Fatronik

By: M^a Asunción Rivero, Mr Valentin Collado and Mr Agustin Saenz

Company profile

From 1999 onwards, Fatronik consolidated as a Technological Centre specialising in mechatronic technologies and targeted the market of equipment goods, including renewable energies (mainly wind energy) and aeronautics in the fields of component tooling and the development of solutions for the automation of structure assembly.

During the last 11 years, Fatronik is improving existing products and devising new solutions, as well as creating new designs with innovative final results that comply with market demand. With 50 employees and more than 30 engineers.

Nowadays Fatronik is one of the most relevant technological referents in the machine tool sector nationwide, and its presence abroad is growing progressively. Fatronik has an active presence in the European research activity, leading, at this moment, three growth projects:

• MACH 21: Multipurpose and cross-sectorial modernisation of manufacturing processes through parallel kinematics
• AHEAD: New way of manufacturing large non-rigid structures through innovative production systems
• SMART: Total service for the machine tool end user

Fig.1. Fatronik's Hermes milling machine using parallel kinematics with constant length struts Copyright © 2002 Fatronik

Fatronik's contribution to the EuroStir^® Project

• To analyse Spanish industrial partners' (Irizar, Caf) product families looking for suitable applications of FSW.
  
  
• To analyse using parallel kinematics actuation system for friction stir welding.
  
  
• Monitoring and on-line compensation (i.e. closed loop control) of friction stir welding parameters.
  
  
• Design, development and set up of specific FSW machinery solutions for the industrial partners.

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