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Formulations and Computational Engineering (FORCE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The FORCE consortium is a 10 pan-European expert partnership with the objective to develop a integrated Business Decision Support System (BDSS) based on open standards for industries engaged in formulating chemical ingredients. The generic BDSS is an open framework that connects any existing or future materials models at various levels of complexity and discretion (electronic, atomistic, mesoscop ...
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Integrated Zero Defect Manufacturing Solution for High Value Adding Multi-stage Manufacturing systems (ForZDM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

"Manufacturing companies are continuously facing the challenge of operating their manufacturing processes and systems in order to deliver the required production rates of high quality products of increasing complexity, with limited use and waste of resources. "Zero Defect Manufacturing" (ZDM) is a recent paradigm aiming at going beyond traditional six-sigma approaches in highly technology intensiv ...
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Ground Demonstration of Plant Cultivation Technologies and Operation in Space for Safe Food Production on-board ISS and Future Human Space Exploration Vehicles and Planetary Outposts (EDEN ISS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

..., food science and microbiology. Leading space industries (Thales Alenia Space Italia, Airbus Defense and Space, Telespazio), research organizations (DLR, CNR, AWI), SMEs (Liquifer, Heliospectra, EnginSoft, Aero Sekur) and academia (Wageningen UR, University of Guelph, Limerick Institute of Technology) from six European countries (Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands) and Cana ...
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European Exascale System Interconnect and Storage (ExaNeSt)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

ExaNeSt will develop, evaluate, and prototype the physical platform and architectural solution for a unified Communication and Storage Interconnect and the physical rack and environmental structures required to deliver European Exascale Systems. The consortium brings technology, skills, and knowledge across the entire value chain from computing IP to packaging and system deployment; and from opera ...
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Rapid Reconfiguration of Flexible Production Systems through Capability-based Adaptation, Auto-configuration and Integrated tools for Production Planning (ReCaM)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The requirements on production systems are continuously being shifted towards higher flexibility and adaptability. The ReCaM-project will demonstrate at TRL 7 a set of integrated tools for the rapid and autonomous reconfiguration of agile production systems, both at operational as well as managerial levels, integrated with the existing production planning and scheduling tools (MES). This approach ...
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Customer-driven design of product-services and production networks to adapt to regional market requirements (ProRegio)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The ProRegio project aims at developing a manufacturing intelligence based product-service that will rigorously change the current way how customer requirements are addressed by manufacturing companies. The development of this new business approach is based on three major issues, namely (i) design of customer oriented product-services for frugal innovation in a bottom-up development process, (ii) ...
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New ceramic technologies and novel multifunctional ceramic devices and structures (CERMAT2)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"The CERMAT2 project is aimed to train young researchers in understanding the modelling of Solid Mechanics problems applied to the process and design of advanced ceramics in a synergic collaboration between academia and industry, in view of social developments related to enhancement of industrial production and pollution reduction.In the EU, the ceramic industry is employing about 200,000 people a ...
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Engine Breakthrough Components and Subsystems (E-BREAK)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Future aero engines will need to be more efficient and contribute to the reduction on environmental impact of air transportation. They must reach some standards of performance by reducing emissions and creating some savings on operation costs.EIMG consortium has launched since several years some initiatives to develop future engines in the frame of the European Committee research programmes.Within ...
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High Shear Processing of Recycled Aluminium Scrap for Manufacturing High Performance Aluminium Alloys (Recycal)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The EU wrought aluminium industry is based on the use of primary aluminium. Primary aluminium production is both energy and carbon intensive and EU production is rapidly declining. Secondary aluminium (post-consumer scrap) is either downgraded into low quality cast products, or exported.This scrap could be transformed into a low cost, low carbon feedstock for wrought product and high quality casti ...
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Solar To Hydrogen Hybrid Cycles (SOL2HY2)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The FCH JU strategy has identified hydrogen production by water decomposition pathways powered by renewables such as solar energy to be a major component for sustainable and carbon-free hydrogen supply. Solar-powered thermo-chemical cycles are capable to directly transfer concentrated sunlight into chemical energy by a series of chemical and electrochemical reactions, and of these cycles, hybrid-s ...
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MUlti-layers control&cognitive System to drive metal and plastic production line for Injected Components (MUSIC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

High Pressure Die Casting (HPDC) of light alloys and Plastic Injection Molding (PIM) are two of the most representative large-scale production-line in manufacturing field, which are strategic for the EU-industry largely dominated by SMEs. Due to the high number of process variables involved and to the non-sinchronisation of the process control units, HPDC and PIM are most "defect-generating" and ...
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Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling (FORTISSIMO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The importance of advanced simulation to the competitiveness of both large and small companies is well established. The principal objective of Fortissimo is to enable European manufacturing, particularly small to medium enterprises (SMEs), to benefit from the efficiency and competitive advantage inherent in the use of simulation. However, the simulation of, for example, high-pressure gas cylinders ...
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Demonstration at European Level of Innovative and Replicable Effective Solutions for very Low Energy new Buildings (DIRECTION)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

DIRECTION project aims at the creation of a framework of demonstration and dissemination of very innovative and cost-effective energy efficiency technologies for the achievement of very low energy new buildings . This framework is based in three pillars:• Analysis of suitable energy efficiency technologies (technical and economic viability)• Demonstration activity deployed in three new buildings• ...
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Modelling and optimal design of ceramic structures with defects and imperfect interfaces (INTERCER2)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"Ceramic industry is broadly developed in Europe and the current investment is estimated at € 26 billion. With its € 9,2 billion segment, Italy is a leader country in the production of traditional ceramics, while France, UK and Germany are driving countries for advanced ceramics, growing at 21% per year.Advanced ceramics are crucial for new technologies and nano-tech applications addressed to ther ...
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Remote Laser Welding System Navigator for Eco & Resilient Automotive Factories (RLW Navigator)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

RLW Navigator aims to develop an innovative Process Navigator to configure, integrate, test and validate applications of Remote Laser Welding (RLW) in automotive assembly addressing today's critical needs for frequently changing operating conditions and product-mix provisions. Thus, RLW Navigator will crucially serve as an enabler for future energy efficient smart factories. RLW is emerging as a p ...
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Fuel Injector Research for Sustainable Transport (FIRST)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

FIRST will deliver key enabling technologies for combustion emission reduction by developing improved design tools and techniques for modelling and controlling fuel sprays and soot.Aviation’s environmental impact must be reduced to allow sustainable growth to benefit European industry and society. This is captured in ACARE’s 2020 goals of reducing CO2 by 50%, NOx by 80% and in SRA1/2 proposed redu ...
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Engine Representative Internal Cooling Knowledge and Applications (ERICKA)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"The goal of ERICKA is to directly contribute to reductions in aircraft engine fuel consumption with a targeted contribution of 1% reduction in SFC relative to engines currently in service. The fuel efficiency of a jet engine used for aircraft propulsion is dependent on the performance of many key engine components. One of the most important is the turbine whose efficiency has a large influence ...
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VIRTUAL OPTIMIZATION CFD PLATFORM ALLOWING FAN NOISE REDUCTION (VOCAL-FAN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The activities encompassed by this proposal consist in the development and exploitation of a methodological approach, suitable for the optimization of the fan and duct geometries in an electrical machine, with the aim to improve both the aerodynamic and acoustical performance of the system.The global activity will consist in a first baseline CFD calculation, a screening of different fan designs a ...
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WING BOX TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION - TRADE-OFF STUDY FOR THE RANKING OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES BEST FITTING WING (WINGTECH_EVALUATION)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"The activities encompassed in this proposal, aimed to provide a trade-off study between a reference wing stub box design and alternative advanced designs of the same structure incorporating new technologies, will exploit a methodological approach, which will allow to efficiently solve the simulation problem, by tackling all possible issues related to management of the geometries, definition of a ...
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EASIT2 - Engineering Analysis and Simulation Innovation Transfer (squared)

The use of engineering analysis and simulation continues to increase across all sectors of industry and it is recognized that in order to face competition from elsewhere in the world, European companies must introduce competitive products and prepare effectively for the challenges that new technologies will bring. There is also evidence that engineering capability is being lost, as some organizati ...
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COGAN - Competency in Geotechnical Analysis

Modern geotechnical design is increasingly reliant on engineering analysis. However such techniques are barely covered in a university education and concerns persist surrounding inappropriate use of analysis tools by untrained staff. The construction industry employed an estimated 148 million in the EU-27 in 2007, generating €562 billion (NACE Rev.1.1). In order to face competition, particularly f ...
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ESoCAET II: A learning arrangement in simulation technique for practitioners (blended learning)

The result of the ESoCAET II project is a training course for Finite Element Method (FEM), a part of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE). Due to the development of more efficient methodology, there is an increase in the importance of CAE as computers continue to supplement the old method of trial and error.CAE has applications in multiple fields such as classic frame work stability analysis, crash si ...
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