäger

Your direct contact:

Markus Jäger

Phone: +43 (732) 2468-4783

Email: training@pro2future.at

Web: training.pro2future.at

Pro2Future GmbH

Headquarter Linz:

Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz

Location Graz:

Sandgasse 34, 8010 Graz

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