A Centre for Innovative Manufacturing and Construction

创新制造和建造研究中心将承担制造、建造和产品设计领域的广泛工作。这项工作将包含在5个方案中：1.组织转型/为个人、组织、部门和区域提供在复杂和不确定的未来中蓬勃发展的充满活力和创新的能力2。高价值资产/交付工具、技术和设计，以最大限度地实现高资本成本、长寿命实物资产的终身价值3。健康和安全的未来/满足对促进健康、安全和保障的产品和环境日益增长的需求4。下一代技术/向客户提供产品的未来材料、工艺、生产和信息系统5。定制产品/为客户提供特定产品的设计和优化技术。拉夫堡IMCRC的学者在这些领域拥有国际领先的记录，并有密切合作的历史，使IMCRC的能力与外部集团的优势互补。创新活动越来越多地分布在价值链上。IMCRC令人印象深刻的范围帮助我们反映了这一工业现实，并加强了知识转移。与其他较小的英国中心相比，拉夫堡综合管理研究中心内活动的规模和多样性的优势使拉夫堡综合管理研究中心在这一技术和价值链整合领域处于领先地位。拉夫堡IMRC作为迄今为止最大的IMRC(就学者、研究人员和资金的数量而言)，可以采取更全面的方法，并拥有根据需要产生、确定和整合来自其他地方的专门知识的技能。因此，中心资金的很大一部分(约50%)将分配给涵盖一系列专业知识的整合项目或重大挑战。中心涵盖从概念到创新的广泛活动。中心的活动将与英国和国外世界上最优秀的研究人员合作进行。中心内的学者将被组织成3个研究单位，以便他们能够有效地协调并在方案上进行合作。

The Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre (IMCRC) will undertake a wide variety of work in the Manufacturing, Construction and product design areas. The work will be contained within 5 programmes:1. Transforming Organisations / Providing individuals, organisations, sectors and regions with the dynamic and innovative capability to thrive in a complex and uncertain future2. High Value Assets / Delivering tools, techniques and designs to maximise the through-life value of high capital cost, long life physical assets3. Healthy & Secure Future / Meeting the growing need for products & environments that promote health, safety and security4. Next Generation Technologies / The future materials, processes, production and information systems to deliver products to the customer5. Customised Products / The design and optimisation techniques to deliver customer specific products.Academics within the Loughborough IMCRC have an internationally leading track record in these areas and a history of strong collaborations to gear IMCRC capabilities with the complementary strengths of external groups.Innovative activities are increasingly distributed across the value chain. The impressive scope of the IMCRC helps us mirror this industrial reality, and enhances knowledge transfer. This advantage of the size and diversity of activities within the IMCRC compared with other smaller UK centres gives the Loughborough IMCRC a leading role in this technology and value chain integration area. Loughborough IMCRC as by far the biggest IMRC (in terms of number of academics, researchers and in funding) can take a more holistic approach and has the skills to generate, identify and integrate expertise from elsewhere as required. Therefore, a large proportion of the Centre funding (approximately 50%) will be allocated to Integration projects or Grand Challenges that cover a spectrum of expertise.The Centre covers a wide range of activities from Concept to Creation.The activities of the Centre will take place in collaboration with the world's best researchers in the UK and abroad. The academics within the Centre will be organised into 3 Research Units so that they can be co-ordinated effectively and can cooperate on Programmes.