Electrochemical manufacturing technologies for Industry 4.0

工业4.0的电化学制造技术

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-06682
• 负责人: Wüthrich, Rolf
• 金额: $ 2.7万
• 依托单位: Concordia University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=638605
• 关键词: Electrochemical; manufacturing; technologies; Industry; 4.0

Manufacturing industry is at the dawn of a new industrial revolution. During the past two centuries, humanity passed through three industrial revolutions leading to the ability to mass produce complex products in affordable ways. However a new challenge emerged. Products have shorter life times and customers ask for individualized products. The need for small series, even batch-size 1, production appeared. Traditional manufacturing processes can hardly full-fill these needs. New manufacturing processes need to be developed which are of a new kind. Such processes must minimize manufacturing overhead appearing when the design of the product changes (e.g. avoid specific tooling), address complexity of parts and minimize number of steps leading to the final product. Additive manufacturing (AM) seems the ideal solution. However, besides having its own challenges, it would be very surprising that manufacturing industry will rely on a single technology. New processes are needed that work together with AM or independently.

制造业正处于新工业革命的黎明。在过去的两个世纪里，人类经历了三次工业革命，从而能够以负担得起的方式大规模生产复杂的产品。然而，新的挑战出现了。产品寿命较短，客户要求个性化产品。出现了小批量生产的需求，甚至是批量1的生产。传统的制造工艺很难满足这些需求。需要开发新的制造工艺，这是一种新的类型。这些过程必须最大限度地减少产品设计变更时出现的制造开销（例如，避免使用特定工具），解决零件的复杂性，并最大限度地减少最终产品的步骤数量。增材制造（AM）似乎是理想的解决方案。然而，除了自身的挑战之外，制造业将依赖于单一技术将是非常令人惊讶的。需要与AM一起工作或独立工作的新流程。