- Institute of Materials - Options of co-operation of STU MTF institutes with practice
Fields of co-operation with practice: The co-operation with practice is of high significance for the Institute. It constitutes an additional finances for the Institute´s activities: e.g. pedagogy (investigation of specific tasks via bachelor or master theses) or applied research (expertise in various materials deffects, evaluation of production quality, constultation services, or research and development activities). The Institute of Materials utilises the installed infrastructure for structural analyses, evaluation of mechanical, electrical and optical properties of a wide range of metal and non-metal materials for industrial plants not only in Trnava Region but in the regions of the Slovak Republic as well as in close foreign countries. The main co-operating companies are as follows: ZF Slovakia, Boge Elastmetal Slovakia, JOHNS MANVILLE Slovakia, a. s., EG Technological Institute and Foundry in Trnava, Schaeffler SKALICA in Skalica, PSL and CCN Casting in Považská Bystrica, KINEX Bytča and Kysucké Nové Mesto, Bekaert Sládkovičovo, Hlohovec and Zwevegem, MIBA Steeltec Vráble, Semikron Vrbové, and Hella Nové Mesto nad Váhom. The Instutite of Materials has a long-term exclusive contract with world producer of metalographic devices and consumer products – BUEHLER, a US Company for their products presentation in the Cemtre of Excellence, represented by MITAR Company, s. r. o. in Bratislava. Within the Centre of Excellence the Institute offers various trainings and courses in metalography for technicians in industrial plants and research institutions.
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- Institute of Production Technologies- Options of co-operation of STU MTF institutes with practice
Fields of co-operation with practice: Regarding connecting academic education and practice the Institute actively co-operates with significant industrial plants in Slovakia so that the graduate profile can be flexibly updated in compliance with current needs of modern industrial practice. We co-operate in assigning and elaborating the theses, organising specialised excursions and industrial internships. INA Skalica, s. r. o. is one of the most important partners in the field together with which in 2016 we carried out a pilot project of lectures and excursions for selected second year students of master study titled as Construction and technology in practice. Another valued components of co-operation are represented by our active involvement into international educational exchange programmes allowing thus development of subject-specific and language competences of students and teachers via short-term study and lecture stays at European university workplaces (program ERASMUS +, CEEPUS programmes) as well as by the development of students creative activities within elaboration of specific scientific assignments presented annualy at the Student Research Conference.
The Institute´s portfolio of co-operation with domestic and forein academic workplaces is quite wide. The Institute co-operates with all Slovak and Czech technical universities, and also with the universities in Poland, Hungary, Romania, gremany, Súpain, Portugal, Austria, Belarus, and China. Regarding the research co-operation, the Institute in a long-term is in contact with numerous research workplaces, e.g. International Laser Centre in Bratislava, Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Department of Physical and Technical Sciences within the National academy of Sciences in Belarus. The partnership within the industrial practice is based on common activities in the field of education as well as in the field of research and expertise. In education the attention is paid mainly to the co-operation in preparing suitable conditions for successful employability of the Faculty gradutes in the industrial practice. In research the focus is on the synergic effect of connecting the workplace research possibilities with the possibilites and needs of practice especially in the development and implementation of new products and technologies. The significant partners from the industrial practise are as follows: Zlievareň AR (Foundry AR), Považská Bystrica; INA Skalica, s. r. o., Skalica; Fronius Slovensko, s. r. o., Trnava; HKS Forge, s. r. o., Trnava; MATADOR Automotive Vráble, a. s.; Slovenské elektrárne (Slovak Power Plants), a. s., závod Atómové elektrárne (Nuclear Power Plant) Jaslovské Bohunice; ŽOS Trnava, a. s.; PSA Peugeot Citroën Slovakia, Trnava; Železiarne (Iron and Steel Works) Podbrezová, a. s.; ZF SACHS Slovakia, a. s. Trnava; Bekaert Hlohovec, a. s.; SECO Tools SK, s. r. o., Trnava; Eiben, s. r. o., Vlkanová; TRUMPF Slovakia, s. r. o., Košice; PRVÁ ZVÁRAČSKÁ (First Welding Company), a. s., Bratislava; DMG Mori Czech, s. r. o., Brno; ABB, s. r. o., Bratislava; FESTO, s. r.o. ; SMC s. r.o.; Skartek, s. r. o., Trnava; Carl Zeiss Slovakia, s. r. o., Bratislava, etc. The Institute also traditionally co-operates with representatives of practice in organising specialised joint seminars for students and wide expert public, particularly seminars connected with practical shows of new technologies and devices in the field of welding together with ESAB Slovakia Company, then seminars titled as High-Tech Technologies – Source of Innovations of EU together with PRVÁ ZVÁRAČSKÁ (First Welding Company), TRUMPF Slovakia Company, International Laser Centre, STU Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and STU Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. In addition, we organise seminars and expert presentations in the field of multi-axis high-speed machining and seminars on new trends in the field of cutting tools organised by companies DMG Mori, Sandvik, and Seco.
Our vision of future development: In compliance with current world trends in the development of production technologies and general efforts to improve the innovation potential ena excellence in in research and development the Institute of Production Technologies will focus on developing prerequisites for effective educatinal, research and development activities strongly connceted to industrial practice and foreign countries so that the workplace firmly establishes its position in wider European research area. The priorities will be as follows: design, production and checking the components with complex shaped and precise surfaces via applying high speed and high power machine technologies; progressive machining methods with transition to micro- and nano-machining processes; additive technologies of components production with focus on industrial and biomedicine applications; processing of plastics; research on the plasticity of materials; research on high energy beam welding technologies; research on soldering processes of metal and non-metal materials; tribology and surface engineering, and last but not least, virtual designing of production and assembly systems and implmentation of selected components of 4.0 Industry Concept into the production and technological processes control. Considering the aforementioned, we will also emphasise the development and further modernisation of the laboratory infrastructure in the field of forming, casting and surface engineering technologies.
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- Advanced Technologies Research Institute - Options of co-operation of STU MTF institutes with practice
Fields of co-operation with practice: The Institute is focused on supporting the transfer of advanced technologies into practice, transfer of know-how, innovations and knowledge from academia into practice and supporting start-ups and spin-offs.
Teh Institute co-operates with the following companies: Matador, Biont, ZF, ON Semiconductor, Mahle, Schaeffler, Staton and others.
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- Institute of Applied Informatics, Automation and Mechatronics - Options of co-operation of STU MTF institutes with practice
Fields of co-operation with practice: The Institute of Applied Informatics, Automation and Mechatronics co-operates with the following companies situated in Trnava Region and its sorroundings: VUJE a.s. (Research Institute of Nuclear Power Plants, a.s.), JAVYS a.s. (Nuclear and Decommissioning Company, a. s.), SE-ENEL, VW Slovakia, PSA Peugeot-Citroën, ZF Sachs a. s., Boge Elastmetall Slovakia a. s., etc.
The selected projects investigated for VUJE and JAVYS are as listed below:
- Verification of introductory and executive IIS project for emergency workplaces in NPP-Mochovce
- Design of a control system architecture for an inspection stand of SVYP-440 – decommissioned nuclear fuel
- Elaboration of BSC RAO Control and Information System Concept
- Verification of control algorithms of VJP Inspection Stand including checking HW and SW funcionalities
- Design and implementation of signal measurement from MSVP in NPP Bohunice for futher analyses needs
Projects investigated for SE-ENEL, a. s.:
- Identification of unreliability of the recording device of binary states on blocks 3 and 4 in NPP Bohunice
- Technical assistance in automation processing of measured data from batch power by monitoring the sorroundings of NPP Bohunice via monitoring vehicles, visualisation of measured data, vehicle position and archiving data on a control computer
- Administration of database and software for processing data from EBO ATDS Teledosimetric System
- Design and implementation of IS for protective aids administration
- Project GIS-Mon: Design and implementation of graphical IS for random radiation measurement in the sorroundings of nuclear power plant
Other projects investigated for industrial practice:
- Design and implementation of measuring and evauation workplace using Sick LMS400 laser forVW Slovakia a. s. (executed for PIR s.r.o.)
- Design and implementation of ISTROCOUNT information system (executed in co-operation with MMS-Softec s.r.o. for Istropolitana D´arcy, s. r.o.)
- Comparison of requirements for quality assurance of security systems and operational control systems of nuclear power plants (executed for National Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic)
- Design and implementation of operator system for registration and evaluation of number of pull broaches strokes (executed for ZF SACHS SLOVAKIA Levice)
- Design of algorithms for control and implementation of control system of conditioning chamber (executed for Boge Elastmetall Slovakia a.s. Trnava)
- Big Data – Predictive analyses for the needs of paint shop (executed in co-operation with PredictiveDataScience s. r. o. for VW Slovakia, a.s.)
- Analysis of process data from FDS screw heads and proposal of lowering their failure rate (executed in co-operation with PredictiveDataScience s. r. o. for VW Slovakia, a.s.)
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- Institute of Industrial Engineering and Management - Options of co-operation of STU MTF institutes with practice
Fields of co-operation with practice: The Institute of Industrial Engineering and Management carries out several activities aimed at connecting educational process and industrial practice so that it is customised to current job market requirements and needs. The co-operation is done via excursions, specialised internships and practice of students in industrial plants, lectures given by experts from practice, or the involvement of experts from practice in state examinations committees, etc.
Since 2015 the second year students of master study within the Industrial Management study programme pass their practical exercises in the subject of Production Management in VW Slovakia, a. s. This combined form of study (lectures at the Institute and exercises directly in VW Slovakia, a. s.Company in Bratislava or Martin) was possible due to the support of VW Slovakia a. s. Management, Faculty Management and Institute of Industrial Engineering and Management and particularly due to Ing. Marián Kupka, PhD. whose idea it was and who guaranteed the whole project aimed mainly at investigating specific concrete issues of the industrial practice by students in order to verify their thoretical knowledge. The analysed results and reccommendations are presented for the VW Slovakia a. s. Company Management, STU MTF and the Institute representatives, production operatives, and HR representatives. Since 2018 a similar practical training is carried out in OSRAM, Company, a. s. Nové Zámky for the first year students of master study aimed mainly at the analysis, measurement and rationalisation of work. The project is also oriented on investigating specific concrete issues of industrial practice and verification of theoretical knowledge and the analysed results and recommendations are presented similarly as aforementioned.
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- Institute of Integrated Safety - Options of co-operation of STU MTF institutes with practice
Fields of co-operation with practice: The entrepreneurial activities of the Institute are focused mainly on testing the fire technical properties of materials and products, analysis of the danger of fire origin, consultation services in the field of extinguishing materials and technologies, investigation of various practical issues by fire engineering tools, and assessing dangerous properties of materials and products. The most significant co-operating university workplaces are as follows: VŠB TU Ostrava – Faculty of Safety Engineering, VUT Brno – Institute for Forensic Engineering, The Main School of Fire Service Warszawa and the University of Zielona Góra. Besides the university workplaces, the Institute also co-operates with: the Presidium of Fire Fighting and Rescue Corps of the Ministry of Interior of Slovakia, Fire Technical and Expertise Institute of the Ministry of Interior of Slovakia in Bratislava, then with FIRES s.r.o. Batizovce, Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic, National Labour Inspectorate, Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic, Slovak Power Plants, a. s., Nuclear and Decommissioning Company, a. s., Promatom d.o.o. and Plastics Cluster of the Czech Republic. The Institute of Integrated Safety organised or co-organised numerous conferences and specialised seminars, e.g. Environmental and Safety Aspects of Fires and Accidents, Integrated Safety, New Trends in Extinguishing Materials and Technologies, Regional Sources of Energy – Present and Future.
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