Industrial production

IPROS: An integrated prognostics and logistic support system for the engines of an aircraft fleet

2008, 4th Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics

The IPROS project addresses an issue of growing importance: that of maximizing up time equipment while minimizing maintenance and operating costs. The area of intelligent maintenance and prognostic-enabled condition-based maintenance of machinery is a vital one for today’s complex systems in industry, aerospace vehicles, ships, automotive industry, and elsewhere. As manning levels are reduced and […]

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iMat: Digitalizing, democratizing and empowering materials development via artificial intelligence

14th Cycle, 2018, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

This project focuses on materials analysis about efficient data handling and its continuously growing importance for industrial innovation (e.g. industrial digitalization). This attitude perfectly fits the role of the Translators, which have been recently defined by the European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC, https://emmc.info) as professional profiles able to bridge industrial needs and state-of-the-art academic research

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ZEGODI: Zero-waste goods display

14th Cycle, 2018, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

The ZEGODI project involved the analysis of the goods display sector: these are marketing tools that you can find in stores and that help to highlight promotion. The main issue is that environmental and economic impact of goods displays is strongly underestimated both by companies and stores. Thus, P&G, our industrial partner in the project,

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USES4: Innovative Unmanned Systems for Renewable Energy Sources Management

13th Cycle, 2017, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

New trends are involving photovoltaic (PV) power plants in recent years due to a dramatic change of the market. Plant monitoring and maintenance is becoming a crucial point in this field: plant owners and operators are requiring higher accuracy and lower costs in the maintenance to keep at top the performance of the plant. Many

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Smart-k: The app that will make small knitwear companies bigger

2013, 9th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

In Italy, small and medium knitwear companies are the ones suffering more the ongoing economic crisis. While International fashion brands have kept on exploiting economy of scales and delocalization strategies, small players have not been able to defend their share of market. Even if they own extraordinary skills and expertise, often they are not able

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LAMP: Laser Additive Manufactoring & Prototyping

10th Cycle, 2014, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

AM is a technical innovation with the potential to turn around the way in which companies manufacture end-products and do business, giving a new shape to both internal and external processes (concerning the firm-client relationship). As a matter of facts, its market, consisting of all products, materials and services, was worth around 3.07 billion USD

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WCM@FCA: New forms of work in the Automobile Industry: toward the Factory of the Future

10th Cycle, 2014, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The ASP multidisciplinary project “New forms of work in the automobile industry: toward the factory of the future WCM@FCA” broadly aims at studying new technological paradigms and new forms of organization in manufacturing contexts, with a particular focus on the automotive industry. To understand how to increase productivity, quality and cost efficiency, the team has

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ECOFRONT: Exploring the Frontiers of Cold Spray

11th Cycle, 2015, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The aim of the project is to draw the next frontiers of cold spray (CS), a new, solid-state coating deposition technology. At first, the process and its advantages and disadvantages have been assessed. Then, current equipment, materials and applications have been studied, in order to outline present technological limits from the study of recent innovations

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The Age of Smart Factories: New ICT for the Automotive Supply Chain of the future

11th Cycle, 2015, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

The ASP project “The Age of Smart Factories: New ICT for the Automotive Supply Chain of the Future” was commissioned to the group by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Centro Ricerche Fiat with the aim of presenting the students with some concrete and specific issues affecting a complex automotive supply chain, in order to analyse the

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