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MUPAAC project consists in improving capabilities of an already present architecture for automatic control for industrial machines. It will make possible to reach performance better or comparable to the best which can be found in the market of automatic controllers at lower cost.
The targeted end users are builders of automatic machine tool (for cutting, soldering, moving, electron erosion, etc.) which can be used in pipelines of production. Main objectives and results of MUPAAC are:

• the adoption of HPCN technology for making performance of microprocessor based controllers of SED comparable or better with respect to the best which are available on the market, but at a lower cost/price for the machine builders.  An increment of functionality is also planned;
• introducing HPCN technology for obtaining, on the basis of already available computerized control of SED a flexible and reconfigurable parallel/distributed system for control in order to reduce the costs/prices for the machine builders of about 20 %.  The system has been considered strongly needed for integrating automatic machines into pipelines of production;
• the deployment of HPCN technology for improving performance and decreasing of cost of products and thus for covering a wider market;
• the dissemination of results at National and European levels.

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