Pre-production prototyping of Cobra Seats Marine Suspension System

该项目将开发和生产基于革命性的减震悬挂系统的新型船舶座椅的试生产原型。这已被成功证明，与现有技术相比，它以更低的成本提供了显著的性能优势，因此有可能扰乱当前的市场。已申请专利。试生产样机将用于进一步改进悬挂机构和产品，从潜在客户那里获得宝贵的用户体验见解，并提供关于减震性能的量化数据。在对新船的健康需求和法律压力的推动下，船用吊椅市场正在增长(估计超过6000万GB，年增长率高达8%)，迫使船东和运营商改善船员条件，减少通过船舶结构和配件传播的海浪的破坏性影响。作为该项目的结果，眼镜蛇将实现大量的市场机会，这将有利于英国经济，具有显著的出口潜力和重要的社会和环境优势。至关重要的是，该项目将解决一个重要的健康和安全挑战，从而减少英国和全球的伤害和损失时间(仅在英国，每年的成本估计在2.57亿至6.65亿GB之间)。该项目还将试验一种新的生产路线，该路线利用了模具材料和制造技术的最新进步。如果这条生产路线成功，它将能够以更低的成本生产新的阀座，当技术和商业可行性得到证明时，它将不仅有助于保持英国的生产，而且将有助于扩大国内复合材料的生产，因为在低劳动力比率经济体中，复合材料市场日益由海外制造的复合材料主导。

The project is to develop and produce pre-production prototypes of new marine vessel seatsbased on a revolutionary suspension system for shock mitigation. This has been successfullydemonstrated to deliver significant performance benefits at lower cost than existingtechnologies and thus has the potential to disrupt the current market. A patent has been filed.The pre-production prototypes will be used to further refine the suspension mechanism andproduct, gain valuable user experience insights from potential customers, and providequantitative data on shock mitigation performance. The market for marine suspension seatingis growing (estimated to be in excess of £60m with annual growth rates of up to 8%), drivenby a healthy demand for new vessels and legislative pressure which is forcing boat ownersand operators to improve crew conditions and reduce the damaging effects of wave impactstransmitted through the vessel's structure and fittings. As a result of this project, a substantialmarket opportunity will be realised by Cobra which will benefit the UK economy, hassignificant export potential and important social and environmental advantages. Vitally, animportant health and safety challenge will be addressed, resulting in fewer injuries and lostwork time in the UK and globally (with annual costs estimated of between £257 million and£665 million in the UK alone).The project will also trial a novel production route which takes advantage of recent advancesin mould materials and manufacturing technologies. If this production route is successful itwill enable even lower cost production of the new seats and when technical and commercialviability is proven, it will help not only keep production in the UK, but expand domesticcomposite production in a market that is increasingly dominated by composites manufacturedabroad in low labour rate economies.