Future Advanced Metrology Hub

该中心的愿景是创建突破性的嵌入式计量和通用计量信息系统，应用于整个制造业价值链。这包括测量技术、嵌入式传感器/仪器和计量解决方案的范式转变。一个统一的方法来创造新的，科学验证的测量技术在制造业将导致关键的基础解决方案，以刺激英国的生产力显著增长和促进未来的工厂。随着制造业价值链日益数字化，全球制造业正在通过颠覆性技术向自主生产的目标发展。未来的工厂必须更快、反应更快、更贴近客户，因为制造业正朝着按需大规模定制低成本产品的方向发展。在这些新的制造范式下，计量在支持质量、生产力和效率方面至关重要。先进计量中心汇集了来自哈德斯菲尔德的多学科团队，在拉夫堡，巴斯和谢菲尔德大学的辐条，并得到了国家物理实验室的基本支持。工程、数学、物理和计算机科学方面的专业知识将通过两个关键研究主题和并行平台活动来解决先进计量和中心愿景方面的重大挑战：主题一-嵌入式计量将通过弥合过程和组件嵌入式计量的四个巨大差距来建立良好的技术基础。这包括：景深的物理限制；高动态范围测量；光学传感器/仪器的实时动态数据采集；在时间不连续条件下，使用具有不同物理性质的传感器网络的实时控制系统具有鲁棒性，自适应，可扩展模型。主题二：计量数据分析将创建一个智能知识系统，统一几何产品制造中设计、生产和验证之间的计量语言、理解和使用；建立数据分析系统，从测量数据中提取最大的信息，超越最先进的制造过程优化，包括系统验证和产品监控。平台研究活动将支撑中心的愿景和核心研究计划，刺激新的研究领域，并支持基础和早期研究的进展，以实现中心生命周期内的部署和影响活动。在中心的早期阶段，核心研究计划将侧重于四个类别（下一代表面计量；计量技术和应用；过程计量和机床以及大容量计量），以满足英国工业的战略议程并促进他们的新产品。由此产生的制造计量中心的普遍嵌入和集成将对英国制造业产生深远的影响，因为最大限度地提高产品质量，最大限度地减少浪费/返工，最短的交货时间将最终带来直接的生产力效益并提高竞争力。这些好处将通过显着降低（50%至75%）验证成本来实现（例如航空航天，汽车，电子，能源，医疗设备，光学，精密工程），这些行业目前的验证成本很高（高达总成本的20%），并且产品质量和性能至关重要。

The vision of the Hub is to create ground-breaking embedded metrology and universal metrology informatics systems to be applied across the manufacturing value chain. This encompasses a paradigm shift in measurement technologies, embedded sensors/instrumentation and metrology solutions. A unified approach to creating new, scientifically-validated measurement technologies in manufacturing will lead to critical underpinning solutions to stimulate significant growth in the UK's productivity and facilitate future factories.Global manufacturing is evolving through disruptive technologies towards a goal of autonomous production, with manufacturing value-chains increasingly digitised. Future factories must be faster, more responsive and closer to customers as manufacturing is driven towards mass customisation of lower-cost products on demand. Metrology is crucial in underpinning quality, productivity and efficiency gains under these new manufacturing paradigms.The Advanced Metrology Hub brings together a multi-disciplinary team from Huddersfield with spokes at Loughborough, Bath and Sheffield universities, with fundamental support from NPL. Expertise in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science will address the grand challenges in advanced metrology and the Hub's vision through two key research themes and parallel platform activities:Theme I - Embedded Metrology will build sound technological foundations by bridging four formidable gaps in process- and component-embedded metrology. This covers: physical limits on the depth of field; high dynamic range measurement; real-time dynamic data acquisition in optical sensor/instruments; and robust, adaptive, scalable models for real-time control systems using sensor networks with different physical properties under time-discontinuous conditions.Theme II - Metrology Data analytics will create a smart knowledge system to unify metrology language, understanding, and usage between design, production and verification for geometrical products manufacturing; Establishment of data analytics systems to extract maximal information from measurement data going beyond state-of-the-art for optimisation of the manufacturing process to include system validation and product monitoring.Platform research activities will underpin the Hub's vision and core research programmes, stimulate new areas of research and support the progression of fundamental and early-stage research towards deployment and impact activities over the Hub's lifetime.In the early stage of the Hub, the core research programme will focus on four categories (Next generation of surface metrology; Metrology technologies and applications; In-process metrology and Machine-tool and large volume metrology) to meet UK industry's strategic agenda and facilitate their new products.The resulting pervasive embedding and integration of manufacturing metrology by the Hub will have far reaching implications for UK manufacturing as maximum improvements in product quality, minimization of waste/rework, and minimum lead-times will ultimately deliver direct productivity benefits and improved competitiveness. These benefits will be achieved by significantly reducing (by 50% to 75%) verification cost across a wide swathe of manufacture sectors (e.g. aerospace, automotive, electronics, energy, medical devices, optics, precision engineering) where the current cost of verification is high (up to 20% of total costs) and where product quality and performance is critical.