Academic Research Infrastructure: Equipment for Precision Manufacturing (ARI/MME)

9413966霍肯该奖项为北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校的精密工程实验室提供设备。该设备构成了一套相互关联的设施的骨干，用于集成高速精密计量、数据管理和建模、机器控制和制造过程。该设备将支持的研究设想了一个制造环境，其中设计、计量、机器控制和制造过程实时或接近实时地集成，以提供根据相关设计、控制和计量数据修改复杂制造周期细节的能力。这样的制造环境将极大地提高精密制造的效率，并为全新类别的制成品创造机会，例如那些包含确定性工程表面光洁度的扩展区域的制成品。***

9413966 Hocken This award provides equipment for the precision engineering laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This equipment forms the backbone of a set of interrelated facilities for the integration of high-speed precision metrology, data management and modeling, machine control, and manufacturing processes. The research that this equipment will support envisions a manufacturing environment where design, metrology, machine control and manufacturing processes are integrated in real or near real-time to provide the capability of modifying the details of complex manufacturing cycles according to associated design, control, and metrology data. Such a manufacturing environment would greatly improve the efficiency of precision manufacturing and create opportunities for whole new classes of manufactured goods, such as those incorporating extended regions of deterministically engineered surface finish. ***