MOBI-WELD

Low force mobile friction stir welding system for on-site marine fabrication

Coordinatore	ABIS SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA SPK    more  Organization address address: UL. KAMIENNA 17 city: RZASKA postcode: 30 199 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Piotr Cognome: Bistro? Email: send email Telefono: +48 12 429 5508 Fax: +48 12 429 5508
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Poland [PL]
Totale costo	1˙475˙401 €
EC contributo	1˙128˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2012
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-01-01   -   2014-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ABIS SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA SPK  Organization address address: UL. KAMIENNA 17 city: RZASKA postcode: 30 199 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Piotr Cognome: Bistro? Email: send email Telefono: +48 12 429 5508 Fax: +48 12 429 5508	PL (RZASKA)	coordinator	286˙731.00
2	BOLUDA DIVISION INDUSTRIAL SL  Organization address address: "CALLE JOIERS, VIAL A, NAVE 9 17-19" city: PALAU SOLITA I PLEGAMANS postcode: 8184 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Marta Cognome: Mur Email: send email Telefono: +34 93 864 49 42 Fax: +34 93 864 99 68	ES (PALAU SOLITA I PLEGAMANS)	participant	223˙214.00
3	STIRZONE GMBH  Organization address address: HUGO-WOLF-GASSE 8C city: GRAZ postcode: 8010 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Gunter Cognome: Figner Email: send email Telefono: +43 316 30 90 61 Fax: +43 316 30 98 43	AT (GRAZ)	participant	212˙098.00
4	Dennis Allen  Organization address address: GROVEBURY ROAD UNIT 11 city: LEIGHTON BUZZARD BEDFORDSHIRE postcode: LU7 4FF contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Dennis Cognome: Allen Email: send email Telefono: +44 1525 376 007 Fax: +44 1525 372 007	UK (LEIGHTON BUZZARD BEDFORDSHIRE)	participant	166˙381.00
5	META VISION SYSTEMS LIMITED  Organization address address: OAKFIELD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE . city: EYNSHAM postcode: OX29 4TH contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jonathan Cognome: Moore Email: send email Telefono: +44 1865 887 908	UK (EYNSHAM)	participant	162˙451.00
6	TWI LIMITED  Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Amanda Cognome: Beeson Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223 899088	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	participant	45˙826.00
7	TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT  Organization address address: TEKNIIKANTIE 4 A city: ESPOO postcode: 02044 VTT contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Tapio Cognome: Heikkilä Email: send email Telefono: 358404000000	FI (ESPOO)	participant	31˙299.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The MobiWeld project will develop a prototype, mobile Friction Stir Welding (FSW) system, which will be designed and constructed for use in final fabrication/assembly in a shipyard environment. It will deliver the following benefits: • Offer a superior method of fabricating aluminium ship panelling – reducing fabrication costs of ships and ship components by €500k for a 2,000 tonne cruise liner • Develop a new, IP protectable, automated welding system to be supplied to the market by the SMEs in the consortium – with potential for sales of €75m to benefit European SMEs • Improve the productivity of the European ship building and fabrication market to enable improved competitiveness against low-labour rate competitors • Accelerate the adoption of aluminium vessels (through lowing the cost of manufacture), which enable significant improvements, lower running costs (lower fuel consumption) and lower CO2 emissions

A new FSW technique uses a novel FSW tool called a “floating-bobbin” which allows welds to be made with almost zero, vertical force on the plates, to be welded by a FSW machine. This subsequently requires much lower forces to make a weld and therefore the associated FSW machine can be made much smaller, less expensive, and critically mobile - thereby allowing this technology to be more widely used for in-situ fabrication in shipyards.

The international competitiveness of the European shipbuilding industry is of increasing concern, while current world-leaders, the far-east (especially Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan) and the US are rapidly improving the quality and performance of their vessels – primarily through the adoption of aluminium in ships. European SMEs involved in the industry need to optimise their production methods very quickly to stay competitive with shipyards all around the world.'