Smart Growth Operating Programme 2014-2020
2015 – 2017
Advanced wiring systems and control units
This project was led by Carbures Engineering (MDU) with the participation of AIRBUS Defence and Space, AERTEC and YFLOW as partners. Its aim was to develop and validate new manufacturing technologies under the Industry 4.0 paradigm to allow onboard electrical products to be manufactured using alternative materials, to end reliance on copper, which is heavier and offers poorer performance.
NIOBE aims to develop a new manufacturing model for electrical wiring and avionics switching centres with a new approach based on state-of-the-art technology and new development methods (automation, high added value, quality and competitiveness).
This involved conducting research into novel materials (e.g. polymer fibres doped with carbon nanotubes, conductive inks and flexible electrical materials) and into ways to apply digital control processes to them.
Within this project, AERTEC's activities were:
Based on this, a battery of tests was defined and categorised as follows:
This project was subsidised by the CDTI, with file number PTAG-20211008 through the 2021 call for the Strategic Sectoral Business Innovation Initiatives grant award procedure ("Aeronautics Technology Programme"), as part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (funded by NextGeneration EU funds, including the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism) and the State Programme for Business Leadership in R&D+i, under the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017-2020.
Innovation Director
