Pre-production prototyping of Cobra Seats Marine Suspension System

该项目将开发和生产基于革命性减震悬挂系统的新型船舶座椅的预生产原型。这已经成功地证明了以比现有技术更低的成本提供显着的性能优势，因此有可能破坏当前的市场。预生产原型将用于进一步完善悬挂机制和产品，从潜在客户那里获得有价值的用户体验见解，并提供减震性能的定量数据。海上悬挂座椅市场正在增长（估计超过6000万英镑，年增长率高达8%），这是由对新船的健康需求和立法压力推动的，这迫使船主和运营商改善船员条件并减少通过船舶结构和配件传播的波浪冲击的破坏性影响。作为该项目的结果，Cobra将实现一个巨大的市场机会，这将有利于英国经济，具有显著的出口潜力和重要的社会和环境优势。最重要的是，一个重要的健康和安全挑战将得到解决，从而减少英国和全球的伤害和误工时间（仅在英国，每年的成本估计在2.57亿英镑到6.65亿英镑之间）。该项目还将尝试一种新的生产路线，利用模具材料和制造技术的最新进步。如果这种生产路线是成功的，它将使新座椅的生产成本更低，当技术和商业可行性得到证明时，它不仅有助于保持在英国的生产，而且有助于在一个日益由国外低劳动力率经济体生产的复合材料主导的市场中扩大国内复合材料生产。

The project is to develop and produce pre-production prototypes of new marine vessel seatsbased on a revolutionary suspension system for shock mitigation. This has been successfullydemonstrated to deliver significant performance benefits at lower cost than existingtechnologies and thus has the potential to disrupt the current market. A patent has been filed.The pre-production prototypes will be used to further refine the suspension mechanism andproduct, gain valuable user experience insights from potential customers, and providequantitative data on shock mitigation performance. The market for marine suspension seatingis growing (estimated to be in excess of £60m with annual growth rates of up to 8%), drivenby a healthy demand for new vessels and legislative pressure which is forcing boat ownersand operators to improve crew conditions and reduce the damaging effects of wave impactstransmitted through the vessel's structure and fittings. As a result of this project, a substantialmarket opportunity will be realised by Cobra which will benefit the UK economy, hassignificant export potential and important social and environmental advantages. Vitally, animportant health and safety challenge will be addressed, resulting in fewer injuries and lostwork time in the UK and globally (with annual costs estimated of between £257 million and£665 million in the UK alone).The project will also trial a novel production route which takes advantage of recent advancesin mould materials and manufacturing technologies. If this production route is successful itwill enable even lower cost production of the new seats and when technical and commercialviability is proven, it will help not only keep production in the UK, but expand domesticcomposite production in a market that is increasingly dominated by composites manufacturedabroad in low labour rate economies.