Czech Business & Trade 3/2018

RESEARCH
Research Combined with Practice Bears Fruit
Research work focused on
both new technologies and
automation, and collaboration
with important players in the
market is essential for Czech
engineering if it wants to be
competitive. Here are two
important institutions which
have a lot to be proud of.
Negotiations on RCMT´s Collaboration
with Huawei
In June 2018, an 11-member delegation
of the Chinese firm Huawei held talks
with RCMT representatives on collaboration
in the area of mobile phone,
server and telecommunication technology
production. In the construction of
mobile telephones, manufacturers often
have to deal with problems such as
difficult-to-machine and new materials,
and this is where RCMT can offer Huawei
cooperation in research, focused on
their machining and functioning. Other
subjects discussed were, for example,
the increase in machining productivity
and automation of the mass production
of telephones and electronic devices.
The delegation was led by Mr Yu Meng
of the Huawei European Research Centre
in Düsseldorf. Part of the meeting
included the inspection of laboratories
and their equipment in RCMT premises,
with the presentation of research projects
on which RCMT cooperates with
industrial partners.
• RESEARCH CENTRE FOR
MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUE
AND TECHNOLOGY
The main objective of the Research Centre
for Manufacturing Technique and Technology
(RCMT) is to create in the Czech Republic
a professional research base for the
Czech engineering industry, to bring up
a new generation of young research workers
in this sector and be a well equipped research,
educational and training workplace.
Since 2012, the Institute of Manufacturing
Machinery at the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering, Czech Technical University in
Prague has been working on a project of
the Centre of Competence – Engineering
Manufacturing Technology (CK SVT), which
is supported by the Czech Technological
Agency. The mission of the CK SVT project
is to raise the technical excellence, competitiveness
and production of the leading
manufacturers of engineering manufacturing
technology and the entire Czech engineering
sector, with the aim of bringing the
Czech Republic, currently occupying 13th
position in absolute engineering production,
within the “Machine Tools” sector on to
the world scale among the top ten. CK SVT
ensures long-term applied research and development
in the progressive hi-tech sector,
which turns out products of high complexity,
with high value added and high profit. CK
SVT is unique in that it strengthens the current
collaboration between leading manufacturers
in the sector and research centres
in the Czech Republic and, at the same
time, creates an environment supporting
the growth of students and experts with
the highest qualifications and erudition. The
CK SVT team comprises more than 80 experts
specialising in construction, development,
technical analysis and research. The
researchers focus on the development and
application of modern advanced simulation
methods, virtual testing, advanced machine
optimisation methods, drive control and
vibration damping, the use of unconventional
materials and structures, research
of new concepts of machines, advanced
monitoring and diagnostics of machine
tools, compensation of temperature errors
of machines, multi-axis machining technologies
and the minimisation of impacts of
machines on the environment.
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