EFFECTIVE INNOVATION IN THE

SERVICE OF THE COMPANIES

IKERLAN

TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTRE

• Private not-for-profit institution.

• Created in 1974, in the heart of MCC.

(Co-operative enterprises + MGEP + CL)

• Member of SARETEK and FEDIT.

• Member of the IK4 Alliance .

Profile

Headquarters

Miñano

Arrasate

Mission

To help reinforce companies’ innovation capacity to

improve their competitiveness, thereby helping to

boost the country’s economic and social development,

through the generation and application of technology

and knowledge.

Alliances and collaborations

APPLICABLE AND EXPLOITABLERESULTS

Transfer of knowledgeand know-how

Specialist knowledge

What makes IKERLAN stand out

What makes us stand out

Innovative solutions

Assimilation and generation

• Research projects:

Basque Government: ETORTEK, SAIOTEK

DFG: Gipuzkoa Provincial Council

AGE: Research projects, PROFIT, CONSOLIDER

UE: 6th Framework Programme, EUREKA

Transfer and dissemination to companies

• Contracted R&D projects

• Technological consulting

• Personnel training and transfers

Technology generation and transfer

New product development

Generation and rational use of energy

Industrialisation and exploitation of the product

life cycle

Our Offer

Technological solutions for:

Product Development

Our Offer

• Calculation, simulation and conceptual design

of mechanisms.

• Acoustic noise.

• Static converters up to 1 MW.

• Electronic management and control systems.

• Sensors.

• Connectivity and telecommunications networks.

• Dynamic and reconfigurable software systems.

• Natural multimodal interfaces.

• Microtechnologies for industry and life sciences.

Product Development

Our Offer

NPC multilevel converter-neutral point clamped with diodes

GENEDIS II Project

Lift control system - ARCA II

Manual/automated monitor-defibrillator (AED) for pre-hospital and hospital use

New monitor-defibrillator REANIBEX series 700, easy to use with long endurance, available in manual and manual/ADE versions

Supervision system in domestic appliancesmaintenance terminals

Picture of the supervision system in a PDA applied to a boiler

Ambient Intelligence

Wireless 802.11b board

with PCMCIA interface

WIRELESS Project

Bearings’ calculation for wind-powered generators

Programme for the design and calculation of bearings

Passenger information system for trains

Microsystem multisensor actuatorfor domestic boilers

Automatic cooking

Xpression automaticcoffee machine

Example of manufacture of a

“laboratory on a chip” as the result

of combining fluid and optical

systems

Conversational interface for controlling equipment and systems

Generation and rational use of energy

Our offer

• Combustion, burners and their applications.

• Solid oxide fuel cells.

• Climate control and refrigeration.

Test prototype of the

condensing heat cell

New heat exchanger forcondensation boilers

Refrigeration system using thermal solar power

Operating diagram and solar refrigeration

system aimed at the residential and

commercial sectors installed in IKERLAN-

Energía’s Domolab laboratory.

Development of flat, tubular metal support solid oxide cells being carried out in the IKERLAN Energy laboratories

Solid oxide fuel cells

Industrialisation and exploitation of the product life cycle

Our offer

Collaboration in the customisation of:

• Organisation of the innovation.

• Establishment of extended modular and sustainable product

platforms.

• Redesign of extended enterprise processes in a sustainable

company.

• Management and synchronisation of the supply chain and the

production cycle.

Innovation

• Innovation model – EMBEGA

• Road-mapping- MCC COMPONENTES

Modular extended products

Process redesign

Synchronised management

• Domestic appliance platform – FAGOR

• Design of modules for the white goods

sector – MCC COMPONENTES

• Indirect labour – ORKLI

• Order – Collection Sales

management – EMBEGA

• Cooking appliance assembly line –

FAGOR

• Refrigerator warehouse – FAGOR

Domestic appliances and their components

Modular extended products

• Facade stabiliser for

rehabilitation of buildings.

Process redesign

• CAD system for preparing

formwork quotations for

exceptional buildings & civil

engineering.

Innovation

• Innovation networks.

• Generation of ideas.

• Distributed monitoring

Modular extended products

• Modular lift platform for customised

solutions.

Process redesign

• Configurator for the automatic

generation of lift quotations.

• Automatic generation of technical

documentation for lift manufacture.

• Redesign of the lift assembly process in

buildings.

Process redesign

• Configurator for the automatic

generation of quotations for

buses & coaches.

• Commercial and technical

configurator for buses & coaches.

• Supply chain:

Suppliers

Assembly

Distribution of materials

After Sales Service

Clients

Collaboration in the transformation of companies, providing value added as a technological partner, through mixed work teams and always respecting the confidentiality of the developments.

Transports15 %

Capital goods29 %

Domestic appliances

31 %

Electronics8 %

Others12 %

Energy 5 %

Sectorial distribution in 2005

Total income

Contracted R&D

Strategic and

precompetitive research

Investments

Main figures for 2005

15,9 M€

9,2 M€

5,5 M€

1,0 M€

• Higher degree holders

187

professionals

• 70 % doctors an higher degree holders

• 15 % middle-level degree

holders

• 15 % other technicians

38

Grant-holders

Staff

• Clean room.

• Photolithography equipment.

• Chemical processes equipment.

• Encapsulation.

• Characterization.

• Design and simulation.

Microsystems

Infrastructures

Acoustic testing laboratory

EMC and RFtesting laboratory

Infrastructures

Infraestructures

Medium Voltage (up to 4K) Test Laboratories

Domolab

Laboratory for experimenting with

home automation and energy

technologies in the home of the

future.

Infrastructures

Fuel cells laboratory

Infrastructures

Infrastructures

Gas flame diagnostics laboratory by PIV(Particle Image Velocimetry)

Climatic chambers

Infrastructures

IKERLANTECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTRE

Pº J.M. Arizmendiarrieta, 2

20500 Arrasate – Mondragón

(Gipuzkoa)

Tel.: 943 71 24 00

Fax: 943 79 69 44

kom@ikerlan.es

Researches 2005: 950 professionals

Turnover 2005: 55 M€

Alliance

Members of the platform

Alliances and collaborations

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Organisations we participate in

Centro de Investigación de Microsistemas

CEIT – IKERLAN - MCC – MU - TECNUN - TEKNIKER

Centro Universitario de Investigación en Distribución Activa y Electrotecnologías

CEGASA – IKERLAN – LABEIN – MCC- MU - ORMAZABAL

Centro de Investigación en Gestión

ESTIA – IKERLAN –MCC – MU

CIC - MICROGUNE

Alliances and collaborations

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Collaborations

With universities:

With business R&D units:

With others centres:

Alliances and collaborations

• Mondragón Unibertsitatea

• Universidad del País Vasco

Fagor Automation Div. Automoción MCC

Fagor Electrodomésticos Orona

Div. de Ingeniería y Bienes de Equipo de MCC

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

• Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

• IMEC – Interuniversity

Microelectronics Centre

• Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory

• IIS – Fraunhofer Institut

Integrierte Schaltungen

• Centro Nacional de

Microelectrónica

HOMETECH

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