Summary
Surprisingly, many high-added value and high-quality performance-driven industries such as automotive, aerospace, robotics, medical, and technical textiles rely on old-fashioned and manual inspection methods. Defects and contaminants are often detected only after production (end-of-line quality control) using cumbersome, slow and expensive X-Ray machines. This problem has a major impact on manufacturers and consumers as raw materials, production efforts and energy are irreversibly wasted due to this late and partial inspection. Moreover, due to the emergence and increasing prominence of high-performance composites cut across all fields – wind power (e.g. wind turbine blades), aerospace, automotive - effective and reliable production control and inspection techniques still remain incipient – most of the inspection techniques are still done in a visual and manual way (“market creation” opportunity).
Tulipz is a disruptive IoT plug & play solution for inline production and quality control, which combines a patented Terahertz (THz) technology with proprietary deep-learning algorithms deployed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. It allows for total real-time, distributed, non-destructive inspection (NDI) along production lines instead of the currently used end-of-line approach, thus guaranteeing quality, increased throughput and minimal waste. The estimated benefits to customers are substantial: a 5x increase in productivity, equipment uptime of 99.99% and a reduction in production waste by 5%.
TiHive is a team of energetic, enthusiastic and disruptive entrepreneurs, industrialists and researchers who founded the company after ten years of advanced R&D. Our ambition is to become world leader in distributed inspection for high quality, performance engineered products, in particular technical textiles by 2025. This will reinforce the world leadership of Europe in technical textiles.
Tulipz is a disruptive IoT plug & play solution for inline production and quality control, which combines a patented Terahertz (THz) technology with proprietary deep-learning algorithms deployed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. It allows for total real-time, distributed, non-destructive inspection (NDI) along production lines instead of the currently used end-of-line approach, thus guaranteeing quality, increased throughput and minimal waste. The estimated benefits to customers are substantial: a 5x increase in productivity, equipment uptime of 99.99% and a reduction in production waste by 5%.
TiHive is a team of energetic, enthusiastic and disruptive entrepreneurs, industrialists and researchers who founded the company after ten years of advanced R&D. Our ambition is to become world leader in distributed inspection for high quality, performance engineered products, in particular technical textiles by 2025. This will reinforce the world leadership of Europe in technical textiles.
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| Web resources: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/947166 |
| Start date: | 01-04-2020 |
| End date: | 31-07-2022 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | 3 372 500,00 Euro - 2 360 750,00 Euro |
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Surprisingly, many high-added value and high-quality performance-driven industries such as automotive, aerospace, robotics, medical, and technical textiles rely on old-fashioned and manual inspection methods. Defects and contaminants are often detected only after production (end-of-line quality control) using cumbersome, slow and expensive X-Ray machines. This problem has a major impact on manufacturers and consumers as raw materials, production efforts and energy are irreversibly wasted due to this late and partial inspection. Moreover, due to the emergence and increasing prominence of high-performance composites cut across all fields – wind power (e.g. wind turbine blades), aerospace, automotive - effective and reliable production control and inspection techniques still remain incipient – most of the inspection techniques are still done in a visual and manual way (“market creation” opportunity).Tulipz is a disruptive IoT plug & play solution for inline production and quality control, which combines a patented Terahertz (THz) technology with proprietary deep-learning algorithms deployed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. It allows for total real-time, distributed, non-destructive inspection (NDI) along production lines instead of the currently used end-of-line approach, thus guaranteeing quality, increased throughput and minimal waste. The estimated benefits to customers are substantial: a 5x increase in productivity, equipment uptime of 99.99% and a reduction in production waste by 5%.
TiHive is a team of energetic, enthusiastic and disruptive entrepreneurs, industrialists and researchers who founded the company after ten years of advanced R&D. Our ambition is to become world leader in distributed inspection for high quality, performance engineered products, in particular technical textiles by 2025. This will reinforce the world leadership of Europe in technical textiles.
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EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020Update Date
27-10-2022
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