Foresight Fellowship in Manufacturing - The Future of Additive Manufacturing

增材制造（AM）被视为一种基础技术，将促进其他科学领域的发展，并将跨越所有部门。它被用于各种各样的研究，从拓扑优化，光学，流动化学，再生医学和许多“传统”工程领域。增材制造对英国经济的重要性已在最近的一些报告中得到确认，Innovate UK将其定义为英国22项优先工艺技术之一。该奖学金的愿景是探索各种可能性，并看到英国学者发明全新的增材制造工艺，其速度比现有工艺快几个数量级，并建立英国增材制造战略，使英国工业在利用该技术方面处于世界领先地位。该奖学金将与物理学，化学和材料与现有的AM社区在英国，以探索在高速批量加工材料的潜力。目标是：研究批量增材制造过程激发其他学者的热情，迎接下一代增材制造的挑战将这些新学者介绍给现有增材制造社区鼓励新社区产生全新的想法协助社区开展可行性研究和完整的资助建议还将开展活动，让学者参与制定英国战略和实施计划的过程。这将通过在整个价值链上采取双重方法来实现，从新研究议程中的低TRL发现到英国国家战略中的更高TRL部署，为英国工业采用增材制造铺平道路。我们将通过各种方式进行工作访问，为研究人员和学者提供合作的机会，为体积处理提供创新的想法。这也将导致英国内部更强大的学术/工业联系。预计将有联合出版物和知识产权和衍生产品的产生。在该奖学金范围内进行的研究将补充EPSRC增材制造创新制造中心目前的工作，以及由NSF和EPSRC资助的SAVI（跨虚拟研究所的科学）计划下的拟议活动。单独这些活动可以独立，但结合起来将提供一个很好的机会，英国科学和工程。奖学金的主要产出将是一个雄心勃勃的和具有挑战性的新领域的研究，为英国学者在体积上午。英国将引领这一令人兴奋的新领域。还将有机会协助政府和EPSRC确定和执行研究政策。在增材制造方面的国家工作直接符合EPSRC的战略，因为增材制造是EPSRC的优先事项之一，并且福尔斯属于制造未来的主题。这两项活动都是及时的，因为迫切需要提高增材制造的处理速度，并确保英国在制造业的所有领域都受益，通过一个连贯和明确的战略和实施计划，最大限度地利用商业和社会。该奖学金的主要成果将是：一个综合性的学术社区，研究体积型AM，研究项目数量增加一倍。至少有4个新概念被确定为体积型AM的可能路线。AM的英国战略和实施计划，已采取行动并更新，导致英国市场份额增加了x2。

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is seen as an underpinning technology that will enable developments in other scientific areas and will cut across all sectors. It is being used in a wide variety of research from topology optimisation, optics, flow chemistry, regenerative medicine and many 'traditional' engineering areas. The importance of AM to the UK economy has been identified in a number of recent reports, with Innovate UK defining it as one of the UK's 22 priority process technologies.The vision of this fellowship is to scope the possibilities and see UK academics inventing entirely new AM processes that are orders of magnitude faster than current processes, and to establish a UK Strategy for Additive Manufacturing that enables and accelerates UK industry to be world-leading at exploiting the technology.This Fellowship will marry academics from disciplines such as physics, chemistry and materials with the existing AM community in the UK to explore the potential for volume processing materials at high speed. Objectives are to:Investigate Volumetric AM processesEnthuse other academics to take up the challenges of next generation AMIntroduce these new academics to the existing AM communityEncourage the new community to generate radically new ideasAssist the community to develop feasibility studies and full proposals for fundingThere will also be activity to engage academics in the process to develop a UK Strategy and Implementation Plan.This will occur by taking a dual approach across the value chain from discovery at low TRLs in a new research agenda to deployment at higher TRLs with a UK national strategy to provide a clear route to implementation paving the pathway to adoption of AM in UK industry.Specific research outputs from this will be working visits each way with opportunities for researchers and academics to collaborate on innovative ideas for Volumetric Processing. This will also lead to stronger academic/industry links within the UK. It is expected that there will be joint publications and generation of IP and spin-outs.The research undertaken within this Fellowship will complement current work at the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing and a proposed activity under a SAVI (Science Across Virtual Institutes) programme funded by NSF and EPSRC. Individually these activities can stand alone, but combined will offer a great opportunity for UK Science and Engineering.A major output of the Fellowship will be an ambitious and challenging new area of research for UK academics in Volumetric AM. The UK will lead this exciting new area. There would also be the opportunity to assist the Government and EPSRC in the definition and implementation of research policy. The national work in AM fits directly to the EPSRC strategy as AM is one of the priorities for EPSRC, and falls into the theme of Manufacturing the Future.Both of these activities are timely in that there is an urgent need to increase the processing speed of AM and also to ensure that the UK benefits in all areas of manufacturing, commerce and society through a coherent and clear strategy and implementation plan for maximum exploitation.The key outcomes of this Fellowship will be:An integrated community of academics investigating Volumetric AM with twice the number of research projects.At least 4 new concepts identified as possible routes for Volumetric AM.A UK strategy and implementation plan for AM which has been actioned and updated leading to an increase in the UK market share by x2.