OBJECTIVES:

• Generate know-how by means of participation to research and industrial projects.

• Know-how transfer from industry to university and viceversa.

• Publication of research results.

• Constant collaboration with industrial companies, research institutes and other research grops wothin IQS from Universitat Ramon Llull and other universities in order to improve the developement of new industrial products.

• Participation of local, national and international consortiums.

• Self funding through researc and service contracts with companies and participation in competitive research projects.

• Strong relations with international research institutes.

RESEARCH LINES:

1.Calculation and design of industrial products

2.Product life cycle analysis

3.Additive manufacturing (commonly known as 3Dprinting)

GEPI research is carried out at LEPI (Laboratori d’Enginyeria de Productes Industrials = Industrial Prduct Engineering Laboratory) with several resources available for CAD-CAE-CAM (hardware and software), equipment for reverse engineering and manufacturing of prototypes and final parts.

Currently services are focused on these areas:

1. Reverse Engineering:

• 3Dscanning capabilities to obtain a 3Dshape in order to reproduce it, measure it, and compare it with native CAD files to make optimisation proposals.

2. CAD/CAM/CAE:

•CAD (Computer Aided Design): Computer models of solids, surfaces, sheet metal bending, cores and cavities, design tables, oprimisation,...

•CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing): Automatised computer manufacturing of complex sahpes using a CNC machine .

•CAE (Computer Aided Engineering): Simulations using finite elements method (FEM).

3. Modeling, Rapid Prototyping, Rapid Tooling:

• Fabrication of shapes to validate a design, prototypes to verify a function, tooling to improve production such as (cores and cavities, fixation rigs,...)

4. Mockup:

• Fabrication of real shapes to validate preliminary designs and help to decide changes to improve production.

5. Structural integrity assesment:

• Mechanical characterisation of materials.

• Numerical simulations of structures. Industrial CAE viability.

• Multicriteria analysis of structural integrity. Structural otimisations.

6. Engineering and consulting on PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and LCA (Life Cycle Assesment):

• Implementation of software for PLM, design and product development.

• Enviromental impact evaluation considering fabrication and distribution of industrial products.

• Determination and scoring of sostenibility markers for the product lifecycle analysis.

7. Biomedical and bioengineering applications:

• Design and simulation of flow within arteries. Digital image processing to fabricate tools and models for medical doctors to improve a common research.

• Design, simulation and fabrication of bioreactors and biosensors.

8. Additive Manufacturing:

• Fabriaction of short series production and personalised parts. Design modification considering the possibility of complex sahpes and reduction of numbers of parts with self assembled designs.

• Fabrication of artistic parts.

• Fabrication of unique replacement parts.

9. Design for additive manufacturing:

• Consulting to change engineering design from DFMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly) to DFAM (Design for Additive Manufacturing).