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The meeting took place on 9-10 September at the VDL premises in Roeselare, Belgium. It was physically attended by LMS, IPC, TECNALIA and VDL, but also remotely by AIMEN, COMAU, CEA, ESI, UNIMORE, TTPSC.

The purpose of the meeting was to finalize the pilot requirements, collect ergonomics related data, and perform onsite review of the manufacturing processes for the customization of the associated PENELOPE solutions of the VDL pilot. 

The discussions were focused on process requirements, i.e. required dispensing systems, the robotic resources requirements (especially about the cable robot), but also the perceived physical and mental workload of the operators.

On December 2022 CECIMO – the European Association of the Machine Tool Industries and related Manufacturing Technologies, held its General Assembly in Brussels. During the General Assembly, CECIMO organised a booth dedicated to the EU projects, where the PENELOPE project was projected, including its pursuits and technical solutions for industry 4.0.

The Projects’ Booth was presented to CECIMO’s network of national associations and top CEOs of industrial enterprises. It sparked a remarkable presentation of Penelope’s objective to build a closed-loop digital pipeline for high-precision manufacturing of substantial components in EU industries. In addition, some of CECIMO’s Delegates expressed a strong interest in the PNELEOPE project and its achievements and were curious to explore projects’ potential exploitation opportunities.

🧑‍🚀​That’s a little step for a man but a giant leap for humankind. 🧑‍🚀​

Does it ring a bell? It was 1969, and what a bunch of significant advances we have lived since then.

From the dream of a genius to the latest innovations in the transport & aerospace fields, Penelope’s team will be focused on bringing you the latest trends and innovations, so you feel like a rock star in your next company meeting😎​

✨​Forget about any widely known sleight of hand stuff and impress all your colleagues with incredible facts on advanced manufacturing✨​

Hurry up; just a few seats are available, and today’s topic is exciting: shearography.

🙋‍♂️​Hold on to your horses, Ms PeneloPe! What does “shearography” mean?

👩‍🎓​Shearography is a contactless and full-field non-destructive testing technique based on laser interferometry and highly adapted to inspect composite parts.

It could sound a bit complex, so we attended this exciting workshop hosted by V2i and NLR a few weeks ago. 🔝​And what a bunch of exciting people we met there!🔝​

Personnel from V2i, Project Manager Thibault Boulanger and CEO Daniel Simon had the pleasure to collaborate with Patrick Jansen and Jacco Platenkamp from NLR – Netherlands Aerospace Centre with the support of Jonathan Rochet from OPTRION.

Both companies are active in work package 4 of the PeneloPe project, developing distributed inline quality assurance solutions.

While V2i is developing and implementing shearography inspection of composites for the VDL Bus & Coach pilot line, NLR will automate multidomain inspection for the aeronautics pilot line based on their expertise for NDT of aeronautics structures.

The day’s topic was the benchmark of shearography solutions used by both partners. V2i uses OPTRION’s DeFinder Shearography system to assess the quality of full composite bus side panels concerning impact damages and repairs, while NLR applies shearography to aeronautics applications.

The partners made good use of the day. They had plenty of fascinating discussions on shearography methodologies and measurements on composite parts from Aerospace and Transport applications. Hence, we are afraid that more & more exciting meetings will be coming in the forthcoming months.

We will be there to bring you the latest news and trend, but in the meanwhile, you can join our Community by clicking here. Hot stuff inside.

See you there🤗​

The PeneloPe team.

A new week, a new adventure of our 🌪️​restless PeneloPe.🌪️​

​✨​And what a bunch of great news PeneloPe is bringing us!​✨​

Factories of the Future projects (DIMOFAC, INTEGRADDE and PeneloPe) promise a vast catalogue of technologies to help us implement Industry 4.0 and launch Expression of Interest calls at a regional level and bring many more opportunities in a 1-hour-and-a-half-non-stop workshop focused on spreading the “test before invest” concept.

🚀​ Keen on busting your business? If you are, you cannot miss this workshop. Learn the most valuable tips to:

📌​Avoid one of the most significant barriers to manufacturing innovation for European SMEs: the high level of investment required to adopt new technologies.

📌​ Implement open pilot schemes in your region. 

Learn how SMEs, MidCaps and Large Organizations can engage in hands-on demonstrations and trials before investment while learning from success stories emerging from the Open pilot Networks.

🏃​ Don’t miss a second! Watch the FULL workshop by clicking here.

If you have not joined our community yet, you are missing the latest news and manufacturing industry trends. 

Miss no more opportunities by clicking here. 

However crucial manufacturing can be for our daily lives, producing the computer we are working on, the book we are reading and the food we are eating, the sector is losing momentum and students turn away from it.

Lack of flexibility, wages, etc. the attractiveness of the industry suffers from many clichés.

Join our Industry 4.0 Web Café to discuss how to give a second wind to manufacturing!

→ Register here

Some say that we are changing times, but, in our humble opinion, what we are living is a time-change as never before.

A few years ago, concepts such as Close-loop digital pipeline or Zero-defect manufacturing would be associated with Uranus, but now they are, on average (at least from us).

And that is why we are doing our best to bring you the hottest news and events in the Large-Scale Manufacturing Industry, joining the best events.

This time it was The “Offshore Energy Technology 4.0”, a virtual event surrounded by some of the top minds in the industry: 

Asif Mohammed (Head of Digital Manufacturing at AIMEN TECHNOLOGY CENTRE, Spain) and Victor Martinez (Operations and R&D Director at IDESA, Spain) shared some of the latest tips and trends about manufacturing large components in the Oil & Gas sector in the Offshore Energy Technology 4.0 on Day 2 Conference & Exhibition (Virtual) taken on Friday 16th September 2022…and we were there sharing the knowledge and spreading the Word. 

👉​ Do you want to join the inner circle and be in the know about the latest news?

Join us in the PeneloPe Community here.