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“A multidisciplinary team has been the secret for Twin-Control’s success”

August 29, 2018

With only a few weeks left for the completion of the Twin-Control project, coordinator Mikel Armendia from IK4-TEKNIKER summarizes the past three years of this ambitious initiative. According to Mikel, the “Digital Twin” concept is becoming popular but most available tools still show the same drawbacks, mainly lack of integration of different features. Twin-Control, which is now undergoing its final industrial validation activities, has been successful in this aspect, thanks …Read More

Virtual Machining and Optimization Workshop at Sheffield (AMRC): Summary and video

June 12, 2018

The Virtual Machining and Optimization Workshop, coorganized by the AMRC and Twin-Control, took place on March 1, 2018. The workshop consisted of presentations and an on-machine demonstration of a new online simulation and measurement capability developed on a Starrag Ecospeed machine tool in the Twin-control project. 70 people registered to the event. Due to adverse weather conditions on the day, the workshop was relocated to the Holiday Inn Royal Victoria …Read More

Digitalization for Industrial Machinery

February 22, 2018

By Jean-Pierre Delsemme, Frederic Cugnon and Hugues Legardeur J-P. Delsemme is Software engineer and product manager at SAMTECH SA, a Siemens company Frederic Cugnon is Flexible multibody dynamics expert at SAMTECH SA, a Siemens company Hugues Legardeur is Product Manager at SAMTECH SA, a Siemens company Industrial machines are more complex than ever. In an increasingly competitive market, companies must ensure innovation and manage complexity. Siemens PLM Software can help …Read More

Twin-Control plenary meeting at MASA

November 21, 2017

Last month, the Twin-Control consortium gathered for the 24th month plenary meeting at MASA facilities in La Rioja, Spain, a company specialized in the manufacturing of parts for the aerospace industry. According to project coordinator Mikel Armendia, Twin-Control goes as planned and, after two years of technical developments, is now entering the industrial demonstration phase. In the last months, MASA, PREDICT and ARTIS carried out a special effort to prepare …Read More

First Twin-Control seminar at TU Darmstadt

November 10, 2017

On November 27, 2017, the first Twin-Control seminar will take place at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. The aim of this event is the presentation of current project results for participants from both the academic and industrial environment. The general topic of the seminar is Energy 4.0: Industry 4.0 applications to increase energy efficiency and energy flexibility. A specific advantage of digitization is the potential for increasing energy efficiency. On the …Read More

Twin-Control presented at scientific-industrial forums

September 8, 2017

Before the summer, members of the Twin-Control consortium presented the project at different forums of sicentific-industrial interest. NAFEMS World Conference 2017 took place in Stockholm, Sweden, 11-14 June 2017. Frédéric Cugnon from SAMTECH presented the paper “Machine tools mechatronic analysis in the scope of EU Twin-Control project”, co-authored by Mani Ghassempouri (COMAU) and Mikel Armendia (IK4-TEKNIKER). The main subject was machine tool FEM modelling and validation, using COMAU Urane machine …Read More

24/7 fleet monitoring of Twin-Control machine tools

July 12, 2017

By Dirk Euhus and Dr. Tobias Fürtjes, D. Euhus is MMS Research Manager at MARPOSS / ARTIS and MMS project leader at Twin-Control T. Fürtjes is MMS Research Project Manager at MARPOSS / ARTIS and task leader at Twin-Control Monitoring infrastructure A reliable and continuous monitoring of all use case machines is one of the most important task in Twin-Control. Overall, in Twin-Control six industrial use case machines (three at Renault, three …Read More

Twin-Control plenary meeting at IK4-TEKNIKER

June 30, 2017

This week, June 27-28, the Twin-Control consortium gathered for a plenary meeting at IK4-TEKNIKER’s facilities in Eibar, Spain. The aim of the meeting was to review recent advances of the project and to make all preparations for the industrial implementation of Twin-Control, scheduled to be performed this October. During the plenary meeting, special sessions were devoted to check the status of the different modules developed within Twin-Control, which are almost …Read More

“Simulation will help better design machines and processes”

January 10, 2017

An interview with Jaouher Selmi from RENAULT. Renault Group, originally from France, is a leading company in the production of cars, including commercial vehicles and racing cars. As a project partner, RENAULT will implement and test Twin-Control’s results. How did you know about the project? What aspects of the project attracted you to join it? Renault was investigating and looking for a partnership in order to develop the use of …Read More