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

电动汽车、航空航天、电动船舶推进和其他清洁技术等快速发展的部门依赖于永久磁铁。目前，还没有令人满意的工业技术来准确地表征这种磁体。此Hirst项目采用KTP项目的成果，并将创建解决此问题的产品的产品原型。这些增强的PFM产品将在工业中准确地、精确地表征永久磁体，而不仅仅是在实验室。这项关键的颠覆性技术能够在全球范围内准确地设计和制造永磁体应用。到2020年，全球磁铁市场预计将达到960亿美元。Hirst的这项申请支持其脉冲磁场磁学(PFM)的进一步发展，这是一种磁性材料检测工艺，已经确立了市场地位，但该公司无法通过这一步从自己的资源中进一步开发。Hirst希望在埃克塞特大学的支持下开发的一项创新的基础上，进行这一重大的战略改进。这一创新在数学上模拟了开环环境中的闭环测量。实践中需要闭环测量结果，这将为经过验证的稳健工艺带来更高的精度，从而在全球范围内开启一系列与生产相关的新应用，但首先要从中国的市场开始。

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.