Environmental Product Lifecycle Management for building competitive machine tools

Objective

Europe currently dominates the global machine tools market by providing some 52% of the worldwide value of machine tool production in 2002. However, globalisation of the machinery industry that is composed of 70% by SME has recently intensified. The market environment is becoming more competitive, low labour costs in many parts of the world are attracting production away from Europe. Moreover, the economic recession that culminated in 2001 created an urgent need for the machine tool manufacturers to propose more cost-effective and environmentally friendly products.

The overall objective of PROLIMA, is to provide European machine tools manufacturing SMEs with means to develop machines with minimum environmental impact and optimised global life cycle costs. The project will have a strong focus on cutting based machines tools, which includes grinding, milling and turning, but generic results could be further applied in other sectors.

The PROLIMA project intends to have a substantial impact on 2 major phases of the life cycle of machine tools:

- Design phase: development of an holistic method to design machine tools integrating information on Life Cycle Cost (LCC), on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and on Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS). The developed method will be implemented within a Decision Support System that will be used for design purposes.

- Operation; use phase: to provide SMEs manufacturing / using machine tools with practical solutions adapted to their sector (LCA tool, environmental best practice manual, ?) to improve in the short term the environmental impact and the cost-effectiveness of their machine tools.

The PROLIMA project gathers 7 IAGs, 12 SMEs and 6 RTDs from 5 EU countries.

Field of science

• /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/software
• /social sciences/other social sciences/social sciences interdisciplinary/sustainable development

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-2 - Collective Research (all areas of science and technology)

Call for proposal

FP6-2003-SME-2
See other projects for this call

Funding Scheme

Collective - SMEs-Collective research projects

Coordinator

ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE FABRICANTES DE MAQUINAS-HERRAMIENTA

Address

Paseo Mikeletegi, 59 - Parque Tecnologico De Miramon
San Sebastian
Spain

Participants (22)

THE MULTISECTORAL FEDERATION FOR THE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY - AGORIA VZW

Belgium

Address

Diamant Building, Bd A.reyerslaan 80
Brussel

TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES OF FINLAND

Finland

Address

Eteläranta, 10
Helsinki

ASOCIACION ESPANOLA PARA LA CALIDAD

Spain

Address

Claudio Coello, 92
Madrid

VERENIGING VOOR PRODUKTIETECHNIEK

Netherlands

Address

Parallelweg 30
'S-hertogenbosch

EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR CO-OPERATION OF THE MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRIES

Belgium

Address

Avenue Louise 66
Brussels

STICHTING NEDERLANDS CORROSIE CENTRUM

Netherlands

Address

Boerhaavelaan, 40
Zoetermeer

SORALUCE S. COOP.

Spain

Address

Osintxu Auzoa
Bergara

INDUSTRIEEL TOELEVERINGSBEDRIJF GODDEERIS NV

Belgium

Address

Moorseelsesteenweg, 206A
Roeselare

CIM GMBH INFORMATIONS UND PRODUKTIONSMANAGEMENT

Germany

Address

Steinbachstrasse, 25
Aachen

LEALDE S.COOP.

Spain

Address

Kortazar Auzoa Z/g
Ispaster

ESTARTA RECTIFICADORA S. COOP

Spain

Address

Poligono Industrial Sigma, Xixilion Kalea 2, Planta Baja, Pabellon 10
Elgoibar

LAU-NIK S.A.

Spain

Address

Poligono Galarza 48
Etxebarria

ROLF WISSNER GMBH

Germany

Address

Rudolf-wissel-strasse, 14-16
Göttingen

URPEMAK S.L.

Spain

Address

Basusta Bidea 2
Zumaia

T-DRILL OY

Finland

Address

Ampujantie, 32
Laihia

IDEKO S.COOP.

Spain

Address

Arriaga Kalea 2
Elgoibar

VALTION TEKNILLINEN TUTKIMUSKESKUS (VTT) - TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND

Finland

Address

Vuorimiehentie 5
Espoo

WETENSCHAPPELIJK EN TECHNISCH CENTRUM VAN DE METAALVERWERKENDE NIJVERHEID

Belgium

Address

Diamant Building - 2S / A. Reyerslaan, 80
Brussels

NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Netherlands

Address

Schoemakerstraat 97
Delft

WZL - RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN

Germany

Address

Templergraben 55
Aachen

FUNDACION TEKNIKER

Spain

Address

Avenida Otaola 20
Eibar

INNOVATEC AG

Germany

Address

Am Funkturm 2
Zweibruecken