Projects overview
MANUELA | Additive Manufacturing using Metal Pilot Line
01-10-2018
-31-03-2023
SeCoIIA | Secure Collaborative Intelligent Industrial Assets
01-12-2019
-31-05-2022
SCOTT | Secure COnnected Trustable Things
01-05-2017
-31-10-2020
XS2I4MS | Access to I4MS
01-09-2015
-28-02-2018
BEinCPPS | Business Experiments in Cyber Physical Production Systems
11-01-2015
-31-10-2018
The Rule Editor and the Test Front-End are Android apps allowing factory users to interact with the ZHQ system
The smart mold provides Human Machine Interaction at several levels:
- Production operators: real-time data and alerts, both at the work cell level, enterprise and cloud
- Production managers and moldmakers: historical data analysis
HORSE | Smart integrated Robotics system for SMEs controlled by Internet of Things based on dynamic manufacturing processes
11-01-2015
-31-07-2020
Safety of robots sharing workspace with human workers, as well as assigned tasks with a health-risk to robots, and to human workers easier tasks, is one of the top opbjectives for HORSE
NIMBLE | Collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe
01-10-2016
-31-03-2020
user interfaces targeting various user groups:
- Field technicians / operators, e.g. visualization of bill of material
- Supply chain experts, e.g. visualization of legislation data
- Production / quality engineers, e.g. designing new business process for new collaborations, e.g. monitoring status of incoming goods
- Sales / marketing representatives, e.g. partner search for supply chains
- Product designers / design engineers, e.g. visualization of quality/design/production data
- Software developers, e.g. software design/deployment facilities e.g. DevOps for Cloud-based applications or IBM Bluemix services.
ReconCell | A Reconfigurable robot workCell for fast set-up of automated assembly processes in SMEs
11-01-2015
-28-02-2019
INEDIT | open INnovation Ecosystems for Do It Together process
01-10-2019
-31-03-2023
FOCUS | Factory of the Future Clusters
01-01-2015
-31-12-2016
OPTIMISED | Operational Planning Tool Interfacing Manufacturing Integrated Simulations with Empirical Data
11-01-2015
-31-10-2018
GO0D MAN | aGent Oriented Zero Defect Multi-stage mANufacturing
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
BOOST 4.0 | Big Data Value Spaces for COmpetitiveness of European COnnected Smart FacTories 4.0
01-01-2018
-31-12-2020
MANTIS | Cyber Physical System based Proactive Collaborative Maintenance
01-05-2015
-31-07-2018
RADICLE | Real-time dynamic control system for laser welding
01-02-2015
-31-10-2018
Z-Fact0r | Zero-defect manufacturing strategies towards on-line production management for European factories
01-10-2016
-31-03-2020
The solution provided byZ-Fact0r reduces the number of scrapped parts at different steps of the production process. The use of just the needed amount of raw materials is thus a consequence of applying Z-Fact0r, but it has manifold repercussions, as there is reduction of wear of equipment and tools by doing it right the first time. It also eliminates the duplication of auxiliary materials needed to produce the parts.
The Z-Fact0r platform, and the intensive monitoring of both product and process that accompanies it, has been key for the reduction of defective manufactured parts at the flute grinding process. Should similar solutions be implemented in the rest of machines at NECO premises with a defective rate reduction of around 25%, some 20.000€ could be saved by NECO yearly in the form of raw materials (outside-diameter-grinded High Speed Steel bars), which would instead require to be recycled. Furthermore, if the cutting angle happens to be wrong, the parts cannot be remanufactured and need to be scrapped.
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.
The reduction of the defective rate in the flute grinding process is key, due to this part of the manufacturing chain being the one with the higher proportion of scrapped parts. The time working on the reworking of the parts or the manufacturing of new, “extra” ones, inside a certain batch, multiplied by the hourly cost of the machines would be the numerical estimation of the saved energy, which, of course, is proportional to CO2 emissions. However, the flute grinding process is not the process with the most energy consumption, but it is, by far, the heat treatment (which is located upstream and, thus, the reduction of the defective in this particular process where the NECO pilot focuses would also impact on the energy saving of the machines and processes that come before).
Obtaining the part with the right specifications at the first attempt means that the energy consumption will be at its lowest. The confidence Z-Fact0r solution brings also allows us to work with closer tolerances, less excesses of material, and thus less re-working time throughout the production steps.
ToMax | Toolless Manufacturing of Complex Structures
01-01-2015
-31-12-2017
MOTOR | Multi-ObjecTive design Optimization of fluid eneRgy machines
09-01-2015
-31-08-2018
ENCOMPASS | ENgineering COMPASS
01-10-2016
-29-02-2020
JOIN-EM | JOINing of copper to aluminium by ElectroMagnetic fields
01-09-2015
-31-08-2018
DELPHI4LED | From Measurements to Standardized Multi-Domain Compact Models of LEDs
01-06-2016
-30-09-2019
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
-30-09-2018
FineSol | Assembly of miniaturized PCBs by using low cost hyper-fine solder powders
11-01-2015
-30-04-2019
MAShES | Multimodal spectrAl control of laSer processing with cognitivE abilities
01-12-2014
-30-11-2017
A reduction of at least 20% of defective parts produced by additive manufacturing by CNC LMD, that mus be discarded.
A reduction of at least 50%of defective repairing by robotic LMD, that must reworked to be repaired again .