Mission
Laboratory for Advanced Mechatronics (LAMA FVG) is a laboratory for the exploitation of Industry 4.0 technologies such as manufacturing process simulation, 3D Printing of plastic and metals, conventional production processes, robotics, Industrial Internet of Things, metrology and reverse engineering. Inside the laboratory, PhD and undergraduate students together with technical people from industry can cooperate in the design of innovative product and production processes.
Product and process design is supported by dedicated software in the areas of Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and multiphysics finite element simulation. Specific software for advanced product optimization in 3D printing could also be applied.
3D printing is performed using conventional desk 3D printers for plastics and an industrial-level 3D printer of metals. Other machines for post-processing and thermal treatment of printed components are available.
A recently installed metrology room provides state-of-the art methodologies for dimensional and surface characterization of mechanical components at conventional scale and micro-scale.
The laboratory hosts also an electronic prototyping infrastructure for industrial internet of things projects with microcontrollers, industrial sensors, telemetry systems and IT infrastructure supporting the data storage and analysis.
Equipment
The detailed list of the main laboratory equipment is as follows:
- GE Concept Laser Cusing M2 3D printing machine for metals;
- HAAS 5 axes milling machine
- Hexagon Absolute Arm and laser scanner;
- Hexagon CMM machine;
- Sensofar 3D optical metrology system for micro and nanoscale inspection;
- Industrial sensors of different kinds:
- Kistler 3D accelerometers and force rings with charge amplifiers;
- Kistler rotating dynamometer;
- Custom-built high performance platform dynamometer;
- Micro-Epsilon High-speed Laser profilomer;
- Micro-Epsilon Eddy current distance sensors;
- National Instruments data-acquisition systems;
- Beckhoff industrial data acquisition system;
- Thermocameras and pyrometers.