Novel Measurement Technology to Transform the Plastics Industry

锐步电子是一家以创新为主导的公司，位于英国谢菲尔德。它通过使用其独特的超声波传感技术来应对摩擦学接触(磨损、摩擦和润滑)方面的挑战，从而推动转型。使用其独特的技术堆栈，它在嵌入式组件级别提供无与伦比的信息密度数据，并具有应力、润滑膜厚度、磨损、流体特性、接触压力和无损检测等核心测量能力。Triboonics开发了一种聚合物设备监控系统，使用他们的超声波测量技术来测量聚合物加工设备的磨损。由于对塑料污染的担忧，聚合物行业在2019年面临重大破坏。然而，与新冠肺炎疫情带来的广泛破坏相比，这种破坏相形见绌。供应链中的每一个点都感受到了影响。一些以聚合物为基础的产品(如塑料设备和汽车零部件)通过劳动密集型和数字化程度较低的工艺进行生产已陷入停顿。另一方面，在供应链面临巨大压力的时候，塑料包装和医用塑料的生产一直在蓬勃发展，但方式不是可持续的或环境可接受的。该项目旨在为聚合物加工行业开发新型嵌入式实时传感器技术，以促进可持续塑料包装和循环经济，通过数字化行业和加速采用“工业物联网”，通过自动化和远程监控来提高生产率。我们的愿景将体现在一个更具生产力和责任感的聚合物加工行业，该行业在危机时期和危机后恢复正常时都是可持续的。Impact资金的延期将进一步加速在聚合物加工行业内主要项目期间建立的商业关系，无论是在商业模型方面，还是在部署远程监控以实现行业数字化方面。

Tribosonics is an innovation-led company located and forged in Sheffield, United Kingdom. It drives transformation by using its unique ultrasonic sensing technologies to address challenges in tribological contacts (wear, friction and lubrication). Using its unique Technology Stack, it provides data of unmatched information density at an embedded component level with core measurement competencies in stress, lubricant film thickness, wear, fluid properties, contact pressure and non-destructive testing. Tribosonics have developed a polymer equipment monitoring system using their ultrasonic measurement technology for measuring wear in polymer processing equipment.The polymer industry faced significant disruption during 2019 due to concerns about plastics pollution. This disruption, however, has been dwarfed by the widespread disruption brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. Every point in the supply chain has felt the impact. Production via labour intensive and poorly digitised processes for some polymer-based products has come to a halt (e.g. plastic equipment and automotive parts). On the other hand, production of plastic packaging and medical plastics has been booming in these times of intense pressure on supply chains, but not in a way that is sustainable or environmentally acceptable.This project is to develop novel embedded, real-time sensor technology for the polymer processing industry to promote sustainable plastic packaging and the circular economy, to improve productivity through automation and remote monitoring by digitising the industry and accelerating the adoption of the "Industrial Internet of Things."Our vision will manifest itself in a more productive and responsible polymer processing industry that is sustainable both in times of crisis and post-crisis when normality returns.The extension for impact funding will further accelerate the commercial relationships that have been established during the main project within the polymer processing industry, both in terms of the commercial models and also in the deployment of remote monitoring for digitising the industry.