APPLICATION SECTORS
The expertise of the UPC includes cross-applications solutions in different sectors:
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES
- Techniques for controlling and monitoring process/product quality
- Flexible manufacturing processes
- Advanced decision-making tools for Zero Defects Manufacturing (ZDM).
- Digital control with microprocessors and DSP
- Human-machine collaboration
- Computer vision
- Assessment of environmental impact
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
- Rapid prototyping
- 3D Printing
- Stereolithography (SLA)
- Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
- Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
COLLABORATIVE & AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
- Human machine communication interfaces (dialog systems)
- Advanced information models for knowledge generation and learning
- Perception systems: vision to control and guide robots
CIBERSECURITY
- Logical security. Audits, penetration tests for heterogeneous network and forensic analysis.
- High availability infrastructure
- Intrusion detection and intrusion response mechanisms
THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS
- Industrial communication
- Artificial intelligence
- Intelligent monitoring of industrial processes
- Energy saving through smart monitoring
- Sensor system and data extraction
DATA SCIENCE
- Big data analytics
- Data graphs
- Advanced statistical analysis
- Control panels and decision support systems
AUGMENTED REALITY
- Advanced 3D graphic interaction systems
- Physically - based animation
- Virtual reality, immersive interaction and geometric & volume modeling
AREAS
The UPC develops the technologies on industry 4.0 of the future. They present new challenges for which solutions must be developed related to the following areas:
- SYNCRONIZED ENTERPRISE
- ROBOTICS
- LOGISTICS
- INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION & COMMUNICATION
- ENERGY EFFICENCY
- WASTE OPTIMIZATION
- DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTION CHAIN NETWORKS
- INNOVATIVE DISTRIBUTION TO THE CONSUMER
- INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
RELATED PROJECTS
- Increase the flexibility of energy demand of industrial processes to accelerate the energy transition to a more sustainable model.
- The Service and Industrial Robotics (SIR) group participates in CaRo, the aim of this project is to advance in the development of core capabilities for dual-arm co-workers robots.
- The UPC's Institute for Textile Research and Industrial Cooperation in Terrassa (INTEXTER) is creating a platform based on blockchain technology that will directly affect the entire value chain of textile products.
- The AVINT project, in which CIEFMA UPC has participated, has the objective of developing and implementing an application for predicting the roughness and surface finishing of machined parts for optimal surface integrity.
