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Congratulations to our team members for winning third place in the Design & Manufacturing Competition 2022!!!
The project presented by our members consisted of the use of intelligent pneumatics in the construction of vehicles with air motors (CAV - Compressed Air Vehicle), an idea based on research, innovation, and creativity. The competition was a good opportunity to get in touch with the level of concerns and achievements in the field at a national level.
In November, the Faculty of Technological Engineering and Industrial Management Brasov, through the Department of Manufacturing Engineering organized the second edition of the National Student Design & Manufacturing Competition 2022. This competition aims to promote creativity in the manufacturing process, providing the engineering community with new perspectives in the conceptual development of products, and create, develop, and maintain a student forum to popularize new and innovative ideas.
Competition topics include:- Computer Aided Manufacturing/Robotics;
- Development of manufacturing systems and processes;
- Applications of new materials in automotive, aerospace, prototyping, and manufacturing;
- Software/hardware solutions contributing to the improvement of manufacturing processes.
There were 12 projects entered presenting models or mock-ups in the field of manufacturing science and engineering which were supported by 29 students under the guidance of 15 teachers. Participants were from six university centers: Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Robotics in Bucharest, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Robotics and Production Management in Cluj Napoca, Faculty of Engineering in Galati, Faculty of Managerial and Technological Engineering in Oradea, Faculty of Machine Building and Industrial Management in Iasi, Academy of Land Forces in Sibiu and Faculty of Technological Engineering and Industrial Management in Brasov.
After a long covid break, the organizing company Emerson could once again invite student teams to Hungary to compare their strengths and compressed air-powered vehicles. Thirteen teams took to the start line to compete in three disciplines: the Long distance race, where the vehicle that travels the longest distance on a single cylinder wins, the Arcade race, where the aim is to complete three laps of the circuit as quickly as possible, and the Drag race, which is won by the fastest vehicle over a 220-metre timed course.
The team “UPBAIR” passed the organisers’ entry check and qualifying without a single problem.
Next year the team has two races coming up. In addition to the classic race in Hungary, the organizers want to organize a competition in Germany.
How did the team and their car do?
Long distance: 8th place
Arcade race: not finished
Drag race: 10th place
Teacher's race: 12th placeThe team of talented young students reached the goal they had set for themselves: they are the first team of the Politehnica University of Bucharest to qualify for the races Long distance and Drag race.…
Today, 15 July 2022, the first online course on the use of the PAC Machine Edition software platform took place.
The course was organized by SPL together with Emerson UK and Emerson/Aventics Eger, Hungary.
The course was attended by Mihai Ghinea (SPL director) and students Vlad Hasciar (responsible for the Pneumatics IIoT experimental booth) and David Holociuc.
The trainers were Steven Ward and Zsolt Piukovicz. During the two hours of training, several modules were presented on how to use the software platform, and configure and program a PAC (Programmable Automation Controller).
The Smart Pneumatics Lab
The Smart Pneumatics Lab is placed in room CB110 in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Robotics (FIER) and belongs to the Department of Robots and Manufacturing Systems. Its history begins in the ’80s as a computer center of the Department of Machine-Tools and Gears, one of the greatest academia and engineering departments. During the communist regime, between the ’70s and `80s, Romania was a great manufacturer of machine-tools, pushing the academia to create great engineers.
Following the revolution of 1989 until 2008, the laboratory had a purpose as a teaching facility for new disciplines that used the computer. Some of these disciplines were CAD Techniques and Computer Programming, disciplines that made a lot of UPB students participate in extracurricular activities. As time passed, the equipment has become obsolete, thus making the room unusable for modern teaching activities.
Things changed in 2008 when room CB110 became the first Technology Transfer Center in the Faculty of Engineering of Management and Technological Systems (FEMTS at that time). The Timișoara company Bibus SES, Romanian representative of Bibus AG, came up with a significant investment to bring students as close as possible to the engineers of employing companies. The main objective was to interface industry and academia with the help of this innovative, dynamic and private company who represented a very wide range of industry producers from all over the planet.
The Bibus Technology Center became a place where students made first contact with the industrial engineering market. They met many representatives of multinational companies new to the Romanian market. The investment of Bibus SES helped a lot of students to write their Bachelor’s projects or research papers, and at the same time, develop creativity and skills that later would be used by future engineers at work.
The UPBAIR team was born in 2017. This team has built a continuous research project and successfully won the annual participation at the international Pneumobile competition powered by Aventics in Eger, Hungary. The need to study and take a closer look at advanced pneumatic systems makes the laboratory upgrade in 2020, paving a new way into the field of pneumatic industry. Thanks to the help offered by the Aventics – Eger specialists, we began studying to create a complex experimental stand, aimed to help us understand better smart pneumatic systems. The integration of pneumatic systems through IIoT has become the main goal of our laboratory, and we are trying to bring as close as possible to industry students, graduate students, Ph.D. candidates and engineers.