Scottish Manufacturing Institute - Renewal, 2008 - 2013

苏格兰制造研究所致力于研究制造技术，满足欧洲、英国和地区工业的需求。它利用赫里奥特-瓦特大学广泛的研究成果，提供创新的制造技术解决方案。SMI为高价值、低产量、高度定制化和高IP含量的产品提供创新制造技术方面的高质量研究和教育，使欧洲和英国制造商能够在全球竞争加剧、环境问题、可持续性和监管的环境中竞争，知识、技能和知识产权的获取决定了制造的地点。我们的使命是基于赫里奥特-瓦特大学、爱丁堡研究伙伴关系、苏格兰大学物理联盟等多学科技术资源，在创新制造技术方面提供高影响力的研究。该研究所分为三个主题：-数字工具；-光子学；-微系统数字工具主题的愿景是为未来的工程师提供工具，帮助他们使用分散的、联网的资源轻松地捕获、定位、开发和操纵各种机械产品的3D信息。光电子与发达经济体在21世纪全球制造业市场上竞争的需求产生了强烈的共鸣，提供了通往低成本自动化制造的途径；以及支撑高附加值产品的关键工艺。我们都坚信，光电子技术是任何以知识为基础的工业生产的可信战略的重要组成部分。光子学的主题愿景是使SMI成为国际公认的英国领先的工业相关光电子研发中心，在硬件、工艺技术和生产应用方面提供学术和商业成果的组合。MicroSystems主题的主要战略是研究低成本、可大规模制造和易于行业采用的MEMS新集成和封装解决方案。我们的愿景是在未来5年内成为欧洲MEMS集成和封装领域的卓越中心。因此，我们渴望为英国制造业提供高价值、低产量、高度定制化和高知识产权含量的创新技术；并帮助英国工业在具有国际竞争力的市场中进行全球扩张。

The Scottish Manufacturing Institute aims to research technology for manufacture, addressing the requirements of European, UK and regional industries. It taps into the broad expanse of research at Heriot-Watt University to deliver innovative manufacturing technology solutions. The SMI delivers high quality research and education in innovative manufacturing technology for high value, lower volume, highly customised, and high IP content products that enable European and UK Manufacturers to compete in an environment of increased global competition, environmental concern, sustainability and regulation, where access to knowledge, skills and IP determine where manufacturing is located. Our mission is to deliver high impact research in innovative manufacturing technologies based on the multidisciplinary technology resource across Heriot-Watt University, the Edinburgh Research Partnership, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance and beyond. The Institute is organised into three themes:- Digital Tools;- Photonics; and - MicrosystemsThe vision of the Digital Tools Theme is to provide tomorrow's engineers with tools that will help them to easily capture, locate, exploit and manipulate 3D information for mechanical products of all kinds using distributed, networked resources. Photonics has strong resonance with the needs of developed economies to compete in the 21st Century global market for manufacturing, providing: routes to low cost automated manufacture; and the key processes underpinning high added value products. We have a shared conviction that photonics technologies are an essential component of any credible strategy for knowledge-based industrial production. The Photonics Theme vision is for the SMI to be internationally recognised as the leading UK focus for industrially-relevant photonics R&D, delivering a mix of academic and commercial outputs in hardware, process technology and production applications.The principal strategy of the Microsystems Theme is to research into new integration and packaging solutions of MEMS that are low cost, mass manufacturable and easily adoptable by the industry. The vision is to become a European Centre of Excellence in MEMS integration and packaging over the next 5 years. We thus aspire to service UK manufacturing industry with innovative technology for high value, lower volume, highly customised, and high IP content products; and to help UK industry expand globally in an internationally competitive market.