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WAVETAILOR

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Objective

Modular laser sources for sustainable production of short personalized production series

WAVETAILOR focuses on two industrial scenarios related to the complex multi-material component and assembly. The first one is the Directed Energy Deposition of a multimaterial leading edge for a hypersonic hydrogen-driven airplane, while the second relates to the Powder Bed Fusion of complex multi-material assembly of a drone for urban delivery. The challenges in both cases are related to zero-defect manufacturing, sustainability, and first-time right manufacturing. WAVETAILOR aims to solve the high-precision in complex material structure manufacturing, the disassembly, reuse, and recycling of components while reducing the environmental footprint of both the manufacturing process and the components themselves.

To achieve this, three main pillars are developed in the project: 1) flexible energy-efficient photonic setup based on modular diode-based laser source and multi-wavelength optics; 2) full reconfigurability of this setup, to use minimal energy and material resources in the manufacturing of two use cases and 3) ZDM and ZDW strategies at assembly level controlling the compliability of complex multimaterial products at the machine level, shop floor level, and delocalized manufacturing chain level. The latter pillar will be based on digital sibling (shop floor level) and twin (cloud level) for automatic assessment of component/assembly design for circularity; first-time right process planning using synthetic legacy data and ZDM/ZDW based on real-time process and post-process monitoring.

When the WAVETAILOR objectives are achieved, the manufacturing process of the two use cases will have spent 200MWh of energy less, 923kg of waste less, while the production costs are going to be 50-65% lower. In order to prove this, a dedicated sustainability study is provided along the project.

Fields of science

manufacturing engineering – waste management –  information engineering – robotics – sustainable economy – physical sciences – optics – laser physics

Programmes

Topics

Coordinator

JOANNEUM RESEARCH
MATERIALS – Institute for Sensors, Photonics and Manufacturing Technologies

Address :
Leobner Strasse 94a
A-8712 Niklasdorf
Austria

Austria

Activity type
Research
Organisations

Contact name :
DI Dr. Vojislav Petrovic-Filipovic,
Senior Scientist
for Laser Production Technologies
Contact

WAVETAILOR Project Presentation
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