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Low Cost Materials Processing Technologies for Mass Production of Lightweight Vehicles (LoCoMaTech)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The overall aim of LoCoMaTech is, in the first place, to enable the novel HFQ® process, (patented by ICL) in its latest most advanced form, which includes 10 recently patented refining technologies (TRL4), to be used for the manufacture of lightweight, high strength body and chassis structures and components for low-cost vehicles, by establishing a prototype, full scale pilot production line (TRL6 ...
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New aerospace advanced cost effective materials and rapid manufacturingtechnologies (MMTech)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

This project will focus on the development of technologies and methodologies which have the potential to save costs and time across the whole life cycle of the aircraft (design, production, maintenance, overhaul, repair and retrofit), including for certification aspects. Moreover it will also target the integration of additional functions or materials in structural components of the aircraft, the ...
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ICT Powered Machining Software Suite (MC-SUITE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The advances in the Information and Communication Technologies are revolutionizing our everyday life. However, the manufacturing industry does not yet take complete advantage of this huge potential. Using the latest ICT developments, MC-SUITE project wants to boost the productivity of manufacturing industry. On the one hand, machining process modelling empowered by High Performance Computing techn ...
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Borealis – the 3A energy class Flexible Machine for the new Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing on next generation of complex 3D metal parts. (BOREALIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Borealis project presents an advanced concept of machine for powder deposition additive manufacturing and ablation processes that integrates 5 AM technologies in a unique solution. The machine is characterized by a redundant structures constituted by a large portal and a small PKM enabling the covering of a large range of working cube and a pattern of ejective nozzles and hybrid laser source targe ...
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A FAST process and production system for high-throughput, highly flexible and cost-efficient volume production of miniaturised components made of a wide range of materials (Micro-FAST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The aim of the project is to develop a completely new manufacturing system for the volume production of miniaturised components by overcoming the challenges on the manufacturing with a wide range of materials (metallic alloys, composites, ceramics and polymers), through: (i) developing a high-throughput, flexible and cost-efficient process by simultaneous electrical-forming and electric-fast-sinte ...
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An industry system enabling the use of a patented materials processing technology for Low Cost forming of Lightweight structures for transportation industries (LoCoLite)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Environmental wellbeing backed by increasingly severe legislation dictates that pollution and energy consumption by automobiles must be reduced significantly. The outcomes of this project will enable both these imperatives to be achieved simultaneously. The project aim is to establish production lines in Europe that manufacture components for lightweight complex-shaped automobile body structures ...
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High-power Impulse Plasma Process Operations for the Creation of Advanced Metallic Parts (HIPPOCAMP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"European industries such as automotive, aerospace and manufacturing have to develop new structural materials and production processes in order to achieve strict emission reduction requirements and improve performance and multifunctionality. However, advanced engineered materials manufactured today with traditional techniques are prohibitively expensive for many applications and generate unwanted ...
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Resource-Efficient Factory Of Recyclable Manufacturing composite components (REFORM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

REFORM focuses on more resource-efficiency and cleaner manufacturing technologies for composite components to be exploited in different industrial sectors (e.g. Transport, Energy, Construction, ..). Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are becoming very popular as their use reduces weight and allow innovative designs for energy-saving products during service-life. Nevertheless, service-life d ...
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Global Opportunities for SMEs in Electro-Mobility (GO4SEM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Europe has successfully extended its competencies in key enabling technologies for electric mobility in recent years, especially in the field of information and communication technologies, components and systems. Small and medium size companies have played a crucial role as sources of creativity at all stages of the supply chain. Given the new supply chains for electric mobility being established ...
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Adaptive Business Collaboration by progressive knowledge sharing and engineering (TRANSPARENCY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The vision of TRANSPARENCY is to allow European machine-tool builders for transferring their business into a machine-related cooperation of service oriented partners in a dynamic network. The project aims for a vertical integration of management, design and operation of machine-tools to provide long-ranging transparency for both the end users and the machine-tool builder throughout the whole life- ...
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New Advanced iNsulatiOn Phase Change Materials (NANOPCM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

The overall objective of NANOPCM is the development, implementation, production, and demonstration of low cost and improved Phase Change Materials for new high performance insulation components in existing buildings. For this purpose, different technical innovations will be carried out during this project: 1. New low cost stable thermal storage component based on the anchorage at nanoscale of orga ...
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Unconventional (Advanced) Manufacturing Processes for Gas-Engine Turbine Components (AdMap-GAS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

In the project ADMAP-GAS new Unconventional Advanced Manufacturing Processes for Gas-Engine Turbine Components will be developed in order to substitute the critical conventional broaching process for fir tree profiles between rotating blades and disks. Therefore the two manufacturing technolgies “High Speed Wire-EDM Broaching” and “Abrasive Water Jet Broaching” – W² - will be developed, optimised ...
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Self-Learning Control of Tool Temperature in Cutting Processes (ConTemp)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

The European manufacturing industry is currently facing the challenge of reducing production costs and times while increased product quality. In order to achieve this, the industry must develop new, innovative machining concepts beyond the current state-of-the-art. Current process monitoring systems concentrate on the monitoring of forces, vibrations and acoustic emission as input signals, but do ...
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Adaptive Control for Metal Cutting (ADACOM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The project ADACOM will address main industrial sectors. automotive (DC, LOLA, CRF), electronics (BOSCH) and printing machine sector (HDM). Next to those OEM’s, OEM’s supplier and especially sensor manufacturer suppliers (Kistler) will participate in this project in order to reach the following goals: Core development will be an Adaptive Machining Systems for metal cutting operations (milling, tu ...
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Fast Ramp-up and Adaptive Manufacturing Environment (FRAME)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The aim of the FRAME project is a paradigm shift from the conventional human-driven ramp-up and system integration process to fully automated, self-learning and self-aware production systems. In particular, the project will deliver new methods to represent structure, capability and behaviour not only on machine level, but from a holistic point-of-view. This overall view allows the production syste ...
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New production technologies of complex 3D Micro-devices through multiprocess integration of ultra precision engineering techniques (Integ-Micro)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The proposed project aims at creating new high precision manufacturing technologies to respond cost-effectively and eco-friendly to the mass customization paradigm within the production of complex shape micro parts, embedded systems and miniaturized products at micro/meso-scale level (from 10 to 10.000 micron range). The main objective of Integ-micro is the research and development of new hybrid a ...
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A Process Chain and Equipment for Volume Production of Polymeric Microtubular Components for Medical Device Applications (POLYTUBES)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Uses of innovative polymer microtubular components render opportunities to innovate the product design to meet new social and economical needs. Potential applications include specially shaped functional components for an instrument innovated by the Polytubes consortium for electrophysiological study on human sperms, heat transfer structural and functional parts for micro-heat-exchangers, parts for ...
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Multiscale Modelling for Multilayered Surface Systems (M3-2S)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

It is recognised that more than 90% of failures in engineering components are surface related. Thus, a large variety of different multilayered surface systems (MSSs) with thickness ranging from nanometer to millimetre scales have been developed. However, the design of multilayered surfaces is normally based on experience and no currently available surface modelling technique can deal with MSSs. ...
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