Making Europe the first digitally led circular, climate-neutral and sustainable economy needs major changes across manufacturing: efficiencies in energy and material consumption, new solutions to problems in certification and standardisation, and upskilling of the European workforce.
DILAPRO contributes to all of these, driving decarbonisation and the twin Green and Digital Transitions via two ground-breaking software tools for laser-based production of complex products. DILAFACT (Digital Laser Factory) is a sustainable and scalable platform for laser process planning via Digital Twins of laser-material interactions, including additive, subtractive, and thermal processes.
DILACERT (Digital Laser Certification) tackles a major hurdle in rapidly-developing laser and additive manufacturing technologies: certification and standardisation. In the short DILACERT enables end users to easily process production data for certification; in the long term it paves the way for remote semiautomated digital certification of produced parts, a major paradigm shift in complex part production.
DILAPRO grounds its development in specific materials (316L, IN718, IN625) and laser technologies (PBF-LB, DED-LB, and Laser Texturing) as deployed on 6 operational production lines owned by project partners. These will be developed as distinct modules during the first half of the project, and synthesised into DILAFACT and DILACERT in the project’s second half.
To ensure the competitiveness and sustainability of European manufacturing in the long term, other developers and end-users will be able to contribute modules to both software, kick-started by DILAPRO’s living communities and innovative IP plan covering both commercial and OA licenses. DILAPRO offers two scalable, sustainability-focused solutions for the European laser-based, high-precision manufacturing industry, and will thus not simply develop a single one-off product, but a resilient force-multiplier for the long term.
| Web resources: |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101138859
https://dilapro.eu/ |
| Start date: | 01-01-2024 |
| End date: | 31-12-2026 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | - 5 815 700,00 Euro |
Original description
Making Europe the first digitally led circular, climate-neutral and sustainable economy needs major changes across manufacturing: efficiencies in energy and material consumption, new solutions to problems in certification and standardisation, and upskilling of the European workforce. DILAPRO contributes to all of these, driving decarbonisation and the twin Green and Digital Transitions via two ground-breaking software tools for laser-based production of complex products. DILAFACT (Digital Laser Factory) is a sustainable and scalable platform for laser process planning via Digital Twins of laser-material interactions, including additive, subtractive, and thermal processes. DILACERT (Digital Laser Certification) tackles a major hurdle in rapidly-developing laser and additive manufacturing technologies: certification and standardisation. In the short DILACERT enables end users to easily process production data for certification; in the long term it paves the way for remote semiautomated digital certification of produced parts, a major paradigm shift in complex part production. DILAPRO grounds its development in specific materials (316L, IN718, IN625) and laser technologies (PBF-LB, DED-LB, and Laser Texturing) as deployed on 6 operational production lines owned by project partners. These will be developed as distinct modules during the first half of the project, and synthesised into DILAFACT and DILACERT in the project’s second half. To ensure the competitiveness and sustainability of European manufacturing in the long term, other developers and end-users will be able to contribute modules to both software, kick-started by DILAPRO’s living communities and innovative IP plan covering both commercial and OA licenses. DILAPRO offers two scalable, sustainability-focused solutions for the European laser-based, high-precision manufacturing industry, and will thus not simply develop a single one-off product, but a resilient force-multiplier for the long term.Status
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HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-02Update Date
29-01-2024Factories of the Future Partnership - Made in Europe Partnership
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| TEKNOLOGISK INSTITUT (Coördinator)
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| AMIQUAM SA
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| CENTRE DE RECHERCHES METALLURGIQUES ASBL - CRM Group
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| DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
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| Dublin City University
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| European Federation for Welding, Joining & Cutting - EWF
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| FIELDMADE AS
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| FUNDACION IMDEA MATERIALES
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| PEPITE SA
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| PRIMA ADDITIVE SRL
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| REISCHLE GREGOR
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| WELLTEC AS
The activities of standardisation will be directly linked to the Digital laser Certification (DILACERT), with the activities being related with the definition of on-line monitoring and a qualification and certification scheme for laser factories, processes, and complex parts. Tests will be conducted to DILACERT to prepare for standardisation.