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 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
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)
Experimental studies of formulations and processes: use of bioactive components from out-streams or by-products
Improvement of process efficiency for saving direct and indirect costs
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
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
Numerical simulation to define process-product interaction
On-line product control feasibility for process optimization
Operator practical training for process control and lab tests
Optimization of processing conditions by desing of experiments (DoE) for product development
Product processing design: algorithms for automatic predictive control
Production flow chart, raw material HACCP and QFD, formulation, packaging and conservation conditions
Rapid prototyping & Additive manufacturing
Statistical control of the process
System design: logistics/manufacturing analysis (Lean Production, Supply Chain Management)
Testing and measuring: certificate of conformity to technical regulations
Testing and measuring: dimensional and geometric control; Reverse Engineering