Self-Learning Sheet Metal Forming System
Public support
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Programme
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Call for proposals
FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2
Main participants
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Contest type
RP - Co-financing of EC programme
Contract ID
1088/2011-321
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Self-Learning Sheet Metal Forming System
Annotation in Czech
The automotive and white goods market tends towards individual customer solutions with product variants in small batch production, for which the forming system needs special setups, parameter change in self-learning control systems and high skilled operators. The self-learning sheet metal forming system LearnForm aims at an innovative knowledge-based drawing process with integrated multi sensors and actuators for adapting the control system strategy to changed material properties and product variants. The concept of the project LearnForm bases on the following main ideas: 1) a self-learning sheet metal forming system based on work piece energy and thermal quality control, 2) intelligent drawing dies including multi-sensors, 3) multi die cushion axes with adaptronic force oscillation actuators and 4) an open architecture motion control system extended by self-learning control strategies. Three tasks of self-learning control are the sliding friction, forming and clamping tasks supervised by the energy level with thermo camera quality check. Demonstrators are intelligent drawing dies for automotive and white goods and self-learning process control software with multi criteria optimizing strategies. The industrial leadership is performed by 5 companies (3OEM, 2SME) with their market leader knowledge and product programme. RTD partners co-operate with outstanding applied and basic interdisciplinary research experience. The work packages include simulation, measuring, programming, training and testing tasks. The project consortium has estimated the high RTD risk and total project costs to 5,24MEur. The total project exploitation from 8 partners is estimated to 25MEur in the third year. The impact from the LearnForm results in the European market of knowledge-based sheet forming presses and dies, industrial process control is characterized by an annual increased turnover of 57.4MEur and by annual reduced manufacturing costs in automotive and white goods of 49.9MEur.
Scientific branches
R&D category
AP - Applied research
CEP classification - main branch
JP - Industrial processes and processing
CEP - secondary branch
BC - Theory and management systems
CEP - another secondary branch
JG - Metallurgy, metal materials
OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)<br>20501 - Materials engineering<br>20705 - Remote sensing<br>20706 - Marine engineering, sea vessels<br>20707 - Ocean engineering
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)
Project results evaluation
Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Apr 1, 2009
Realization period - end
Mar 31, 2012
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
Apr 18, 2012
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP13-MSM-7E-U/01:1
Data delivery date
Jun 28, 2013
Finance
Total approved costs
2,895 thou. CZK
Public financial support
2,895 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK