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10. October 2018

Wood K plus at the IEA Networking Meeting

The annual IEA networking meeting took place on 10/10/2018 at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology. Current developments and results of the technology programmes were presented. Wood K plus was present as part of the Task 42 national consortium for networking in biorefinery research.

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05. October 2018

PROFACTOR: Guaranteed Quality for Exclusive Business Jet Interiors

Quality, exclusivity and safety – the top-class and stylish interiors required for business and private jets must meet the very highest standards. FACC has the answer for every section of the aircraft, from the cockpit to the luxurious cabin, from the galley to the crew’s rest area, and offers customized solutions for interiors as well as a wide selection of high-quality materials.

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05. October 2018

PCCL: Winner of the 2018 Fast Forward Award

This year marks the 22nd time that the business award of the province of Styria has been bestowed on the most innovative projects of Styrian companies and research institutions. Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH (PCCL) won the special award “Creativity Inspires Digitalization”.

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28. September 2018

Pro²Future – Products and Production Systems of the Future will “Think”!

Pro²Future – products and production systems of the future will “think”! That is the vision and the primary research objective of the new COMET centre of excellence Pro²Future. Launched in 2017 and characterized by intensive groundwork and initial successes, the centre celebrated its first anniversary with partners and stakeholders on 18 September in the great hall of the JKU with “Pro²Future in Progress”.

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28. September 2018

LCM at the International Forum Mechatronics in Bolzano

From 19 to 20 September the International Forum Mechatronics took place in Bolzano. During the forum, Dr. Leander Bernd Hörmann, BSc (team leader IIot, Area Sensors & Communication, Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH) gave a talk on battery-free wireless sensors. In it, the specialist presented a wide range of areas of application (e.g. rotating parts in mechanical engineering, high-voltage applications, implantology) for battery-free wireless sensors and highlighted their essential advantages.

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27. September 2018

Add+IT 2018

On September 27-28, 2018, approx. 130 internationally experts from industry and academic in the field of Additive Manufacturing will meet in Steyr, Museum Arbeitswelt . The current state of research, highlights and trends will be presented and discussed. The symposium aims to facilitate synergies between research and industry, to highlight the state of the art and beyond state of the art of additive manufacturing methods with the focus on polymers.

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03. September 2018

SCCH H2020 Project SERUMS Approved

The “SERUMS” (Securing Medical Data in Smart Patient-Centric Healthcare Systems) project run by Software Competence Center Hagenberg was recently approved under the Horizon 2020 (H2020) programme. In the project, SCCH focuses its research chiefly on privacy-preserving machine learning. The project is set to run for three years and has a budget of EUR 4.37 million.

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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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