Flexible Robotic Machining in High Accuracy Applications (FRoMHAA)

高精度应用中的灵活机器人加工 (FRoMHAA)

• 批准号: 113079
• 金额: $ 64.98万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: BEIS-Funded Programmes
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=113079
• 关键词: Flexible; Robotic; Machining; Accuracy; Applications

The UK aerospace sector is number one in Europe and second only to the USA in the global market. That global market is expected to exceed $5 trillion over the next 20 years, with the expansion of air travel and the introduction of next generation aircraft. However, the market is extremely competitive and the UK’s competitive position is under threat. In order to fight off competition from other countries, the UK needs to increase productivity, ramp up production, and reduce the cost of manufacture. Automation is essential to enable those gains in productivity and reduction in costs but, in the aerospace sector, automation is held back by robots’ limited accuracy and stability. This project will address those limitations and enable more high accuracy aerospace manufacturing tasks to be automated. The project will give the UK the most accurate large volume envelope robot in the world. Based at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), in Rotherham, the robot will be at the heart of Factory 2050, opening in early 2016, which will the UK’s first reconfigurable assembly and component manufacturing factory, which will develop and showcase the technologies and systems that will be incorporated within the factories of the future. Automation will lead to lower capital investment requirements and smaller infrastructure, producing better quality aircraft with tighter tolerances as has been seen in the mass-produced automotive sector. By lowering production costs and increasing the efficiency of manufacturing robots, it can become more profitable to produce goods within Europe, which will encourage aerospace manufacturers to bring more jobs back to the UK from overseas. Studies have shown that in the long term automation could grow employment by 7% in the UK.

英国航空航天业在欧洲排名第一，在全球市场上仅次于美国。随着航空旅行的扩大和下一代飞机的引进，预计未来20年全球市场将超过5万亿美元。然而，市场竞争非常激烈，英国的竞争地位受到威胁。为了抵御来自其他国家的竞争，英国需要提高生产力，增加产量，降低制造成本。自动化对于提高生产率和降低成本至关重要，但在航空航天领域，自动化受到机器人有限的准确性和稳定性的阻碍。该项目将解决这些限制，并使更高精度的航空航天制造任务实现自动化。该项目将为英国提供世界上最精确的大容量信封机器人。该机器人位于罗瑟勒姆的谢菲尔德大学先进制造研究中心（AMRC），将成为2016年初开业的2050工厂的核心，这将是英国第一家可重构装配和零部件制造工厂，该工厂将开发和展示未来工厂中将采用的技术和系统。自动化将导致更低的资本投资要求和更小的基础设施，生产出更高质量的飞机，公差更严格，就像大规模生产的汽车行业一样。通过降低生产成本和提高制造机器人的效率，在欧洲范围内生产商品可以变得更有利可图，这将鼓励航空航天制造商将更多的就业机会从海外带回英国。研究表明，从长远来看，自动化可以使英国的就业增长7%。