Project cooperationUpdated on 4 June 2025

Automotive Supplier Looking To Demonstrate Novel Solutions

Öykü Akbulut

R&D Engineer at Ermetal Automotive

Bursa, Türkiye

About

What We Can Do

Ermetal produces high-quality metal parts for the automotive industry using cold stamping, welding, and custom tool and fixture design. We offer full support from design to production, including prototypes and mass production. Our focus is on durability, efficiency, and precision.

What We Want to Achieve from International Projects

  • We want to join international projects to:

  • Integrate advanced circular economy practices into our production chain

  • Collaborate on new technologies for material reuse, waste reduction, and energy efficiency

  • Expand our network and exchange know-how with global partners

  • Enhance our capabilities in digitalization, automation, and lifecycle assessment

  • Position ourselves as a sustainability-driven supplier in the global automotive industry

Our Experience in International Projects

Ermetal has participated in several international projects, including

  • InnoSale: Focused on improving the sales offer creation process in complex manufacturing environments by integrating product configuration, pricing, and stakeholder collaboration.

  • OPTIMUM: Aimed at enhancing distributed control and smart manufacturing through the adaptation of IoT technologies, context-aware applications, and 3D engineering tools.

  • SynAM: Part of the Horizon Europe MSCA Staff Exchange 2022 call, this project focuses on advanced manufacturing technologies and staff exchange programs to foster innovation.

  • i-Weld: An MSCA-funded project improving welding of advanced alloys like duplex stainless steel using data-driven experiments and modelling to enhance process and material performance.

  • MACHINAIDE: A Eureka ITEA3 initiative that created tools for accessing and analyzing multiple Digital Twin datasets, enhancing machine usability and lifecycle optimization in manufacturing.

Ermetal is eager to expand its international collaborations, driving innovation and sustainability in manufacturing while delivering high-quality solutions to the global automotive industry, as shown by our successful HORIZON MSCA and EUREKA framework projects.

Stage

  • Early idea

Topic

  • Data technologies | Data ecosystems for the realisation of circular value creation exploiting the full potential of digitalisation – e.g., harnessing existing, purpose-built platform solutions.
  • Data technologies | (AI based) process and system control technologies
  • Data technologies | Assistance and Expert systems
  • Data technologies | Simulation models and predictive analytics to assess the scalability of circular processes across industries
  • Data technologies | Design of an adaptable Digital Product Pass:
  • Enabling technologies | Manufacturing and machine learning, e.g., to increase the flexibility of industrial processes, modular approaches, reduce use of materials, quality assurance and certification of products)
  • Enabling technologies | AI-driven diagnostic systems, e.g., for assessing the viability of reused, remanufactured, and recycled components
  • Enabling technologies | Industry 4.0 technologies (IoT, big data analytics) for monitoring and managing circular value chains
  • Enabling technologies | (Advanced/smart) Sensors, e.g., enabling materials, components and product flows measurement
  • Enabling technologies | Robotic / handling - and assistance systems
  • Enabling technologies | (Advanced) Materials and additive manufacturing
  • Enabling technologies | Life cycle assessment / Product life cycle management – e.g., Digital Twin / Digital Product Passport
  • Enabling technologies | Reverse Manufacturing (e.g. adaptive automation for high variance, sorting, sophisticated logistic systems)
  • Enabling technologies | Tools and solutions addressing challenges emerging from product focused regulations (such as the ESPR)

Type

  • Consortium seeks Partners
  • Expertise offered

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