SMARTDRESS
Adaptive Tip dress Control for Automated Resistance Spot Welding
| Coordinatore | SINTERLEGHE SRL
Organization address
address: VIA CENISCHIA 33 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Italy [IT] |
| Totale costo | 1˙479˙943 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙138˙900 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2011 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-12-01 - 2013-11-30 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
SINTERLEGHE SRL
Organization address
address: VIA CENISCHIA 33 contact info |
IT (TORINO) | coordinator | 369˙121.00 |
| 2 |
SWANTEC SOFTWARE AND ENGINEERING APS
Organization address
address: DIPLOMVEJ 373 contact info |
DK (KONGENS LYNGBY) | participant | 322˙425.20 |
| 3 |
FISHER SMITH LLP
Organization address
address: SPENCER STREET 1-3 contact info |
UK (RINGSTEAD) | participant | 199˙009.00 |
| 4 |
FINISHING AIDS & TOOLS LIMITED
Organization address
address: LITTLE END ROAD EATON SOCON 34-35 contact info |
UK (ST NEOTS) | participant | 170˙924.80 |
| 5 |
TWI LIMITED
Organization address
address: Granta Park, Great Abington contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | participant | 30˙514.00 |
| 6 |
TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT
Organization address
address: TEKNIIKANTIE 4 A contact info |
FI (ESPOO) | participant | 25˙105.00 |
| 7 |
FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V
Organization address
address: Hansastrasse 27C contact info |
DE (MUENCHEN) | participant | 21˙801.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'High volume automotive production (such as body-in-white construction) operations rely heavily on RSW (resistance spot welding), and suffer significant losses of output (and resulting revenue) as a consequence of frequent production line stoppages. These stoppages are predominantly caused by weld quality issues, which in turn arise from poor maintenance of consumable ‘tips’ on RSW guns.
SmartDress will develop a fully automated adaptive control system that will optimise, monitor and maintain tip quality in these applications. This will minimise line stoppages and give provide our consortium of tier 2/3 SME automotive suppliers with an IP protectable, ‘high-tech’ product, enabling us to protect and expand our market share – which is shrinking due to competition from low-labour rate competitor countries.
Another key feature of the SmartDress system will be that it will allow cost-competitive manufacture of aluminium (not currently commercially viable), which will enable lower cost aluminium vehicle manufacture. This could have very large potential impact on CO2 emissions (due to vehicle light-weighting).'