Members from the 4th Work Package of the European “FoFdation” Project meet for the fourth time to discuss progress on improving lead times and surface quality in milling processes.
One year after the Kick-off meeting held in 2011, the 4th working group of the 10 M€ FoFdation project assembled for the fourth time, this time in Ischia, Gulf of Naples (Italy), coinciding with the 8th CIRP ICME conference.
- (1888PressRelease) August 03, 2012 - The aim of the 4th working group is to develop innovative technologies that will increase predictability in terms of surface quality and lead times in milling processes.
The 4th Work Package focuses on two main tasks. The first one, led by Delcam, focuses on developing realistic kinematic and dynamic models to achieve a realistic estimation of machining time and representation of surface quality. The second task, led by ARTIS (Germany), focuses on monitoring and processing real-time process information during machining to enable corrective actions to avoid damage to the tool/part/machine. Significant progress has been made since the last meeting in both areas.
During the last meeting, all influencing parameters for lead time estimation and surface quality were identified and since then a state-of-the-art survey and conceptual designs for the new algorithms have been developed by the team for both the simulation and process monitoring. Simulation developments take place in Delcam’s CAM software PowerMILL where the new algorithms will improve the predictability of time estimation and simulated surface quality using new kinematic and dynamic models using the most important previously identified process parameters.
Other partners attending this 4th meeting included CADCAMation (Switzerland), ECN (France), ETHZ (Switzerland), UPATRAS (Greece), Siemens (Switzerland) and GF Agie Charmilles (Switzerland).
In October 2012, members of this working group will again meet at Ecole Centrale Nantes, in Nantes (France), coinciding with a General Assembly meeting of the full project consortium. Around this time, machining experiments will have started to collect machining data and compare them against predicted results of the innovative simulation algorithms. In addition the partners will begin using the process monitoring equipment on multiple machining centres across Europe.
Acknowledgements:
This project is co-funded by the European Commission as part of the European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP) adopted in 2008. The EERP proposes the launch of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in three sectors, one of them being Factories of the Future (FoF).
Factories of the Future is a EUR 1.2 billion program in which the European Commission and industry are collaborating in research to support the development and innovation of new enabling technologies for the EU manufacturing sector. For further information please visit:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/lists/factories-of-the-future_en.html
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