Production program:

Education

The department prepares universally educated mechanical bachelors and engineers with appropriate knowledge in machine design, design computations, projecting, as well as in the methodology of designing, robotic and automatic manipulations. The accent is on problems of machine designs for the glass industries and appropriate knowledge of the applied glass and technologies, computer art and management, autoimmunisation and robotic manipulation in all industry fields.

Research themes

• Designing machines and equipment for the glass industry;
• Numerical simulation of a distribution of temperature fields and processes during glass melt forming as well as during follow-up handling of products on the hot end of a production line;
• Designing of handling devices and industrial robots;
• Image analyses of production processes, use of fractal geometry and statistic tools for describing of measured data.

Know-how

• Operational and model monitoring of the process of machine-forming of glass melt;
• Optimisation of glass mould and plunger designs of glass forming process;
• Optimisation of the glass forming process;
• Optimisation of handling flows;
• Designing and optimisation of effectors and peripheral units for handling of glass;
• Developing of software for description of time series and images from production processes, defects and surface, material dividing line (roughness).