Computational formulation technique for developing resource and energy efficient functional coatings for foundation industry

在土木和机械工程中，设计过程几乎完全由计算机完成。类似地，配方产品（FP）设计的长期目标是从特别的劳动密集型过程转向更健壮和自适应的计算机辅助配方（CAF）范式。在过去的二十年中，利用计算方法来帮助开发配方产品和材料的表征和发现取得了重大进展。英国的基础工业一直面临着竞争，因为他们有创新的能力，并为英国制造的产品增加价值，通常是通过应用功能性涂层来满足特定的市场需求。将创新从概念更快地转化为涂料的能力，将使基础行业更好地竞争。在成本、质量、能源和材料效率方面优化产品和工艺的能力，而不花费更多的开发时间，是未来增长的关键推动因素。该项目将从整个供应链的角度来看待数字技术的准备情况，以增强传统的配方流程，并通过数字优先的流程，在成分制造和应用流程方面获取过程中专家知识的能力。该联盟包括金属、玻璃、散装和特种化学品供应链，将寻求展示一种以数字为主导的方法，在两种不同的基板系统上制备喷雾沉积配方，一种用于玻璃行业，另一种用于钢铁行业。虽然我们将专注于抗菌涂层，但我们的方法将冒险采用许多不同产品，不同基材，不同应用机制的类似方法，将国家专业知识中心与行业合作伙伴聚集在一起。总的来说，这将使我们能够以更低的成本和更低的能耗生产高价值的产品。

In civil and mechanical engineering, the design process is done almost entirely by computer. Similarly, a long-held goal in formulated product (FP) design is to shift from an ad-hoc labour-intensive process towards a more robust and adaptive computer aided formulation (CAF) paradigm. Significant progress has been made over the last two decades in utilizing computational methods to aid in the development of formulated products and materials characterisation and discovery.The foundation industries in the UK have continued in the face of competition due to their ability to innovate, and add value to the products manufactured in the UK, frequently achieved through the application of a functional coating to address a specific market need. The ability to turn innovations from concept to coating faster, is what will let the foundation industries compete better. The ability to optimize the product and process for cost, quality, energy and material efficiency, without taking more development time is a key enabler for future growth.This project will take a whole supply chain view on the readiness of digital technologies to augment and enhance the traditional formulation process, and the ability to capture the knowledge of the experts in the process in terms of manufacture of constituents, application process, through a the digital-first process. This consortium, including metals, glass and bulk and speciality chemicals supply chain will seek to demonstrate a digital led approach to preparing a formulation for spray deposition on two different kinds of substrate systems, one for the glass sector, and one for steel. While we will focus on antimicrobial coatings, our approach will derisk similar approaches with many different products, different substrates, different application mechanisms, bringing together national centres of expertise with industry partners. Overall this will enable us to produce high value products at lower cost and with lower energy consumption.