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

格拉斯哥在造船、重型制造和焊接方面拥有著名的、引以为豪的传统，但在超声波方面也是如此。将这些变革性的创新融合在一起，这项提议寻求为格拉斯哥创造一个繁荣的未来，由其传统驱动，由其创新实现。在国际范围内，能源过渡和安全问题迫使能源、国防和海洋部门的高完整性、大规模、高效率结构的生产、快速和高效制造的快速阶梯式变化，能源、国防和海洋部门是格拉斯哥遗产和未来的关键支柱。传统上，高完整性接头的焊接和检查在制造和维修中都是独立的、顺序的，通常是手动的。最终，如果只有在完工时才发现缺陷，这将降低生产率、吞吐量、进度确定性，并增加返工，这是现代添加剂制造中类似的挑战。此外，重新加热然后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第一时间、每次都提供高完整性的结构，克服当前的技术和工艺限制。从目前的工业数据估计，它显著降低了焊接过程时间55%，焊接总成本50%；75%的工时这项建议旨在加速和推动这些最近在格拉斯哥诞生的创新在行业中的规模，为行业带来显著的商业、技术和进度确定性好处，确保格拉斯哥和英国在未来制造生产率、效率、收入和计划回流方面处于领先地位。三个移动、大规模、可重新配置、自动化焊接和添加剂制造试验台，按行业塑造，按行业安置，并追求对行业的影响，为跨部门的多个格拉斯哥行业协作者引入、验证和嵌入对下一代高价值结构的过程中检查。平行地，教育和STEM外展服务将招募和培训下一代Industry 4.0 Ready传感器自动焊接工程师，解决当前影响这些行业的重大技能差距。最后，一辆总部位于格拉斯哥的商业化车辆将支撑该地区的创新，使技术能够在国际上转化为社会和经济影响，同时仍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，连同创新带来的重大技术、商业、环境和安全机遇，重新点燃克莱德自豪的制造历史，融合其未来，并将其定位为可持续、高生产率、包容性制造的国际焦点。

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.