University of Luxembourg RUES (Production Technologies)

Core business

• Laser welding
• Welding of dissimilar materials
• Copper and aluminium welding (batteries)
• Polymers and metals welding
• Robotic assembly
• Human and worker interacting during safe assembly operation
• Lean manual assembly
• Manufacturing process flow optimization
• Value stream management

Major Materials & Manufacturing projects

• Laser Technology Competence Center (LTCC) -EU
• Laser beam welding of polymers – international industry
• Robotic joining of special dies - international industry
• Combined Laser Braze-Welding Process for Al-Cu – automotive OEM
• Transnational Cluster of Materials and Processes –EU
• Self-Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Robotic Peg-in-Hole Assembly Process - national research fund
• Perceptive real-time collision avoidance for safe Human Robot Cooperation - national research fund
• Knowledge based Intelligent Planning system for production automation - national research fund

Technical / technological capabilities

• Automotive/aerospace/medical industries,
• Electric vehicles,
• Lightweight design,
• Composites,
• Electrical device
• Joining dissimilar metal-metal combinations and hybrid polymer-metal structures,
• Effects of intermetallic compounds on dissimilar joints,
• Surface ablation, annealing,
• Some crystallographic/metallographic/electric/mechanical/fatigue/chemical materials characterisation

Main customers / collaborations

• Goodyear
• IEE
• FANUC
• Delphi
• TRUMPF
• IMATEC
• GENERAL MOTORS
• OPEL
• RWTH AACHEN
• Universität des Saarlandes
• Universite de Liege