European project: EVOCATION

sEnsori innovatiVi cOst effeCtive per monitoraggio parametri diAgnosTici e condizioni di carIcO macchiNari

Innovation and Digitalization

Bi-REX

E.S.T.E. is a partner, together with other companies, in the collaborative innovation project funded by the Bi-REX Competence Center. Bi-REX | Competence Center of Bologna is a public-private consortium established by the Ministry of Economic Development and dedicated to the promotion of industrial processes and technological innovation. It hosts over 60 excellences including universities, research centers and companies that aim to guide and assist companies in adopting Industry 4.0 enabling technologies. The project is funded under the PNRR (Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 2.3) by the European Union through the Next Generation EU program, with the aim of promoting and relaunching the technological and digital transformation of the country.

Abstract

Monitoring, diagnostics, and forecasting techniques can improve the efficiency and quality of production processes, with a significant increase in competitiveness.
However, the application of such methods is often limited by the cost of acquisition and the scarcity of certain types of information (e.g. critical physical quantities, failures). The EVOCATION project aims to address these issues by operating in three complementary directions:
1) the use of new generation sensors for the monitoring, at competitive costs, of physical quantities poorly covered by existing technologies (e.g. deformations, load, lubricant conditions);
2) identification of innovative applications for such sensors and design of testing procedures and setup;
3) definition of analysis methodologies that integrate elements of Artificial Intelligence, signal processing and physical modeling.
The goal is the creation of synergic solutions that integrate hardware, software, data-driven techniques and domain knowledge for monitoring, diagnostics and forecasting with other applicative transversality. The development will be driven by concrete industrial cases on gearmotors, industrial valves, automatic machines and plastic and metal molding machines.

Partner

The partners involved in the initiative are: Bonfiglioli, Sacmi, Poggipolini, Velan ABV, Bitbang, E.S.T.E., SanChip, ISE, Selcom Group, Sens-in

REQUEST MORE INFORMATION