EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Through-life Engineering Services

EPSRC 终身工程服务创新制造中心

• 批准号: EP/I033246/1
• 负责人: Rajkumar Roy
• 金额: $ 743.42万
• 依托单位: CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FI033246%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Centre; Innovative; Manufacturing; Through

The EPSRC Centre in Coupled Whole Systems is a National Centre, hosted by Cranfield and Durham Universities. Successful high technology UK manufacturing companies are offering a range of interlinked high value products and services. High value products are typically technology intensive, expensive and reliability critical requiring engineering services (e.g. maintenance, repair and overhaul) throughout the life cycle e.g. aircraft engine, high-end cars, railway vehicle, wind turbines and defence equipment. Competitiveness is then dependent on many factors, such as design innovation for the product and added value through the services and minimisation of whole life cost. These products typically combine five major domains (structural, mechanical, electrical, electronic and software sub-systems) to achieve the required functionality and performance. These products are referred to as Coupled Whole Systems. The overall vision of the proposed EPSRC Centre is to develop knowledge, technology and process demonstrators, novel methodologies, techniques and the associated toolsets to provide the capability for the concept design of the coupled whole system based on system design for engineering services.After discussions with the industrial partners, KTNs and all the academics involved in the Centre, it has been decided that the Centre will start with a set of five projects. The projects are of three types, the first one identifies current challenges in the systems design across multiple sectors, the second set of three projects is in TRL levels 2-3 and addresses three major industrial challenges for engineering services across the sectors. This research will develop technology and process demonstrators, design rules and standards to evaluate the system design in order to reduce the engineering services cost later in the life cycle. The third type is more long term and represents TRL levels 1-2. This project will develop technologies that could reduce the need for maintenance and therefore reduce the whole life cost of a high value product. The five initial projects are as follows:Project 1: Study of cross sector challenges in coupled whole systems design (6 mths)Project 2: Reduction of no-fault found (NFF) through system design (3 yrs)Project 3: Characterisation of in-service component feedback for system design (3 yrs)Project 4: Improvement of System Design Process for whole life cost reduction (2 yrs)Project 5: Self-healing technologies for electronic and mechanical components and subsystems (3 yrs)All the initial projects and future ones will use the facilities of a Whole Systems Studio at Cranfield. The Studio will provide instrumentation and facilities to perform experiments in support of the initial and future research projects and develop technology and process demonstrators. The Studio will have a networked computing facility with a data highway based on the OSys integration platform. The platform will initially allow other facilities such as the 3D scanning facility from GOM, Electronics Lab from Durham, IVHM Centre at Cranfield and MRO Shop at Rolls Royce, Derby to be connected with the Studio. In future, other research groups and laboratories will be given access to the Studio as well.The core partners of the Centre are Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Bombardier Transport, ARM and the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The partners represent aerospace, defence, railways and electronics sectors. There are 13 other industrial partners representing user companies from defence, information technology (IT), machine tool, and energy sectors and knowledge transfer networks (aerospace, energy and electronics), software vendor, media partner and trade organisations as dissemination partner to support the growth of the Centre.

联合整体系统的EPSRC中心是一个国家中心，由克兰菲尔德大学和达勒姆大学主办。成功的英国高科技制造公司正在提供一系列相互关联的高价值产品和服务。高价值产品通常是技术密集型、昂贵和可靠性关键的产品，需要在整个生命周期内提供工程服务(如维护、维修和大修)，如飞机发动机、高端汽车、铁路车辆、风力涡轮机和国防设备。竞争力取决于许多因素，例如产品的设计创新、通过服务实现的附加值以及将整个生命周期成本降至最低。这些产品通常结合了五个主要领域(结构、机械、电气、电子和软件子系统)以实现所需的功能和性能。这些产品被称为耦合整体系统。拟议的EPSRC中心的总体愿景是开发知识、技术和流程演示程序、新的方法、技术和相关工具集，以工程服务的系统设计为基础，为耦合的整个系统的概念设计提供能力。在与工业伙伴、KTN和参与该中心的所有学者讨论后，决定该中心将从一系列五个项目开始。这些项目有三种类型，第一种类型确定了多个部门在系统设计方面目前面临的挑战，第二组三个项目属于TRL 2-3级，并解决了各部门工程服务面临的三个主要行业挑战。这项研究将开发技术和过程演示程序、设计规则和标准来评估系统设计，以降低生命周期后期的工程服务成本。第三类是更长期的，代表TRL水平1-2。该项目将开发可以减少维护需求的技术，从而降低高价值产品的整个生命周期成本。这五个初始项目如下：项目1：研究耦合整体系统设计中的跨部门挑战(6个月)项目2：通过系统设计减少未发现的故障(NFF)(3年)项目3：系统设计中现役部件反馈的特征(3年)项目4：改进系统设计流程以降低整个生命周期成本(2年)项目5：电子和机械部件和子系统的自我修复技术(3年)所有初始项目和未来项目都将使用克兰菲尔德整个系统工作室的设施。工作室将提供仪器和设施来进行实验，以支持最初和未来的研究项目，并开发技术和过程演示。工作室将拥有一个联网计算设施，以及一条基于OSys集成平台的数据高速公路。该平台最初将允许其他设施，如GOM的3D扫描设施、达勒姆的电子实验室、克兰菲尔德的IVHM中心和德比劳斯莱斯的MRO商店与工作室连接。该中心的核心合作伙伴是罗尔斯-罗伊斯公司、英国宇航系统公司、庞巴迪运输公司、ARM和国防部。这些合作伙伴代表航空航天、国防、铁路和电子行业。另有13个工业伙伴代表国防、信息技术(IT)、机床和能源部门的用户公司，以及知识转移网络(航空航天、能源和电子)、软件供应商、媒体伙伴和贸易组织作为传播伙伴，以支持中心的发展。

项目成果

A fuzzy-logic advisory system for lean manufacturing within SMEs

中小企业精益制造的模糊逻辑咨询系统

• DOI: 10.1080/0951192x.2012.665180
• 发表时间: 2012
• 期刊: International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Achanga P

'In-situ' Inspection Technologies: Trends in Degradation Assessment and Associated Technologies

“原位”检测技术：降解评估和相关技术的趋势

• DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2016.10.003
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Procedia CIRP
• 作者: Addepalli S

Uncertainty Assessment for Measurement Processes in the Aerospace Manufacturing Industry

航空航天制造行业测量过程的不确定度评估

• DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2017.01.030
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Procedia CIRP
• 作者: Abollado J

Advances in Through-life Engineering Services

全寿命工程服务的进步

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49938-3_12
• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Addepalli S

Non-destructive evaluation of localised heat damage occurring in carbon composites using thermography and thermal diffusivity measurement

• DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2018.09.040
• 发表时间: 2019-01-01
• 期刊: MEASUREMENT
• 影响因子: 5.6
• 作者: Addepalli, Sri;Zhao, Yifan;Ucur, Aziz
• 通讯作者: Ucur, Aziz