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
Acquisition and pre-processing of signals for model identification
Analysis and preliminary planning: Design project management (PDM / PLM)
Analysis of the physical, rheological, chemical, microbial, and sensorial properties during storage
Analytical tests for shelf-life characterization
Conceptual design: analysis of customer needs and development of alternative concepts
Conceptual design: graphic rendering, augmented reality, virtual reality
Continuous-time and discrete-time mathematical modeling of systems and processes
Definition of product specifications and analytical methods of verification
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 experiment (DoE) and Food Design to study interaction between formulation and process conditions
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)
Discrete events mathematical modeling of systems and processes
Experimental studies of formulations and processes: use of bioactive components from out-streams or by-products
Finite element simulation (FEM)
Formal languages for systems modeling (Unified Modeling Language-UML and SysML-System Modeling Language)
Identification of models and parameters estimation
Improvement of process efficiency for saving direct and indirect costs
Infinite-dimensional mathematical modeling of systems
Input-output correlations to assess operational parameters
Integrated design and programming of robotic systems and automatic machines (flexible, modular, configurable, adaptive systems)
Lab trails and scale-up to pilot plants of experimental production diagrams; check of the physical, chemical and sensorial characteristics
Microbial kinetics during food storage
Modeling of the collision of bodies in mechanical systems
Monitoring of chemical, physical, and biochemical characteristics (enzymatic activity and kinetics) during storage
Non-conventional thermal and non-thermal technologies for product stabilization, extraction, and conservation
Non-parametric modeling (neural networks, etc.)
Numerical simulation to define process-product interaction
On-line product control feasibility for process optimization