UK-Alumotor

在驱动电力革命（工业战略挑战基金的一部分）的支持下，UK-Alumotor将开发专门的供应链来制造专利电机（e-machine），该电机将利用英国的高价值制造技术。电子机器将利用专业材料，转移航空航天和赛车领域开发的技术，以及商品材料。这台电子机器将使用铝和铁，而不是铜和稀土金属（用于永磁电机），这些金属受到价格波动和进口关税的影响。这为英国供应链提供了竞争优势，以满足未来十年及以后对牵引电子机械不断增长的市场需求。由里卡多领导的英国铝马达财团是一个由来自英国各地的合作伙伴组成的多元化团队，与非授予的OEM利益相关者迈凯轮和JCB一起。我们的制造合作伙伴Aspire、Brandauer、GTR和PSI将评估、选择和开发低成本、精益的制造流程，这些流程可以扩展到适当的批量交付电子机器。这些可扩展的过程将确保质量，最大限度地减少材料浪费以及电子机器的生命周期评估影响。JCB和迈凯轮将在整个工作过程中向供应链提供应用部门反馈，确保产品满足性能跑车和非公路市场的特定需求。通过使我们的方法与应用需求保持一致，我们确保最终的“为制造而设计”的产品仍然适用于包括航空航天，船舶和铁路在内的多个领域。我们的学术合作伙伴WMG将通过文献综述、技术研讨会和专门的咨询工作来支持该计划。他们将利用从该计划中学到的知识来改进他们的电子机器模型，以支持虚拟验证。整个供应链都将考虑产品的生命周期影响。与基于永磁的电机相比，在电子机器中使用广泛可用和可回收的金属将减少电子机器的生命周期影响。UK- alumotor是一个变革性的项目，将建立一个英国供应链，以更低的成本和体积提供高性能的电子机器，以推动英国国内和出口市场的电力革命。

UK-Alumotor, supported by Driving the Electric Revolution (part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund), will develop a dedicated supply chain to manufacture a patented electric machine (e-machine) which will exploit UK-based high-value manufacturing technology. The e-machine will leverage specialist material, transferring technology developed within the aerospace & motorsports sectors, together with commodity materials. The e-machine will make use of aluminium & iron, rather than copper and rare earth metals (used in permanent magnet motors) which suffer price volatility and import tariffs. This provides the UK supply chain with competitive advantage to fulfil the growing market demand for traction e-machines during the next decade and beyond.The UK-Alumotor consortium, led by Ricardo, is a diverse team of partners from across the UK in conjunction with non-grant claiming OEM stakeholders McLaren and JCB. Our manufacturing partners Aspire, Brandauer, GTR and PSI will assess, select and develop low-cost, lean manufacturing processes that can be scaled to deliver the e-machine at appropriate volumes. These scalable processes will ensure quality, minimise material waste together with the lifecycle assessment impact of the e-machine.JCB and McLaren will provide application sector feedback to the supply chain throughout the work, ensuring that the product meets the specific needs of the performance sports car and off-highway markets. By aligning our approach to application requirements, we ensure the final "design for manufacture" product remains suitable for adoption into multiple sectors including aerospace, marine and rail.Our academic partner WMG will support the programme through literature review, technical workshops and dedicated advisory work. They will deploy learning from the programme to improve their e-machine models in support of virtual validation.The lifecycle impact of the product will be considered throughout the supply chain. Using widely available, and recycled, metals within the e-machine will reduce the lifecycle impact of the e-machine compared with permanent magnet-based motors.UK-Alumotor is a transformative programme that will build a UK supply chain to deliver a high performance, e-machine at a reduced cost and volume in order to drive the electric revolution, both within the UK and the export market.