Enabling technologies for smart manufacturing 4.0

On the morning of April 4th, the Centre for Advanced Aeronautical Manufacturing (CFAA) will host a seminar on enabling technologies for smart manufacturing 4.0.

The aim of this seminar, in which IK4-TEKNIKER will also be involved, consists in discovering simulation technologies (of machines and processes); data analysis and monitoring to configure a hybrid modelling platform and deliver agile actions allowing machine manufacturers and users to optimise their design and ramp-up processes (in terms of time and cost); production life cycles and how to adapt to new requirements and to ever increasing quality and reliability ratios.

Consequently, and based on practical cases linked to machines currently in use at CFAA, two areas of research and knowledge will be addressed from an integral perspective that in the past have been dealt with separately. On the one hand, knowledge connected to manufacturing processes and machine behaviour by fundamentally modelling the physical principles that govern them.

And, on the other, data analysis and monitoring, implemented for the experimental validation of models in the field of research and to identify problems in the industrial sphere.

The SMAPRO initiative

The seminar is based on the SMAPRO initiative, a project located within the framework of the ELKARTEK project led by IK4-TEKNIKER and in which other members of the RVCTI have been involved, namely, IK4-AZTERLAN, IK4-IDEKO, IK4-LORTEK, FAGOR/AOTEK, MU-GSP, TECNALIA and UPV/EHU.