Efficient low volume high variant robotized painting

This project will realise an ultra flexible robotized spray painting solution for small lot sizes under low total volumes per year. The technical solution will be to integrate off-line CAD and sensing data with on-line robotic control. The consortium consists of 4 industrial end-user, 1 industrial technology provider, 2 research institutes and 1 private research organisation. The approach will be focused on industrial requirements and finally large scale basic building blocks, a first prototype implementation and finally large scale implementations. An industrial supporter group will also be setup to further integrate other interested companies, especially SMEs. Exploitation will be based on a new product range for this kind of application. Economic benefits of more than 121MEuro are expected within 3 years after finishing the project.