Old AELS News September 2008
Hardis Project |
September 17, 2008 |
AELS is supporting the Hardis Project of the Delft University of Technology
with our knowledge and resources. This projects aims at developing
Human Assist Robot systems for DISassembly (HARDIS) of obsolete
products. The middle range products - such as refrigerators,
televisions, washing machines - and large products - such as cars and
aircrafts - are considered as the domain of application. The aim of the
project is to develop human assist robots for the manual disassembly
phase of the recycling process for those products. This phase, in
contrast to the shredder phase, necessitates intense human labor;
because, the perception, flexibility, decision making, skill and
experience of workers are indispensable. Workers perform intense power
demanding and repetitive tasks in this phase. The project aims at
introducing human assist robot systems to compensate the workers with
power and speed in those labor demanding tasks. With such a system the
skill and experience of the worker is combined with the power and speed
of the robot. The issue in developing such a system is, on the one
hand, to maintain the control of the robot in a way to let the human
control it in a collaborative way, on the other hand, to ensure the
safety of the human in interaction with the robot.
9 aircraft for engineering schools |
September 4, 2008 |
AELS is offering 9 complete Fokker F27 aircraft, currently parked at Cologne Airport in Germany, to engineering schools all over Europe. With this project AELS supports the aviation industry in training the engineers that are desperately needed. Giving these aircraft a second life in this new function is a very green and sustainable solution.
These aircraft are offered for a value lower than the recycling value
of the aircraft. This has been made possible also thanks to WDL,
the last owner of the aircraft. With this project AELS is doing its
part in making sure that AELS and other MRO colleagues have enough well
trained engineers in the future.
In cooperation with the schools AELS is also looking for options to make the cost of disassembly, transport and assembly as low as possible. One of the options is to execute parts of the project with the students of the school under the professional supervision of an AELS engineer.
If not all aircraft can be used by engineering schools AELS will find other options for re-using the aircraft, such as a museum or a training aircraft for firemen. The remaining aircraft will be dismantled and recycled. In all cases AELS will focus on the greenest solution when recycling these aircraft.
For more information on this project please contact us here. The press release can be downloaded here.
