Starting tomorrow at the Advanced Factories fair, the Eurecat technology centre is to unveil disruptive technologies and projects in collaborative robotics and automation together with innovations in 3D printing, plastronics and composite material circularity and sustainability which are designed to make industrial businesses more competitive.
In collaborative and autonomous robotics Eurecat will showcase its state-of-the-art capabilities in projects such as SIMBIOTS. It bakes robotics into new industrial processes and applications by developing robots which enable interaction with operators in shared workspaces with no physical barriers while keeping everyone safe.
Eurecat will also present the potential of composites for developing lighter products in the automotive, aeronautics, building and other industries as part of the lightweight materials technological approach along with an innovative solution for their recovery and circularity.
It will additionally display the prototype of an autonomous aerial robot for industry to meet the needs of state-of-the-art plants which call for flexible solutions in diverse and changing scenarios, for example in resource inventory, inspection and logistics.
In plastronics it will disclose the potential of this technology which brings together electronics and plastic materials to manufacture high value-added products with enhanced features which can be mass produced.
Here it will showcase the results of the PLASTFUN project for manufacturing injected plastic parts with surfaces which have advanced functions together with SmartLabels which, as the name suggests, involves smart labels for close product tracking right across the production and distribution process.
Eurecat’s Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF 3D) technology will also be featured at Advanced Factories. The technology centre will give a sneak preview of developments in manufacturing sheet metal parts with complex shapes for prototypes, one-of-a-kind parts or short production runs using incremental deformation by numerical control which is ideal for sectors such as the automotive, aeronautics and rail industries.
