NSF Workshop On Advanced Manufacturing Research Needs For The Aerospace Industry

该奖项支持一个NSF研讨会，该研讨会的重点是确定将支持航空航天工业的先进制造的本科研究。由于靠近航空航天制造商、服务提供商和制造支持公司，该研讨会在德克萨斯州的达拉斯举行。飞机制造被认为是美国制造业基地的技术支柱之一。作为一个行业，航空航天制造业在全球范围内直接支持高技能和相对高薪的私营部门制造业工作，整个行业的销售额估计超过2000亿美元，约占美国国内生产总值（GDP）的1.4 - 1.7%。美国商业（非国防、非航天）航空航天制造业具有影响该行业未来的主要趋势。航空航天复合材料和材料的制造目前已经达到了一个平台，性能很高，但组件成本并没有降低。利用增材制造等先进制造技术进行复合材料开发的起源，为促进制造业复苏提供了前所未有的机遇。这对于降低航空价值链生产成本、增加飞机吞吐量（上市时间）和提高环境可持续性（减少碳足迹和最大限度地降低生命周期成本）至关重要。研讨会将持续2.5天，来自工业界、政府和学术界的15位领导人和多达100名与会者将介绍当前的技术状况，并总结四个领域的未来需求，包括：先进的传感和控制；可视化、信息学和数字化制造；先进材料制造；环境和可持续性。这次讲习班将努力实现下列五个目标，这些目标共同导致确定具体的研究和教育需要，并开始制定解决这些需要的国家路线图：(1)检查和回顾制造工艺技术，自动化方法和设备以及工业中系统级研究的前沿研究；(2)评估未来前景和展望，包括对先进机械和工艺的使用和需求的增长；(3)收集航空航天工业对短期（未来1-3年）和长期（未来3-10年）研究问题的看法；(4)确定并制定具体需求，差距和挑战；在航空航天价值流中，(5)为研究和教育计划制定建议，包括必要的后续研讨会，以推进航空航天工业的制造技术和系统。

This award supports a NSF workshop focused on identifying undergraduate research in advanced manufacturing that would support the aerospace industry. The workshop is held in Dallas, Texas due to the proximity of aerospace manufacturers, service providers, and manufacturing support companies. Aircraft manufacturing is considered one of the technological backbones of the U.S. manufacturing base. As an industry, aerospace manufacturing directly supports high-skilled and relatively well-paid private sector manufacturing jobs worldwide and with industry-wide estimated sales of over $200 billion generally accounts for approximately 1.4 to 1.7% of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). U.S. commercial (non-defense, non-space) aerospace manufacturing industry has major trends affecting the future of the industry. Manufacturing of aerospace composites and materials has currently reached a plateau where performance is high but component costs have not been reduced. The origins of using advanced manufacturing such as additive manufacturing for composite development has provided an unprecedented opportunity to promote manufacturing resurgence. This is essential to the reduction of aerospace value chain production costs, increased aircraft throughput (time to market), and improved sustainability to the environment (reduce carbon footprint and minimize lifetime cycle costs).The workshop will last 2.5 days, and will include 15 leaders and up to 100 participants from industry, government and academe to characterize the current state of the art, and summarize future needs in four domains, including: advanced sensing and control; visualization, informatics and digital manufacturing; advanced materials manufacturing, and; environmental and sustainability. This workshop will work to achieve the following five objectives that collectively lead to the identification of specific research and education needs, as well as the initiation of a national roadmap towards addressing the needs: (1) Examine and review cutting edge research in manufacturing process technologies, automation methods and equipment, and systems-level research taking place in industry, (2) Assess future prospects and outlook, including the growth in the use and the demand for advanced machinery and processes, (3) Gather the aerospace industry's perspective of the short-term (1-3 year ahead) and long-term (3-10 years ahead) research issues, (4) Identify and formulate specific needs, gaps and challenges, in the aerospace value stream, (5) Formulate recommendations for research and education programs, including follow-up workshops as needed, to advance manufacturing technologies and systems for the aerospace industry.