Strength in numbers

The audience of print and converting machine sector entrepreneurs that met up at the Acimga’s Milan headquarters last October carefully followed the presentation of the new Intellimech consortium by Mirano Sancin (General Manager and CEO of the Kilometro Rosso Scientific Park and president of Intellimech). Promoted by Kilometro Rosso, the consortium has as its purpose the interdisciplinary research in the field of mechatronics for many industrial sectors. The twenty-four concerns that currently comprise the same - among which for the print and converting sector we highlight Ims Deltamatic, that produces auxiliary systems and equipments for converting - can thus take part in R&D and experimental projects for technological platforms otherwise hardly accessible financially and in terms of knowhow.
Amidst the futuristic setting of the Kilometro Rosso Scientific Technological Park (Stezzano, BG), the projects have been drawn up by Intellimech in cooperation with international academic and industrial academic research networks. On top of that the Consortium provides assistance and technical consultancy, training support for qualified personnel and looks after communication, technical-scientific information as well as the spread of technologies among the member companies. At the state of the art, two undertakings are already underway.
• The Prophet Project aims at developing skills covering the mode of design, development and management of machine and industrial prognosis systems. More specifically, methodologies, techniques and tools are being defined to support data acquisition as regards state of wear, and for the storage, converting and processing of the data captured, for malfunction diagnosis and situations of deterioration and, last but not least, the remote planning of maintenance logistics.
• The Methodology Project for the active control of vibrations and noise tackles another much-registered problem in the industrial field. The study, “pre-competitive” in nature, part of the study of the different methodologies for the active control of vibrations and sound emissions, that is, to reach the application of actual pilot cases, capable of highlighting the peculiar characteristic of the same. The age-old question is thus tackled organically, providing knowhow on the use of sensors and actuators but also on software and hardware tools for data capture and processing.