10158175Fusing A Future From Glasgow’s Proud Heritage - The Next WaveClosedInvestment AcceleratorInnovate UKGlasgow 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, developed and demonstrated in industry at scale during the two year Innovation Accelerator project seeks to deliver high-integrity structures right, first time, every time, overcoming current technical and process limitations. Based on trials it looks to offer significant reductions, estimated from current industrial data of: \*\> 55% in weld process time \*\> 50% in overall weld cost \*\> 75% in man hours This proposal seeks to accelerate and propel these recent Glasgow born innovations to wider 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, new mobile, large-scale, reconfigurable, automated welding and additive manufacturing test-beds, shaped by industry, housed by industry, and pursuing impact for industry, will further diversify and embed in-process inspection on next-generation high-value structures for multiple Glasgow based industrial collaborators across new and exciting sectors. In parallel, an educational and STEM outreach offering will be further enhanced to recruit and train the next-generation Industry 4.0 ready sensor-enabled automated welding engineers, addressing the significant current skills gap affecting these industries.