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: 9

Realisation of nanostructured coatings with osseointegrative and antibacterial properties

Race for the surface

Plasma-assisted Ionized Jet Deposition (IJD) is a technology enabling the fabrication of surface coatings from various materials. Its operating principle involves a pulsed electron beam striking a target material, causing its pulverization and...

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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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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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MICRO RIT/Microtomographic tests to analyse scaffolds and tissue regeneration / 3D of Tissue Engineering

Inside the structure

Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary sector of biotechnologies which paves the way for new treatment options and better quality of life for patients. Tissue engineering techniques entail the use of biomaterials and scaffolds that must meet...

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Virtual reconstruction of complex hollow shapes for optimised production of prosthetic limb sockets

From images to 3D model

The new method makes it possible to reconstruct hollow shapes, namely the inner surface of a prosthetic socket, starting from the images photographed from various viewpoints using a common camera. The software allows a three-dimensional model to be...

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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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