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Matrix glycans as multifunctional pathogenesis factors and therapeutic targets in cancer (GLYCANC)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Cancer is a leading cause of mortality within the aging European population. Therapeutic targeting is hampered by the complexity of the disease, which includes not only molecular changes within the tumor cell itself, but also within its microenvironment. Tumor angiogenesis, tumor-stroma interactions, interactions with immune cells, with the extracellular matrix and cancer stem cell niches allow fo ...
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New aerospace advanced cost effective materials and rapid manufacturingtechnologies (MMTech)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

This project will focus on the development of technologies and methodologies which have the potential to save costs and time across the whole life cycle of the aircraft (design, production, maintenance, overhaul, repair and retrofit), including for certification aspects. Moreover it will also target the integration of additional functions or materials in structural components of the aircraft, the ...
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ICT Powered Machining Software Suite (MC-SUITE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The advances in the Information and Communication Technologies are revolutionizing our everyday life. However, the manufacturing industry does not yet take complete advantage of this huge potential. Using the latest ICT developments, MC-SUITE project wants to boost the productivity of manufacturing industry. On the one hand, machining process modelling empowered by High Performance Computing techn ...
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LIFECYCLE EXTENSION THROUGH PRODUCT REDESIGN AND REPAIR, RENOVATION, REUSE, RECYCLE STRATEGIES FOR USAGE&REUSAGE-ORIENTED BUSINESS MODELS (T-REX)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Integrated product-service solutions or Product-Service Systems promote a shift from value in exchange to value in use to satisfy customer needs. In this new landscape, manufacturers do not sell a physical product, but its usage (renting, pay-x-use) or its outcome (pay-x-performance). Companies and supply network should focus on reducing the Life Cycle Cost of the Product-Service Systems and exten ...
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Integrated framework for a cost-effective and ease of Repair, Renovation and Re-use of machine tools within modern factory (EASE-R3)

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

The current maintenance policies, including e.g. RCM (Reliability Centred Maintenance) and TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), can be generally useful in answering questions such as “how much maintenance should be done on this machine?” “How frequently should this part be replaced?” “How many spare parts should be kept in stock?” “How should the shutdown be scheduled?” It is generally accepted tha ...
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Intelligent Fault Correction and self Optimizing Manufacturing systems (IFaCOM)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

The goal of zero defect manufacturing encompasses both short and long term perspectives. The short term perspective is to develop and implement a real time process control system that eliminates the production of any faulty component due to variances in materials, components and process properties. The long term perspective is to minimize all failures by continuous optimizing of the production pro ...
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The Foundation for the Smart Factory of the Future (FoFdation)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

Today's major challenges for manufacturing companies, operating under productivity pressures, greater product variability and environmental constraints, are clearly identified as global cooperation with multiple supply chain partners, production optimization, and tracking and management of information to meet new requirements like traceability, security, sustainability. These requirements lead to ...
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Intelligent Management System to integrate and control energy generation, consumption and exchange for European Sport and Recreation Buildings (SPORTE2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The European Sport and Recreation Building Stock accounts for approximately 1,5 Million buildings or 8% of the overall building stock. These facilities are unique by their physical nature, their energy consumption profiles, the usage patterns of people inside, ownership, and comfort requirements. SPORTE2 aims to manage and optimize the triple dimensions of energy flows (generation, grid exchange, ...
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Sustainable value creation in manufacturing networks (SustainValue)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The increasing demands for sustainability have created new challenges and emerging opportunities for society and for business. To be successful manufacturers must be pro-active and creative in thinking about the opportunities that the sustainable economy will present to develop new products and markets and optimize their value networks according to the new sustainability criteria.The overall goal ...
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Adaptive Business Collaboration by progressive knowledge sharing and engineering (TRANSPARENCY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The vision of TRANSPARENCY is to allow European machine-tool builders for transferring their business into a machine-related cooperation of service oriented partners in a dynamic network. The project aims for a vertical integration of management, design and operation of machine-tools to provide long-ranging transparency for both the end users and the machine-tool builder throughout the whole life- ...
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Advanced Intelligent Machine Adaptive Control System (AIMACS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"Current machining technologies and practices have many inefficiencies. Numerous unpredictable machining variables often cause overload and unstable conditions and catastrophic damage to the machine tool system. In addition, this results in frequent disruptions in production that can often be excessive, leading to considerable losses in productivity, capital and energy resources. In an effort to p ...
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Hierarchical and Adaptive smaRt COmponents for precision production systems application (HARCO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

The primary goal of HARCO project is to achieve cost-effective structural solutions consisting of a new class of Smart Components (belonging to machine tools applications) based on plug-and-produce “Modular Adaptronic devices” which integrate smart and multifunctional actuators/sensors capable of performing a wide array of multiple functions, ranging from high and adaptable damping and stiffness c ...
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Plug and Produce Components for Optimum Dynamic Performance Manufacturing Systems (DYNXPERTS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Self-sufficient intelligent plug-and-produce components with advanced sensing and actuating functionalities, e.g. based on smart materials. Able to adapt their range of properties, depending on the changing process conditions. Use vibration for energy harvesting to drive the intelligent system. Smart materials: compensation of static and / or thermally induced dislocations, vibration damping and d ...
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Advanced Polymeric COmpounds and Metal Matrix Composites for Excellent Performances in Machine Tools applications (COMETA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

The COMETA project aims at solving the following problems of SMEs European machine tools manufacturers: -Get high “Thermal” stability, in order to minimise thermally-induced errors arising from thermal deformations of the machine structures caused by internal/external heat sources. -Get high “Dynamic” stability, in order to minimise vibration (forced and chatter) and inertial effects of machine ...
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In Time delivery in non-hierarchical Manufacturing Networks of Machinery and Equipment Industry (INTIME)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Non-hierarchical production networks are a common environment of today’s manufacturing companies. Each company is facing multiple and dynamic relationships within several networks. This complex situation causes permanent delivery delays. Delayed supplies lead to wasteful turbulences in the entire network and to expensive compensations. For the European manufacturing industry the loss of efficiency ...
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Energy Software Tools for Sustainable Machine Design (ESTOMAD)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

This project addresses all production machine sectors (e.g. machine tools, agricultural machines, textile machines). Design approaches for these machines, which are currently performance and capacity driven, have to evolve to approaches where resource efficiency is optimized. To do so, energy efficiency has to be taken into account as a key parameter in the design process.The main goal of the ESTO ...
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New production technologies of complex 3D Micro-devices through multiprocess integration of ultra precision engineering techniques (Integ-Micro)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The proposed project aims at creating new high precision manufacturing technologies to respond cost-effectively and eco-friendly to the mass customization paradigm within the production of complex shape micro parts, embedded systems and miniaturized products at micro/meso-scale level (from 10 to 10.000 micron range). The main objective of Integ-micro is the research and development of new hybrid a ...
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SELF OPTIMISING MEASURING MACHINE TOOLS (SOMMACT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

SOMMACT develops and validates an innovative production hardware and control system founded on understanding, evaluating and controlling production system performances. This approach is based on detection (in-process traceable measurement embedded capabilities) and compensation (adaptive control and self-learning capabilities) of geometrical effects of varying external and internal quantities, suc ...
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Plug-in ADAptronic MODules for real-time errors (Thermal & Vibration) compensation and superfine positioning in reconfigurable high precision machine tools (ADAMOD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

Ever increasing competition in international markets drives manufacturers to shorten design cycles and reduce manufacturing times and costs for their products. This trend generates a demand for smart, flexible and faster machining systems, which are easy to set up and configure and able to drastically increase productivity, while improving final accuracy. Therefore the primary goal is to achieve c ...
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