Project description
A human–robot collaboration enhances the spinning of fancy yarns
Spinning is a critical process in the production of many textiles. It is used to produce yarns by drawing out fibres, twisting them together and winding them on a bobbin. The EU-funded CORTI project is supporting the Italian SME Gualchieri E Gualchieri & C., one of the world’s leading textile manufacturers, in bringing the time-honoured process one step closer to Industry 4.0. Funding will support the team in the design and commercialisation of a robot for a human–robot collaboration on the spinning of so-called fancy yarns. The project work will not only support the company but the entire European industry in meeting the demands of European customers, the largest market for fancy yarns.
Objective
Textile industry is one of the largest industries in the world. To sustain its commercial success it becomes imperative to produce goods of high quality at reasonable prices to achieve customer satisfaction, which asks for continuous modernization of the textile machines.
Each step towards innovation means streamlining activities with a versatile approach to minimize the manpower in the intensive and repetitive jobs. It is expected to have an incremental level of automatization in the textile industries implemented with human-robot collaborative models, where humans are doing “customization” tasks.
CORTI project idea was born with the aim to facilitate the introduction of collaborative robot in the spinning area of the textile industry with a special outlook, at this stage, to the fancy yarn machines designed, produced and selled by Gualchieri&Gualchieri.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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59100 PRATO
Italy
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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