Welcome to SmartDress

High volume automotive production (such as body-in-white construction) operations rely heavily on RSW (resistance spot welding), and suffer significant losses of output (and resulting revenue) as a consequence of frequent production line stoppages. These stoppages are predominantly caused by weld quality issues, which in turn arise from poor maintenance of consumable 'tips' on RSW guns.

SmartDress is a fully automated adaptive control system that will optimise, monitor and maintain electrode tip quality in these applications. This will improve weld quality and reliability and minimise line stoppages.

Another key feature of the SmartDress system will be that it will allow cost-competitive spot welding of aluminium, which is not currently commercially viable. As a result production of lower cost light weight vehicles would become possible leading to a significant reduction of CO2 emissions.

Commecial Contact:

Mr. Eugenio Tedeschi
Sinterleghe s.r.l.
Via Cenischia No. 33
10139 Torino, Italy

Tel: +39 011 33 14 24
email: eugenio.tedeschi@sinterleghe.it


The know-how necessary for the development of this innovative project will be achieved by the consortium consisting of the following companies of the EEC:


No. Name Short name Beneficiary type Country
1 SINTERLEGHE SRL SNT SME participant Italy
2 FINISHING AIDS & TOOLS LIMITED Fin SME participant United Kingdom
3 SWANTEC SOFTWARE & ENGINEERING APS SWN SME participant Denmark
4 TWI LIMITED TWI RTD Performer United Kingdom
5 TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT VTT RTD Performer Finland
6 FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG
DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V
IPMS RTD Performer Germany
7 FISHER SMITH LLP FSS SME participant United Kingdom