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
Biorefinery for the exploitation and valorisation of by products and waste from agrofood and feed industry
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 exnzymatic processes for transformations or bioconversions: ptimization of the processing conditions and characterization of the product
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)
Evaluation of molecular transformations during food processing
Evaluation of the functional properties of ingredients and new product formulation
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
Integrated design and programming of robotic systems and automatic machines (flexible, modular, configurable, adaptive systems)
Methods for the specific and varietal identification based on single components within blends
Microorganism selection for a particular process
Molecular characterization of DNA, protein, peptides and metabolites
New ingredients, feed, and food formulation
Optimization of fermentation and biotransformation processes
Optimization of fermentation process, study and evaluation of the nutritional and functional properties of ingredients, valorisation of ingredients and products
Rapid prototyping & Additive manufacturing
Regulation on GMOs and labelling
Safety regulations and standards for food by-products, leftovers, microorganisms and processes
Shelf-life modelization on tailor made ingredients or product
Software and internet services supporting traceability and monitoring quali-quantitative productions in agro-food
Stabilization and characterization of incapsulated enzymes