In September 2012 a European collaborative project was launched entitled "Hard Material Small-Batch Industrial Machining Robot (HEPHESTOS)". HEPHESTOS' main objective is to develop novel technologies for...
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In September 2012 a European collaborative project was launched entitled "Hard Material Small-Batch Industrial Machining Robot (HEPHESTOS)". HEPHESTOS' main objective is to develop novel technologies for the robotic hard material removal that will provide standard industrial robots with advanced techniques in machining planning, programming and real-time control. Hard materials machining has recently attracted great attentions from the advanced industries, in particular, the European automotive, the aerospace and the biomedical industries. However, the existing technology failed to provide these industries with a cost efficient solution to cope with small-batch production of large and complex-shaped products. The project HEPHESTOS, with its focus on developing sophisticated methods in robotic manufacturing, shall give rise to a cost-efficient solution in hard materials machining for this small-batch production of highly customized products through the application of industrial robots.
The implementation of carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs) in the aeronautical industry has increased dramatically in recent years due to their favourable combination of low weight and high strength as well as the...
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New societal challenges influence product development on different levels, from business strategies of companies to engineering activities. For instance, the extension of product centered development to Product-Servic...
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New societal challenges influence product development on different levels, from business strategies of companies to engineering activities. For instance, the extension of product centered development to Product-Service systems including products, services, infrastructure, business models etc. demand specialists of different domains regarding the development of such solutions. Therefore, transdisciplinary team work is not an academic concept, but a necessity in practice. Besides classical challenges regarding team work, transdisciplinary teams have to face differences in the mutual understanding of development concepts, thus, resulting in misunderstandings. The research group Rethinking Prototyping focusses on prototyping processes, in particular by integrating different approaches and analyzing future potential of prototyping. The main idea is to bring different perspectives into collision to learn from each other and develop a common understanding of prototyping. For this purpose a two-day workshop has been conducted, bringing together a group of engineers, architects, interaction designers, media designers etc. Various domain specific design tasks have been analyzed and performed in mixed teams while recording the design process of the group and specific wording of each participant regarding prototyping. This paper describes the research approach and the qualitative results of the study.
New innovations are a decisive competitive advantage in today's global markets. Besides technical improvements the extension of classical product centred offerings with services to a provider of individual solutio...
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Nowadays developers are confronted with rising requirements in terms of miniaturization along with optimal utilization of provided space plus functions integration. The technology mechatronic integrated devices (MID) ...
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The current standards on the safety of machine tools are reliable sources for designers who need to know which materials and thicknesses are appropriate for safety guards on a certain type of machine tool. However, du...
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The processing of fibre reinforced plastics is one of the main research areas at the institute for Machine Tool and Factory Management of the Technical University of Berlin. In this process new tool concepts and innov...
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In this paper the technological fundamentals of dry ice blasting as a pre-treatment process for the electroplating of plastics are presented. The advantages compared to conventional pretreatment are discussed. In a se...
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The number of different virtual reality (VR) systems and corresponding interaction techniques is quite manifold, today. For dedicated input devices, data types and application domains specific interaction techniques h...
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In this paper, we present a robot programming system taking into account natural communication and process integrated simulation as well as a unified robot control layer and an interface towards the Digital Factory fo...
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