Fusing a future from Glasgow’s proud heritage: Schedule Guaranteed High-Integrity Structures for a Secure, Safe and Resilient Transition to Net Zero

融合格拉斯哥引以为傲的传统的未来：时间表保证的高完整性结构，以安全、安全和有弹性地过渡到净零

• 批准号: 10054861
• 金额: $ 470.45万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10054861
• 关键词: Fusing; future; Glasgow; proud; heritage

Glasgow has a well-known, proud heritage in shipbuilding, heavy-fabrication and welding, but also in ultrasound. Fusing these transformative innovations together, this proposal seeks to manufacture a prosperous future for Glasgow, driven by its heritage, enabled by its innovations.Internationally, the energy transition and security concerns force a rapid step-change in the productive, fast and efficient manufacture of high-integrity, large-scale, structures for the energy, defence, and marine sectors, key pillars of Glasgow's heritage and future.Traditionally, welding and inspection of high-integrity joints are separate, sequential, often manual processes in both manufacturing and repair. Ultimately, this reduces productivity, throughput, schedule certainty and increases rework if defects are only detected at completion, a challenge similarly found in modern additive manufacturing. Additionally, the energy required to re-heat then repair these structures significantly increases the commercial and environmental costs of manufacturing. Furthermore, a shrinking and ageing skilled workforce, along with a desire to reduce hazardous working, drives process automation.Automated in-process ultrasonic inspection during welding aims to deliver high-integrity structures right, first time, every time, overcoming current technical and process limitations. It offers significant reductions, estimated from current industrial data of:\> 55% in weld process time\> 50% in overall weld cost\> 75% in man hoursThis proposal seeks to accelerate and propel these recent Glasgow born innovations to industry at scale, delivering significant commercial, technical and schedule certainty benefits to industry at pace, ensuring Glasgow and the UK lead on future fabrication productivity, efficiency, revenue and program repatriation.Three, mobile, large-scale, reconfigurable, automated welding and additive manufacturing test-beds, shaped by industry, housed by industry, and pursuing impact for industry, introduce, validate and embed in-process inspection on next-generation high-value structures for multiple Glasgow based industrial collaborators across sectors.In parallel, an educational and STEM outreach offering will recruit and train the next-generation Industry 4.0 ready sensor-enabled automated welding engineers, addressing the significant current skills gap affecting these industries.Finally, a Glasgow based commercialisation vehicle will anchor the innovation in the region and enable translation of the technology internationally for societal and economic impact, whilst still ensuring Glasgow is at the centre and forefront of heavy-manufacturing innovation.This three-pronged approach, along with the innovation's significant technical, commercial, environmental and safety opportunities, re-ignite the Clyde's proud manufacturing history, fuse its future and anchor it as the international focal point in sustainable, productive, inclusive manufacturing.

格拉斯哥在造船、重型制造和焊接以及超声波领域拥有著名的、令人自豪的传统。该提案将这些变革性创新融合在一起，旨在为格拉斯哥创造一个繁荣的未来，由其传统驱动，通过创新实现。在国际上，能源转型和安全问题迫使制造业的生产、快速和高效发生快速变化。用于能源、国防和海洋部门的高完整性、大型结构，是格拉斯哥遗产和未来的关键支柱。传统上，高完整性接头的焊接和检查是分开的，制造和维修中通常是连续的、手动的过程。最终，如果只有在完成时才检测到缺陷，这会降低生产率、吞吐量、进度确定性并增加返工，这在现代增材制造中也存在同样的挑战。此外，重新加热然后修复这些结构所需的能量显着增加了制造的商业和环境成本。此外，熟练劳动力的减少和老龄化，以及减少危险工作的愿望，推动了过程自动化。焊接过程中的自动化过程超声波检测旨在一次性、每次都正确提供高完整性结构，克服当前的技术和流程限制。根据当前工业数据估计，它可以显着减少：\> 焊接工艺时间 55%\> 总焊接成本 50%\> 工时 75% 该提案旨在加速和推动这些最近在格拉斯哥诞生的创新大规模进入工业领域，快速为行业带来显着的商业、技术和进度确定性优势，确保格拉斯哥和英国在未来的制造生产力、效率、收入和项目遣返方面处于领先地位。三、移动、大规模、可重构、自动化焊接和增材制造测试台，由行业塑造、由行业容纳，并追求对行业的影响，为格拉斯哥多个跨行业的工业合作者引入、验证和嵌入下一代高价值结构的过程检测与此同时，教育和 STEM 外展服务将招募和培训下一代工业 4.0 就绪、支持传感器的自动化焊接工程师，解决影响这些行业的当前重大技能差距。最后，基于格拉斯哥的商业化工具将巩固该地区的创新，并使该技术在国际上转化，产生社会和经济影响，同时仍然确保格拉斯哥处于重工业创新的中心和前沿。这种三管齐下的方法，以及该创新的重要技术、商业价值、环境和安全机会，重新点燃克莱德引以为傲的制造历史，融合其未来，并将其定位为可持续、高效、包容性制造的国际焦点。