Consortium
Coordinator
Aitiip is a non-profit RTD private entity, specialised in the integration of robotic processes for the factories of the future. Specifically, AITIIP will lead the subtractive operations and the integration of all components in the KRAKEN machine.
Spain
Partner
TWI is an independent research and technology organisation, established in 1946. Part of TWI’s research and development focus is to promote the manufacturing freedoms offered by metal based additive manufacturing technologies.
United Kingdom
Partner
Founded in 1984, is a private research and development company, which is specialized in microtechnology, nanotechnology, microelectronics, systems engineering and communications technologies. CSEM will be in charge of the design of the overall control system as well as the realtime correction of the robot.
Switzerland
Partner
A leading European company constructing and managing buildings and civil infrastructures under sustainability principles. ACCIONA is one of the end users of the project and will provide applications within the construction sector.
Spain
Partner
Founded in 1978, Centro Ricerche FIAT (CRF) mission is to develop and transfer innovative products, processes and methodologies to improve the competitiveness of the products of the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. CRF will be responsible for the assessment of new materials and technologies.
Italy
Partner
Pininfarina is a design house of international repute, a world symbol of Italian style with over 80 years of experience. Pininfarina will contribute mainly to the design and engineering of the physical demonstrators.
Italy
Partner
Established in 2001, Teamnet Group is a leading TIC integrator in the Eastern part of Europe, with headquarter offices in Romania.
Teamnet will be involved in the software upgrade and new software development as well as integration.
Romania
Partner
With close to 200 years of pioneering solutions to measure the world, Leica Geosystems solutions capture, analyse and present spatial information.
They are in charge of the Laser tracker technology implementation and upgrading of the tracker in order to adapt it to the project needs.
Switzerland
Partner
Vero Software is a world leader in CAD CAM software with a proven track record of reliable product delivery. Vero develops and distributes software for aiding the design and manufacturing processes, providing solutions for the tooling, production engineering, sheet metal, metal fabrication, stone and woodworking industries. Vero will provide software for the consortium.
United Kingdom
Partner
Arasol is a 50-year company dedicated to the distribution of an extensive range of welding products of superb quality.
In KRAKEN, Arasol is in charge of the metallisation and very interested in the exploitation of Additive manufacturing based on welding, using their distribution and sales network.
Spain
Partner
VBC are technology consultants supporting businesses and organisations to realise their technological and operational goals. VBC will support the industrial validation of the developed solutions, as well as coordinate the exploitation, standardisation and business planning for the project’s exploitable results.
Greece
Partner
Alchemie is a SME which has been established for almost 30 years. The company specialise in the formulation and manufacture of Epoxy and Polyurethane Polymer resin systems. They will develop the specialised formulations of resins for KRAKEN application.
United Kingdom
Partner
ESPACE2001 is a small company specialised on the integration of Laser Trackers. ESPACE2001 will be responsible of the management of the data generated by the Laser tracker to be usable by the machine and also the software to check the real time validation of the geometry.
Luxembourg
Partner
CECIMO is the European Association of the Machine Tool Industries. It brings together 15 national Associations of Machine Tool Builders, which represent approximately 1500 industrial enterprises in Europe, over 80% of which are SMEs. CECIMO will help on the dissemination, transfer of the results information and communication of the project.
Belgium
Partner
Autonomous Systems SRL is a Romanian SME founded in 2011 having as core activity the research and development of autonomous systems and robotics components. In KRAKEN,Autonomous will develop the KRAKEN online monitoring software component, that will integrate all the KRAKEN components and control the processes defined in the offline component.
Romania