Multidisciplinary platform for the smart manufacturing and monitoring of materials

• Engineering & Technology

Phone: (+34) 943 212800

In this asset, a series of home-designed and made lab equipment and sensors, and the knowledge of several disciplines are integrated. This enables to develop the next aspects:
• Modelling of materials and processes
• Monitoring of the material through NDT-electromagnetic techniques and correlation of the signals with its state
• ICT applied to the monitoring of materials
• Data processing and management to control and optimize the process
The objectives are to provide the tools for diagnosis of the strategies to improve the materials and to implement more efficient and safer quality control systems.

Equipment

• Commercial software: Finite elements, thermodynamic/kinetic calculation programs and home-made models for materials and processes.
• Conventional and induction thermal treatment laboratory
• Equipment for the simulations of thermo-mechanical processes: Torsion test machine that allows simulating multipass thermo-mechanical sequences and cooling conditions.
• Metallurgical models for steel transformation processes
• NDT sensors developed in Ceit-IK4 based in electromagnetic techniques

• Hybrid models for the materials and process: Development of hybrid models for the material and process that combines metallurgical models with data arising from heterogeneous sources (industrial practice, sensors, mechanical testing, etc) for optimizing the robustness of the process and achieving more consistent properties. These models will be applied on-line to control the process. Oriented to the steel sector, in the production and transformation as well as conventional and induction thermal treatments.
• Material monitoring: Analysis and interpretation of the monitoring signals (sensorics) based on the metallurgical knowledge as the way to assess the state of the material in some processing stages or in-service behavior. Quality control of the product. Oriented to the steel sector, in the production and transformation as well as thermal treatments. Also for service behavior and monitoring of remaining life.
• Metallurgical models of the material: Metallurgical models that aims at predicting the evolution of the material through all the hot working process or thermal treatment and final mechanical properties of the material. Oriented to the steel sector, in hot forming processes as well as thermal treatments.
• Simulations of the thermo-mechanical processes: Simulation of the industrial process through lab equipment that allows analyzing relevant aspects such as the ductility of the material, the processing windows, the choice of the optimized sequence or the limitations of the material. Oriented to the steel sector, in the production and transformation as well as thermal treatments.

CEIT

Miramon Building, Parque Tecnológico de San Sebastián, Paseo Mikeletegi, Nº 48, 20009, Donostia - San Sebastián, SPAIN

Sector-specific testbeds:

- e loT connectivity

- Digital technologies

Application sectors

• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Energy
• Foundry and steelmaking
• Manufacturing (across sectors)
• Steelmaking and foundry

Industry plan

• HAZI · Aerospace
• IRABAZI · Automotive components
• IRABAZI · Energy
• IRABAZI · Metallurgy