Threshold Innovation for Regional SMEs Building Toward Industry 4.0: Process Optimization and Technological Advancement for Post-Pandemic Recovery

区域中小企业迈向工业4.0的门槛创新：疫情后复苏的流程优化和技术进步

• 批准号: CCB21-2021-00052
• 负责人: Gale, Richard
• 金额: $ 12.75万
• 依托单位: Camosun College
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Technology Partnership Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=756274
• 关键词: Threshold; Innovation; Regional; SMEs; Building

Camosun College serves students, communities, and businesses of Victoria, Vancouver Island, and British Columbia. According to the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, "Canada ranks poorly in both technology adoption and innovation in manufacturing," and this is especially true in smaller cross-sector businesses not connected to large metropolitan areas. Many local SMEs lag in productivity enhancement, process optimization, technology advancement, and innovation potential, so this project focuses on companies at the threshold of change, demonstrating persistence and poised to innovate in a post-pandemic economy. Camosun's project involves nine local SMEs and centres on process optimization and technological advancement, primarily in the areas of chemical modification, digital simulation, materials integration, and mechatronics & automation. Chemical modification focuses on the manipulation of chemical properties to improve taste in food and beverage production. Digital simulation centres on digital twinning (DT) and discrete event simulation (DES) to address efficiency and process analysis. Materials integration encompasses a broad range of options including 3D printing and composite fabrication for product redesign and prototyping. Mechatronics and automation will focus on the manufacturing sector to provide useful cost-effective solutions using standardized approaches to identify process requirements, assess safety considerations, evaluate risks, and provide options that utilize commonly available hardware, electronics, and open-source control systems. These four research streams combine to influence advanced manufacturing for SMEs moving from Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0 through small-scale process optimization impacting a wide variety of partners ranging from aquaculture and breweries, to electric vehicles and marine transportation, to the culture and the heritage sectors. Central to this project is a dedication to the training of students and employees, not only expanding the number of highly qualified personnel, but building a foundation of understanding, a local and regional learning platform that scaffolds SMEs as they build a more technologically advanced approach to the processes that underpin their businesses. Process optimization is a way of training businesses to think differently; threshold innovation is a way for local manufacturers in the early stages of I4.0 to learn how to grow sustainably and at scale after the recent global pandemic.

Camosun College为维多利亚州，温哥华岛和不列颠哥伦比亚省的学生，社区和企业提供服务。 根据加拿大制造商和出口商的说法，“加拿大在制造技术领域的采用和创新方面的排名都很差”，在与大型大都市地区无关的较小跨部门业务中尤其如此。许多当地的中小企业在生产率提高，过程优化，技术进步和创新潜力方面滞后，因此该项目着重于变革的门槛，表明了持久性并准备在大流行后经济中进行创新。 Camosun的项目涉及九个本地中小型企业，并以过程优化和技术进步为中心，主要是在化学修改，数字模拟，材料集成以及机电一体化和自动化领域。化学修饰的重点是操纵化学性能，以改善食品和饮料生产的口味。数字模拟以数字孪生（DT）和离散事件模拟（DES）为中心，以解决效率和过程分析。材料集成包含各种各样的选项，包括3D打印和用于产品重新设计和原型制作的复合制造。机电一体化和自动化将专注于制造业，以使用标准化方法来识别流程要求，评估安全考虑，评估风险并提供利用常见可用的硬件，电子设备和开源控制系统的选项。这四个研究流相结合，影响了从工业3.0到工业4.0的中小型企业，通过小规模的过程优化，影响了从水产养殖和啤酒厂，电动汽车和海洋运输，再到文化和文化和遗产部门的各种合作伙伴。该项目的核心是对学生和员工的培训的奉献精神，不仅扩大了高素质的人员的数量，而且要建立理解的基础，这是一个本地和地区学习平台，该平台在他们为基础业务的流程中建立了更高级的方法时脚手架中小型企业。流程优化是一种培训业务不同思考的方式。阈值创新是I4.0早期阶段的本地制造商学习如何可持续发展和大规模成长的一种方式。