RESEARCH ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR FLEXIBLE AND INTELLIGENT ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS -ADITIV_SOSTENIBLE.
Program: support grants for Innovative Business Groupings in order to improve the competitiveness of small and medium-sized companies and the call for applications for the year 2022, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
Referencia: AEI-010500-2022b-150
RESOLUTION Date: 11/23/2022
Execution date: 06/30/2022 – 04/30/2022-29/04/2023
More than 70% of additive manufacturing applications are focused on the industrial sector. 55% of the use in this sector is in the field of prototyping, functional prototyping and short series. Occasionally, given the characteristics of technical materials and their manufacturing processes, deviations and errors occur in manufacturing that lead to failed parts or prints (according to internal estimates up to 50%). The costs of this non-quality include wasted material, energy consumption and time spent using printing equipment.
The proposed solution is expected to reduce this rejection to a minimum, even allowing rework or recovery of defective parts.
Thus, the objective of the project is research in flexible additive manufacturing technologies, through the use of robotic technology, and intelligent, through an expert supervision system based on vision technologies and artificial intelligence and digital twin, of sustainable materials.
The research and application of these technologies will allow the optimization of additive manufacturing processes towards greater efficiency and sustainability.
Together with the use of sustainable materials, the research and integration of the proposed technologies is expected to lead to zero-defect manufacturing, significantly improving the environmental impact of these processes.
The learning in effective use and contribution of robotics and intelligent systems of supervision and control of manufacturing quality will allow in a second phase of the research project, the study of new materials and new manufacturing techniques and methodologies. This will make it possible to detect new needs and design new applications such as those mentioned above (hybrid manufacturing / increase the number of heads / materials / overprinting / component insertion / machining / etc.).
AUTOMATIZACION DE SISTEMAS Y APLICACIONES INDUSTRIALES SL.
INFINITIA RESEARCH S.L.
MOSES PRODUCTOS, S.L.
AITIIP FOUNDATION.
AUTOMOTIVE CLUSTER ASSOCIATION OF ARAGON.
TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ARAGON.
TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET: 353,833.30 €.
TOTAL BUDGET ITAINNOVA: 95,450 €.
TOTAL PROJECT FINANCING: 262,915 €.
TOTAL FINANCING ITANNOVA: 62,042 €.
This project is funded by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism of the Government of Spain, under the support program for innovative business clusters and by the European Union “Next GenerationEU” PRTR, being project reference AEI-010500-2022b-150.
