EU Funding for Manufacturing Digitalization: how Fabrico fits PKIP grant programs

Quick answer: EU funding for manufacturing digitalization in 2026 comes from three main sources: (1) the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) for plants in Italy, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece; (2) Horizon Europe Industry 4.0 calls for cross-border R&D consortia; (3) National Industry 4.0 grants (Germany's "Digital Jetzt", France's "France 2030", Bulgaria's Operational Programme). Most CMMS and OEE projects qualify under the digitalization-of-SME category at 30-50% co-funding.

Implementing a manufacturing MES/CMMS platform like Fabrico falls under the category of "digitalization of production processes". Two active procedures under PKIP currently accept Fabrico as an eligible expense.

Across both, the combined budget is over 218M BGN (€111M) with non-dilutive co-financing of up to 70% of the eligible project cost.

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1. Pick a procedure and check your eligibility. Review the active procedures and confirm your enterprise meets the conditions.
2. Prepare project documentation. Fabrico issues a formal quote and technical description in the required template.
3. Apply and await approval. After approval, Fabrico costs are included in the funded project.
4. Implementation and reporting. Fabrico runs the full implementation and provides the technical documentation needed for project reporting.

The grant covers the cost. The real value comes from what Fabrico delivers from day one.

• Real-time visibility. OEE, downtime, and productivity per machine, on tablet or phone, from anywhere.
• Maintenance management. Planned and emergency PM, automatic notifications, full history per asset.
• Production orders. Digital work instructions, batch tracking, scrap monitoring : paperless.
• ERP and machine integration. Connects to your ERP (SAP and others) and IoT sensors with no equipment changes.
• Automatic reports. Detailed OEE, efficiency, and downtime reports per production line.
• Training included. Structured programme for operators and management.

See feature details: Computer Vision OEE, Analytics and reporting.