Suchergebnisse

Unrunde Bauteile sind für Anwendungen in der Antriebs- und der Fügetechnik hochrelevant. Die zum Erzeugen erforderlichen Sondermaschinen weisen durch die geringe Fertigungsflexibilität häufig ein hohes Investitionsrisiko auf. Daher wurde ein prototypischer Antrieb entwickelt, der eine Unrundbearbeitung mittels Drehen auch auf bestehenden Werkzeugmaschinen erlaubt. Funktionsnachweise erfolgten durch die Erzeugung verschiedener Unrundgeometrien an Proben aus vergütetem und gehärtetem Stahl.
Non-circular parts are of high relevance for powertrain and joining applications. The required special-purpose machine tools typically exhibit a high investment risk due to a low manufacturing flexibility. Accordingly, a prototypical drive was developed to enable non-circular machining by turning with existing machine tools. Proofs of functionality are based on machining different non-circular geometries using quenched and tempered as well as hardened steel.

The innovative software system "myEcoCost" enables to gather and communicate resource and environmental data for products and services in global value chains. The system has been developed in the consortium of the European research project myEcoCost and forms a basis of a new, highly automated environmental accounting system für companies and consumers. The prototype of the system, linked to financial accounting of companies, was developed and tested in close collaboration with large and small companies. This brochure gives a brief introduction to the vision linked to myEcoCost: a network formed by collaborative environmental accounting nodes collecting environmental data at each step in a product's value chains. It shows why better life cycle data are needed and how myEcoCost addresses and solves this problem. Furthermore, it presents options for a future upscaling of highly automated environmenal accounting for prodcuts and services.