Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Integrative Manufacturing and Remanufacturing Technologies (iMart) to Spur Rural Development

规划资助：集成制造与再制造技术工程研究中心（iMart）促进农村发展

• 批准号: 1937128
• 负责人: Frank Liou
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Missouri University of Science and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1937128&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.This project envisions a shift of cradle-to-grave manufacturing paradigm to grave-to-cradle remanufacturing paradigm. Grave-to-cradle remanufacturing will enable the transformation of a part in various possible damage conditions to a certified product that can be reintroduced into the stream of commerce. Remanufacturing, which often leads to cost savings, is characterized by lower quantity, a large variety of materials and parts, and diversity of initial conditions (damage). Rural areas have great potential to address associated challenges due to lower costs of labor and land and the wide variety of available manufacturing capabilities and suppliers. This planning grant proposal is to foster and facilitate the planning of an ERC for Integrative Manufacturing and Remanufacturing Technologies (iMart ERC) to spur rural development and form convergent research collaborations. The vision of iMart ERC is to establish strong supply-chain networks by achieving integrative remanufacturing and manufacturing capabilities in rural areas in the US. The transformative mission of iMart is to 1) explore a new science of integrative remanufacturing supply chains; 2) enable remanufacturing automation toward certification; 3) transform the iMart supply chain system by seamlessly integrating data science, additive manufacturing, and remanufacturing automation into iMart remanufacturing; 4) engage stakeholders in the rich environment deliberately developed within the ERC; 5) integrate a competitive remanufacturing supply chain among rural areas, and train and retrain workers within a sustainable working environment while promoting rural area revitalization; and 6) assess and address issues related to safety, security, human factors, certification, environmental, societal acceptance, life cycle mass, and energy savings in remanufacturing. Lack of automation not only results in higher remanufacturing cost, but also introduces inconsistencies in remanufacturing quality, which dramatically reduces users? incentive to use restored parts. The novelty of the proposed iMart ERC will develop the enabling technologies and bring fully automated capability into the remanufacturing industry. Such a capability will lead to a dramatic improvement in remanufacturing consistency, thus yielding general acceptance of remanufacturing. The iMart ERC will overcome barriers through the trans-disciplinary research expertise, industrial partners, and innovation facilitators by advancing the proposed fundamental knowledge and innovative enabling technologies. The planning grant will bring in all stakeholders to devise a seamless plan for implementing the iMart ERC, with the goal of creating transformative product remanufacturing technologies that are cost-effective, yet significantly improve the quality, reliability, availability, and certification of remanufacturing. The integrative remanufacturing processes involve a large amount of data needed for the representation of products and processes. Investigating the use of data science to address challenges associated with safety, security, certification, environment, societal acceptance, and life cycle in remanufacturing will provide indepth convergence knowledge. Thus the iMart ERC also combines current convergent themes in Harnessing the Data Revolution and Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程研究中心规划补助金竞赛是作为 ERC 计划内的试点征集活动进行的。整个 ERC 竞赛不需要规划拨款，而是旨在培养团队之间的能力，以规划融合的、中心规模的工程研究。该项目设想将从摇篮到坟墓的制造模式转变为从坟墓到摇篮的制造模式再制造范式。从坟墓到摇篮的再制造将使处于各种可能损坏情况下的零件转变为可重新引入商业流通的经过认证的产品。再制造通常可以节省成本，其特点是数量少、材料和零件种类多、初始条件（损坏）多样化。由于劳动力和土地成本较低以及可用的制造能力和供应商多种多样，农村地区具有应对相关挑战的巨大潜力。 该规划拨款提案旨在促进和促进集成制造和再制造技术 ERC (iMart ERC) 的规划，以刺激农村发展并形成融合研究合作。 iMart ERC的愿景是通过在美国农村地区实现一体化再制造和制造能力来建立强大的供应链网络。 iMart的变革性使命是1）探索一体化再制造供应链的新科学； 2) 实现再制造自动化并获得认证； 3）改造iMart供应链体系，将数据科学、增材制造、再制造自动化无缝集成到iMart再制造中； 4) 让利益相关者参与 ERC 内精心开发的丰富环境； 5）整合农村地区有竞争力的再制造供应链，在可持续的工作环境中培训和再培训工人，同时促进农村地区振兴； 6) 评估和解决与再制造中的安全、安保、人为因素、认证、环境、社会接受度、生命周期质量和节能相关的问题。 缺乏自动化不仅导致再制造成本较高，而且还会带来再制造质量的不一致，从而大幅减少用户？使用修复零件的激励。拟议的 iMart ERC 的新颖性将开发支持技术，并将全自动能力带入再制造行业。这种能力将导致再制造一致性的显着提高，从而使再制造得到普遍接受。 iMart ERC 将通过跨学科研究专业知识、行业合作伙伴和创新促进者，通过推进拟议的基础知识和创新支持技术来克服障碍。规划拨款将吸引所有利益相关者制定实施 iMart ERC 的无缝计划，目标是创建具有成本效益的变革性产品再制造技术，同时显着提高再制造的质量、可靠性、可用性和认证。集成再制造过程涉及产品和过程表示所需的大量数据。研究使用数据科学来解决再制造中与安全、保障、认证、环境、社会接受度和生命周期相关的挑战将提供深入的融合知识。因此，iMart ERC 还结合了当前在人类技术前沿利用数据革命和工作未来的趋同主题。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Effect of aging time on mechanical and functional properties of graded Ti-Ni alloy joined by laser additive manufacturing

时效时间对激光增材制造梯度钛镍合金力学和功能性能的影响

• DOI: 10.1016/j.mfglet.2023.05.003
• 发表时间: 2023-09
• 期刊: Manufacturing Letters
• 影响因子: 3.9
• 作者: Chen, Yitao;Ortiz Rios, Cesar;Liou, Frank
• 通讯作者: Liou, Frank

A Novel Laser-Aided Machining and Polishing Process for Additive Manufacturing Materials with Multiple Endmill Emulating Scan Patterns

用于具有多个立铣刀模拟扫描模式的增材制造材料的新型激光辅助加工和抛光工艺

• DOI: 10.3390/app11209428
• 发表时间: 2021-10-11
• 期刊: Applied Sciences
• 作者: M. M. Parvez;Sahil Patel;S. P. Isanaka;F. Liou
• 通讯作者: F. Liou

Synthesizing Ti–Ni Alloy Composite Coating on Ti–6Al–4V Surface from Laser Surface Modification

激光表面改性在Ti-6Al-4V表面合成Ti-Ni合金复合涂层

• DOI: 10.3390/met13020243
• 发表时间: 2023-02
• 期刊: Metals
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Chen, Yitao;Newkirk, Joseph W.;Liou, Frank
• 通讯作者: Liou, Frank