Conestoga's SMART Centre: Smart Manufacturing and Advanced Recycling Technologies - Specializing in Sustainable Life-Cycle Products and Materials.

为了进一步提高行业的专业应用研究能力，Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning将建立SMART中心（智能制造和先进回收技术）。SMART中心将参与Conestoga智能制造和数字创新的两个关键应用研究领域，以及与废弃电气和电子设备相关的去制造（回收）技术。 SMART中心将提供一个合作研究环境，支持行业提供完整的端到端生命周期技术解决方案，使行业合作伙伴能够与学院的教师和学生合作，研究项目的重点是产品和工艺的设计，这些产品和工艺将解决生命周期结束后的再利用和回收-为行业合作提供独特的一站式商店，以实现新的数字循环经济。 SMART中心在剑桥安大略的“The Foundry”内设有专用设施，并将配置总价值超过13，000平方英尺的合作研究实验室，为行业提供机器人辅助制造和去制造、电子和机械设计以及原型设计设施、机器学习软件、数据收集和可视化等技术。SMART中心预计每年将吸引数十名教师和数百名学生研究人员与行业合作开展尖端应用研究项目。SMART中心团队还将为这些行业客户提供专业培训和咨询服务。

To further enhance specialized applied research capacity with industry, Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning will be establishing the SMART Centre (Smart Manufacturing and Advanced Recycling Technologies). The SMART Centre will engage two key areas of applied research at Conestoga Smart Manufacturing and Digital Innovation and the de-manufacturing (recycling) technologies associated with Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. The SMART Centre will provide a collaborative research environment that will support industry in full end-to-end life cycle technology solutions, allowing industry partners to work with College faculty and students on research projects focused on the design of products and processes that will address end-of-life reuse and recycling - providing a unique one-stop-shop for industry collaborations for a new Digital Circular Economy. The SMART Centre has dedicated facilities located within "The Foundry", in Cambridge Ontario, and will be configured with collaborative research labs totaling > $13,000 sq.ft, providing industry access to technologies such as robotic assisted manufacturing and de-manufacturing, electronics and mechanical design and prototyping facilities, machine learning software, data collection and visualization. The SMART Centre expects to engage dozens of faculty and hundreds of student researchers on an annual basis to work with industry on cutting edge applied research projects. The SMART Centre team will also provide specialized training and consulting services to these industry clients.