Projets

Projetcs

PROJECTS

  • These are our current projects:

ARISEN

ARISEN

ARISEN
ARISEN

ARISEN - Innovation in Lubrication for Sustainable Manufacturing

  • Project Name: ARISEN - Innovation in Lubrication for Sustainable Manufacturing
  • Project Code: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-179948  
  • Action: R&D Industrial Projects on European scale
  • Total Eligible Cost: 338.796,95€
  • European Union financial support: FEDER - 244.628,61€
  • Execution period: 01-09-2021 to 30-06-2023
  • Objective: Strengthening Research, Technological Development and Innovation

 

  • Project Synthesis
  • The ARISEN - Innovation in Lubrication for Sustainable Manufacturing project is an international project developed with the support of the SMART EUREKA initiative.
  • This project aims to achieve chipping cutting processing and sustainable manufacturing of titanium alloys and aluminum alloys with a minimal amount of lubricant (MQL), based on a new mineral oil-free and biodegradable lubricant.
  • The Turkish company Belgin Oil will be responsible for the development of the new biodegradable lubricant.

PAC- Portugal AutoCluster for the Future (nº 46085)

PAC- Portugal AutoCluster for the Future 

PAC- Portugal AutoCluster for the Future (nº 46085)

PAC- Portugal AutoCluster for the Future

      • Project name: PAC- Portugal AutoCluster for the Future (nº 46085)
      • Project code: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046095; LISBOA-01-0247-FEDER-046095
      • Main objetive: Reinforce research, technological development and innovation
      • Beneficiary entity: SIMOLDES- PLÁSTICOS, S.A. (Líder), CCG, CEIIA, CENTITVC, CITEVE, CONTROLAR, CRITICAL MANUFACTORING, ERT TEXTIL, INEGI, INESC TEC, IPN, IPL, ISQ, IST, MICROPLÁSTICOS, MOBINOV, AAPICO MAIA, SCHMIDT LIGHT METAL, TMG, TOOLPRESSE, UNIV. AVEIRO
      • Approval date: 09-06-2020
      • Start date: 01-07-2020 
      • Ending date: 30-07-2023
      • Total eligible cost: 7.998.174,16  €
      • Financial support from the European Union: FEDER – 5.294.145,89 €

PAC- Portugal AutoCluster for the Future

  • SCOPE
  • PAC – Portugal Autocluster for the Future (PAC) Project is a mobilizing project led by Simoldes – Plastics, S.A and closely aligned with “Mobinov Cluster – Portuguese Automotive Cluster’s action plan. Through a set of 6 PPS, it aims to develop, test, and demonstrate a new generation of technologies, processes, and products, leveraging the competitiveness level of the entities operating within the automotive sector in Portugal and their position in a worldwide context. The technologies to be developed a focus on the areas of future vehicles architectures, interiors of the future, structures and exteriors of the future, connectivity and sensor technologies, and flexible and digital production technologies. This mobilizing project was structured with a duration of 36 months. It has a consortium consisting of 12 non-profit organizations and 9 business entities endowed with scientific and technological skills capable of achieving the proposed goals, accomplishing a multisectoral and multiregional dimension and impact.
  • OBJECTIVES
  • - PPS1 – New vehicle ‘architectures of the future: Develop, test and demonstrate new concepts and new ways of products development and validation, taking into account the connected, electric and autonomous car trends.
  • PPS2 – Interiors of the future: Develop, test and demonstrate new materials and new processes in nuclear areas of the national automotive cluster, following the trend of third living space.
  • PPS3 – Structures and exteriors of the future: Develop, test and demonstrate new materials and new processes in nuclear areas of the national automotive cluster, specifically as structures.
  • PPS4 – Sensing and connectivity technologies: Empowering the industry for new skills in connectivity and sensing´s area.
  • PPS5 – Flexible and digital production technologies: Develop, test and demonstrate new technologies, methodologies and processes for the digital transformation of the national automotive cluster, in the context of industry 4.0.
  • PPS6 – Management, coordination and dissemination: Ensure PAC Project´s management and coordination, namely in terms of technical-scientific, administrative and financial management, as well as wide demonstration of results.

PAC- Portugal AutoCluster for the Future

  • These are some of our past projects:
Stamping Cutoff Detection

Stamping Cutoff Detection – Innovative anomaly detection system for stamped parts

      • Project name: Stamping Cutoff Detection – Innovative anomaly detection system for stamped parts
      • Project code: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-038445
      • Main Objective: Strengthening Research, Technological Development and Innovation
      • Region of intervention: Alentejo
      • Beneficiary entity: Toolpresse – Peças Metálicas por Prensagem, Lda.
      • Approval date: 24-04-2019
      • Start date: 14-10-2019 
      • Ending date: 13-09-2021
      • Total eligible cost: 338.589,76€
      • Financial support from the European Union: FEDER – 226.735,12€

Stamping Cutoff Detection – Innovative anomaly detection system for stamped parts

  • SCOPE
  • The scope of this project is the metal stamped parts process by means of presses and progressive tools.
  • OBJECTIVES
  • The project main goal is to investigate and develop an anomaly detection system for stamped parts, through sensors incorporated in the means of production that allow the detection of leaks immediately inside the tool.

Tooling 4G

TOOLING 4G 

TOOLING 4G – Advanced Tools for Smart Manufacturing

      • Project code: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024516
      • Beneficiary entity: Toolpresse – Peças Metálicas por Prensagem, Lda.
      • Start date: 01-03-2018 
      • Ending date: 28-02-2021
      • Total eligible cost: 257.695,22€
      • Financial support from the European Union: FEDER – 166.781,37€

TOOLING 4G – Advanced Tools for Smart Manufacturing

SCOPE

  • The TOOLING 4G Project includes 19 companies from the molds and plastics sectors, a software company and 11 non-business entities, including 1 sector entity and 10 entities of the National Science and
  • Technology System, with an innovation curriculum, around a industry and cluster.
  • It seeks to generate knowledge, anticipate and accelerate innovative capabilities and solutions for the international market within Cluster Engeering & Tooling.
  • The innovation of TOOLING 4G is focused on tooling value chains and involves:
  • - New molds and tools (integration);
  • - New processes and technologies of production and automation;
  • - New forms of organization of the productive system "tooling".
  • It is also expected to develop several innovations focused mainly on the materials, products and processes and in the endogenization of the technologies and organizational paradigms usually included in the concept of Industry 4.0.
  • The project is supported by ANI through the Incentive System for Business R & D - Mobilizing Programs and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through COMPETE2020 and Lisbon2020.

Mobinov

MOBINOV 

MOBINOV - Automobile Cluster Association

Mobinov is a platform that brings together knowledge and skill within the automotive industry, in order to promote a growing appreciation of the competitiveness and internationalization of the sector. The main objective of this association is to transform Portugal into a reference in research, innovation, design, development, manufacturing and testing of the automotive industry's products and services.

Safeforming

SAFEFORMING

SafeForming – Intelligent System for Defect Prevention in Cold Stamping Components

  • Project name: SafeForming – Intelligent System for Defect Prevention in Cold Stamping Components
  • Project code: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017762
  • Main Objective: Strengthening Research, Technological Development and Innovation
  • Region of intervention: Alentejo
  • Beneficiary entity: Toolpresse – Peças Metálicas por Prensagem, Lda.
  • Approval date: 10-01-2017
  • Start date: 01-01-2017
  • Ending date: 31-07-2020
  • Total eligible cost: 1.129.056,49 EUR
  • Financial support from the European Union: FEDER – 669.178,85 EUR
  •  SCOPE
  • The occurrence of defects in cold metal stamping components is the major inefficiency factor of this operation, leading to high unproductiveness and unforeseen costs that diminishes the competitiveness of companies in a demanding and often relentless market.
  • Given the impact and frequency that this incidents cause in companies’ business, it is urgent to develop methods that minimize its recurrence.

 

  • OBJECTIVES
  • The SafeForming project aims to create and make available a methodology for predicting the occurrence of cracks and other defects in the stamping of parts for the automotive industry, in particular thick parts of high strength steels.