Finished Projects

General

• Courses for PhD students employed at manufacturing companies - CAPE
• Promoting research through international collaboration, VERA
• Future lightweight components for aeroplane engines, INNside
• Strengthening regional industry by building laboratories, Coldlabs
• Online engineering education at second-cycle level
• Innovations implemented with the help of researchers - InnKa
• Strengthening regional industry by building laboratories - Evironmental labs
• Technology enhanced learning at advanced level for engineers – Merit
• PROSAM
• Commercialisation of technical research results - PTC Innovation
• Sustainable Manufacturing Processes (SUMAN) 

Production Systems

• Scratch
• Additive manufacturing - new way building components
• Automatic thermography inspection of welded components with limited access - 18-WeLdt
• Increased automation of robotic Friction Stir Welding - ARoStir
• Simulation-Based Optimisation of PLC's – SimBO
• Holographic assessment of geometrical data – HOLOPRO
• Fast and robust optical in-process monitoring for welding automation
• Computer-simulated optimisation of a sheet metal press line
• Flexible simulation models - FLEXA
• Flexible welding automation
• Automation of friction stir welding - StiRoLight
• Automated quality control of welding joints
• Flexible manufacturing by lean automation - Flexlean
• Computer simulation of human motion
• Faster computer simulation of sheet metal pressing
• Improved simulation of welding fixturing and camera-based guiding of robotic welding Project title AFFIX
• RMS- Robotised Laser Metal-wire Deposition
• Robin - Robust in process joint finding
• Cost-effective exterior brazing technique for vehicles - LEX-B
• Robotized non-destructive testing of spot welds - SpotLight
• Welding automation for lighter aircraft engines - G5 Demo

Subtractive and Additive Manufacturing

• Multilayered coatings for non-stick applications
• Environmentally friendly alternatives to hard chromium coatings
• Enhanced functional performance of gas turbine components through supersonic-sprayed coatings
• Improved statistical methods for quality assurance
• Advanced heat insulating coatings
• Thermal spraying of fuel cells
• Market launch of an environmentally friendly alternative to hard chrome plating
• Cold Spray – a new thermal spraying method
• Spraying a suspension of nanomaterials - Reducing environmental impact
• Capability and performance enhancing technologies of machining systems - Compit
• High-volume production of aluminum components - Alkomp
• Shaping of micro geometry for drilling in composites
• Development of joinging methods for combinations of different materials - a LIGHTer initiative
• Condition monitoring of processes and machines during cutting work
• New solution for recording vibrations during the cutting process - iCut
• Advanced preparation
• Vibrations during machining of thin-walled aerospace components
• Better understanding of cooling in the metal cutting process
• The next generation of heat insulating coatings
• New technology for nanostructured coatings
• Better understanding of a new class of nanostructured metallo-ceramics
• Heat conductivity in heat insulating coatings
• Pilot study of a new method for repairs of aeroplane engine components
• Thermal spraying for repairs

Thermal Spraying

• Welding metallurgy and cracking in superalloys - Weldmecs

Welding Technology

• Understanding of laser welding phenomena
• Welding metallurgy and cracking in superalloys - Weldmecs
• Lightweight high performance welded structures - LIGHTSTRUCT
• Active gas welding: heat source simulation