SIRRIS

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Sirris is a non-profit scientific organisation in Belgium. Sirris is an important collaborative centre for the Belgian technology industry. Until 2007, Sirris was known as CRIF-WTCM. CRIF-WTCM was founded in 1949 by Fabrimetal (now known as Agoria).[1]

Mission

The mission of Sirris is to support its members and clients in order to increase their competitive position on the international market through technological innovation. The organization carries out applied research and development in close cooperation with industry. Sirris participates to development projects at different levels, from European Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development to regional ones.

COPTURN

One of the biggest achievements of SIRRIS so far is the Cutting Optimisation Program, or COPTURN for short. It is a software package that is used to calculate the optimal cutting conditions, the program then calculates the job time and cost.

Development fields

Additive manufacturing

Sirris performs researches on mains additive manufacturing technologies such as selective laser melting, 3D printing,[2] laser cladding, stereolithography, selective laser sintering, Aero Jet Printing[3] and paste polymerization (ceramic + polymer). All these technologies start from a CAD file to build it in metal, polymer or ceramic.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sirris: Info & Links > Agoria Archived 2009-03-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "Stand imprimante 3D SIRRIS - Vidéo Dailymotion". Dailymotion.com. 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
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