Descrizione del progetto
Migliorare l’autonomia, la solidità e la velocità della metrologia basata sulla tomografia computerizzata
La tomografia computerizzata (TC) svolge un ruolo importante nelle applicazioni di ispezione medica e dei materiali. Un gruppo formato da quindici ricercatori giovani e promettenti riceverà formazione per assumere un ruolo guida nella concezione della tecnologia TC di prossima generazione, pronta per l’Industria 4.0 europea. Ottenere un successo in questo campo contribuirà a rafforzare la posizione dominante dell’Europa a livello mondiale nel settore manifatturiero. Il progetto xCTing, finanziato dall’UE, costituito da nove beneficiari e sei organizzazioni partner, si concentrerà sul miglioramento di autonomia, solidità e velocità nell’ambito della metrologia basata sulla tomografia computerizzata, supportando la transizione verso una tecnologia di controllo qualità pienamente in linea con gli ambienti dell’Industria 4.0. La metrologia TC a raggi X è l’unica tecnologia nota in grado di certificare in modo non distruttivo la qualità di strutture complesse interne, come quelle generate dalla produzione additiva o trovate negli assemblaggi.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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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Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinatore
3000 Leuven
Belgio