Industrial Area:

Product Innovation & Multiphysics Simulation

Helping companies to design and develop the technology for their new products

At Product Innovation & Multiphysics Simulation of eurecat we offer outstanding value propositions with a multidisciplinary vision that incorporates all of Eurecat’s technology

Experience

planta pilot de plastronica

Smart objects

  • Development of complex products that involve electronics.
  • Digital interconnection between objects and the internet.
aeronatucia

Aeronautics

  • Simulation using Eurecat methodology with the sector’s leading companies.
disseny de peces de plàstic

Design of plastic parts

  • From concept to pre-series.
  • Solution of mechanical problems.
fabricació additiva

Design for additive manufacturing

  • Topology optimisation.
  • Generative design.

Services

desarrollo de producto

Product design and development

  • Identification of innovation opportunities and conceptualisation of new products.
  • Smart products, Internet of Things.
  • Computer-assisted design (CAD).
  • Aesthetic design.
prototipaje

Simulation

  • CAE simulation, fluid simulation.
  • Rheological simulation.
protipaje

Prototyping

  • Prototype development.
dieless

Dieless

  • Manufacturing of short series with ISF (incremental sheet forming).

Multimèdia

BIP-UPy

ChefMyself

Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF) Technology

Customers

Most representative sectors

Health

aeronatucia

Aerospace

automocio

Automotive

ferroviari sector

Railway

Most representative sectors

Clients

Key projects

Hypermembrane project

Hypermembrane

Standarised and industrialised product for the construction of light architectural structures that need to reproduce complex geometry surfaces.

Bresaer project

Bresaer

New cladding system for building façades and roofs to make these processes more cost-effective and environmentally friendly.

Optician 2020 eurecat

Optician 2020

Personalised spectacles adapted to the morphology of each user based on the use of 3D printing technologies and local manufacturing.

BIP-UPy

BIP-UPy

Biomedical implants that activate a therapeutic cellular response of the body for people suffering from intracranial aneurysms and pelvic floor dysfunction.

Product Innovation & Multiphysics Simulation Team

Irene Rafols

Director of the Product Innovation & Multiphysics Simulation Unit at Eurecat

Irene Rafols is a qualified architect, having graduated from ETSAB – Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain) and holds a master’s degree in computer-integrated engineering from CIM – Polytechnic University of Catalonia. For over 10 years, she has led and participated in various funded R&D projects (both national and European) and developed products for private companies in a range of sectors, including medicine, sports, construction and consumer goods. She also holds three patents.

She currently directs the Product Development Unit at Eurecat, specialising in the development of new products from concept to first series with a great degree of technological innovation, a benefit offered by all technological departments at Eurecat. For two years now, she has been promoting research into DFAM (design for additive manufacturing) within the department she leads, focusing resources on topology optimisation, the structural characterisation of the mesoscale level, and the effects of different additive manufacturing technologies on the piece’s final geometry and mechanical performance.