Objective The competitive strength of European industry is based on continuous product innovation, reduced production time and costs and the maintenance of high quality in manufacturing. In this field, the small and medium sized enterprises (SME) play a major role in supporting global players like automotive, aircraft, or capital goods industries or tapping the full potential of traditional sectors by the use of advanced technologies. An important market sector is the injection moulding of plastics for household or industrial use. Today's applications require extensive throughput time and costs in mould and die making. Modern applications in heat resistant metal dies suffer significantly from a lack of suitable machining capabilities. Therefore, the intended project aim is an integrated hybrid machine tool solution on basis of three manufacturing technologies - HSC-milling, laser ablation, and dry-ice blasting - for automated machining high-quality free-form moulds and dies. Fields of science engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraftengineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringsubtractive manufacturingnatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics Programme(s) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology) Call for proposal FP6-2004-SME-COOP See other projects for this call Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DE ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. EU contribution No data Address Hansastraße 27C MUENCHEN Germany See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BRANDENBURGISCHE TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET COTTBUS Germany EU contribution No data Address Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 1 COTTBUS See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data GESELLSCHAFT FUER FERTIGUNGSPROZESSPLANUNG MBH FORSCHUNG AND ENTWICKLUNG PROF DR ING HANS JOACHIM HELML Germany EU contribution No data Address Grosswalding 5 DEGGENDORF See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data IDEKO SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA Spain EU contribution No data Address Arriaga Kalea 2 ELGOIBAR See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data KLASEN UND PARTNER U KLASEN UND W GRUMBRECHT GBR Germany EU contribution No data Address Altes Dorf 2 EMERN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data M E C METODOLOGIE ECOLOGICHE E CRIOGENICHE S R L Italy EU contribution No data Address Viale Italia 19 CALTIGNAGA (NOVARA) See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NISAFORM S.R.O. Czechia EU contribution No data Address U Samotky 1172, Liberec 30 LIBEREC 30 See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SORALUCE S. COOP. Spain EU contribution No data Address OSINTXU AUZOA BERGARA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WALTER PACK S. L. Spain EU contribution No data Address Igorreko Industrialdea C-4 IGORRE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data