Abstract: A monitoring apparatus for the identification of anomalies and degradation paths in a machine tool is disclosed. The monitoring apparatus includes a control system interfaceable with a machine tool and configured for making the machine tool execute a predetermined cycle of operations; a recording system interfaceable with a plurality of sensors in the machine tool, wherein the recording system is configured for collecting operation data of machine tool during the predetermined cycle of operations; and an analysis system configured for receiving the operation data and for executing a statistical and data mining analysis on the operation data, comparing a pattern of the operation data with a predetermined pattern, for identifying any anomalies and degradation paths.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method of controlling a collaborative robot, or “cobot”. According to the disclosed method the “cobot” is controlled so as to make it ready to perform a task in collaboration with the human operator only when the latter is about to move into a work sector to carry out the task collaborating with the robot.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are flame-retardant electric cables (10) having a core containing an electric conductor (11) and an electrically insulating layer (12) made from a flame-retardant polyolefin-based composition including a) a cross-linked polyolefin as base polymer, b) silica, and c) carbon nanotubes, wherein the amount of silica is from 5 wt % to 10 wt % of the polyolefin-based composition, and the amount of carbon nanotubes is from 0.5 wt % to 2 wt % of the polyolefin-based composition. Such cables have improved flame retardant performances, especially regarding a lower occurrence of droplets during burning, which render them capable of being certified in higher classes of the current international standards, for example of the standard EN 50399:2011/A1 (2016).

Abstract: The present invention concerns an optical fibre comprising: an optical waveguide comprising a glass core surrounded by a glass cladding; a coating surrounding said optical waveguide comprising a cured polymer material comprising a polyester obtained by esterification of: a reactant A selected from an acid, a triglyceride, or a mixture of triglycerides having a C16-C24 aliphatic chain comprising at least two conjugated double bonds; and a polyol made of at least one monomer comprising at least 3 hydroxyl groups, the polyol being thermally stable up to 300° C. (reactant B). The present invention concerns also the above said polyester coating, a method for coating an optical fibre with said polyester coating and a method for obtaining predetermined mechanical properties of a coating for an optical fibre. The cured polymer forming the coating can be prepared by curing the polyester of the invention either thermally or by radiation.