A collection of case histories of successful collaborations between High Technology Network Laboratories and businesses. These are tangible and customisable examples of the application of new technologies, products, or services that show how industrial research can meet the needs of innovation.

Results: 10

Man at the center of autonomous processes: a case study on laser marking

Development of an autonomous system for laser marking to sup

An automatic system for laser marking was developed in cooperation with Robby Moto Engineering (RME), by adding a vision system to a LASIT commercial marker. The system is able to recognize the pieces inserted in the machine and autonomously complete...

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DIGIMAN - Solutions for the digitalisation of companies in the manufacturing sector

Digitization to support businesses

The DIGIMAN project aims to develop tools to support the transformation of a generic industrial machinery into a Cyber-Physical System. This result will be possible thanks to the definition and implementation of a hardware-software platform, called...

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SACHER (Smart Architecture for Cultural Heritage in Emilia-Romagna)

Cloud Platform for Cultural Heritage

Despite a vast and heterogeneous tangible cultural heritage such as the Italian one, cultural operators still denounce the lack of innovative tools able to facilitate the management of huge amounts of data and to integrate the various heterogeneous...

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Hi-SCORE – Hi performances, Sustainability and COst REduction in machine tool industry

Circular innovation solutions in machine tools

The evolution of machine tool industry is linked to the stakeholders’ need to constantly increase productivity, which means constantly improving the applied technologies. The research for increased sustainability, combined with the reduction of...

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Cryogenic machining for hard to machine aerospace alloys

Improvement of productivity for machining aeronautical materials

Titanium alloys and Ni-based super-alloys are notoriously difficult to machine materials mainly because of their low thermal conductivity. This causes high cutting temperatures with a consequent triggering of a series of problems related to thermal...

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Sentiment Analysis Systems for Business Intelligence

Analysis ofthe opinions expressed on the internet on a topic

The implemented Social Business Intelligence system makes it possible to interpret and analyse unstructured texts generated and collected from the web, to extract qualitative and quantitative assessments. Specifically, the system exceeds the...

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Middleware solution to manage Private Clouds based on open source technology

Lower management costs for the company's IT

CIRI ICT laboratories have developed an innovative distributed Private Cloud Computing platform based on open-source software, as a valid alternative to expensive industrial solutions available on the market typically targeted to large size...

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Embedded Automatic Vision Systems

Multi smart camera system for indoor tracking

Implementation of a low cost embedded vision system with the use of smart cameras based on low-cost embedded hardware, where optics, acquisition sensor, processing and communication hardware are integrated in a single device. This aspect, on one hand...

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Machine tool components redesign with aluminium foams

Damping and stifness with structural metal foams

The experiences accumulated within the MUSP Laboratory in the field of redesig and, more broadly, design of structural parts of various types of machine tools, with conventional materials (especially electro-welded steel) and innovative ones such as...

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Data Fusion for Monitoring and Diagnostics of technological Processes

Sensors and data integration to improve performance

In the industrial realm it is now possible to have large amounts of data in various applications, from process monitoring to adaptive control. This “data rich” environment is mainly supported by two factors: the continuous development of high...

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