Description du projet
Améliorer l’autonomie, la solidité et la vitesse de la métrologie par TN
La tomographie informatique, ou tomographie numérique (TN) joue un rôle important dans les applications d’inspections médicales et matérielles. Quinze jeunes chercheurs prometteurs seront formés et auront pour tâche de concevoir la nouvelle génération de la technologie TN 4.0 pour l’industrie européenne. Les réussites dans ce domaine contribueront à renforcer la position de chef de file international de l’Europe dans le secteur de la fabrication. Le projet xCTing, financé par l’UE et incluant neuf bénéficiaires et six organismes partenaires, se focalisera sur l’amélioration de l’autonomie, de la solidité et de la rapidité de la métrologie par TN. Il soutiendra la transition vers une technologie d’assurance de la qualité totalement alignée avec les environnements industriels 4.0. La métrologie par TN à rayons X est pour le moment la seule technologie capable de certifier de manière non-destructive la qualité de structures internes complexes, telles que celles issues de procédés de fabrication additive ou que l’on peut trouver dans des assemblages.
Objectif
First-time-right and zero-defect manufacturing of customized lot-size-one products are essential elements of the Industry 4.0 paradigm shift to reinforce Europe’s global leadership in manufacturing. X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) metrology has a key role to play in this transition, since it is the only known technology that can certify non-destructively the quality of internal complex structures, such as those produced by additive manufacturing or found in assemblies.
However, CT largely remains an off-line technology, due to the unsolved trade-off between scan speed and scan quality, and the need for extensive expert user input. xCTing will therefore focus on significantly increasing autonomy, robustness and speed in CT metrology in order to support its transition towards a fully in-line quality assurance technology as required in Industry 4.0 environments. Meeting these challenges requires the integration of a broad range of interdisciplinary expertise, including physics, manufacturing, dimensional metrology, machine learning, as well as efficient and reliable big data analytics and visualization.
In order to achieve the envisaged innovation breakthrough in the European industry, Europe is in dire need of young innovators who can combine this variety of competences with entrepreneurial skills. The xCTing project is a pan-European industrial-academic initiative committed to provide the unique and encompassing training environment required to foster this new generation of innovation-minded research engineers, that will act as catalysts in the further transformation of Europe’s manufacturing industry towards global technological leadership. The overall aim of the xCTing project is to train 15 young and promising researchers (ESRs) that will take the lead in conceiving the next generation of European Industry 4.0-ready CT technology. The xCTing consortium consists of 9 beneficiaries and 6 partner organisations.
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- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinateur
3000 Leuven
Belgique