The Dynamite Project was an European Community funded research project. It was an Integrated Project instrument funded under the Sixth Framework Programme under a joint call of Priority 2 IST and 3 NMP and was completed in February 2009.

Project Summary

The maintenance of machinery is a huge cost to European industry. Studies over the last 20 years have indicated that around Europe, the direct cost of maintenance is equivalent to between 4% and 8% of total sales turnover. The indirect cost of maintenance (quality, lost productivity etc) is likely to be a similar amount. In the UK alone this would equate to several billion Euros, and across the European Union - especially in those countries where modern maintenance practices have yet to be well adopted by industry - the potential savings from modern maintenance are massive - measured in hundreds of millions of Euros at least. The DYNAMITE proposal will deliver a blend of leading-edge communications and sensor technology, combined with state-of-the-art diagnostic and prognostic techniques, which will advance the capabilities of European industry in maintenance. The objective of the partners through this Integrated Project is to deliver a prototype system with a clear exploitation route to take the technology into the European market. The monitoring of machines and processes for predictive maintenance and control is crucial for sustainable and competitive industry in Europe. Distributed, autonomous monitoring is fundamental to the penetration of e-maintenance to the cutting edge of high capital and highly productive plant. DYNAMITE will create an infrastructure for mobile monitoring technology and create new devices which will make major advances in capability for decision systems incorporating sensors and algorithms. The key features include wireless telemetry, intelligent local history in smart tags, and on-line instrumentation.

Public Project Documents

DYNAMITE

Project Partners

	Country	Name
1.	Finland	VTT Industrial Systems
2.	Spain	Fundación Tekniker
3.	UK	University of Sunderland
4.	UK	University of Manchester
5.	France	Université Henri Poincaré
6.	Sweden	Växjö University
7.	Greece	Zenon S.A. Automation Technologies
8.	Italy	FIAT Research Center
9.	Sweden	Volvo Technology AB
10.	Spain	Goratu Maquinas Herramienta S.A.
11.	Finland	Wyselec Oy
12.	Germany	Martechnic GmbH
13.	UK	Engineering Statistical Solutions Ltd
14.	UK	Diagnostic Solutions Ltd
15.	Greece	Prisma Electronics
16.	Estonia	IB Krates OÜ
17.	Finland	Hydrox Pipeline Oy (Left project)