Development of a on-line quality system using neural networks for recycled plastics production

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: CR131591-BRE20842

Project closed

Start date 1 January 1994

End date 30 April 1994

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

Ibos Qualitätssicherungssysteme GmbH
Germany

Objective

Processes are difficult to control, when applying recycled material where the material properties are not as constant as for new materials. Producing parts out of recycled material economically a closed loop quality control is necessary with a cheap 100 % quality evaluation.
The objectives of this project are the increase of productivity, a reduction of costs for quality assurance and rejections, and the improvement of the application possibilities of recycled plastics by developing a system based on neural networks for on-line quality estimation. Cooperation is needed to solve the following problems :
a) Development of an adequate neural network topology.
b) Determination of recycled material characteristics to describe the quality- relevant material properties.
c) Determination of quality relevant process variables.
d) Exemplary demonstration with recycled plastic material.
e) Indication of the transferability of results to other processes. Finding a way to produce high quality ensured products out of recycled material is an urgent problem to keep the effort on recycling plastic alive. Up to now there is no system yet to predict product qualities in plastic production which works by self learning on-line during the running production and which executes the estimate based on raw material characteristics and simply measurable process variables.

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.

• natural sciences › mathematics › pure mathematics › topology
• social sciences › economics and business › economics › production economics › productivity
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › telecommunications networks
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › artificial intelligence › computational intelligence

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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)

• 1.2.2 - Recycling, recovery and reuse of advanced materials
• 2.1.1 - Innovative design tools and techniques
• 2.2.1 - Tools, techniques and systems for high quality manufacturing

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Ibos Qualitätssicherungssysteme GmbH

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Jülicherstraße 336 ; 52070 Aachen ; Germany
• Total cost: No data