Fundacion CARTIF
Fundacion CARTIF

Spain: Castile and Leon

Overview

- Control and automation systems analysis for the improvement of industrial processes
- Automated fault diagnosis in complex systems
- Study of new coatings and materials with nanoparticles additions
- Energy efficient buildings and districts. SMART CITIES
- ICTs for energy efficiency
- Modeling, analysis, control and vibration monitoring in slender structures
- Advanced man-machine interaction systems via voice recognition and computer vision (tracking of hands, gestures, faces.)
- Automatic recognition of shapes and textures.
- Three-dimensional colorimetric reconstruction
- Procurement and purification of natural compounds and their incorporation to products of high added value
- Application of processes and biotechnological tools to the agrofood industry
- Knowledge-based inelligent systems
- Advanced technologies for effluent treatment: membranes and advanced oxidation processes
- Energy and material recovery of waste and by-products
- Integrated health technologies
- Industrial solutions: Equiment for the testing of nanoparticules, Tyre debeader tools, 3D printing and rapid prototyping system, Laser welding cell
- Energy and environment: Plant for chemical recycling of plastics (PET and PU), Plant for chemical recycling of plastics (PE), Photocatalytic plants with 09-UVC Fluoracadus lamps, Treatment plants with membrane technology, Wastewater treatment plants using membrane bio-reactors, Anaerobic digestion plant, Biomass and waste pelletizing pilot plant
- construction/infrastructure: long 6 short range scanning, structural dynamic assessment
- agrofood: Cooking extrusion, Fibertec, Soxhtec. Viscosimeter, Colorimeter, RVA, Packaging system, Climatic chamber, NIR Calibration
- Health: Agrofood Laboratory, Chemical Processes Laboratory, Biotechnology Laboratory
. - Scientific & technological
- Study / initial design / Simulation
- Proof of concept / Lab testing of basic experimental set-up/ Characterisation
- Component/ breadboard / process development & testing
- Prototyping (integrated system/ sub-system) development & testing
- Pilot line / demonstration line / pre-series
 
. Yes. service.

Sectors
Automotive - Chemicals - Construction & building sector - Energy - Environment - Agro-food - Electronics - Healthcare - Machinery
Technology
Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 - Robotics / Human machine interaction - Process industry (processing of novel materials, structures, etc.) - Monitoring and control - Additive manufacturing - High-performance production (flexibility, productivity, precision and zero defect) - Intelligent/ sensor-based equipment - Environmental materials (e.g. recycling, recourse efficiency, less impact, CO2 capture/ utilisation) - Industrial materials (incl. catalysts, membranes, adhesives, filters) - Smart and multifunctional materials (incl. phase change, shape memory, self-healing, self-manufacturing) - Polymers, bioplastics - High value food & feed additives - Biobased chemicals - Biofuels - Power electronics - Nanomembranes - Laser based applications