Call for proposals for ReconCell

Date de clôture : 31 janv. 2018  
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ReconCell Objectives
The ReconCell project aims at designing and implementing a new kind of an autonomous robot workcell, which will be attractive not only for large production lines but also for few-of- a-kind production, which often takes place in SMEs. The ReconCell project proposes to develop a flexible robotic workcell that will allow very short, self-adaptable and affordable changeovers under the conditions demanded and based on end-user needs. This will be achieved with the minimum use of additional resources over the system’s lifetime.

Call Details 
ReconCell invites all manufacturing SMEs to apply for the Open Call. All SMEs that meet EU criteria for participation in the project will be evaluated. The main evaluation criteria will be quality and efficiency of implementation as well as potential industrial impact. The timeframe for the experiment will be up to 3 months, with a financial framework of up to 85.000 Euro allocated for supporting the SME´s participation in each experiment.

An ideal experiment should match the following criteria:

• Product needs to be assembled in reconfigurable/ modular way
• All components of the product need to be rigid
• Assembly should make use of components and current set-up of ReconCell
• Assembly sequence should not involve more than 5 parts
• Should not replicate existing experiments

Submission Details

• Call opens: November 1st, 2017
• Submission deadline: All submissions must be made by 17:00 Brussels local time, January 31st, 2018
• Electronic submission: Proposal submission is exclusively in electronic form using the  proposal submission tool accessible via the ReconCell Open Call submission platform

More information in the following documents (to be published soon):

• ReconCell current set-up
• ReconCell open call - Guide for Applicants
• ReconCell open call - Proposal format
• ReconCell open call - Download template
• ReconCell open call - Submission portal