by cidaut | Jun 9, 2016 | Sin categoría
On March 1-3, 2016, CIDAUT attended to Barcelona Plenary Meeting in order to discuss the progress and next steps of the SafetyCube project.
Within SafetyCube’s methodology workpackage, guidelines for literature search and for summarizing research results – including meta-analysis – have been developed, which together with the revised template for coding research studies, ensures a uniform way of addressing different risks and measures in different areas of interest. That way it will be possible to perform overall quantitative analyses over studies that are otherwise hardly comparable. First results are planned to become available late autumn 2016.
Moreover, vehicle, infrastructure and behaviour workpackages discussed the specific issues and particularities involved in each field.
A major part of the discussions was dedicated on the design and the functionalities of the SafetyCube Decision Support System (DSS), on the basis of the feedback from stakeholders received so far during the various SafetyCube workshops, as well as on the so far experiences from the analyses carried out within SafetyCube.
SafetyCube is a 3-year Horizon 2020-project centred on state of the art evaluations of accident risk factors and safety measures based on accident data analysis and on in-depth understanding of causes of road accidents. It aims at developing a Decision Support System and guide road safety stakeholders to identify the most cost-effective measures that will address the most pressing road safety problems on the European level. Analytic methods will be developed, and key road safety themes will be used to develop and demonstrate the project’s integrated approach. The project is led by Loughborough University, UK.
by cidaut | Jun 9, 2016 | Sin categoría
More than 50 experts attended the final event.
The main results and conclusions obtained during MetalMorphosis were presented in Ghent on the 24th of February 2016. The event was hold in the Belgian Welding Institute facilities and more than 50 experts from different technology fields attended the event.
Every partner in the consortium presented the work done, the knowledge acquired and the next challenges to be faced. The main conclusion of the event was that MetalMorphosis project has been an important step forward in the consolidation of the hybrid joints metal-composite in the automotive sector.
Centimfe as project coordinator presented the main milestones covered by the project and the general targets achieved. Ideko and Cidaut focused their presentation on material selection, process optimization and product design. The joining technology was mainly described by Belgian Welding Institute and Poynting, while the life cycle assessment was explained by Stam.
Finally, each of the end users involved in the project presented their demonstrator. In the case of Tenneco, the bottom closing of a monotube shock absorber was used as a case study. The welded steel loop was therefore replaced by a composite part in PA66 with glass fibres produced by injection moulding. This solution has the advantage of producing lighter shock absorbers (15 % saving) while keeping the requirements for a structural part. The technology can be integrated easily in the manufacturing process, keeping the product at an acceptable cost for the market.
Tool Presse presented his hybrid solution (metal-composite) for a pedal brake with a 17% weight saving and important reduction on cost and production process time. The prototype presented was previously validated attending to the requirements defined during the project.
Regeneracija showed his frontal bumper manufactured in aluminium and CFRP. The manufacturing process has combined RTM with electromagnetic joining in order to obtain a 50% lighter component fulfilling all the requirements of this kind of component.
For more information please visit www.metalmorphosis.eu
by cidaut | Apr 8, 2016 | Sin categoría
The German and French National Contact Point (NCP) and Enterprise Europe Network Alsace with the Europe Alsace Network organise a brokerage event with he objectives to present the European Union’s new NMBP Work Programme 2016 – 2017 of the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation “Horizon 2020” and to prepare future co-operations between participants. We will be sharing our proposal ideas in several of the NMBP, FoF and SPIRE topics in order to lead and collaborate in new proposals, meet us there and let’s build projects together!
The brokerage events are a perfect opportunity to present our own project concepts and to meet representatives from companies/SMEs, universities and research organisations in order to exchange ideas during pre-arranged meetings with the aim of paving the way for future co-operations and European projects including call topics for 2016 and 2017.
Taking place in Mainz, Germany, the 12th of May the agenda of the event (all the information is available at https://www.b2match.eu/kets2017) covers plenary sessions and general information from the European Commission, 5 parallel workshops of the EEB and KET for Energy, NMBP for Healthcare and Biotechnology and Risk Assessment in Nanotechnology, Factories of the Future (Production), SPIRE and Pilot Lines (Chemical Technologies) and NMBP for advanced materials, and finally a session of B2B meetings.
It is during this session where we will be happy to share and comment on proposal ideas and new collaboration opportunities. Some of our most topics of interest include EE-01-2017, EE-04-2016-2017, EE-12-2017, EE-17-2016-2017, NMBP-04-2017, NMBP-05-2017, MBP-06-2017, NMBP-35-2017, SPIRE-08-2017, FOF-09-2017.
We will keep updating our profile in the upcoming weeks and until the event takes place, so do not hesitate to look for CIDAUT or contact us directly at newsletter@cidaut.es if you want to know more, includinding our interests in other work programmes (Mobility for Growth, Green Vehicle, Low Carbon Economy…)
by cidaut | Apr 8, 2016 | Materials
All partners of the REMAGHIC project (except Piaggio and Pininfarina, and the latter joined by webmeeting) gathered in Valladolid (Spain) to review the work done during the first six months of the project. During this period the main work has been focused on WP 1 and WP2, which are related with the recovery of REE and magnesium from industrial waste input. WP5 LCCA models development has already been kicked off during this time and Dissemination & Communication activities (WP6) and Management (WP7) will take place along all the project progress.
During the meeting a general revision of the status of the project was done. Each WP leader presented the work that had been developed, and any question or doubt was solved at the moment.
REMAGHIC meeting hold 24-25 February 2016 CIDAUT facilities.
As a complement to the project during this meeting, two workshops took place. The first one was planned to give the entire consortium a first approach of the work which is expected to be done by each partner in the WP5 (Life Cycle assessment of the process). This first workshop focused mainly on explaining why good quality information is really important for the success of the project. The second workshop was about the Risk Management of the project. This workshop had two parts, a theoretical one, and a practical session, in which all the partners worked actively to identify and classify all the risks related to WP1, WP3 and WP5.
During this meeting the consortium was able to visit CIDAUT facilities: on the first day meeting, the facilities related with the project (magnesium casting facilities, microstructure characterization laboratory and mechanical properties laboratory) were shown and on the second day a brief tour to show all the capabilities of the center was organized.
The REMAGHIC project was invited to the SPIRE Impact Workshop 2016
The European Commission has officially invited REMAGHIC to be present during the 2nd SPIRE Impact Workshop, on 21-22 April 2016 in Brussels. REMAGHIC will be one of the 16 projects that will be presented at the Session3: Efficient Sustainability and Circular Economy – Domain1: Recovery from Waste). If you want to know more about our research, contact us or meet us there and let’s discuss ideas together.
by cidaut | Apr 8, 2016 | Sin categoría
Source http://www.worldmanufacturingforum.org/
The World Manufacturing Forum (which is an event funded by the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020) will take place in Barcelona on 3-4 May. This year’s edition is titled From Global Challenges to Grand Manufacturing Opportunities: Leading towards Growth and Sustainability. At CIDAUT we believe this is a great chance to speak about projects, ideas and challenges to come with partners and customers, enlarging out networks and enriching the experience with fruitful conversations and a very interesting program.
The vision stated at the WMF is the following: the importance of manufacturing as a key contributor to economic wealth and growth has been recognized and elevated again as a priority in industrialized nations in the early 21st century. Innovation fueled by ever increasing customer demand drives research efforts toward increased productivity through the development and use of new technologies, whilst respecting the need for a more sustainable use of resources across the globe.
In their aspiration to generate new revenue manufacturing enterprises expand beyond traditional boundaries. Globalization has been the biggest driver of growth for many of them over the past decades, but today, it looks as this may not be sufficient anymore, as sustainable competitive advantage requires solid innovation and effective resource-use strategies.
In this context, the World Manufacturing Forum will bring together policy experts, industry leaders of large multinationals and small to medium-sized enterprises, as well as academic leaders across the globe to discuss the economic, social and technical challenges that will impact global manufacturing in the future.
The Forum will address technological and financial challenges affecting industrialized and emerging economies alike as well as the policies supporting and defining new manufacturing megatrends and challenges to SMEs in global markets. Also, trends such as manufacturing intelligence, social innovation, the Circular Economy, zero-waste concepts and disruptive technologies as drivers for products and services in the future.
Source http://www.worldmanufacturingforum.org/
