AIMEN

AIMEN Technology Centre is a Non-Profit Innovation and Technology Centre highly specialized in materials and in advanced manufacturing technologies applied to materials processing, robotics and automation. AIMEN is a highly professionalized organisation specialised in the fields of Materials Science, Manufacturing Process Engineering, Control Engineering, and Laser Processing. Main R&D activities focus on laser-based manufacturing of metallic and composite materials, including additive manufacturing, laser-coatings and laser surface treatments, laser-based surface functionalization, automated fibre placement and 3D-printing technologies for the fabrication of functional components and prototypes, and assisted by means of off-the-self and innovative monitoring and control systems for improving process parameters towards higher products´ quality and performance. Other research activities are devoted to the development of flexible manufacturing for 0-defect system configuration through human-robot collaborative operation, augmented reality, development of intelligent adaptive manufacturing systems (monitored, CPS, reconfigurable and autonomous systems, embedded control systems, artificial intelligence), design and developing of quality-based inspection systems, process control and tailored-based sensor monitoring. All together feeding advanced simulation-based and data-driven models to extract information and generate new knowledge  by correlating design-engineering-process-quality-in-service-and-recycling data throughout a novel digital thread method created along the production and manufacturing value chain.