Duration: January 1, 2004– June 30, 2007

Key partners

• Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (DE)
• Centro Richerche Fiat (It)
• Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Testing and Research (CH)
• Hans Waelischmiller GmbH (DE)
• Materialise N.V. (BE)
• Bombardier Rotax GmbH & Co KG (Austria)
• Universitatea Technica Din Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
• Tomo Adour S.A. (FR)
• Universita di Bologna (It)

Objective
The main project objectives are to develop new basic hardware components and algorithms for fast and accurate 3D-CT scanning for parts of any complexity and large dimensions, new algorithms for automated CT image processing, fast surface and solid modelling as well as methodologies for the integration of the new technologies into the rapid product development and manufacturing process.

More info can be found on the Detect website: www.detect-eu.com

Methodology for the virtual geometrical tuning of cars

Duration: March 1, 2005 – December 31, 2006

Key partners
• Volvo (Ghent, BE)
• Metris (Leuven, BE)

Objective
Metris, the center of excellence for optical metrology, secures a contract with Volvo to develop a mobile measuring system for quality control purposes at Volvo Cars.
The system will combine technologies from both Metris and the former Krypton, a company that was acquired by Metris in April this year. The 1.7 Meuro value of the total contract will attract a subsidy of 0,5 Meuro from the Flanders Institute for Science and Technology (IWT). Also Flanders’ Drive, an organization that promotes the introduction of innovative technologies at companies active in Flemish automotive industry, participated in the realization of the approval of the subsidy.

Completed projects

AROSATEC

Automated Repair and overhaul System for Aero Turbine Engine Components

Duration: November 1, 2003– July 31,2006

Key partners
• BCT (DE)
• ALROUND (DE)
• ISQ (Portugal)
• Metris (BE)
• MTU (DE)
• Sifco (Ireland)
• Skytek (Ireland)

Objective
The maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of aero engine components consists of a chain of different processes, e.g. inspection, de-coating/coating, welding, milling and polishing. Today most of these processes are carried out manually.
The first objective of the proposed project is to improve existing repair methods by employing adaptive machining technology. The adaptive CNC technologies make use of the information provided by the data management system and compensate for the part-to-part variation of the complex components to be overhauled.
The second objective of the proposed project is to develop a data management system which will constitute the core of automated overhaul systems for aero engine components. As part of this innovative data management solution, the single repair process modules are integrated to build an automated repair cell for aero engine components.

More info can be found on the AROSATEC website: www.arosatec.com

Virtual probing based on optical scanned point clouds

Duration: February 1, 2004 – January 31, 2006

Objective
The project aims at the development of a Virtual Probing system that allows the evaluation of the dimensions of a physical object or industrial product in absence of both object and measuring equipment during the evaluation. The virtual probing system uses a virtual description of the physical object hereto, that is generated by optical scanning of the object. Measurement macros that contain successive measurements and evaluations are then executed not on the physical object, but on its virtual representation that represents the dimensions and characteristics of the physical object in a detailed and accurate way. The resulting evaluation is equivalent to an evaluation by running a measurement macro with tactile measurements on the physical object.

Development of an integrated scanning solution for K-series measuring systems ‘K-Scan’

Duration: July 1, 2004 – June 30, 2006

Objective
The project aims at the development of an integrated scanning solution for K-series measuring systems. This solution enables the use of an optical scanner in a large measurement volume.
Development of a 3D laser scanner for feature measurement

Development of a 3D laser scanner for feature measurement

Duration: April 1, 2003– March 31, 2005

Objective
Traditionally features are inspected using tactile probes mounted on Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM's). This project proposes the development of the Cross Scanner to complement the tactile probing methodology with a high speed non-contact approach for feature measurement.

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