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，英国和区域工业的要求。它利用赫瑞瓦特大学的广泛研究，提供创新的制造技术解决方案。SMI提供高质量的研究和创新制造技术的教育，用于高价值，小批量，高度定制和高IP含量的产品，使欧洲和英国制造商能够在全球竞争加剧，环境关注，可持续性和监管的环境中竞争，获得知识，技能和IP决定制造业的位置。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，提供创新制造技术的高影响力研究。该研究所分为三个主题：-数字化工具;-光子学;和-微系统数字化工具主题的愿景是为未来的工程师提供工具，帮助他们轻松地捕获，定位，开发和操纵各种使用分布式网络资源的机械产品的3D信息。光子学与发达经济体在21世纪世纪全球制造市场竞争的需求有着强烈的共鸣，提供：低成本自动化制造的路线;以及支撑高附加值产品的关键工艺。我们有一个共同的信念，即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。该主题的愿景是使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成果。微系统主题的主要战略是研究新的MEMS集成和封装解决方案，这些解决方案成本低，可大规模制造，易于行业采用。我们的愿景是在未来5年内成为MEMS集成和封装的欧洲卓越中心。因此，我们渴望为英国制造业提供高价值，低容量，高度定制和高IP含量产品的创新技术服务;并帮助英国工业在国际竞争市场中扩大全球范围。

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.