NSERC Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology (CANRIMT)

通过机械加工技术的创新，加拿大制造业处于独特的领先地位。通过独特的科学专业知识和CANRIMT网络第一阶段的技术转让，这一卓越的愿景得到了成功的支持，直接影响了以5轴铣削、钻孔、车削和镗孔的商业产品形式传播到工业领域的精确和完整的基于物理的加工仿真模型。因此，世界上第一个用于宏观和微观加工操作的综合虚拟加工技术软件工具现已在加拿大的航空航天工业中使用，并正在为汽车和机械制造行业进行测试，使设计和生产高质量的创新产品无需昂贵的物理试验。

Canada's manufacturing sector is uniquely positioned to lead through innovation in machining technologies. This vision of excellence has been successfully supported through unique scientific expertise and technology transfer of Phase 1 of the CANRIMT Network, with direct impacts in the area of accurate and complete physics-based machining simulation models disseminated to industry in the form of commercial products for 5-axis milling, drilling, turning, and boring. As a result, the world's first comprehensive Virtual Machining Technology software tools for both macro- and micro-machining operations are now in use in Canada's aerospace industry, and are being tested for automotive and machinery manufacturing industries, enabling design and production of high-quality innovative products without costly physical trials. CANRIMT Phase 2 will create a new holistic paradigm which integrates the sensor fused physical machining system with the virtual models of complex machining operations, accomplished through five multidisciplinary Themes: I: Digital machining ; II: Virtual model-assisted machining monitoring and control; III: Machining of composite parts; IV: Adaptive tooling/processes and novel manufacturing processes/applications; and V: Integration of innovative technologies into virtual and physical platforms. Network vision supports Industry 4.0 through the development of intelligent, digital machining systems and factory, enhancing the functionality and accuracy of virtual manufacturing tools in response to existing and emerging demands in Canadian aerospace, automotive, energy, machinery and medical device industries. CANRIMT Phase 2 is expected to train over 85 new graduate students and expert engineers over the next five years through internships at industrial partners' manufacturing facilities and collaborating international research centres. This will facilitate technology transfer, providing significant economic, social and environmental impacts on the machining practices of Canada's manufacturing sector, while keeping Canadian researchers at the forefront of advanced manufacturing world-wide.