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R&D - Research & Development

R&D Role

Technological Innovation:

• Development of new machining and automation modules
• Development of new services
• Continuous product improvement
• Support to customer process innovation

Strategic Innovation
New internal production methodologies, enabling the reuse of existing modules to reduce costs and to improve productivity.

Relationship with University

• Stages
• Graduation thesis
• Master thesis
• PhD's
  • Agent Based Manufacturing Control
  • Production planning in Engineer-to-Order Production System
• Academic activities
  • Support to PoliMI Course on Integrated Production Systems in Piacenza
  • Dedicated lectures on Control and Supervision of Mfg. System
• Research projects co-funded by international and national programs

Research organizations partecipation

• CIRP
  (International Academy for Production Engineering)
  • Industrial partner (1997)
• VRL
  (Virtual Research Lab for a Knowledge Community in Production)
  • FP VI Network of Excellence VRL: Industrial partner (2004)
• MUSP
  (Macchine utensili e Sistemi di produzione)
  • PRRIITT - Regional Industrial Research Program, Innovation e technology transfer
  • HiMec: "Distretto per la meccanica avanzata"
  • Founder partner (2005)

Financed research projects

• Mod Flex Prod
  (Mod Flex Prod: Brite-Euram Project BR-0440)
  • Title: new MODular production system architecture to combine FLEXibiliy and PRODuctivity
  • Goal: Development of a new production system architecture with enhanced flow of part, tool and information, for supplier of mechanical parts for the automotive industry.
  • Duration: May 1997- June 2000
  • Partners:
    • MCM S.p.A. (I) (Coordinator)
    • Lajous SA (F)
    • Politecnico di Milano (Dipartimento di Meccanica) (I)
    • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (F)
    • ITIA CNR (I)
    • CIMPA (F)
    • Sandvik (S)
• SPI
  (National Research Program on Innovative Production Systems: Theme 1)
  • Title: Innovative methodologies to realize mechanical machining stations
  • Goal: To realize a new generation of production systems, with an innovative methodological approach enhancing commonality, functional modularity and reuse.
  • Duration: August 1999 - December 2003
  • Partners:
    • MCM S.p.A.
    • BIGLIA S.p.A.
    • MOTORI MINARELLI S.p.A
    • CNR-ITIA Ist. di Tecn. Ind/li e Automazione (MI)
    • Politecnico di Milano - Dip. Tecn. Meccaniche
    • FIDIA S.p.A.
    • CE.S.I S.a.s.
    • Università di Napoli - Facoltà Ingegneria
    • Università di Pisa
    • CNR-IMGC (TO)
    • CNR-ITL (MI)
• Jetfive
  (Eureka Project ∑!2577: JetFive)
  • Title: High Speed, Five-Axis Manufacturing Module For The Aerospace Market
  • Goal: Development of an innovative, five-axis, high speed module with linear motors for the machining of aerospace field structures.
  • Duration: June 2001 - December 2002
  • Partners:
    • MCM S.p.A. (I)
    • Quinson SA (F)
    • D.Electron Srl (I)
• Torero
  (European Project IST-2001-37573: Torero)
  • Title: Total life cycle web-integrated control- design-architecture for distributed control systems
  • Goal: Development of an architecture which allows a community of intelligent sensors and actuators, each equipped with a logic controller, to first self configure and (later on during their life cycle) maintain their functions automatically from the Web and to jointly solve an automation problem without a central control unit
  • Duration: July 2002 - January 2005
  • Partners:
    • IAF University of Magdeburg (Germany)
    • Politecnico di Milano (Dip.Elettronica) (Italy)
    • MCM S.p.A. (Italy)
    • Fraba (Germany)
    • Altec (Greece)
    • ISI (Greece)
    • Lenze (Germany)
• Kobas
  (VI Framework Program Integrated Project KoBaS)
  • Title: Knowledge Based Customized Services for Traditional Manufacturing Sectors Provided by a Network of High Tech SMEs
  • Goal: Development of new processes and flexible & intelligent manufacturing systems. Support to the development of new knowledge based added value products and services in traditional less RTD intensive industries - IP dedicated to SMEs
  • Duration: May/2004 - May/2007
  • Partnership: Various SME's from 6 European countries
• NetPP
  (National Research Program: NetPP)
  • Title: Development of Network Part Programs for the machining of prismatic components
  • Goal: Computer aided development and execution of non-linear process plan for machining operations
  • Duration: January/2007 January/2010
  • Partners:
    • Università degli studi di Lecce
    • Politecnico di Milano
    • CETMA - Centro di progettazione, design e tecnologia dei materiali
    • MCM S.p.a.
    • FERRAIOLI S.r.l.
• PABADIS'PROMISE
  (VI Framework Programme European Project)
  • Title: PABADIS based Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems for Re-Configurable Enterprises
  • Goal: Develop a new control architecture based on distributed intelligence, a new manufacturing ontology, a first embedded Real-Time agent platform for control, a new generation of RFID's, a new generation of field control devices, and building blocks for a new generation of Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
  • Duration: August 2005 - July 2008
  • Partners:
    • CVS at IAF University of Magdeburg (Germany)
    • SAP AG (Germany)
    • Siemens AG (Germany)
    • Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria)
    • Identec Solutions AG (Austria)
    • Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
    • MCM S.p.A. (Italy)
    • CR Fiat, Business Information Technologies (Italy)
    • ARMINES, Ecole des Mines d'Ales (France)
    • Defi Systemes (France)
    • Industrial Systems Institute (Greece)
    • ACE Advanced Concepts Engineering SA (Greece)
• VAN
  (VI Framework Programme Integrated European Project)
  • Title: Virtual Automation Networks
  • Goal: Provide innovative solutions, extensions and standards dedicated to industrial environments, to fill the existing gap between office technologies and industrial automation technology, focused on a new dimension of uniform networking of production and manufacturing processes.
  • Duration: September 2005 - August 2009
  • Partners:
    • Siemens AG (Germany)
    • AUCOTEAM GmbH (Germany)
    • Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)
    • CARTIF (Spain)
    • Fidia S.p.A. (Italy)
    • Heitec AG (Germany)
    • IFAK Magdeburg (Germany)
    • MCM S.p.A. (Italy)
    • Phoenix Contact GmbH (Germany)
    • Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
    • Schneider Electric GmbH (Germany)
    • Teleport Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH (Germany)
    • University of Magdeburg (Germany)
    • Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Germany)
• MEDEIA
  (VII Framework Programme European Project)
  • Title: Creation of a new intuitive modelling and design framework for embedded control systems to fulfil the increasing design and engineering needs in the industrial automation sector.
  • Duration: January 2008 - December 2010
  • Partners:
    • PROFACTOR GmbH (Austria)
    • Technische Universität Wien (Austria)
    • Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
    • SUPSI (Switzerland)
    • kirchner SOFT GmbH (Austria)
    • MCM S.p.A. (Italy)
    • SCHUNK GmbH (Germany)
    • Electricité de France SA (France)
    • O3NEIDA Europe (Belgium)