Scottish Manufacturing Institute - Renewal, 2008 - 2013

苏格兰制造研究所旨在研究制造技术，满足欧洲、英国和地区工业的需求。它利用赫瑞瓦特大学广泛的研究成果，提供创新的制造技术解决方案。SMI为高价值、小批量、高度定制和高知识产权含量的产品提供高质量的创新制造技术研究和教育，使欧洲和英国制造商能够在日益激烈的全球竞争、环境问题、可持续性和监管的环境中竞争，在这种环境中，获取知识、技能和知识产权决定了制造业的所在地。我们的使命是在赫瑞瓦特大学、爱丁堡研究伙伴关系、苏格兰大学物理联盟等多学科技术资源的基础上，在创新制造技术方面提供高影响力的研究。该研究所分为三个主题：-数字工具；——光子学;数字工具主题的愿景是为未来的工程师提供工具，帮助他们使用分布式网络资源轻松捕获，定位，开发和操纵各种机械产品的3D信息。光子学与发达经济体在21世纪全球制造业市场竞争的需求有强烈的共鸣，提供了：低成本自动化制造的途径；以及支撑高附加值产品的关键工序。我们有一个共同的信念，光子技术是任何以知识为基础的工业生产的可靠战略的重要组成部分。光子学主题的愿景是使SMI成为国际公认的英国领先的工业相关光子学研发中心，在硬件、工艺技术和生产应用方面提供学术和商业产出。微系统主题的主要策略是研究新的集成和封装解决方案的MEMS是低成本，大规模生产和易于采用的行业。愿景是在未来5年内成为欧洲MEMS集成和封装卓越中心。因此，我们渴望以创新技术为英国制造业提供高价值、低批量、高度定制和高知识产权含量的产品；并帮助英国工业在国际竞争市场上向全球扩张。

The Scottish Manufacturing Institute aims to research technology for manufacture, addressing the requirements of European, UK and regional industries. It taps into the broad expanse of research at Heriot-Watt University to deliver innovative manufacturing technology solutions. The SMI delivers high quality research and education in innovative manufacturing technology for high value, lower volume, highly customised, and high IP content products that enable European and UK Manufacturers to compete in an environment of increased global competition, environmental concern, sustainability and regulation, where access to knowledge, skills and IP determine where manufacturing is located. Our mission is to deliver high impact research in innovative manufacturing technologies based on the multidisciplinary technology resource across Heriot-Watt University, the Edinburgh Research Partnership, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance and beyond. The Institute is organised into three themes:- Digital Tools;- Photonics; and - MicrosystemsThe vision of the Digital Tools Theme is to provide tomorrow's engineers with tools that will help them to easily capture, locate, exploit and manipulate 3D information for mechanical products of all kinds using distributed, networked resources. Photonics has strong resonance with the needs of developed economies to compete in the 21st Century global market for manufacturing, providing: routes to low cost automated manufacture; and the key processes underpinning high added value products. We have a shared conviction that photonics technologies are an essential component of any credible strategy for knowledge-based industrial production. The Photonics Theme vision is for the SMI to be internationally recognised as the leading UK focus for industrially-relevant photonics R&D, delivering a mix of academic and commercial outputs in hardware, process technology and production applications.The principal strategy of the Microsystems Theme is to research into new integration and packaging solutions of MEMS that are low cost, mass manufacturable and easily adoptable by the industry. The vision is to become a European Centre of Excellence in MEMS integration and packaging over the next 5 years. We thus aspire to service UK manufacturing industry with innovative technology for high value, lower volume, highly customised, and high IP content products; and to help UK industry expand globally in an internationally competitive market.