Events

TECNALIA presented the DENiM project at a Workshop organized by PLATEA (Spanish Steel Technological Platform) on 19th May in Madrid. After a brief presentation of the project, the focus was on the developments to predict and reduce the energy consumption in the Steel Pilot Case at SIDENOR facilities.The different models of the Electric Arc Furnace and Secondary Metallurgy were shown and the planned Decision Support System for these processes were described.

Dr. Susan Rea and Dr. Alan McGibney, project coordinators, explained the project objectives and best practices for organising and managing Horizon projects. The success story is detailed on the Horizon Europe website!Link to the article.

Ecomondo, the reference fair in Europe for the circular economy and technological innovation has been held in Rimini (Italy) the last November. The event has a high impact in terms of visibility and the organizer registered +41% in total attendance compared to 2021 (and +15% over the record edition of 2019), also recording double foreign attendance.In recent years, the debate on energy has focused on issues such as: limited availability of certain resources; the need to combat the most harmful emissions; promotion of alternative energy sources; ensuring greater energy efficiency.With the aim of proposing solutions to these issues, R2M Solution…

At Transvalor Tech Day Spain held on October 18th in Bilbao, TECNALIA presented the induction heating simulation model applied to the CIE Galfor crankshaft forging process that it is developing as part of the DENIM project (Digital intelligence for collaborative Energy management in Manufacturing). In this project, TECNALIA is generating models based on real and simulation data to predict and optimize the energy consumption of the entire crankshaft manufacturing chain for the automotive sector. The model created by TECNALIA with the FORGE software makes it possible to obtain the temperature profile of the forging billets during heating in the induction furnace, providing information on the heating…

After 2 years of online events, the 16th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) was held on 5-7 October 2022 in Seville, Spain. At the congress, VTT presented the framework for life-cycle cost and environmental impact indicators developed in the DENiM project and used the opportunity to inform the industry and research community about the LCC (Life Cycle Costing) and LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) research in DENiM.  The conference paper focused on smart energy efficiency improvements in the manufacturing processes and examined the cost and environmental indicators from several angles at the process and machine levels. In addition to the conference proceedings, the…

As part of the the 2nd Global Summit and Expo on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, on September 19th, 2022 Susan Rea presented the DENiM project as part of a talk on Digitalisation as an Enabler for Energy Efficiency in Smart Manufacturing and Alan McGibney presented the DENiM approach to Digital Maturity and Pathways to Energy Efficient Manufacturing. Visit thescientistt.com for more information about the event!