Making Europe the first digitally led circular, climate-neutral and sustainable economy needs major
changes across manufacturing: efficiencies in energy and material consumption, new solutions to
problems in certification and standardisation, and upskilling of the European workforce. DILAPRO
contributes to all of these, driving decarbonization and the twin Green and Digital Transitions via
two ground-breaking software tools for laser-based production of complex products. DILAFACT (Digital
LaserFactory) is a sustainable and scalable platform for laser process planning via Digital Twins of
laser-material interactions, including additive, subtractive, and thermal processes.
DILACERT
(Digital Laser Certification) tackles a major hurdle in rapidly-developing laser and additive
manufacturing technologies: certification and standardisation. In the short DILACERT enables end
users to easily process production data for certification; in the long term it paves the way for
remote semiautomated digital certification of produced parts, a major paradigm shift
in complex part production.
DILAPRO grounds its development in specific materials (316L, IN718,
IN625) and laser technologies (PBF-LB, DED-LB, and Laser Texturing) as deployed on 6
operational
production lines owned by project partners. These will be developed as distinct modules
during the
first half of the project, and synthesised into DILAFACT and DILACERT in the project’s
second half.
To ensure the competitiveness and sustainability of European manufacturing in the long term,
other
developers and end-users will be able to contribute modules to both software, kick-started
by
DILAPRO’s living communities and innovative IP plan covering both commercial and OA
licenses.
DILAPRO offers two scalable, sustainability-focused solutions for the European laser-based,
high-precision manufacturing industry, and will thus not simply develop a single one-off
product,
but a resilient force-multiplier for the long term.
