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ENGINEERING & TOOLING FROM PORTUGAL A CLUSTER SUPPORTING AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES.
The Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Industry coordinated by Pool-Net represents a cluster which is highly internationalized and in constant evolution, helping companies to turn ideas into quality products. Exporting more than 90% of production to over 120 countries, the Portuguese Engineering and Tooling Cluster has been considered a worldwide benchmark - based on its model for cooperation, collaborative technology, innovation and internationalisation. The Portuguese Engineering and Tooling Cluster includes a wideranging chain of stakeholders. It is an Open Business, Science and Technology Community (which includes companies, universities and R&D and Innovation Centers) and represents an extensive value chain and a multi-sector industry working with intensive knowledge based and multi-disciplinary networks. Our cluster is vital for the promotion of structural-economic development as the critical development path of most industrial products is an integral part of our approach. The integration of capabilities promotes expertise in design, engineering and prototyping, manufacturing of moulds, special tools and jigs, injection and assembly of products and components, closing the loop from design to final product.
THE BRAND “ENGINEERING&TOOLING FROM PORTUGAL”
The brand “Engineering Engineering & Tooling from Portugal” Portugal” embodies know-how, technology and innovation, quality and reliability, social responsibility, networking and competitiveness – the main attributes that characterize the Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Industry. Industry The brand “Engineering & Tooling from Portugal”” promotes a distinctive ability to offer an integrated chain of competences of the Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Industry,, supporting the development of any product in the global market.
The sustainable approach adopted by the Portuguese Engineering and Tooling Cluster with regard to the Aerospace Industry is based on a solid culture of engineering and product development and its ability to provide functional and technical solutions to international companies and added value sectors. The ever greater level of knowledge and interaction with aerospace companies is supporting this relationship to dierent degrees and in dierent areas ranging from design and prototyping to tooling for metal, plastics and composites, machined parts and control devices such as jigs and fixtures. Recent participation in the most important international aerospace trade fairs has acted as a showroom for our competences and capabilities in product development, machining, tooling and assembly. The Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Industry is known for its extensive experience and know-how in the international market, the highest levels of investment in equipment, processes and the training of human resources focusing on an interactive and integrated problemsolving approach. This Cluster has also developed a strong collaborative spirit involving co-operation and networking between companies and research institutions enabling companies to serve the most demanding of market niches.
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DESIGN PROTOTYPING ENGINEERING MOULD PRODUCTION PRODUCTION SERVICES Promoting aerospace culture
Fostering our integration and recognition as Aerospace Industry qualified suppliers, the Cluster has sought to promote international networking with major companies and suppliers, organizing visits and trade missions to enhance market and business opportunities. Furthermore, the involvement of companies in innovation and R&D projects for the development of competences to serve the Aerospace Industry has been seen as imperative by the Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Cluster. Several companies are already certified in accordance with AS 9100 International Standards and numerous seminars, workshops and meetings on these subjects have been held to inform our members The number of Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Cluster members holding AS 9100 certification is increasing in a sustainable way, supported by our industry critical values of product conformity, reliability, quality, liability and safety.
THE PORTUGUESE ENGINEERING & TOOLING INDUSTRY AND THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
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Research and development of new products (Design)
Developing the idea (Engineering)
The Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Industry can act in the following key aerospace areas with regard to product development for metal and plastic parts:
The Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Industry speeds up product development by using advanced collaborative engineering software from the first stage of design to the final approval of manufactured parts.
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This integration of capabilities into a single database ensures that communication between product designers, engineers and marketing executives fosters communication flows so that any changes in part design or product assembly design made by any of the members involved in the product development chain are quickly incorporated into the development process.
Equipment and Avionics
Electronic instruments and apparatus Non electronic instruments and apparatus
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Undercarriage components Seats (narrow-body and wide–body structures) Cabin Interiors
This promotes the production of prototypes and solid models, saving costs during the later stages of tooling and production.
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Wings components Fuselage components
Tail components Cockpit components
The key advantages offered by the cluster are its accumulated expertise and highly-qualified, in-house design teams working in partnership with clients from concept research and definition to styling and product design, visualization and realistic imaging, renderings and product graphics.
The Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Industry uses the most advanced software in order to be able to deal with all of the largest international players in the Aerospace Industry and as such is fully equipped to deal with aerospace OEMs (CATIA, Unigraphics, Pro/Engineer/CIMATRON, Cosmos, Moldflow, MPI, among others).
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Experiencing the idea (Prototyping) The success of the Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Industry also lies in solid CAE and rapid prototyping competences and the use of dierent technologies to create solid models directly from a CAD database. SLS, SLA, 3D Printing, Vacuum Casting, RIM, Hybrid Moulds and Metal-Based Laser Cutting (3D and 2D) are among the most common technologies used in rapid prototyping. These prototypes are used to test a product’s technical feasibility as well as functional and physical aspects. The Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Cluster also has extensive skills in rapid tooling and composite tools (aluminium and epoxy resins), using similar technology to rapid prototyping to produce moulds for short runs of the final injection moulded productmoldmold.
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Perceiving the idea (Tool and Mould Production) The Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Industry reinvests more in technology and new equipment than most of its overseas competitors, placing our cluster ahead of the technology curve in high-precision tool cutting. Our industry works daily with tightly controlled processes using state-of-the-art software and technologies (5 axis HSM, laser cutting, wire electrical discharge machining and grinding centers) and special materials (Titanium and HRSA alloys and polymeric composites).
The use of state-of-the-art measurement equipment such as 3D CMM machines and video measuring machines ensures the dimensional and geometrical conformity of plastic and metal parts. Our industry has considerable experience in quality control practices, having invested energy and resources in ISO certification in the past which are now being channeled into the AS 9100 certification process. Other advanced technologies we specialize include: Metal-based laser cutting (3D and 2D), bending and welding Welding Jigs Machined parts Forming In-Mould Labelling (IML) and In-Mould Decoration (IMD) Gas-assisted moulding Multi-material Moulding
Co-injection moulding Overmoulding (tissues, metal inserts) Micro-moulding In-mould assembly applications Liquid silicone rubber/liquid Injection moulding Water injection technology
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Production services (Delivering the idea) From their origins in mold and tool building, Portuguese companies have built multi-tiered organizations, ranging from design to mould testing, to meet client demand for integrated solutions. The Portuguese Engineering & Tooling industry follows international customer needs and in recent decades has set up state-of-the art injection moulding, forming and metal-based laser cutting and assembly facilities, thus closing the loop from design to final product, helping international customers speed up time-to-market.
A warm invitation to learn about our capabilities which serve the Aerospace Industry Supply Chain There is no better way to appreciate the capabilities of Portugal’s Engineering & Tooling industry than a personal visit. Companies and technical organizations such as POOL-NET – The Portuguese Tooling Network, CEFAMOL – The Portuguese Association for the Moulds Industry and CENTIMFE – The Portuguese Technological Center for the Mouldmaking, Special Tooling and Plastics Industry - extend a warm and permanent welcome to all those interested in getting to know the cluster better.
WE ARE GLOBAL PARTNERS The Portuguese Engineering & Tooling Cluster has a complete range of solution providers for the Aerospace Industry who can streamline innovation, help customers find solutions, while building reliability, precision & efficiency, with trust & commitment as core values. Come and meet us!!!
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