Materials Processing and Capital Equipment

Chips for key sectors, artificial intelligence, precision fermentation and innovations to protect natural capital are technology trends for 2025

2025-01-10T13:35:14+01:00December 13th, 2024|Automotive, Autonomous and professional robotics, Big Data, Food, ICT, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes, Sustainability|

Designing and manufacturing specific chips for key sectors of the economy is one of the technological trends set to shape 2025 says the scientific team at the Eurecat technology centre. They also predict that generative artificial intelligence will continue to grow in the coming year with disruptive applications and greater integration with technologies including [...]

Spin-off Aracne, specialising in predictive systems and quality control of fabric, winner in the Green Digitalisation Category at the European Digital Innovation Hubs Awards

2025-01-10T13:28:07+01:00December 2nd, 2024|Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, New Manufacturing Processes, Press Notes, Textile|

The spin-off Aracne, set up by the Eurecat technology centre and textile machinery manufacturer Canmartex and specialising in the development of predictive and quality control systems for the knitted fabric manufacturing process, has picked up a Green Digitalisation Category prize at the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) Awards. The awards, sponsored by the European [...]

Artificial intelligence and robotics drive the transformation of the textile industry

2024-10-25T12:31:47+02:00September 26th, 2024|Autonomous and professional robotics, Big Data, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, New Manufacturing Processes, Press Notes, Textile|

Artificial intelligence and robotics are driving the transformation of the textile industry as demonstrated during a special session on advanced manufacturing in this field. The event addressed new use cases of new technologies to enhance efficiency in the industry’s production system along with the changes being rolled out in aspects such as quality control. [...]

Eurecat taps artificial intelligence in new advanced manufacturing solutions for the textile, automotive and construction sectors

2024-06-05T12:11:17+02:00April 12th, 2024|AAI, Automotive, Autonomous and professional robotics, Construction, Fires, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Press Notes, Railway|

The Eurecat technology centre has showcased at the Advanced Factories trade fair advanced manufacturing solutions drawing on artificial intelligence to transform industrial processes in the textile, automotive, construction and other sectors and unlock Industry 4.0 in enterprises. Specifically, Eurecat has exhibited at Advanced Factories a solution harnessing photonics, the Internet of Things and artificial [...]

Canmartex and Eurecat devise a new generation of automated knitting machines with a smaller carbon footprint

2024-06-05T11:53:47+02:00April 5th, 2024|Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, New Manufacturing Processes, Press Notes, Textile|

Canmartex and the Eurecat technology centre are pioneering a new generation of circular knitting machines, eco-designed to reduce their carbon footprint and automated to optimise efficiency and operator ergonomics in their use, as part of the ECO-TEX project. “The main goal is to help modernise and upgrade the textile industry to make it more [...]

Generative AI, breakthroughs in sensor technology and the potential of photovoltaic energy among the industry trends which will shape 2024

2024-02-20T12:08:23+01:00January 24th, 2024|Automotive, Autonomous and professional robotics, Energy, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Press Notes, Textile|

The introduction of generative artificial intelligence in virtually every link of the supply chains of many industrial sectors, the replacement of synthetic fibres in the textile industry and its resulting impact on the reduction of microplastics, breakthroughs in automotive sensor technology and the push for the Internet of Things (IoT) and the potential of [...]

Eurecat Congress points to industrial innovation as the key to Catalonia’s competitiveness and wellbeing

2023-12-11T15:41:08+01:00November 24th, 2023|Events, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The first Eurecat Congress has underscored Catalonia’s opportunities for moving forward in reindustrialisation against the backdrop of today’s technological revolution by enhancing its competitiveness, growth and generation of wealth and social wellbeing through harnessing levers including adaptation to climate change, digital transformation and tapping artificial intelligence technologies. The congress hosted by the Eurecat technology [...]

Universities and research and technology centres set up a nanoelectronics and microchip training cluster

2023-05-18T14:45:29+02:00July 12th, 2022|Corporatiu, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Press Notes, Training|

Catalan universities and research and technology centres including Eurecat have joined forces to set up a training cluster in microelectronics and nanoelectronics technology and for other complementary scientific and technological disciplines to meet the needs of the semiconductor industry. The cluster will deliver training, continuing education and reskilling courses, postgraduate programmes and a joint [...]

New smart system for operator-robot collaboration trialled

2022-03-14T11:27:42+01:00December 20th, 2021|Autonomous and professional robotics, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Press Notes|

The European Sharework project led by the Eurecat technology centre has tested a new smart system for safe and ergonomic collaboration between robots and workers in industry with a view to enhancing the working conditions of operators. The project has developed flexible software made up of 14 technological modules “to furnish robots with the intelligence [...]

Battech tests out batteries for new line of RUBI GROUP construction tools

2022-03-14T11:32:47+01:00December 14th, 2021|Construction, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Press Notes, Sustainability|

Battech, the leading battery R&D centre in southern Europe, has examined the reliability and useful life of the lithium-ion batteries which building firm the RUBI GROUP has chosen to fit in a new line of work tools to check they can safely operate as standalone devices. This comes in response to market trends which are [...]

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