Productivity improvements in industrial laser cutting

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: CR114591-BRE20885

Project closed

Start date 1 January 1994

End date 31 December 1995

Funded under

• Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies - CRAFT -, 1990-1994

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

INSTITUTE FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Denmark

Objective

The objectives of the project are improving productivity of industrial laser cutting systems in general and in the participating laser cutting job shops especially.
Routines, manual as well as computer based, tools and education programmes and material have been developed and implemented in the SMEs production. The main objectives have been focused on the maintenance of the laser cutting systems, fast optimisation routines of the processing parameters, development of tools to ensure the quality in the production, fast and reliable diagnostics of the laser beam characteristics, better utilisation of the material and price estimation and finally education of the personnel operating and programming laser cutting systems. The implementation of the results at the SMEs has resulted in increased productivity as well as a better quality in their production.
The focus of the project is mainly on productivity improvements related to better education of operators, reduction of down-time on the production system by improved maintenance and improvements in system performance by efficient optimization of the laser cutting process. Furthermore improvements in productivity by increasing the effective cutting time and by reducing the scrap ratio will be addressed. Quality assurance in production will be addressed by improved laser beam diagnostics and by some tools for on-the-floor classication of laser cut samples. Finally improved operator education will be addressed.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• social sciences › economics and business › economics › production economics › productivity
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics › laser physics

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Programme(s)

• FP3-CRAFT - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies - CRAFT -, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

INSTITUTE FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Technical University of denmark, building 424 ; 2800 LYNGBY ; Denmark
• Total cost: No data

Participants (2)

Jydsk Plade Bearbejdnings Center A/S

Denmark

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 8840 Rødkærsbro
• Total cost: No data

Université de Franche-Comté

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: La Bouloie ; 25030 Besançon
• Total cost: No data