Description du projet
La technologie laser vise à renforcer la compétitivité de l’UE
Les coûts de production élevés du secteur manufacturier européen ont entraîné des pertes d’emploi. La Commission européenne promeut différentes initiatives visant à récupérer la valeur ajoutée en faveur de l’Europe par le biais de la numérisation des produits. La technologie laser améliorera l’usinage au laser en utilisant des impulsions laser ultracourtes qui permettent d’atteindre une précision inégalée. Cependant, les systèmes existants n’intègrent qu’un seul laser, ce qui limite leurs performances. Le projet SMAART, financé par l’UE, intégrera le prototype d’une technologie d’amplification laser innovante dans un système d’usinage laser modulaire, à ajustement automatique et auto-intelligent. Le système intègre le nouveau système laser et l’optique afférente et rassemble les fonctionnalités de plusieurs systèmes laser pour toutes les applications de micro-usinage en une seule machine à deux têtes approuvée par l’industrie, ce qui permet la production sophistiquée de produits hautement personnalisés.
Objectif
EUR 9.01 trillion – this is the shockingly high amount of added value in manufacturing, which drained off from Europe to other world regions (particularly to regions with low production factor costs like Asia) in the last years. The reason for this can be mainly seen in cost differences of production factors. To retrieve added value to Europe, particularly manufacturing and machining processes have to be improved to greater efficiency. Driven by the vision of Smart Factories of the Future and Industry 4.0 the European Commission therefore starts a lot of initiatives, like the Digital Single Market in 2016. The EC expects that digitisation of products and services can add more than EUR 110 billion of annual revenue in Europe in the next five years.
A technology predestined for making machining more efficient and for implementing Industry 4.0 in manufacturing is laser technology (as processing is contactless and therefore very flexible), especially the next level of laser machining based on ultrashort laser pulses resulting in high precision never existed before. Up to now, existing laser machining systems are fixed to only one incorporated laser and therefore limited in parameters and application. This results in the need of having many different laser systems for different applications and in long retooling and adjustment times.
For the broad introduction of advanced laser machining in Europe’s manufacturing industry, neoLASE and GFH will during this project integrate the prototype of unique laser amplifier technology in a modular, self-adjusting and self-intelligent laser machining system to reach the next level of manufacturing. This system incorporates several seed lasers and optics, all combinable by the amplifier technology, and therefore has the functionalities of many laser systems in only one machine. This meets actual needs of economically producing highly individualised and customised products like implants also with a lot comprising one single item.
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinateur
94469 Deggendorf
Allemagne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.