A thermal imaging based part inspection tool to enhance the competitiveness of the large group of SMEs within the EU injection moulding Industry

Project Information

THERMOFIT

Grant agreement ID: 513182

Start date 1 December 2004

End date 31 March 2007

Funded under

• Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 1 221 199,00

EU contribution € 632 707,00

Coordinated by

MICOTRON A/S
Denmark

Objective

Industrial Objectives

The principle objective of this project is to develop a new low cost Thermal Imaging based Part Inspection System that allows injection-moulders to rapidly identify parts that are likely to develop failures, as a consequence of cooling or future expensive reprocessing such as painting and chroming, before the parts are cooled down, thereby saving hours of wasted production. The proposal will address the 7,50bn EU problem of process failure and waste in the injection moulding sector.

The prototype development of the thermal imaging based part inspection system will improve the competitiveness of the large community of 25,000 SMEs in the EU injection moulding sector by facilitating a productivity improvement of 2%and decreasing waste with 10%. This will provide the plastic processing sector with the necessary momentum to increase our competitiveness against non-EU competition by contributing towards our efforts to off-set the labour cost advantages of our Asian competitors.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › polymer sciences
• natural sciences › mathematics › pure mathematics › geometry
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › artificial intelligence › pattern recognition
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › artificial intelligence › computational intelligence

Programme(s)

• FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-SME-1
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Funding Scheme

Cooperative - SMEs-Co-operative research contracts

Coordinator

MICOTRON A/S

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Loentoft 6 ; SOENDERBORG ; Denmark
• Total cost: No data

Participants (8)

DALE LD. AS

Estonia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Emmaste vald, Hiiumaa ; LEISU
• Total cost: No data

CONTURA MTC GMBH

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Koerner-Strasse 30 ; MENDEN
• Total cost: No data

AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY GMBH

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Technologiepark 24 ; TRITTAU
• Total cost: No data

SCITEQ HAMMEL A/S

Denmark

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Industrivej 13-15 ; HAMMEL
• Total cost: No data

ENGEL AUSTRIA GMBH

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Ludwig-Engel-Strasse 1 ; SCHWERTBERG
• Total cost: No data

PERA INNOVATION LIMITED

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: PERA Innovation Park, Nottingham Road ; MELTON MOWBRAY, LEICESTERSHIRE
• Total cost: No data

GIMPLAST 2000 S.A.

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Poligono Industrial El Sequero, C/Rio Alma, Parcela 199 ; LA RIOJA, ARRUBAL
• Total cost: No data

FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Hansastrasse 27 C ; MÜNCHEN
• Total cost: No data