The steering committee of the French-German Academy for the Industry of the Future, meeting on October 22, 2019, confirmed the selection of two projects for the Phase 2 maturation stage: “ADAM” and “RDS Production,” led by Mines Saint-Étienne with scientific teams from IMT and TUM.
These projects were selected in October 2018 for phase 1, following a call for projects launched by the Franco-German Academy, and are renewed for phase 2 of maturation. Each project will receive €100k in funding from IMT (for a total budget of €200k).
Alloy Design for Additive Manufacturing (ADAM)
This project focuses on additive manufacturing, particularly laser beam melting (LBM, Laser Beam Melting). It aims to optimize the choice of alloy composition used in this additive manufacturing process to limit defects and optimize the mechanical properties of the final product. The project involves conducting 3D printing tests of new aluminum-based alloys for aeronautical applications. The idea is to mix metal powders, then perform laser melting tests to observe the behavior of the molten metal, and deduce new alloy compositions.
It is carried out with academic partners: Centre SMS, Mines Saint-Étienne (Christophe Desrayaud, Anna Fraczkiewicz, Julien Favre), IWB Institute at Technische Universität München, TUM, Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (Andreas Bachmann); and industrial partners: Constellium and Thales (France), Airbus, Scanlab, Linde, Aircraft Philipp (Germany, Munich).
Contact: Julien Favre.
Modeling and decision-making platform for Reconfigurable, Servitized Production systems Digitalized (RDS-Production)
In this project, the research aims to develop design methods for reconfigurable production systems, based on the modeling of interoperable components and software (via digital twins), AI and operations research techniques to assist decision-making in reconfigurations, servitized life-cycle approaches for production system equipment, and finally, multi-criteria decision methods.
This project is conducted with partners from TUM (Technische Universität München), IMT Atlantique, and Mines Saint-Étienne.
Contact: Xavier Delorme, Xavier Boucher, Institut Fayol and Alexandre Dolgui, Department of Automation, Production and Computer Science, IMT Atlantique
