Fusing a future from Glasgow’s proud heritage: Schedule Guaranteed High-Integrity Structures for a Secure, Safe and Resilient Transition to Net Zero

格拉斯哥在造船、重型制造和焊接以及超声波方面都有着令人自豪的传统。将这些变革性创新融合在一起，该提案旨在为格拉斯哥创造一个繁荣的未来，由其传统驱动，由其创新实现。在国际上，能源转型和安全问题迫使能源，国防和海洋部门的高完整性，大规模，结构的生产，快速和高效制造快速转变，这是格拉斯哥遗产和未来的关键支柱。传统上，高完整性接头的焊接和检查在制造和修理中是分开的、顺序的、通常是手动的过程。最终，这会降低生产率、吞吐量、进度确定性，如果仅在完成时检测到缺陷，则会增加返工，这在现代增材制造中也是一个类似的挑战。此外，重新加热然后修复这些结构所需的能量显著增加了制造的商业和环境成本。此外，随着熟练劳动力的减少和老龄化，沿着减少危险工作的愿望，推动了工艺自动化。焊接过程中的自动化过程中超声波检测旨在克服当前的技术和工艺限制，每次都能正确地提供高完整性的结构。根据目前的工业数据估计，它可以显著减少：\> 55%的焊接工艺时间\> 50%的总焊接成本\> 75%的工时本提案旨在加速和推动这些最近在格拉斯哥诞生的创新大规模进入行业，为行业带来显著的商业、技术和进度确定性利益，确保格拉斯哥和英国在未来制造生产率、效率、收入和项目回流方面处于领先地位。三，移动的、大规模、可重构、自动化焊接和增材制造试验台，按行业塑造，按行业安置，并追求对行业的影响，为多个格拉斯哥的跨行业工业合作者验证和嵌入下一代高价值结构的过程中检测。同时，教育和STEM外展服务将招募和培训下一代工业4.0就绪的传感器启用自动焊接工程师，最后，一个以格拉斯哥为基地的商业化工具将为该地区的创新奠定基础，并使技术在国际上转化，以产生社会和经济影响，同时仍确保格拉斯哥处于重型制造业创新的中心和前沿。这三管齐下的方法，沿着创新带来的重大技术、商业、环境和安全机遇，重新点燃了克莱德引以为豪的制造历史，融合了其未来，并将其锚定为可持续、高效、包容性制造的国际焦点。

Glasgow has a well-known, proud heritage in shipbuilding, heavy-fabrication and welding, but also in ultrasound. Fusing these transformative innovations together, this proposal seeks to manufacture a prosperous future for Glasgow, driven by its heritage, enabled by its innovations.Internationally, the energy transition and security concerns force a rapid step-change in the productive, fast and efficient manufacture of high-integrity, large-scale, structures for the energy, defence, and marine sectors, key pillars of Glasgow's heritage and future.Traditionally, welding and inspection of high-integrity joints are separate, sequential, often manual processes in both manufacturing and repair. Ultimately, this reduces productivity, throughput, schedule certainty and increases rework if defects are only detected at completion, a challenge similarly found in modern additive manufacturing. Additionally, the energy required to re-heat then repair these structures significantly increases the commercial and environmental costs of manufacturing. Furthermore, a shrinking and ageing skilled workforce, along with a desire to reduce hazardous working, drives process automation.Automated in-process ultrasonic inspection during welding aims to deliver high-integrity structures right, first time, every time, overcoming current technical and process limitations. It offers significant reductions, estimated from current industrial data of:\> 55% in weld process time\> 50% in overall weld cost\> 75% in man hoursThis proposal seeks to accelerate and propel these recent Glasgow born innovations to industry at scale, delivering significant commercial, technical and schedule certainty benefits to industry at pace, ensuring Glasgow and the UK lead on future fabrication productivity, efficiency, revenue and program repatriation.Three, mobile, large-scale, reconfigurable, automated welding and additive manufacturing test-beds, shaped by industry, housed by industry, and pursuing impact for industry, introduce, validate and embed in-process inspection on next-generation high-value structures for multiple Glasgow based industrial collaborators across sectors.In parallel, an educational and STEM outreach offering will recruit and train the next-generation Industry 4.0 ready sensor-enabled automated welding engineers, addressing the significant current skills gap affecting these industries.Finally, a Glasgow based commercialisation vehicle will anchor the innovation in the region and enable translation of the technology internationally for societal and economic impact, whilst still ensuring Glasgow is at the centre and forefront of heavy-manufacturing innovation.This three-pronged approach, along with the innovation's significant technical, commercial, environmental and safety opportunities, re-ignite the Clyde's proud manufacturing history, fuse its future and anchor it as the international focal point in sustainable, productive, inclusive manufacturing.