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- Adaptronics
- Adaptable systems capable of detector changes in their setting, reacting before the new conditions and adapting consequently. Action areas
- Action areas
- The action area is understood in Fatronik as the way in which it groups its different areas of knowledge. It is an effort to combine knowledge, collaborations and people to shape an interesting offer for several industrial sectors.
- Active materials
- Intelligent and multifunctional materials, such as: piezoelectrics (change their mechanical form under an electric field), form memory alloys (change shape with temperature)…
- Assistive technologies
- All those scientific-technical areas that can provide solutions for accessibility problems.
- Assistive robots
- Robots that assist the elderly and/or disabled in their daily life.
- Applied Research
- Research to acquire new knowledge, directed mainly at a specific practical objective.
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- Biomechanics
- A science which attempts to explain the phenomenon of life by means of mechanics.
- Basic Research
- Experimental or theoretical works mainly for obtaining new knowledge on the bases of phenomenon and observable facts, without applying them or giving them a determined use.
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C
- Competitive Vigilance
- Systematic and organised observation, capturing, analysis, precise diffusion and recovery of relevant information for the organisation effort.
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D
- Demanufacturing
- Automated disassembly of products for the subsequent reuse and/or recycling. It is a process that takes place during the product end of life stage.
- Distributed (solutions)
- Software developments that are not executed in one piece of equipment, but in different devices that cooperate executing different tasks and exchanging information with a common aim.
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F
- Framework Programme
- European framework programme for technological research and development.
- FSW
- Friction stir welding processes.
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- ICT
- Information and Communications Technologies
- ISF
- Incremental Sheet Forming Processes.
- Industrial Research
- Projects with companies, that allow for the transfer of our knowledge to the business fabric to increase its competitiveness. ISF
- Innovation
- Technological innovation implies the creation, development, use and diffusion of a new product, process or service and the significant technological changes of the product.
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L
- Leading Edge Technology Research
- Research that allow us to go into our specialisation and which to a large extent determine the technological offer of the centre in the medium and long term.
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- Mechatronic
- Mechatronic is the integration of mechanics, electronics, computer and control disciplines, that when combined make the generation of more intelligent, flexible, versatile, reliable and simple systems possible.
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N
- NTBCs
- New Technology Based Companies. They are companies producing high added value goods or products, whose main economic activity is based on their own technological knowledge. They mainly operate in top level strategic sectors, such as computing, communications, precision mechanics, biotechnology, electronics, nanotechnology, etc.
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P
- Parallel kinematics
- That in which the Cartesian axes do not appear as such and only exist virtually in the control system. In this way, the movements of the machine´s head according to the Cartesian axes are achieved by means of the combination of the movements of the parallel axes.
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- R&D
- Research and Development. It includes basic research, applied research and experimental development (see definitions of these concepts).
- Rehabilitation robots
- Robots destined for recovering a human function or capacity.
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S
- SAT
- Technical Assistance Service
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T
- Technological stock
- Group of scientific-technological competences, continuously adjusted to satisfy the different sectors with a constantly updated offer.
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