SDFF PFM magnet characterisation unit design and prototyping [and market entry]

电动汽车、航空航天、电力船舶推进和其他清洁技术等快速发展的领域都依赖于永磁体。目前，还没有令人满意的工业技术来精确地研磨这种磁体。赫斯特的这个项目采用了KTP项目的成果，并将创建解决这一问题的产品原型。这些增强的PFM产品将精确地测量永磁体的精度，并在工业中，而不仅仅是实验室。这项关键的颠覆性技术使永磁体应用的精确设计和制造在全球范围内成为可能。到2020年，全球磁铁市场预计将达到960亿美元。赫斯特的这一应用支持了其脉冲场磁力测量（PFM）的进一步发展，这是一种磁性材料测试工艺，已经建立了市场地位，但公司无法通过这一步改变自己的资源来进一步发展。赫斯特希望在埃克塞特大学的支持下，在创新的基础上实现这一重大的战略提升。该创新在数学上模拟开环情况下的闭环测量。在实践中需要闭环测量结果，这为经过验证的稳健过程带来了更高的精度，在全球范围内开辟了一系列新的生产相关应用，但首先要从中国市场开始。

The fast-moving sectors of electric vehicles, aerospace, electric marine propulsion and other clean technologies depend upon permanent magnets. Currently, there is no satisfactory industrial technique to characterise such magnets accurately. This Hirst project takes the outcome of a KTP project and will create product prototypes of products which solve this problem. These enhanced PFM products will accurately characterise permanent magnets with precision, and in indutry, not just laboratories. This key disruptive technology enables accurate design and manufacture of permanent magnet applications on a worldwide basis. The worldwide market for magnets is expected to reach $96bln by 2020. This application by Hirst supports the onward development of its Pulse Field Magnetometry (PFM), a magnetic material testing process which has established a market presence but which the company cannot develop further via this step change from its own resources. Hirst wishes to make this significant strategic enhancement based on an innovation it has developed with the support of the University of Exeter. This innovation mathematically simulates a closed loop measurement in open loop circumstances. Closed loop measurement results are needed in practice and this brings higher accuracy to a proven robust process, opening a range of new production related applications worldwide, but starting with the market in China.