Fusing a future from Glasgow’s proud heritage: Schedule Guaranteed High-Integrity Structures for a Secure, Safe and Resilient Transition to Net Zero

融合格拉斯哥引以为傲的传统的未来：时间表保证的高完整性结构，以安全、安全和有弹性地过渡到净零

• 批准号: 10054861
• 金额: $ 470.45万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10054861
• 关键词: Fusing; future; Glasgow; proud; heritage

Glasgow has a well-known, proud heritage in shipbuilding, heavy-fabrication and welding, but also in ultrasound. Fusing these transformative innovations together, this proposal seeks to manufacture a prosperous future for Glasgow, driven by its heritage, enabled by its innovations.Internationally, the energy transition and security concerns force a rapid step-change in the productive, fast and efficient manufacture of high-integrity, large-scale, structures for the energy, defence, and marine sectors, key pillars of Glasgow's heritage and future.Traditionally, welding and inspection of high-integrity joints are separate, sequential, often manual processes in both manufacturing and repair. Ultimately, this reduces productivity, throughput, schedule certainty and increases rework if defects are only detected at completion, a challenge similarly found in modern additive manufacturing. Additionally, the energy required to re-heat then repair these structures significantly increases the commercial and environmental costs of manufacturing. Furthermore, a shrinking and ageing skilled workforce, along with a desire to reduce hazardous working, drives process automation.Automated in-process ultrasonic inspection during welding aims to deliver high-integrity structures right, first time, every time, overcoming current technical and process limitations. It offers significant reductions, estimated from current industrial data of:\> 55% in weld process time\> 50% in overall weld cost\> 75% in man hoursThis proposal seeks to accelerate and propel these recent Glasgow born innovations to industry at scale, delivering significant commercial, technical and schedule certainty benefits to industry at pace, ensuring Glasgow and the UK lead on future fabrication productivity, efficiency, revenue and program repatriation.Three, mobile, large-scale, reconfigurable, automated welding and additive manufacturing test-beds, shaped by industry, housed by industry, and pursuing impact for industry, introduce, validate and embed in-process inspection on next-generation high-value structures for multiple Glasgow based industrial collaborators across sectors.In parallel, an educational and STEM outreach offering will recruit and train the next-generation Industry 4.0 ready sensor-enabled automated welding engineers, addressing the significant current skills gap affecting these industries.Finally, a Glasgow based commercialisation vehicle will anchor the innovation in the region and enable translation of the technology internationally for societal and economic impact, whilst still ensuring Glasgow is at the centre and forefront of heavy-manufacturing innovation.This three-pronged approach, along with the innovation's significant technical, commercial, environmental and safety opportunities, re-ignite the Clyde's proud manufacturing history, fuse its future and anchor it as the international focal point in sustainable, productive, inclusive manufacturing.

格拉斯哥在造船、重型制造和焊接以及超声波方面有着著名而自豪的传统。将这些变革性的创新融合在一起，该方案旨在为格拉斯哥创造一个繁荣的未来，以其传统为驱动，以其创新为实现。在国际上，能源转型和安全问题迫使格拉斯哥的传统和未来的关键支柱——能源、国防和海洋部门，在生产、快速和高效的高完整性、大型结构制造方面迅速发生变化。传统上，高完整性接头的焊接和检验在制造和修理中是分开的、顺序的，通常是手工的过程。最终，如果缺陷只在完成时检测到，这会降低生产率、吞吐量、进度确定性，并增加返工，这在现代增材制造中也同样存在挑战。此外，再加热和修复这些结构所需的能源大大增加了制造的商业和环境成本。此外，熟练劳动力的萎缩和老龄化，以及减少危险工作的愿望，推动了过程自动化。焊接过程中的自动化超声检测旨在克服当前技术和工艺的限制，在第一次、每次都能提供高完整性的结构。从目前的工业数据估计，它提供了显著的降低：焊接工艺时间为55%，总焊接成本为50%，工时为75%。该提案旨在加速和推动最近格拉斯哥诞生的创新大规模应用于工业，为工业提供重大的商业、技术和进度确定性效益，确保格拉斯哥和英国在未来的制造生产力、效率、收入和项目遣返方面处于领先地位。三是移动的、大规模的、可重构的、自动化的焊接和增材制造试验台，由工业塑造，由工业容纳，并追求对工业的影响，为多个格拉斯哥工业合作伙伴引入、验证和嵌入下一代高价值结构的过程检测。与此同时，教育和STEM外展服务将招募和培训下一代工业4.0传感器自动化焊接工程师，解决当前影响这些行业的重大技能差距。最后，以格拉斯哥为基地的商业化车辆将锚定该地区的创新，并使技术能够在国际上转化为社会和经济影响，同时仍然确保格拉斯哥处于重型制造业创新的中心和前沿。这种三管齐下的方法，以及创新的重大技术、商业、环境和安全机遇，重新点燃了克莱德引以为豪的制造业历史，融合了它的未来，并将其定位为可持续、高效、包容性制造业的国际焦点。