Charles Robinson (CUTTING TOOLS) Limited has an extensive portfolio of research and development projects encompassing local, national, and international state of the art initiatives.

Recent research has included the following:

Medical

Manufacturing cutting machines & tools to a high quality using clean materials (including stainless steel blades and lexan polycarbonate bases) to create a sterile environment for high accuracy cutting for skin graft applications.

 

Textiles

Overcoming problems in cutting highly flexible materials and maintaining quality of cutting with production runs.

 

European Research projects

The company has been involved in over 10 European research projects with a total budget of over €20million. More recently these have included:

ExtremeFactories - On-the-cloud environment implementing agile management methods for enabling the set-up, monitoring and follow-up of business innovation processes in industrial SMEs. (FP7-2011-NMP-ICT-FoF-285164) 01/09/2011 – 28/02/2014 SOILCY - New sustainable compressor oil production and use. Towards a long eco-efficient life cycle (NMP2-CT-2005-515848) 01/09/2005 - 31/08/2009  ASSIST - Knowledge-Based Intelligent Design Assistant for SMEs (COOP-CT-2004-512841) 15/11/2004 - 14/09/2006   FOKSAI - SME Focussed Knowledge Management System to support extended product in ambient intelligence domain (COOP-CT-2003-508637) 01/02/2004 - 31/01/2006   AIM - Acceleration of Innovative ideas to Market (IST-2002-52222) 01/06/2002 - 30/09/2005   REMOTE - Remote Product/Customer Support via Extended Enterprise (GRD1-2000-25433) 01/03/2001 - 31/08/2003   VALIDATE - Process and Product Validation for SMEs (CRAFT-1999-70025) 31/05/2001 - 31/10/2002

For further details or enquiries about our research activities please contact our R&D Director:- robinson@cut-tools.co.uk