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




