- Start: 01/04/2013
- End: 28/02/2015
FEWIND is a strategic project for the Galician shipbuilding industry, as potential supplier of offshore wind industry. In the scope of FEWIND a robotised cell for welding jacket nodes was built. The jackets are large tubular steel structures that are anchored in the ocean floor at 35-60m-depth as foundations for the offshore windmills. The jacket structure includes some nodes in which loads concur. Current manual welding of nodes is a critical bottleneck during the manufacturing process of the jacket.
Led by NAVANTIA, the Consortium is completed by ElectroRayma (Cell control system); INTAF (Welding engineering, cell design and manufacturing of the supporting structure); ARTABRO SAMDEU (Cell design and electromechanical driving). FEWIND also counted on the collaboration of AIMEN Technology Centre and the Integrated Engineering Group (GII-UDC) of the University of La Coruña.
AIMEN contributed with its knowledge about materials and joining technologies, collaborating also in the definition of the optimum configuration, integration and set-up of the robotised welding cell.
This project has been supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) by the CDTI, the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and Innovation Galician Agency.
- Sectors: Metal mechanical, Shipbuilding, Wind energy
- R&D&i: Advanced assembly and disassembly technology, Mass customization
- Contributors: UDC
- Leader: Navantia, S.A.
- Partners: ELECTRORAYMA, INTAF, Artabro Samdeu
- Acronym: FEWIND
- Ambit: National
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