castings,
especially
aluminium
die
castings. Setting themselves a target of improving the conductivity from 120 W/mK up to 190 W/mK, they managed not only to achieve this but also to reach 207 W/mK with their castable primary low silicon alloy. Such an improvement in heat transfer guarantees not only high-performance of devices, but also longer lifetime and significant energy and cost savings.
Innovation environment Part of FIMECC DEMAPP’s success is based on the presence of the right partners. A number of these partners are global companies, extending the R&D exercise beyond Finland and bringing in expertise worldwide. As well as this, encouraging
an
environment in which companies are willing to collaborate properly is crucial, as Dr. Markku Heino, senior consultant at
Spinverse and
“It is crucial to have the right balance of
programme manager of the FIMECC DEMAPP, explains: “Very often companies are reluctant to work with other companies who might end up being their competitors. That is why we focus on pre- commercial and precompetitive work. However, it is also important to ensure that the research agenda is right: focused enough so that the industry partners will gain real benefit from the solutions to critical problems, but also challenging enough so that the scientific partners are pushing themselves into unknown and thought-provoking lines of research.” The subject matter of the programme
itself is not unique; in fact, there are many others around the world working in similar areas, but
it is this crucial
factor of having the right balance of industrial end-users on one side, and materials specialists with the right know-how and equipment to carry out the necessary experimental
research
and modelling on the other, that sets FIMECC DEMAPP apart. With more than one hundred researchers actively working together in this way, it is no surprise that the programme has proven fruitful.
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industrial end users and material
specialists”
The road ahead The DEMAPP programme is coming to an end this year, but the next generation of work is already in progress. Building upon some of the previous work addressed in FIMECC, but mostly based on new industrial needs, two new five- year research programmes led by Spinverse began this year. The first of these is Breakthrough Steels and Applications (FIMECC BSA), which will include stakeholders from across the entire steel value chain to help provide a boost to the Finnish metal and engineering industries. The other is called Hybrid materials (FIMECC HYBRIDS), which will be looking to combine common and novel engineering materials innovative
in ways,
serving the needs of several
applications. Bringing
selected new
talent to work in environments
that
bring them into proximity industrial
with and
academic leaders is a vital step in providing a bright future for Finland’s industry, and this is reflected in the new programmes by the
inclusion of the FIMECC Breakthrough Materials Doctoral School. This will provide space for 30 doctoral students who will be given the full support from all partners involved. “Training this amount of people is a big investment, which I think is a testament to how seriously we take this side of things,” states Heino.
“We want to nurture
these people to create something new and fresh.” Heino believes that the new public-
private partnership programmes will help to build the competitive edge of companies involved, while at the same time help to provide environmentally sound solutions to industrial problems. “If you look at recent EU documentation, one thing that is talked about a lot is finding sustainable cleantech solutions that help Europe to respond to the societal challenges that we are faced with today. We are building on that talk and providing tangible answers to these challenges.”
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Project Funding: Participating companies and Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, 37 MEUR
Project Partners: 26 companies from Finnish metals and engineering industry and 11 research groups from 5 universities/research institutes
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AT A GLANCE Project Information
Project Title: FIMECC DEMAPP: Demanding Applications
Project Objective: FIMECC DEMAPP is an industry-led public-private partnership program running application-driven R&D of advanced materials for extreme service conditions. The target is to tackle critical wear, corrosion, friction and fatigue related challenges and develop novel breakthrough materials solutions for the demanding applications in e.g. process, energy and engineering industry.
Project Duration and Timing: 5 years, 2009 to 2014
Dr. Markku Heino Markku is specialized in materials technology and innovation management with wide experience from scientific research to application-oriented R&D of new materials in many industrial applications. As builder and manager of several large target-oriented industry- academia joint R&D programmes he is creating new ecosystems, multidisciplinary competences and critical solutions needed to renew industries.
Contact: Tel: +358 40 7191221 Email:
markku.heino@spinverse.com Web:
www.fimecc.com/content/demapp- demanding-applications-program
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