Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TODE20241017009
- Term of Validity
- 28 October 2024 - 28 October 2025
- Company's Country
- Germany
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- The German company provides a digital ecosystem for the plastics processing industry using artificial intelligence to enhance process setup and optimization. This plug-and-play solution can be integrated into any existing plant, enabling reliable and sustainable production. The company seeks partners in the plastics processing industry, ideally involved in injection molding, under a commercial agreement with technical assistance or for further development purposes.
- Full Description
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The plastics processing industry, specifically injection molding, today deals with long setup times to get a series production running, high scrap rates and a lack of experts for their production processes. This German start-up based in Aachen tackles a variety of these challenges through their advanced AI-based digital ecosystem tailored for the plastics processing industry. Through their technology, clients can optimize their manufacturing processes to achieve significant efficiency gains. The solution comprises both hardware and software components: a box and a web interface. Designed with a user-friendly interface and plug-and-play data acquisition, their platform effortlessly integrates into existing plants. It supports CAE, process, and quality engineers, as well as machine operators with an ergonomic and accessible solution and accelerates decision making through their compilation of comprehensive process information. The technology solution makes modern and complex AI-driven methods accessible for injection molding, for example for optimizing the process setup: Utilizing transfer learning and leveraging live process data, simulation results and information from past productions, the company efficiently builds process models and achieves over 70% savings in time and material.
The German company is looking for partners who are active in the plastics processing industry and are ideally involved in injection moulding in production. Those companies could also become research and development partners to develop the technology on a customer-specific basis. - Advantages and Innovations
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The digital ecosystem is particularly specialised for injection molding processes in production and achieves the following improvements over today's standards without digital assistance:
- over 70% time savings in process set-up and a 30% faster production cycle
- increasing production robustness and reducing up to 50% of scrap
- 40% decrease in downtime
Their solution is also an easy-to-use plug-and-play system that ensures persistent database knowledge and data consistency and improves the efficiency of the manufacturing process. In addition, their approach promotes greater autonomy from expert knowledge, allowing for faster onboarding of new workers. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- IPR status
- Secret know-how
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
- Companies in the plastics processing industry are sought, particularly those that utilize injection molding in production. Those company could also become research and development collaborators who can enhance the existing technology or customize it to meet specific customer needs.
- Type and Size of Partner
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- Big company
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Research and development cooperation agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 01003003 - Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- 02003001 - Process automation
- 02002013 - Moulding, injection moulding, sintering
- 02002010 - Machining (turning, drilling, moulding, planing, cutting)
- 01003008 - Data Processing / Data Interchange, Middleware
- Market keywords
- 02006005 - Big data management
- 02006004 - Data processing, analysis and input services
- 02007016 - Artificial intelligence related software
- 08002003 - Process control equipment and systems
- Sector Groups Involved
- Digital
- Energy-Intensive Industries
- Targeted countries
- All countries