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Innovative Re-Design and Validation of Complex Airframe Structural Components Formed by Additive Manufacturing for Weight and Cost Reduction (AddMan)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a technology by which physical objects can be built directly from 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) data, and is widely acknowledged as an enabler for revolutionizing the manufacturing landscape. It replaces traditional production methods like casting and machining, and enables essentially arbitrary geometric shapes to be produced. Although significant progress has been ...
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ROBOTT-NET - A shared infrastructure to sustainably optimise technology transfer throughout Europe (ROBOTT-NET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

...cs. Installing European-standard robotic automation at end-user sites instead of the present national-standard automation will contribute substantially to increasing the competitiveness of Europe's manufacturing sector and in particular SMEs.
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ENgineering COMPASS (ENCOMPASS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The ENCOMPASS project principally aims to create a fully digital integrated design decision support (IDDS) system to cover the whole manufacturing chain for a laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) process encompassing all individual processes within in. The ENCOMPASS concept takes a comprehensive view of the L-PBF process chain through synergising and optimising the key stages. The integration at digita ...
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Developing a novel hybrid AM approach which will offer unrivalled flexibility, part quality and productivity (OpenHybrid)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The OPENHYBRID project will overcome the technical and commercial barriers of current hybrid manufacturing systems to deliver a single manufacturing system capable of undertaking a wider range of processes in a seamless automated operation. The new system will offer unrivalled flexibility in terms of materials, including the ability to switch between powder and wire feed-stock within a single part ...
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Industrial scenarios for connected factories (ConnectedFactories)

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

... maintain a structured overview of available and upcoming technological approaches and best practices that are needed for mastering this paradigm shift. Present and future needs and challenges of the manufacturing industries will be identified in order to then identify possible scenarios of how digital platforms will enable the digital integration and interoperability of manufacturing systems and ...
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Efficient Manufacturing for Aerospace Components USing Additive Manufacturing, Net Shape HIP and Investment Casting (EMUSIC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

This proposal is in response to the call for International Cooperation in Aeronautics with China, MG-1.10-2015 under Horizon 2020 “Enhanced Additive Manufacturing of Metal Components and Resource Efficient Manufacturing Processes for Aerospace Applications”. The objectives are to develop the manufacturing processes identified in the call: (i) Additive manufacturing (AM); (ii) Near Net Shape Hot I ...
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Production harmonizEd Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery (PERFoRM)

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

...harmonizEd Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery aims to the conceptual transformation of existing Production Systems towards plug&produce production systems in order to achieve a flexible manufacturing environments based on rapid and seamless reconfiguration of machinery and robots as response to operational or business events.These objectives require research activities to implement a ...
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Access to I4MS (XS2I4MS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Manufacturing is key Europe’s future, but its manufacturing sector has been losing ground. Now the world is on the brink of another industrial revolution, characterized by deep integration of ICT in manufacturing. EU industries are well placed to benefit from the new ICT- driven industry. SMEs need to participate in and benefit from the new industrial revolution. To turn this vision into reality f ...
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Real-time dynamic control system for laser welding (RADICLE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

RADICLE aims to create a real-time dynamic control system for laser welding using a combination of (application specific) sensors in combination with intelligent and predictive control technologies for in-process monitoring and control to minimize/eliminate defects for a range of materials and geometries for both aerospace, automotive and other applications. The control system will include pre- an ...
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Health Monitoring and Life-Long Capability Management for SELf-SUStaining Manufacturing Systems (SelSus)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...and maintenance personnel through continuous pro-active communication to achieve real self-healing systems. This will drastically improve the resilience and long term sustainability of highly complex manufacturing facilities to foreseen and unforeseen disturbances and deteriorations thereby minimising energy and resource consumption and waste.The SelSus vision will be achieved by the development o ...
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Additive Manufacturing Aiming Towards Zero Waste & Efficient Production of High-Tech Metal Products (AMAZE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The overarching goal of AMAZE is to rapidly produce large defect-free additively-manufactured (AM) metallic components up to 2 metres in size, ideally with close to zero waste, for use in the following high-tech sectors namely: aeronautics, space, automotive, nuclear fusion and tooling.Four pilot-scale industrial AM factories will be established and enhanced, thereby giving EU manufacturers and en ...
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Arrowhead (ARROWHEAD)

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

"Our society is facing both energy and competitiveness challenges. These challenges are tightly linked and require new dynamic interactions between energy producers and energy consumers, between machines, between systems, between people and systems, etc. Cooperative automation is the key for these dynamic interactions and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Ser ...
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LOw COst Manufacturing and Assembly of Composite and Hybrid Structures (LOCOMACHS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The continued use of composite materials in the aerospace industry has been addressed in several past research projects which have focused on new design solutions and composite manufacturing processes. However an area which has been given much less attention up until now is how to achieve a time and cost effective lean assembly production system. The current airframe assembly process of composite ...
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NET SHAPE MANUFACTURE OF Ni SUPERALLOY ENGINE CASING (NESMONIC)

Start date: Apr 15, 2013, End date: Apr 14, 2016,

...ate the correct tool geometry to enable “right-first-time” net shape parts to be produced. Finally, demonstration components and test sample will be produced using the most appropriate powder and manufacturing parameters. Test samples will be subjected to NADCAP-approved mechanical property testing. The quality of the demonstration components will be assessed by the partners and subsequently suppl ...
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