Research and Technology

Research Lines
Facilities and Equipment
BaM LAB
Founding Partners
Doctoral Theses

Research Lines

Automated Line Supply

Logistics and vision technologies

We work with various line supply processes: AGVs, AMRS, Bin Picking, E-Cart, smart warehouses, etc.

Objective: internal logistics

We research how material flows to the production line are optimized, with the goal of ensuring component availability in the required time and quantity.

Benefits

The benefits of optimizing these processes, by avoiding bottlenecks, downtime, and supply errors, improve the overall efficiency of production processes.

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance technologies

We address quality at an advanced stage of the cycle, when the product has already been installed or assembled on the line, but the manufacturing process is not yet complete.

Objective: quality standards

The aim is to ensure that quality standards are met at this intermediate stage, detecting and correcting potential deviations before the product reaches its final phase.

Benefits

The benefit of ensuring quality is the progress toward ZERO errors, which means improving the effectiveness of production processes.

Process Quality

Joining, painting, and assembly technologies

We study technologies within the value chain: thermal, mechanical, and laser joining, adhesives, and critical assembly processes:

Joining technologies (thermal, mechanical, laser, adhesives, best fit for moving parts, hemming, cell joining with flows, buffers…)
Painting and priming technologies
Critical assembly processes (manual, bolting, etc.)

Objective: process quality

The focus of this line is on the quality of the manufacturing process itself. It involves studying, measuring, and improving the variables that influence the robustness and repeatability of the process.

Benefits

It is a key stage that feeds into the subsequent quality of products and assembly, leading to error reduction, resource optimization, and ensuring productive stability from the ground up.

Ergonomics

Innovation in ergonomics

We perform ergonomic assessments and develop a safe and optimal working environment.

Competence center in ergonomics

We include the creation of this center, which will act as a reference in the development of solutions, methodologies, and best practices.

Objective: protect and improve

The objective is not only to protect the health and well-being of workers, but also to improve productive activity.

Benefits

This work translates into real, visible benefits for the people who make up our organizations, as well as for the organizations themselves, as it increases the efficiency and sustainability of productive activity.

Automated Line Supply · Quality Assurance · Process Quality · Ergonomics ·

Facilities and Equipment

BaM positions itself as a benchmark in the technological transformation of the automotive industry, combining training and research. The center has advanced equipment in robotics, industrial autonomous vehicles, and computer vision systems.

Welding

Aluminium and steel welding cell with two robots, providing a controlled environment to practise and perfect high-quality joints, ideal for learning to weld complex parts.

Riveting and Clinching

HSN component riveting and clinching cell with two robots, for hands-on training in creating solid and durable joints between parts. Allows operators to experiment with this joining process.

Hybrid Joints

Drilling and threading process cell for strong and efficient joints, with a Flowdrill robot and a sealant robot with an artificial vision system, enabling research into precise adhesion methods.

Artificial Vision

Measurement cell with Perceptron Technology, enabling real-time part analysis and facilitating automated inspection processes. Surface inspection robot that helps operators identify defects and improve part quality.

Laser Joining and Cutting Processes

Welding cell with three robots. The RobScan-ScanTec, ideal for research into laser welding processes. The brazing robot integrated with a Scansonic gun, useful for experimenting with precision joints, and the surface inspection robot with laser cutting, which allows studying how to combine cutting and quality control processes.

Autonomous Vehicles

As part of our intralogistics equipment, we have autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) from OMRON, SIEMENS and KUKA, which will optimise autonomous transport within production plants, improving logistics efficiency and reducing transfer times.

Mould Kits

Battery transport kits developed in collaboration with PLASNOR. This solution will contribute to improving precision and safety in the handling of essential components for the manufacture of electric vehicles, a further step towards sustainability and efficiency in the industry.

E-carts

E-carts for pallet transport, provided by SMARLOGY, have also been acquired, enabling more efficient management of material movement, reducing waiting times and maximising load capacity in the supply chain.

Digital Twin

Solution developed together with NORMICRO, used to create virtual replicas of MB Sistemas' production lines. It facilitates real-time process optimisation, improving decision-making and ensuring greater efficiency and precision in manufacturing.

AI-powered Artificial Vision

Artificial vision cell with Artificial Intelligence (AI), designed by EKS, which automates key tasks in quality inspection and process control. Thanks to this innovation, production speed can be increased, errors reduced, and the consistency of manufactured products improved.

BaM LAB

We provide you with a team of experts and laboratories that develop, certify, and validate your processes, systems, and products.

Founding partners

BaM consists of three founding partners: Mercedes-Benz, Gestamp, and MB Sistemas. All three companies are powerful brands based in the Basque Country that support the center's activities, helping to guide excellence in automotive research, fostering cooperation, supporting dissemination, and facilitating the transfer of research results to the market.

Together with the launch of the BaM Center, our patrons have provided advanced equipment to the Center, installing technological assets that will be used for training, education, and technological research in the automotive industry.

BaM · Mercedes Benz

Leading manufacturer in the automotive industry.

We train and research using the most cutting-edge technology in the automotive industry. These cells are designed as learning and experimentation environments, where work teams can familiarize themselves with avant-garde technologies while contributing to the development of new solutions.

BaM · Gestamp

Global supplier of automotive components.

With the aim of driving automation, efficiency, and sustainability in the industry, BaM and Gestamp consolidate their leadership position through these acquisitions. We integrate innovative technologies that improve efficiency, sustainability, and global competitiveness.

BaM · MB Sistemas

Specialist in industrial automation.

The advanced technological assets acquired alongside MB Sistemas accelerate the development of innovative solutions, optimize processes, and raise quality standards in component manufacturing.

Doctoral theses

Doctoral theses for industrial innovation

Our goal is to create a space where doctoral research generates real impact, has practical sense and projection, contributing both to scientific advancement and to the strengthening of the professional ecosystem surrounding BAM.

At BAM, we are committed to research talent and the generation of applied and transformative knowledge. Therefore, we offer the possibility of developing doctoral theses within the framework of our association, in collaboration with one of our partners, integrating research into real and dynamic contexts.

This path allows for doctoral work aligned with current sector challenges, connecting academic rigor with experimentation, innovation, and professional practice. BAM acts as a facilitating environment, supporting project definition, access to real cases, data, infrastructure, and contact networks, always in coordination with universities and thesis supervisors.