UKMR presents a review of the primary manufacturing work of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council in 2016, including profiles of the EPSRC Centres for Innovative Manufacturing, and the two new Manufacturing Hubs.
The EPSRC Centres for Innovative Manufacturing in review are:
- CIM in Additive Manufacturing
EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing: combining multiple materials and functions for complex electrical, optical and structural properties in a single manufacturing process - CIM in Advanced Metrology
EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology: creating and developing a ‘factory on the machine’ linking measurement and production to minimise cost, increasing complexity and quality in manufacturing - CIM in Continuous Manufacturing & Crystallisation (CMAC)
EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation: better products and processes through continuous manufacturing technology in the chemical process industries - CIM in Food
Taking a ‘food system’ approach will provide a resource-efficient and secure future for the UK food industry, by engendering vision in the science base and improving uptake by industry - CIM in LiME
EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Liquid Metal Engineering: equipping the UK metal-casting industry to enable it to become more cost-effective and sustainable, while improving casting quality - CIM in Through-life Engineering (TES)
EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Through-life Engineering Services: designing high value systems such as aircraft engines that require less engineering services, and incur less whole life cost - CIM in Medical Devices (MeDe)
Developing advanced methods for functionally stratified design and near patient manufacturing, to enable cost-effective matching of device function to patient needs and the surgical environment - CIM in Emergent Macromolecular Therapies (CIMEMT)
EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Emergent Macromolecular Therapies: creating the capabilities to select drug candidates for clinical trials based on clinical efficacy and feasibility of manufacture - CIM in Large Area Electronics (LAE)
Enabling the cost-effective production of multi-functional large-area electronics systems, and improving key manufacturing processes for enhanced performance - CIM in Intelligent Automation
EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Intelligent Automation: changing the way manufacturing machinery is designed, operated, supported, upgraded, re-used and retired - CIM in Industrial Sustainability (CIS)
EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability: rapidly reducing the resource and energy-intensity of the production of existing goods, and investigating options for a redesign of the industrial system