Made Smarter Innovation - Materials Made Smarter Research Centre

材料制造智能中心是由学术界和工业界共同创建的，以应对在我们的经济中彻底改变我们制造和评估材料的方式的迫切需要。英国制造先进材料的能力支撑着我们迈向更清洁增长和更节约资源的经济的雄心。面向净零碳经济的创新需要具有更高性能、性能和功能的新材料，以及具有更强制造能力的新加工技术，以制造并为英国带来经济和社会效益。然而，在我们能够充分受益于新材料和制造工艺可能带来的变革性技术和环境好处之前，仍然必须克服重大的技术挑战。我们在生产过程和使用过程中监控和控制材料性能的能力，影响了我们提供量身定制的、有保证的性能的能力，这将限制我们在材料整个生命周期内将其作为资产进行管理的能力。这将材料降低到商品的地位--一种既不配得上又不可持续的地位。未来的材料密集型制造需要为我们使用的材料增加更大的价值，无论是通过减少对环境的影响、延长产品寿命还是通过增强功能。材料线的数字化将有助于通过开发工具和方法来认证、监控和控制正在加工和使用的材料，从而提高生产率和刺激新的商业模式。我们的愿景是将英国的材料密集型制造业推向英国技术进步和绿色复苏的前沿，从COVID和快速环境变化的双重影响中恢复过来。我们将开发先进的数字技术和工具，以实现材料制造的验证、验证、认证和可追溯性，并与合作伙伴合作，应对数字采用的挑战。材料线的数字化将推动材料密集型行业生产率的提高，实现新的商业模式，并改变我们对材料的价值和使用方式。

The Materials Made Smarter Centre has been co-created by Academia and Industry as a response to the pressing need to revolutionise the way we manufacture and value materials in our economy. The UK's ability to manufacture advanced materials underpins our ambitions to move towards cleaner growth and a more resource efficient economy. Innovation towards a net zero-carbon economy needs new materials with enhanced properties, performance and functionality and new processing technologies, with enhanced manufacturing capability, to make and deliver economic and societal benefit to the UK. However, significant technological challenges must still be overcome before we can benefit fully from the transformative technical and environmental benefits that new materials and manufacturing processes may bring. Our capacity to monitor and control material properties both during manufacture and through into service affect our ability to deliver a tailored and guaranteed performance that is 'right-first-time' and limit capacity to manage materials as assets through their lifetime. This reduces materials to the status of a commodity - a status which is both undeserved and unsustainable. Future materials intensive manufacturing needs to add greater value to the materials we use, be that through reduction of environmental impact, extension of product life or via enhanced functionality. Digitalisation of the materials thread will help to enhance their value by developing the tools and means to certify, monitor and control materials in-process and in-service improving productivity and stimulating new business models.Our vision is to put the UK's materials intensive manufacturing industries at the forefront of the UK's technological advancement and green recovery from the dual impacts of COVID and rapid environmental change. We will develop the advanced digital technologies and tools to enable the verification, validation, certification and traceability of materials manufacturing and work with partners to address the challenges of digital adoption. Digitisation of the materials thread will drive productivity improvements in materials intensive industries, realise new business models and change the way we value and use materials.