Frequently asked questions

What are the Objectives?

The objective of the aiCAMstir project is to add a new computer aided manufacturing control system to FSW machines, which recommends (or even automatically optimises) parameters based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA), design of experiments (DOE), Wikipedia-like open source cloud data and artificial intelligence (AI) including machine learning.

This will be achieved by collaborative work by the project participants who benefit from a wiki, a closed LinkedIn group and regular Zoom meetings in addition to various networking opportunities.

What is included for project participants?

	Everybody	Project participants of R&D organisations and universities	Project participants of industrial companies
Read Open Access information on www.aicamstir.com	✓	✓	✓
Publish Open Access information e.g. about our own activities, services and products on www.aicamstir.com	✗	✓	✓
Attend regular MS Teams meetings	✗	✓	✓
Read and publish information in the LinkedIn group	✗	✓	✓
Additional networking benefits	✗	✓	✓
Price per year	0,00 €/year	0,00 €/year*	985,00 €/year

• Introductory offer for the first year of the first R&D companies and universities signing-up.

How to enrol for becoming a projects participant?

• If you are a student or scientist at an R&D organisation or university: Please, provide your contact details and wait for our approval or a discussion about your options. • If you work for an industrial company: Please, provide your contact details and wait for our non-binding offer. After we receive a purchase order from your company, you and any of your colleagues become project participants for one year. A new non-binding offer will be issued for the subsequent year. • If you do not belong to any of these groups, e.g. journalists, unemployed or retired people: please provide your contact details and explain, why you want to become a project participant.

How to create an account?

1. Enter your real name or user name on ### and provide your E-mail address
2. You will then be contacted by E-mail as follows:
   1. You will receive free-of-charge access if you work for a university, R&D institute or a project participant
   2. You will receive a non-binding offer for becoming a project participant
3. Your settings will be changed as soon as possible so that you may edit pages 

What are the differences between aiCAM^stir and Wikipedia?

What are the differences between aiCAM^stir and Wikipedia? And what is the same?

aiCAMstir	Wikipedia
Information presented by FSW experts to FSW experts	Information presented by volunteers to the general public
Interesting discussions and informal peer review	Often no feedback at all
Publish original research	Do not publish original research, but report only on things that have been published before and provide the reference
Write about your own R&D activities or the products and services of your company	Do not write about yourself or the company that you work for
Feel free to write about yourself or the company that you work for	Most people and many companies are not notable
Provide detailed technical information, e.g. Creative Commons licenced software	Publish only information that is required for an encyclopedia
aiCAMstir is a project in which universities, R&D organisations and industrial companies can participate	Wikipedia is “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”
Sponsored by participation fees of industrial companies	Sponsored by donations of many individuals
Founded by AluStir and OxCAM (i.e. FTS Engineering Answers Ltd, Sabe Technology Ltd and Transforming Stress Ltd)	Founded by Jimmy Whales, one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World”
Managed by the Project Steering Group	Managed by Wikimedia Foundation and the Community
Information is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Do not infringe the copyright of others, i.e. publish only your own, Creative Commons licenced or public domain information
Report from a “neutral point of view”, i.e. do not abuse it for spam, blunt promotion or advertisements
Vandalism is prohibited, i.e. editing or other behaviour deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose will be penalized
Be bold – Go for it

What is the duration of the project?

The project is open-ended, i.e. additional tasks will be tackeled, as soon as more universities, R&D organisations and industrial companies join the project.

Summary of Terms and Conditions

• The invoice will be issued after confirming the receipt of the purchase order. It is due within 30 days.
• The liability equals maximally the amount of the regular annual project participation fee.
• The information made available within the project does not form part of any contract. Whilst every effort will be made to ensure the accuracy of the information presented, responsibility for errors cannot be expected.
• Changing circumstances may require to change the terms and condition at any time.

Who are the Founding Partners

AluStir	FTS Engineering Answers Ltd	Sabe Technology Ltd	Transforming Stress Ltd
Stephan Kallee	Mike Lewis	Josselin Guillozet	Simon Smith
Im Unterdorf 19 63826 Geiselbach, Germany	146 London Road Biggleswade SG18 8EH, UK	14 Stanton Harcourt Rd Witney OX28 3LD, UK	The Sycamores, 43 Kneesworth St Royston SG8 5AB, UK
Tel: +49 (0) 6024 6360123	Tel: +44 (0) 7758 742358	Tel: +44 (0) 7780 595556	Tel: +44 (0) 7742 793848
stephan.kallee@alustir.com	info@fts-engineeringanswers.com	info@sabe.tech	contact@transformstress.co.uk
www.alustir.com	www.fts-engineeringanswers.com	www.sabe.tech	www.transformstress.co.uk