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Country of origin: Hungary

Summary

A Hungarian research centre intending to submit a proposal to the FP7 Research for the benefit of SME Associations call (FP7-SME-2011-BSG) is inviting partners to create a STEP-NC compliant software and hardware for wire discharge machines (WDM). The objectives are as follow: high productivity with STEP-NC compliant WDM controller, easy to use machine programming and increased safety.
SME Associations in the manufacturing technology / machine tools are awaited.

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A Hungarian research centre intending to submit a proposal to the FP7 Research for the benefit of SME Associations call (FP7-SME-2011-BSG).

SMEs applying traditional manufacturing technologies cannot satisfy the needs of the globally distributed customers as these systems are only deployed within an enterprise. The current CAD-CAM-CNC production methods make only one direction possible, ie., from CAD to CNC and does not allow for the changes made on the shop-floor to be traced back.

To win customer confidence manufacturing SMEs need to be flexible, proactive and responsive to changes so as to be able to produce a variety of high quality and innovative products quickly at low cost. The cost of frequent programming of CNC controlled wire exchange machines for small batch customized products can be significant. The conventional programming of numerically controlled (NC) machine tools is a sequential programming language that contains only simple commands for single movement and switching operations but it does not support more complex geometries and logical structures.

In order to satisfy the requirements of dynamic customer demand, a new standard has been developed under the ISO 16649 (SPEP-NC). The STEP-NC compliant file contains the geometry and topology, the tolerances and other features of the final product in machine independent format.

The aim is to create a STEP-NC compliant software and hardware for wire discharge machines (WDM) to respond to the global challenge of the manufacturing SMEs and increase their competitiveness.

Technical Specifications / Specific technical requirements:
Call title: Research for the benefit of SME Associations
Call identifier: FP7-SME-2011-BSG
Deadline: 08 December 2010
Internal deadline: 30 September 2010
Required contribution: 2,8 million ¬
Percentage of EU funding: 50%-100%

SME Associations are awaited as partners to provide technical consultation/assessment and help the dissemination and exploitation of project results.

Partner expertise sought:

- Type of partner sought:
SME Association.

- Specific area of activity of the partner:
Machine tools.

- Task to be performed by the partner sought:
1)provide technical consultaion/assessment.
2) help with dissemination and exploitation of project results.
3) assist field testing.

Listed under: Industrial Manufacture \ Materials Technology

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Key dates Profile created on: 11 June 2010 Date last updated: 29 July 2010 Closing date: 30 September 2010

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