Equipements
The CIRTES platform has been located in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges since 1991.
For 30 years, it has grouped together the equipment: Additive Manufacturing (AM), Rapid Product Development (RPD) digital chain, Subtractive Manufacturing (SM), AM + SM hybridization.
It offers companies research, R&D, technology transfer and training resources.
The tools of the digital chain looped in place on the platform are CAD, Digital Simulation, Virtual Reality (VR), Digitization, Additive Manufacturing (AM), Subtractive Manufacturing (SM, Advanced 5-axis machining), 3D Control, Characterization and Pre-series Qualification.
The platform thus has heavy and powerful industrial equipment representative of the entire digital chain of Rapid Product Development (RPD).
Equipments
- CAD - CAM
- TopSolid, CAD/CAM
- Catia V5, CAD/CAM
- Sensable Freeform: Digital sculpture by haptic arm with force feedback
- 3D scanning and control
- Contact scanning
- Contactless scanning by structured light, laser, infrared light, and other small sensors
- Coordinate measuring machine (CMM)
- Numerical simulation and optimization (Abaqus, Hyperworks Suite, DEFORM, Matlab.)
- Virtual reality
- Advanced machining
- 5-axis lathes and milling machines for rapid machining of shapes (5-axis turning and milling) REALMECA, Spinner, ...
- Additive manufacturing: 25 machines in the laboratory for the different processes
- Assembly of layers from plates: Stratoconception® (wood, polymer, metal)
- Stereolithography (SLA) resin polymerization
- Fusion of wire through a heated nozzle: Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
- Binder Spray on Powder Substrate: Z Corp - CONTEX (203/254/203)
- Direct Metal Laser Melting (DMLS) Metal : PHENIX SYSTEMS PM 100 (Ø 100 /150)
- Projection of drops of material (wax)
- Acquisition/Characterization
- NP FLEX interferometric profilometer
- High power digital microscopes
- Scanning electron microscope SEM (JSM 6010LA: Magnification from x5 to x 300 000)
- TWS Software for the acquisition of physical quantities
- OGP Smartscope optical profile projector
- INSTRON traction machine
- Polishing and sample preparation equipment for metallurgical analysis
- Tribometer under controlled environment
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