Virtual Weldability Test and Prototyping Platform

Virtual Weldability Test and Prototyping Platform

Project time: 2017 – 2018

Budget: 720 000 kr

Funding: SIP Produktion2030

Purpose and goal

The aim is to develop a demonstrator for Digital Test and Prototype Production Platform for Metal Active Gas (MAG) Welding. The digital platform can replace repeated physical testing using digital methods. MAG welding is a good case that shows extremely complex relationships between the different steps in
product lifecycle from construction over preparation and manufacture and then in use to step then as a re-manufacture, reworking, etc.

Results and expected effects

Virtual testing and prototyping greatly reduces the amount of material, time,
energy and discontinued work in product and process development. Their use, however, is often limited to smaller organizational units or functional categories like
designers, processors and manufacturing. To implement new solutions across different functional groups in circular manufacturing contexts are a challenge because of today’s fragmented,
incomplete and unstructured information.

Approach and implementation

The project focuses in MAG welding. First the industrial cases will be detailed with the help of the industrial partners to whom MAG welding is the central production process. The case specification will mainly be made to specify the requirements for the implementation of the virtual platform considering end of life treatments in a circular economy context. Following this, a generic platform demo will be built that is made up of a database and a knowledge base coupled to a virtual analysis (simulation) tool.

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