ULYSSE: A MONITORING SOLUTION FOR MACHINING EQUIPMENT AND PROCESSES

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PRACARTIS and WORMSENSING have joined forces to offer an innovative and unique solution for monitoring and listening to the real operating condition of machining equipment : ULYSSE. This solution is based on Dragonfly®, a dynamic strain gauge developed by WORMSENSING, designed for machine health monitoring, industrial process quality control, and predictive maintenance. Unlike conventional technologies based on accelerometers, Dragonfly® directly measures mechanical nano-strains at the core of structures, being 1,000 times more sensitive and accurate than an accelerometer. This approach captures the physical information at the origin of mechanical failures and process drifts. The Dragonfly® sensor can be integrated into or mounted on numerous industrial components, including spindles, axes, tools, machine frames, gearboxes, motors, structures, and industrial parts. It covers an extremely wide frequency range (<10 Hz and >50 kHz), which has until now been difficult to observe using traditional solutions. PRACARTIS brings its expertise in exploiting these data by transforming them into customized indicators tailored to each user's specific needs. Analyzed in real time and displayed through a customizable dashboard designed to address each customer's industrial challenges, these data enable process control, wear detection, quality optimization, and extended equipment lifetime.

PRACARTIS GROUPE6M164For over 50 years, the companies of the PRACARTIS group manufacture, repair, integrate and distribute products and services dedicated to precision machining. The French industrial group is composed of 10 family-owned SMEs and a subsidiary in Switzerland. PRACARTIS is part of a sustainable and efficient industry with the ambition to optimize and modernize machining processes and strategies of its customers. Innovation is at the heart of its strategy with a testing and R&D center that allows it to offer innovative solutions to the most demanding customers (aeronautics, defense, etc.). The PRACARTIS group is present in many other industrial sectors : automotive, medical, dental, nuclear, watchmaking, aerospace, micromechanics, railway. From simple products to complete project engineering, the SMEs of the PRACARTIS group meet all your needs! Our partnerships with SIEMENS and IFM allow us to modernize the digital control automation and to improve the functions of your machine tool thanks to the addition of sensors, data gathering and digital twin simulation. In addition to historical partnerships with major brandselectrospins Pracartis, of which we are the exclusive distributors, also became in 2024, exclusive distributor of the brand KITAGAWA in France (tightening the part, adding the 4th and 5th axes). Our centers retrofit of machines, electrospindle repair or tool reconditioning They are part of the circular economy, aiming to produce better while consuming less. Finally, our research on new machining processes More economical and efficient solutions benefit each of our clients for a a decidedly more sustainable industry.