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Full-scale Innovative integrated Tooling for Composite material Wing-box

Project description

A unique focus helps the aerospace industry reduce its costs and environmental impact

European aviation is going green, and no aircraft is left behind. Lowering environmental impact is not only about decreasing fuel consumption and emissions associated with it, although that is a very important part. The EU-funded FITCoW project will tackle the entire aircraft lifecycle for mid-size commuter planes focusing on the manufacturing tools used to build the planes. Manufacturing large aircraft parts and assembling them requires large, specialised tools whose overall expense increases tremendously given the low volume of production. The new tools will help reduce costs and emissions associated with the production and use of the tools and the operation of the finished components in aircraft.

Objective

FITCoW addresses directly the challenges of AIRFRAME ITD - Reduce aviation environmental footprint through product performance improvements (drag, weight, versatility) and an eco-friendly life cycle including significant recyclability increase as well as optimized material streams applied to the category of 19-pax commuter aircraft. The global objectives presented for the CS2 program are particularized to this project as a reduction in the carbon dioxide emissions of the developed product and associated lifecycle and an increase in the EU competitiveness.
FITCoW aims to implement tools that can reduce the recurring costs of low-volume production and, with this, benefit reducing carbon emissions through three different manners: in the manufacturing of the tooling itself as part of the project in comparison of tooling currently used, in the operation of the tooling in the manufacturing of the final aeronautical structures and in the operation of the manufactured aeronautical structures through the developed tooling.

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IA - Innovation action

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(opens in new window) H2020-CS2-CFP08-2018-01

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Coordinator

"INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE AEROSPATIALA ""ELIE CARAFOLI""- INCAS BUCURESTI"
Net EU contribution

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€ 254 000,00
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SECTOR 6, B-DUL IULIU MANIU NR. 220
061126 Bucuresti
Romania

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Macroregiunea Trei Bucureşti-Ilfov Bucureşti
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€ 254 000,00

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