Commercialisation of a Step-changing Innovation in Automated Composites Manufacturing

这个项目旨在将布里斯托尔大学诞生的一项创新的自动化复合材料制造技术从实验室中拿出来，通过一家大学衍生公司进行商业化。这项技术使碳纤维能够沿着弯曲的路径行驶，没有缺陷，从而能够制造形状复杂的无缺陷碳纤维复合材料组件，并使其性能超过当前水平。这项技术可以对汽车、航空航天和风能行业未来的复合材料产品产生重大影响，在这些领域，结构效率对于减少二氧化碳排放变得越来越关键。该技术现在已经准备好从大学研究项目转移到与商业复合材料设计和制造活动一起开发。为了评估未来的市场潜力，项目团队进行了为期3个月的市场调查，并通过ICURE创新商业化计划(Cohort 10)制定了初步业务计划。该项目旨在进一步发展业务和技术成熟度，通过衍生公司将变阶梯复合材料技术商业化。在项目期间，衍生公司将专注于制定业务计划，并通过与潜在最终用户和国家复合材料中心合作，提高技术的技术准备水平。此外，该团队的长期愿景是创建一家高科技工程公司，为英国和全球复合材料行业提供这种创新的复合材料制造技术。这个项目是提升公司业务形象、吸引民间投资的重要垫脚石。

"This project aims at taking an innovative automated composite manufacturing technology born at the University of Bristol out of the lab for commercialisation through a university spin-out company. This technology enables steering carbon fibres along curved paths without defects, which allow the manufacture of defect-free carbon fibre composite components with complex shapes and optimisation of their performance beyond current levels. This technology can have a significant impact on future composite products in automotive, aerospace and wind energy sectors where the structural efficiency is becoming more and more critical to reduce the CO2 emissions.The technology is now ready to move from a university research project and to be developed alongside commercial composite design and manufacturing activities. In order to gauge the future market potential, the project team carried out a 3 months market research and built an initial business plan through the ICURe Innovation to Commercialisation programme (Cohort 10). This project aims at further developing the business and technical maturity to commercialise the step-changing composites technology through a spin-out company. During the period of project, the spin-out company will focus on developing the business plan and increase the technical readiness level of the technology by collaborating with a potential end-user as well as the National Composites Centre. Furthermore, the team's long-term vision is to create a high-tech engineering company that will supply this innovative composites manufacturing technology to the UK's and global composites industry. This project is an important stepping stone to raise the business profile of the company and attract private investment."