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06. August 2018

Profactor pulls of EU-Project "Spirit" for new inspection robots

The research center PROFACTOR has been awarded a 3-year resarch project called SPIRIT. Together with 8 partners from science and industry, including FACC, voestalpine Böhler Aerospace and Centro Ricerche Fiat, a new generation of inspection robots is to be developed. These robots will be used for very different inspection tasks in industry – without programming. SPIRIT aims at the development of inspection robots that can deal with a wide range of inspection technologies.

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25. July 2018

Linz Center of Mechatronics: App at the Supermarket - Test Phase in Progress

Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH is developing a product information system in the EU project ASSET. The resulting app is now complete and available for testing at the Winkler Markt Auhof supermarket. The app aims to help customers choose their purchases. It is currently still at the prototype stage, although tests are being conducted in the field. After entering their preferred parameters, customers immediately receive an overview of individually reviewed products.

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13. July 2018

RECENDT: Grinzato Award for Work on Infrared Thermography

At the 14th Quantitative InfraRed Thermography (QIRT) Conference held in Berlin at the end of June the award for the best scientific paper went to a joint Austro-German project: the researchers Peter Burgholzer (RECENDT GmbH, Austria), Thomas Berer (RECENDT), Mathias Ziegler (BAM), Erik Thiel (BAM), Samim Ahmadi (BAM), Jürgen Gruber (FH OÖ), Günther Mayr (FH OÖ) and Günther Hendorfer (FH OÖ) won the Grinzato Award for their paper “Blind structured illumination as excitation for super-resolution photothermal radiometry”.

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12. July 2018

RECENDT and TCKT Launch New Energy Research Projects

The research institutions RECENDT – Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH and TCKT – Transfercenter für Kunststofftechnik GmbH have received approval for innovative projects in the field of energy research under the Upper Austrian “Energieforschungsprogramm 2018”. A total of eight projects by ten research institutions have been approved for the Upper Austrian “Energieforschungsprogramm 2018”. Overall, the projects have been granted funds of EUR 3 million.

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09. July 2018

PCCL: Elisabeth Ladstätter is New CEO

At the beginning of July Elisabeth Ladstätter joined the management team of Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH (PCCL) as new CEO. Together with CSO Wolfgang Kern she now heads Austria’s leading centre for collaborative research in polymer technology and polymer science. Ms Ladstätter studied polymer technology at Montanuniversität Leoben and earned her doctorate with a thesis on composite technology. She has worked in both industry and at university and therefore has extensive experience of the worlds of technology and research as well as of business management.

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06. July 2018

“NDT4INDUSTRY” – RECENDT Partners’ Day

The first RECENDT Partners’ Day on 5 July 2018 was a complete success. Under the banner of “NDT4Industry”, the host companies RECENDT and UAR provided a programme of information for their guests that lasted the whole day. Intensive discussions took place during the extensive in-house fair during lectures, workshops and lab tours, plus of course at the five “dedicated islands”.

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25. June 2018

European Patent Office Patents LCM Invention

In June 2018 it was made official. The technology for haptic feedback developed by Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH (LCM), more precisely the device and procedure for creating a haptic response on a planar substrate, has now been patented by the European Patent Office. Haptic feedback is part of a new kind of touch screen with innovative features. At its heart is a transparent plate whose shape is actively changed by piezoelectric materials. The registered inventors are Wolfgang Berger (LCM) and Prof. Johannes Gerstmayr (formerly of LCM).

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19. June 2018

AIT and UAR Join Forces with PROFACTOR

Although digitalization and Industry 4.0 offer tremendous opportunities, they also pose challenges. Industry requires innovation partners who can provide expert and integral support all along the way. The cooperation between the Steyr-based research promoter PROFACTOR GmbH, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH and Upper Austrian Research GmbH (UAR) responds to this requirement. With a long-term and strategic collaboration, the underlying potential can be increased.

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15. June 2018

COMET: Upper Austria excels with approved K Projects

The COMET (Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies) programme of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) promotes highly qualified research conducted by industry and science as partners. The latest call for projects also proved highly competitive. 21 projects from all over Austria were submitted, nine of which were accepted. Three of the four entries that had Upper Austrian companies as consortium leaders succeeded in convincing the panel of international judges — an outstanding success rate of 75 per cent.

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14. June 2018

(Good) Data is the Backbone of Artificial Intelligence

Software Research Day 2018 underlined the importance of data and software science for the quality of artificial intelligence. On Software Research Day, organized by Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH (SCCH) on 5 June 2018, the focus was firmly on the subject of quality as it applies to data, IT security, reliability of forecasts and prognoses, and the performance of models for deep learning and artificial intelligence.

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