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OPEN INNOVATION PLATFORM FOR OPTIMISING PRODUCTION SYSTEMS BY COMBINING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, VIRTUAL ENGINEERING WORKFLOWS AND PRODUCTION DATA

Project description

Innovative strategies for novel product development

Innovation is the most important ingredient in any recipe for entrepreneurial success. European manufacturing enterprises are no exception. Faced with abrupt changes in market demands, global competition and an increasing number of product variants, strategies for novel product development are more important than ever. For instance, it’s important to ensure and optimise the manufacturing of new products or variants in low-volume production systems. With this in mind, the EU-funded PIONEER project will develop an open innovation platform and interoperable digital pipeline for addressing a design-by-simulation optimisation framework. Built over five pillars for development, PIONEER involves multidisciplinary optimisation for ensuring certified path planning strategies.

Objective

Nowadays, European manufacturing enterprises are facing a number of challenges in a turbulent globalized market facing unprecedented and abrupt changes in market demands, an ever-increasing number of product variants and smaller lot sizes, intensifying the worldwide competition and causing a continuous pressure on production costs, product quality and production efficiency. Therefore, novel product development strategies for ensuring and optimising the manufacturing of new products or variants in low-volume production systems must be implemented. PIONEER aims the development of an open innovation platform and interoperable digital pipeline for addressing a design-by-simulation optimisation framework. For that, PIONEER implements inline feedforward control strategies for enhancing the efficiency of the industrial systems in high-mix/low-volume production schemes, based on the connection between materials modelling and materials characterisation, simulation-based digital twins and data-driven models, updated through distributed production data from embedded IoT edge devices and product quality.
PIONEER is built over five pillars for development a common methodology deployed in two demonstrators by involving multidisciplinary optimisation for ensuring certified path planning strategies for the manufacturing of topology optimised structural elements through Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) in construction –i.e. low-volume production schemes–, as well as for ensuring an efficient design and manufacturing strategy for the manufacturing of Carbon Fibre Sheet Moulding Compound (CF-SMC) components in automotive –i.e. high-mix production schemes–.
PIONEER is built on the knowledge and results gained in i) previous H2020 EU projects; ii) associations –i.e. EMMC ASBL, IOF, VMAP Standard Community, IDTA—; and iii) commercial products from project partners.

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01

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ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION METALURGICA DEL NOROESTE
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€ 700 762,50
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36410 Porrino
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Noroeste Galicia Pontevedra
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