Database providing access to the High Technology Network's industrial research offering: research competences, type of analyses and tests available at the Laboratories. Companies can consult the Catalogue to find Laboratories and researchers that match their needs.
Competence
Analysis and preliminary planning: Design project management (PDM / PLM)
Analysis of standards and regulations: laws and guidelines for protected, biological raw material, and processing
Characterization of products of microbial origin: biomass, metabolites, natural antibiotics. Conversion and transformation processes of food an by-products
Combined stabilization strategies to enhance shelf-life and food safety
Conceptual design: analysis of customer needs and development of alternative concepts
Conceptual design: graphic rendering, augmented reality, virtual reality
Design for Assembly / assembly analysis, tolerance chains and technical product documentation (CAD / CAT)
Design for Engineering Materials: methods and techniques for the exploitation of engineered materials
Design for Ergonomics (Digital Mock Up, HMI - Human Machine Interface, User centered design, User experience, Usability)
Design for Manufacturability / Analysis of technological processes for metal machining (CAM)
Design for Manufacturability / Analysis of technological processes for metals (CAE): castings, plastic deformation, sheet-metal forming, injection molding
Design for Manufacturability / Analysis of technological processes for polymers (CAE): plastic deformation, injection molding, extrusion, thermoforming
Design for Sustainability (LCA, energy efficiency)
Design of new molecular markers for traceability of specific varietal components
Design to cost, fault tolerance, robust design
Detail design: Design archetypes , parametric models (CAD)
Detail design: Dynamic analysis and NVH (Noise, Vibration, Harshness)
Detail design: internal and external three-dimensional thermo - fluid dynamics of components, machines and systems (CFD)
Detail design: lumped parameter and one-dimensional fluid dynamic analysis of circuits, components, machines and systems
Detail design: lumped parameter and one-dimensional static and dynamic electromechanical analysis of circuits, components, machines and systems
Detail design:static, dynamic, elastodynamic structural, thermo structural and crash analysis (FEM)
Effects of packaging on the evolution of food microbial population
Evaluation of molecular transformations during food processing
Food traceability by evaluation of functional components
Food traceability by genetic analysis
Food traceability by spectroscopic techniques, NMR, proteomic and peptidomic methods for the identification of ingredients or contaminants
Genetic methods for varietal identification
Innovative strategies for microbial control: the use of natural antimicrobials and thermal treatments
Integrated design and programming of robotic systems and automatic machines (flexible, modular, configurable, adaptive systems)
Interaction between food microorganisms and gut microbiota
Marker identification for the instrumental detection of desired or undesired microflora: set up of markers or indicators
Methods for the specific and varietal identification based on single components within blends
Microbial analysis, challenge tests, instrumental analyses
Microbial response to environmental stress: optimization of microbial performance
Microbial strain selection for food production: enzymatic, physiological, and genetic characterization
Microbial strain selection: technological characterization
Microbiological activity in food: risk analysis
Modulation of microbial growth and shelf-life evaluation as a function of formulation and storage condition
Molecular analyses for the identification of pathogens and spoilage microorganisms and the evaluation of their impact on final product,
Molecular characterization of DNA, protein, peptides and metabolites