The department has excellent facilities and pilot-plant equipment for heating and metalworking research and development. The staff includes some 20 graduate scientists and technicians.

Collaborative research for member companies and contract research for individual clients are performed.

Research groups

• Flat products, rolling and processing
• Long products, rolling and forging
• Heating and measurement technology

R&D areas

• Process engineering
• Physical modelling
• FEM technique
• AI technique
• Process control
• Modelling and simulation
• Energy-saving technology

Competence/Research activities

• Grinding
• Heating/reheating
• Hot and cold rolling
• FEM modelling and simulation
• Open-die forging
• Measurement technology
• Straightening and levelling

Cutting-edge competence

• Running and managing large pilot and EU projects in MEFOS’s pilot equipment.
• Metallurgical process technology including metalworking and heating, energy and
• gasification technology.
• Measurement technology and process analysis.
• Computer modelling, simulation and calculations.

Tools

• Workstations
• FEM and CFD software (LS-DYNA, MARC, SYSWELD, FLUENT)
• Pilot equipment
• Industrial production equipment