- Start: 01/10/2022
- End: 31/03/2026
OPeraTIC will develop a highly efficient and modular manufacturing platform to boost the adoption of high-power Ultra-Short Pulsed Lasers, as a sustainable alternative to current surface processing. The OPeraTIC open, interoperable and expandable architecture will tackle the industrial entrance barriers of laser microstructuring of large 3D parts.
OPeraTIC provides the required productivity/quality through different developments:
(i) combination of advanced optical modules for beam transport and manipulation,
(ii) dexterous and precision robotic manipulator and
iii) AI-enhanced process planning and adaptability.
OPeraTIC proposes a modular and automated routing of optical components guaranteeing versatility and replicability, i.e beam delivery (polarization maintaining fiber), management (dynamic control beam shaping) and metrology (novel optical setups for product & process monitoring). On top of that, OPeraTIC will develop a system architecture for the upscaling of USPL machines to large envelope and complex trajectories, driven by a novel RAMI4.0-compliant controller (merging dexterous manipulation with high level CNC motion accuracy and full synchronization of motion, laser process and quality control).
Finally, OPeraTIC proposes an I4.0-compliant platform for systematic data exchange and integrated bidirectional communication (Automation-ML and OPC-UA standards) between real environment and its digital representation. This end-to-end seamless connection enhances a Machine Intelligence Framework for the definition of Zero-Defect Manufacturing strategies, empowered by AI and real-time monitorization and control, for process optimisation.
- Sectors: Aeronautical, Appliance, Automotive, Optical
- Financing programme: HORIZON EUROPE
- R&D&i: high power and high throughput laser processing, Integrated monitoring and control systems, Laser assisted processing
- Partners: AUTOTECH ENGINEERING AIE, UNIMORE- Università Degli Studi Di Modena E Reggio Emilia, Arcelik AS, Steinbeis Innovation gGmbH - SEZ, K-LOOPS SRL, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN, LASER ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS SA, PT PHOTONIC TOOLS GMBH, EDGEWAVE GMBH, DIRECT MACHINING CONTROL UAB, MECCANO SRL, QIOVA, SOFITEC AERO SL, EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR WELDING JOINING AND CUTTING, DESIGN LED PRODUCTS LTD, THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
- Acronym: OPERATIC
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://operatic.eu/
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