The PIMM laboratory on the Paris campus has just been awarded the coordination of a European project bringing together 10 partners.
As part of the transition to Industry 4.0 in the aerospace sector, the deployment of connected objects is transforming manufacturing and maintenance processes. Functionalizing aircraft components is a key technology enabling this transformation. This involves integrating sensors into structures in situ and equipping them with cognitive capabilities to improve their manufacturing process and operational availability without compromising safety.
This is the goal of a European project coordinated by the PIMM laboratory on the Paris campus.
Named MORPHO for Manufacturing, Overhaul, Repair for Prognosis Health Overreach, this project aims to design and validate an innovative, robust, and environmentally friendly industrial process for manufacturing, monitoring, and recycling a new generation of smart structures for aeronautics, in particular the blades of new and future turbojet engines, which are designed and manufactured using a hybrid configuration of metal and advanced composites.
MORPHO therefore proposes using onboard sensors and digital twins to monitor the entire life cycle of these smart aeronautical structures in real time. Its ambition is to define the standards that will enable the reliable, sustainable, agile, and cost-effective industrialization of this new generation of smart, multifunctional parts.
MORPHO benefits from the participation of European aerospace players such as SAFRAN and innovative SMEs, as well as high-level research institutes.
In total, MORPHO brings together 10 partners from six countries: Arts et Métiers France); Technische Universiteit Delft ( Netherlands); University of Patras (Greece); Safran (France); Fraunhofer IFAM ( Germany); Syntesites (Greece); Comet Group (Belgium); FiSens (Germany); ESI Spain (Spain); Fundación Empresa Universidad Gallega (Spain).
"MORPHO will help broaden our area of expertise,"explains Nazih Mechbal, professor and researcher at PIMM,"particularly in the real-time optimization of manufacturing, maintenance, and recycling processes for smart composite structures."The plan is to publish around 20 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and make several contributions to conferences.
