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ENEPLAN | ENergy Efficient Process pLAnning system

17-10-2011

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16-10-2014

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Description However, one of the main driving forces in today’s production is the environmental friendliness and the energy efficiency of the production itself.
Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Reducing emissions in manufacturing processes Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Material efficiency
 Monitoring Technologies Result description Motivation / Need: MetaCAM tool uses a number of theoretical process simulators to calculate energy efficiency for every manufacturing process.
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

LINKEDDESIGN | Linked Knowledge in Manufacturing, Engineering and Design for Next-Generation Production

01-09-2011

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31-08-2015

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Comments Material efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability This is the main goal
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

MIDEMMA | Minimizing Defects in Micro-Manufacturing Applications

01-11-2011

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31-10-2014

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Description Moreover, this approach does not immediately point to the error source to help with error correction, and other criteria such as material integrity, physical properties, surface topography and piece or
Comments efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Advanced material processing
 MICREON Result description The most important differences are material and shape – plane metal parts in the case of the X-ray emitters and highly heat-sensitive biopolymer tube material in the case of the stents.
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

REFORM | Resource-Efficient Factory Of Recyclable Manufacturing composite Components

01-12-2011

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30-11-2015

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Description composite material can be recycled.
Comments aboutsubid=7#AWJMRecycle Material efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Right-first-time layup Reduction in scrap and waste Recycling of prepreg Demonstrating
 RE-FORM boards and tooling Result description New fixtures and tooling for composite will be exploited through consultancy, reducing waste and material used.
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.2 Advanced joining technologies for advanced and multi-materials Taxon description Maximize material performance and hence material efficiency will require improved, new or hybrid joining technologies.
 RP 1.3 Automated production of thermoset and thermoplastic composite structures/products Taxon description Maximize material performance and hence material efficiency will require improved, new or hybrid joining technologies.

QCOALA | Quality Control of Aluminium Laser-welded Assemblies

01-09-2010

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31-08-2013

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Comments Material efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability The QCOALA manufacturing process combines several knowledge-intensive technologies including laser and beam delivery
 In-line, post-weld, eddy current and digital radiograghy defect inspection system Result description Explotable result 2: Thin wall material NDT digital radiography inspection system - Innovation: The ability to inspect laser welded thin material made of Aluminium or copper or composite material can
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.2 Advanced joining technologies for advanced and multi-materials Taxon description Maximize material performance and hence material efficiency will require improved, new or hybrid joining technologies.

TERRIFIC | Towards Enhanced Integration of Design and Production in the Factory of the Future through Isogeometric Technologies

01-09-2011

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31-08-2014

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Description The new paradigm of isogeometric analysis demonstrates that much is to be gained in efficiency, quality and accuracy of the analysis step by replacing traditional ‘finite elements’ by volumetric (trivariate
Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability IGA allows design of products accurately targeting specifications due to more exact analysis Material efficiency Manufacturing performance
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.6 Material efficient Manufacturing processes Taxon description The former will require new design approaches coupled with new, material-saving production processes with improved material efficiency and enabling the (flexible) use of substitute materials.

CAPP-4-SMES | Collaborative and Adaptive Process Planning for Sustainable Manufacturing Environments

01-12-2012

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30-11-2015

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Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Reducing emissions in manufacturing processes Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Material efficiency
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

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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Description Des-MOLD will uses as a main source, past empirical industrial experiences and simulation data to optimize, at the design time, the geometries of the pieces and moulds according to the desired features, material
Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Depent of the manufacture piece Material efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

FiaD | Factory-in-a-day

01-10-2013

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30-09-2017

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Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Material efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

METALMORPHOSIS | Optimization of joining processes for new automotive metal-composite hybrid parts

01-09-2013

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29-02-2016

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Comments efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Advanced material processing
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.2 Advanced joining technologies for advanced and multi-materials Taxon description Maximize material performance and hence material efficiency will require improved, new or hybrid joining technologies.

T-REX | Lifecycle Extension Through Product Redesign And Repair, Renovation, Reuse, Recycle Strategies For Usage&Reusage-Oriented Business Models

01-10-2013

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30-09-2016

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Comments Material efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability New maintenance strategies to minimize maintenance costs, like optimised preventive (PM) or predictive maintenance
 (KER G3)ULMA Fleet Manager solution (CbM, predictive capabilities) Result description This data is made of several signals from sensors (i.e. temperature, impacts, working hours, etc.) and from other components like a battery datalogger to monitor the usage and efficiency of the battery
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

WHITER | White room based on Reconfigurable robotic Island for optoelectronics

01-09-2013

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31-08-2016

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Comments efficient, sustainable products Manufacturing future products Manufacturing the products of the future Economic sustainability Manufacturing performance characteristics Supply chain and value network efficiency
 Advanced material processing technologies Taxon title Advanced material processing technologies
 RP 2.1 Flexible and reconfigurable Machinery and Robots Taxon description Expected tools will address challenges related to simulation and monitoring of material and energy resources consumed in these reconfigurable systems together with their self-adjustment, correction, and

STELLAR | Selective Tape-Laying for Cost-Effective Manufacturing of Optimised Multi-Material Components

01-09-2013

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31-08-2016

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Description The ideal structure has different combinations of composite materials in predetermined locations in a hybrid multi-material structure, but to date this has not been achievable because cost-effective manufacturing
Comments efficient, sustainable products Manufacturing future products Manufacturing the products of the future Economic sustainability Manufacturing performance characteristics Supply chain and value network efficiency
 Final Report Summary - STELLAR (Selective Tape-Laying for Cost-Effective Manufacturing of Optimised Multi-Material Components) Result title Final Report Summary - STELLAR (Selective Tape-Laying for Cost-Effective Manufacturing of Optimised Multi-Material Components)
 Case Study: Wing Profile Result description and total cost impact of using multiple robots, and also the efficiency of using integrated planning tools such as those developed by project partner CGTech.
 Supply chain and value network efficiency Taxon title Supply chain and value network efficiency
 RP 1.3 Automated production of thermoset and thermoplastic composite structures/products Taxon description Maximize material performance and hence material efficiency will require improved, new or hybrid joining technologies.

IFACOM | Intelligent Fault Correction and self Optimizing Manufacturing systems

01-11-2011

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30-04-2015

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Comments efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Advanced material processing
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.6 Material efficient Manufacturing processes Taxon description The former will require new design approaches coupled with new, material-saving production processes with improved material efficiency and enabling the (flexible) use of substitute materials.

MUPROD | Innovative proactive Quality Control system for in-process multi-stage defect reduction

01-11-2011

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31-10-2014

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Comments efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Co-evolution of products-processes-production
 Production of micro-catheters for medical applications. Result description Geometrical inspection: Tube diameter, shape and material distribution control based on an off-line complete geometrical characterization (diameters, areas, thickness, shape, material distribution) [loop
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.2 Advanced joining technologies for advanced and multi-materials Taxon description Maximize material performance and hence material efficiency will require improved, new or hybrid joining technologies.

PRACE | The Productive Robot Apprentice

01-11-2011

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31-10-2014

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Comments efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Co-evolution of products-processes-production
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

NANOMASTER | Graphene based thermoplastic masterbatches for conventional and additive manufacturing processes

01-12-2011

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30-11-2015

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Comments efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Co-evolution of products-processes-production systems (‘industrial symbiosis’) Manufacturing performance characteristics
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.6 Material efficient Manufacturing processes Taxon description The former will require new design approaches coupled with new, material-saving production processes with improved material efficiency and enabling the (flexible) use of substitute materials.

3D-HIPMAS | Pilot Factory for 3D High Precision MID Assemblies

01-10-2012

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30-09-2015

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Description MID lead finally to highly integrated multi-material and multifunctional 3D compact systems.
Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Material efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Advanced material processing technologies
 High-performance plastics for laser direct structuring (LDS) Result description By incorporation of special fillers and additives, thermal expansion of the carrier material is reduced.
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

MEGAROB | Development of flexible, sustainable and automated platform for high accuracy manufacturing operations in medium and large complex components using spherical robot and laser tracker on overhead crane

01-11-2012

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31-10-2015

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Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Material efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance
 MEGAROB PROTOTYPE Result description In both cases composite material milling, cutting and polishing were performed.
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.6 Material efficient Manufacturing processes Taxon description The former will require new design approaches coupled with new, material-saving production processes with improved material efficiency and enabling the (flexible) use of substitute materials.

FABIMED | Fabrication and Functionalization of BioMedical Microdevices

02-09-2013

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01-09-2016

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Comments Advanced material processing technologies Technologies and enablers Additive manufacturing Technologies and enablers Advanced material processing technologies The manufacturing path to be developed in
 Supply chain and value network efficiency Taxon title Supply chain and value network efficiency
 RP 1.2 Advanced joining technologies for advanced and multi-materials Taxon description Maximize material performance and hence material efficiency will require improved, new or hybrid joining technologies.

CTC | Local flexible manufacturing of green personalized furniture Close To the Customer in time, space and cost.

01-06-2013

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31-05-2016

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Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Reducing emissions in manufacturing processes Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Material efficiency
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

ROBO-PARTNER | Seamless Human-Robot Cooperation for Intelligent, Flexible and Safe Operations in the Assembly Factories of the Future

01-11-2013

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30-04-2017

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Comments efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Mechatronics and robotics
 Mobile robot for intelligent intra-logistics & Planning algorithms for mobile logistics Result description This robot assists the human operators by timely supplying material parts to assembly line stations.
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

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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Description technologies, for short series lens coating - automated procedures, for personalisable frames catalogue design - scanning devices, for end-user anthropometric data capture ICT tools are used to improve the efficiency
Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Material efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Advanced material processing technologies
 Industrial scalability studies Result description showing that the production of spectacles based on advance manufacturing processes represents a decrease of the environmental footprint in a range from 50-62% in the best cases depending on the model and material
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

NEXTFACTORY | All-in-one manufacturing platform for system in package and micromechatronic systems

01-09-2013

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31-08-2017

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Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Economic sustainability Environmental sustainability Manufacturing performance characteristics Material efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.6 Material efficient Manufacturing processes Taxon description The former will require new design approaches coupled with new, material-saving production processes with improved material efficiency and enabling the (flexible) use of substitute materials.

USE-IT-WISELY | Innovative continuous upgrades of high investment product-services

01-09-2013

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30-11-2016

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Comments future products Manufacturing the products of the future Resource efficient, sustainable products Manufacturing future products Manufacturing the products of the future Supply chain and value network efficiency
 Support for a transition to a circular business model Result description Potential reduction of costs for material, transport and energy.
 Supply chain and value network efficiency Taxon title Supply chain and value network efficiency
 RP 6.9 On-demand manufacturing of customer-centric products Taxon description Execution Systems (MES), and the supply chain by layering Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) and Lean manufacturing should be integrated to synchronize production with demand while stream-lining material-flow

ADALAM | Sensor based adaptive laser micromachining using ultrashort pulse lasers for zero-failure manufacturing

01-01-2015

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01-01-2018

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Description pulse lasers have enabled completely new machining concepts, where the big advantages of laser machining are combined with a quasi non-thermal and therefore mild process, which can be used to machine any material
Comments efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Co-evolution of products-processes-production
 Monitoring of laser material processing using machine integrated low-coherence interferometry Result title Monitoring of laser material processing using machine integrated low-coherence interferometry
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.6 Material efficient Manufacturing processes Taxon description The former will require new design approaches coupled with new, material-saving production processes with improved material efficiency and enabling the (flexible) use of substitute materials.

CREMA | Cloud-based Rapid Elastic MAnufacturing

01-01-2015

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01-01-2018

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Comments Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Reducing emissions in manufacturing processes Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Material efficiency
 On Energy Efficiency of BPM Enactment in the Cloud Result title On Energy Efficiency of BPM Enactment in the Cloud
 Automotive Use Case Result description efficiency and ultimately highlight and therefore eliminate production issues.
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency
 RP 1.2 Advanced joining technologies for advanced and multi-materials Taxon description Maximize material performance and hence material efficiency will require improved, new or hybrid joining technologies.

FACTS4WORKERS | Worker-Centric Workplaces in Smart Factories

01-12-2014

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01-12-2018

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Comments Increasing human achievements in manufacturing systems Manufacturing performance characteristics Social sustainability Environmental sustainability Manufacturing performance characteristics Material
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

EFFECTIVE | Exploiting Factory of the Future projects through Enhanced Clustering towards Technology Transfer, Innovation and Value creation for European industry.

01-01-2015

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01-01-2017

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Comments Circular economy Environmental sustainability Advanced material processing technologies Technologies and enablers Additive manufacturing Technologies and enablers Advanced material processing technologies
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

COMBILASER | COMbination of non-contact, high speed monitoring and non-destructive techniques applicable to LASER Based Manufacturing through a self-learning system

01-01-2015

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01-01-2018

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Description This advance has brought many advantages in terms of parts complexity, required resources (human and material) or environmental impact.
Comments efficiency Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Waste minimisation Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Advanced material processing
 Material efficiency Taxon title Material efficiency Taxon description   Making a usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.
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