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DIPLAT | Enabling advanced functionalities of Diamond and other ultra-hard materials by Integrated Pulsed Laser Ablation Technologies

15-01-2013

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14-07-2016

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Waste minimisation
Reduction of waste (in %)
100
Comment: Laser manufactruing is a completely wear-free process. The waste of conventional processes, such as grinding (tools, coolant, lubricant) and spark erosion (electrodes, dieletric) is completely eliminated.

DES-MOLD | Feature-Based Design and Modelling for Injection-molding Optimization

01-09-2012

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31-08-2015

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Environmental sustainability
Comment: Environmental impact: improvement sustainability of production processes and tools since Des-MOLD will reduce the need for mock-up tools, and scrap pieces will be decreased thanks to the optimal designs and sensorization at the design level. Furthermore, Scrap reduction strategy has a direct impact on energy consumption reduction (less scraped parts are produced).
Waste minimisation
Comment: Depent of the manufacture piece
Reduction of waste (in %)
30
Comment: Reduction in plastic waste material more than 30%

MUSIC | MUlti-layers control&cognitive System to drive metal and plastic production line for Injected Components

01-09-2012

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31-08-2016

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Comment: The development and integration of a completely new ICT tool, based on innovative Control and Cognitive system linked to real time monitoring, that allow an active control of quality, avoiding the presence of defects or over-cost by directly acting on the process-machine variables optimization or equipment boundary conditions. The C&CS application is for HPDC and PIM sectors that are the most “defect-generating” and “energy-consumption” processes in EU industry
Reduction of waste (in %)
20
Comment: the involved HPDC foundry is expecting for a 40% reduction in scrap rate

OPTICIAN2020 | Flexible and on-demand manufacturing of customised spectacles by close-to-optician production clusters

01-10-2013

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30-09-2016

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Reduction of waste (in %)
5
Comment: Inks and lacquers used in lens coating, currently applied by dip-coating, a procedure generating contaminated residues coming from the dip tanks every time that their content is refreshed. Optician2020 will use suitable processes for short series coating based on spin coating that deposits the exact amount of necessary ink.

CLOUDFLOW | Computational Cloud Services and Workflows for Agile Engineering

01-07-2013

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31-12-2016

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Comment: 6 of the CloudFlow application experiments are rooted in the design and engineering chain for hydrowater plants which are one important pillar of the green energy sector
Waste minimisation
Comment: Simulation-based optimization of product designs, reduced number of physical prototypes contribute - in general - to a reduction of errors and scraps
Reduction of waste (in %)
5
Comment: The experiments about optimizing heat exchanger design of biomass boilers through CFD simulation has achieved that five to six initial biomass boiler prototypes or separate parts (heat exchanger, outer jacket, burner) could be saved with the cloud-enabled environment.

Eco-Solar | Eco-Solar Factory - 40%plus eco-efficiency gains in the photovoltaic value chain with minimised resource and energy consumption by closed loop systems

10-01-2015

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30-09-2018

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Reduction of waste (in %)
80
Comment: High pure argon purge gas is normally vented after entering the furnace. Argon gas recycling rate of 95% has been achiecved. Silicon nitride crucibles can be reused compared to conventional silica-based crucible which can be only used once.

Symbionica | SYMBIONICA - Reconfigurable Machine for the new Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing of next generation fully personalized bionics and smart prosthetics

10-01-2015

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30-09-2018

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Reduction of waste (in %)
100
Comment: Symbionica will enable the integration of multiple AM technologies in one single machine to combine the most productive alternative with the most precise one with zero set-up time and zero material waste

Z-Fact0r | Zero-defect manufacturing strategies towards on-line production management for European factories

01-10-2016

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31-03-2020

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Reduction of waste (in %)
0
Comment:

The Z-Fact0r solution contributes to prevent defective parts to be sintered and reduces the number of defects during the machining of sintered parts. Most of the defective, very hard components, cannot be recovered by further machining or by healing operations and must thus be fully scrapped. Besides these recyclable materials there are also losses on the different production steps: from milling, spray drying, pressing, green machining and sintering.

With lesser defective part manufacturing, in the same proportion as HSS (raw material), oil consumption from the grinding machine (used as a coolant and in order to reduce friction between the tool and the part) is reduced, and the abrasive material waste generated from the cutting tool is also reduced, something which comes along with the oil as waste waters. Also, further upstream, the usage of salts for the heat treatment process also diminishes.

CAxMan | Computer Aided Technologies for Additive Manufacturing

09-01-2015

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31-08-2018

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Environmental sustainability
Comment:

We will generate Objects closer to their nominal shape and thus less material will be removed by subtractive processes, and reduce energy consumption and indirectly CO2 emission

Waste minimisation
Comment: We will generate Objects closer to their nominal shape and thus less material will be removed by subtractive processes.
Reduction of waste (in %)
12
Comment: We will generate Objects closer to their nominal shape and thus less material will be removed by subtractive processes.
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