CORDIS · FLASH
Flexible Laser-based manufacturing through precision photon distribution
- Code
FLASH- Programme
- HORIZON
- Call
HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-02- Status
- SIGNED
- Period
- 2024-01-01 – 2026-12-31
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Participants
| Organisations | Role | Country | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALTFORM S.R.L. | coordinator | IT | 494 250 € |
| ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION METALURGICA DEL NOROESTE | participant | ES | 640 800 € |
| UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO | participant | IT | 471 094 € |
| CAILABS | participant | FR | 429 225 € |
| EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR WELDING JOINING AND CUTTING | participant | BE | 348 875 € |
| ROBUST AO GMBH | participant | DE | 319 650 € |
| TOFAS TURK OTOMOBIL FABRIKASI ANONIM SIRKETI | participant | TR | 291 300 € |
| 3 DRIVERS - ENGENHARIA, INOVACAO E AMBIENTE SA | participant | PT | 281 683 € |
| DIAMOUTILS SAS | participant | FR | 243 206 € |
| ATOP S.P.A. | participant | IT | 217 500 € |
| Космос Трейс ООД | participant | BG | 197 503 € |
| DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANY | participant | IE | 196 715 € |
| I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE SPA | third party | IT | 0 € |
| ATS APPLIED TECH SYSTEMS LTD | associated partner | UK | |
| SYNOVA SA | associated partner | CH | |
| THE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY CENTRE LIMITED | associated partner | UK | |
| UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD | associated partner | UK |
Description
Thanks to emerging materials and digital technologies, the product design space is larger than ever. Despite this, EU manufacturers are struggling to innovate, with traditional tools presenting a major bottleneck.Existing machining tools were designed for a more stable world, when a single process flow would remain unchanged for years. To increase competitiveness and respond to new opportunities, the manufacturing industry now needs customisable tools, applicable to multiple processes, and rapidly reconfigurable in response to changing needs.FLASH is an industry driven project, led by global manufacturing leader PRIMA and supported by 6 large enterprises, 6 innovative SMEs, 2 Universities, 2 RTOs, and a manufacturing association, EWF, that represents >55k companies globally.FLASH will leverage the benefits of laser-based manufacturing, which is more flexible, more amenable to digital control, and generates less waste than traditional mechanical/chemical/thermal processes. Whilst state of the art laser-based machines are optimised for a single application, FLASH will develop a flexible platform with three built-in laser sources, allowing multi-wavelength emission, over a broad pulse length regime with dynamic beam shaping, in a flexible robotic/CNC cell with three different beam delivery heads.The result will be a futureproof system capable of at least 10 macro and micro production processes over all major material types, designed to enable flexible and customisable manufacturing of rapidly evolving products for a range of industries.The benefits of FLASH will be industrially demonstrated in the automotive (car cross beam), medical (hip implant), e-mobility (electric motor hairpins) and tooling (micro drills, super abrasive grinding wheels) industries, where significant process-time, -cost and -energy savings are expected, alongside unlocking product benefits through design modifications and material substitutions not possible using existing technologies.
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