Objective The production of special vehicles or products in volumes lower than 2.000 units per year presents specific technical and economical problems with respect to achieving efficiency, reliability and profitability while remaining environmentally friendly. The current trend is an increase of these specific needs which are becoming increasingly unsatisfied mainly due to too high production costs. The special vehicle sector, in which are roughly involved 2.500 SMEs in Europe for a business volume of 4.000 Euros must respond to escalating customer expectations, fluctuating demand, complex supply chain processes, and has now reached a critical point in its development where new solutions are needed in order to stay competitive. The present State-of-the-art is a practically 100% craft or hand-made production. We aim to modify the sector from a current rigid manual manufacture to an innovative, flexible, automated and high added value production, achieving a considerable shift from resource-dependent to knowledge-based manufacturing. The main technological aspect to be developed in order to achieve the project objective is the manufacturing methodology related to the sheet metal components of the vehicle. For this, it is planned to use as starting point an emerging manufacturing technology for sheet metal components, Dieless forming, which is based on incremental deformation and rapid manufacturing technologies. Time reductions of up to 60% in product development and 50% in manufacture as well as a 50% increase in capacity are expected. The SME partners, covering most of Europe's vehicle niche markets will be key to developing applicable knowledge within projects of commercial exploitation in terms of engineering services, together with new developments and the improvement of existing technologies from the RTD work carried out. The IAG partners will be responsible for a wide dissemination at international and multi-sector level. Fields of science engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineering Keywords Dieless Incremental Sheet Forming Rapid Manufacturing Small Batch production 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 FP6-2004-SME-COLL See other projects for this call Funding Scheme Collective - SMEs-Collective research projects Coordinator ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE RAPID MANUFACTURING Address Av. universitat autonoma 23 Cerdanyola Spain See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (19) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE LA INDUSTRIA METAL-MECANICA AINES Y CONEXAS Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Avda leonardo da vinci, 38 Paterna See on map ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE FABRICANTES DE EQUIPOS Y COMPONENTES PARA AUTOMOCION Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Calle castello, 120 Madrid See on map CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE METODES NUMERICS EN ENGINYERIA Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Edifici c1, campus nord upc, c/ gran capita s/n Barcelona See on map CENTRE TECHNIQUE DES INDUSTRIES MECANIQUES France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Av félix louat, 52 Senlis See on map ECOROLL AG WERKZEUGTECHNIK Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hans-heinrich warnke strasse 8 Celle See on map EDAETECH ENGENHARIA E TECNOLOGIA, S.A. Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Zona industrial de fao Esposende See on map FORMTECH GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Mittelwendung 35 Weyhe See on map Links Website Opens in new window FORSCHUNGSVEREINIGUNG STAHLANWENDUNG E.V. Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Sohnstrasse 65 Dusseldorf See on map FUNDACIO ASCAMM Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Parc tecnologic del valles, avenida universitat autonoma 23 Cerdanyola del valles See on map GAUGE & TOOLMAKDERS ASSOCIATION United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address 3 forge house, summerleys road, princes risborough princes risborough, Bucks See on map INDUSTRIAS PUIGJANER S.A. Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Pintor vila cinca, 30 Polinya See on map INSTITUT FÜR BILDSAME FORMGEBUNG, RHEINISCH- WESTFÄLISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Intzestrasse 10 Aachen See on map INSTITUT SUPERIEUR D'INGENIERIE DE LA CONCEPTION France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 27 rue d'hellieule St die des vosges See on map KAROSSERIEBAU HUBERT DRESCHER Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Erlenbruck 11 Hinterzarten See on map LANDRA S.R.L. Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via rivera, 160 Almese See on map PLANCHISTERIA BERGADANA S.L Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Bonavista s/n Gironella See on map QUANTECH ATZ, S.A Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Edificio nexus, gran capitan 2-4 Barcelona See on map RAZVOJNI CENTER ORODJARSTVA SLOVENIJE Slovenia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Kidriceva 25 Celje See on map SOCIETE D'ETUDE ET REALISATION AUTOMOBILE- SCOP- S.A France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 10 avenue du quebec, za de courtaboeuf Courtaboeuf cedex See on map
