Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Abstract
We are witnessing huge global shifts towards cleaner growth and more resource efficient economies. The drive to lower carbon emissions is resulting in dramatic changes in how we travel and the ways we generate and use energy worldwide. Electrical machines are at the heart of the accelerating trends in the electrification of transport and the increased use of renewable energy such as offshore wind. To address the pressing drivers for clean growth and meet the increasing demands of new applications, new electrical machines with improved performance - higher power density, lower weight, improved reliability - are being designed by researchers and industry. However, there are significant manufacturing challenges to be overcome if UK industry is going to be able to manufacture these new machines with the appropriate cost, flexibility and quality.
The Hub's vision is to put UK manufacturing at the forefront of the electrification revolution. The Hub will address key manufacturing challenges in the production of high integrity and high value electrical machines for the aerospace, energy, high value automotive and premium consumer sectors.
The Hub will work in partnership with industry to address some common and fundamental barriers limiting manufacturing capability and capacity: the need for in-process support to manual operations in electrical machine manufacture - e.g. coil winding, insertions, electrical connections and wiring - to improve productivity and provide quality assurance; the sensitivity of high value and high integrity machines to small changes in tolerance and the requirement for high precision in manufacturing for safety critical applications; the increasing drive to low batch size, flexibility and customisation; and the need to train the next generation of manufacturing scientists and engineers.
The Hub's research programme will explore new and emerging manufacturing processes, new materials for enhanced functionality and/or light-weighting, new approaches for process modelling and simulation, and the application of digital approaches with new sensors and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
The Hub's vision is to put UK manufacturing at the forefront of the electrification revolution. The Hub will address key manufacturing challenges in the production of high integrity and high value electrical machines for the aerospace, energy, high value automotive and premium consumer sectors.
The Hub will work in partnership with industry to address some common and fundamental barriers limiting manufacturing capability and capacity: the need for in-process support to manual operations in electrical machine manufacture - e.g. coil winding, insertions, electrical connections and wiring - to improve productivity and provide quality assurance; the sensitivity of high value and high integrity machines to small changes in tolerance and the requirement for high precision in manufacturing for safety critical applications; the increasing drive to low batch size, flexibility and customisation; and the need to train the next generation of manufacturing scientists and engineers.
The Hub's research programme will explore new and emerging manufacturing processes, new materials for enhanced functionality and/or light-weighting, new approaches for process modelling and simulation, and the application of digital approaches with new sensors and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
Planned Impact
Technological Impacts. The Hub will be instrumental in establishing and maintaining a leading and differentiated technology needed to ensure the UK's future success in strategically important sectors. The dividends from the true integration of electrical machine and advanced manufacturing research will enable the higher performance needed for increasingly demanding applications - higher power density, lower weight, embedded health monitoring - while reducing manufacturing cost and improving quality. It will help UK industry develop the smart industrial systems needed for the electrical machine factories of the future, with flexible manufacturing capability and support for manual processes and workers.
Economic Impacts. The Hub will deliver significant economic impacts through increasing UK productivity and competitiveness in a number of strategically important UK sectors - aerospace, energy (offshore wind), high value automotive / motorsport, premium consumer goods as well as future spillover benefits to wider sectors (mass market automotive). The Hub will help sustain and support future growth in these sectors, helping position UK industry to win future work, including: ensuring a UK presence in manufacturing the next generation of aircraft wings and hybrid propulsion (a strategic objective for the HVMC) and supporting the target to increase UK content in UK offshore wind installations from 32% to 65% by 2030.
Societal, People and Policy Impacts. The Hub will support the UK Gov. shift to cleaner growth via low carbon energy generation and energy use in transportation. It will help improve the health (reduced pollution) and wealth (jobs, economic growth) of the nation. The Hub will shape the national debate and strategy around manufacturing and manufacturing research with the academic, industry and innovation communities, sponsors, policy makers and the public. It will train and nurture a new generation of manufacturing and engineering leaders. The Hub will deliver a programme of public engagement activities to contribute to the important narrative to increase the profile and prestige of manufacturing and engineering within the UK, which is critical to help address the nation's skills gap.
Economic Impacts. The Hub will deliver significant economic impacts through increasing UK productivity and competitiveness in a number of strategically important UK sectors - aerospace, energy (offshore wind), high value automotive / motorsport, premium consumer goods as well as future spillover benefits to wider sectors (mass market automotive). The Hub will help sustain and support future growth in these sectors, helping position UK industry to win future work, including: ensuring a UK presence in manufacturing the next generation of aircraft wings and hybrid propulsion (a strategic objective for the HVMC) and supporting the target to increase UK content in UK offshore wind installations from 32% to 65% by 2030.
Societal, People and Policy Impacts. The Hub will support the UK Gov. shift to cleaner growth via low carbon energy generation and energy use in transportation. It will help improve the health (reduced pollution) and wealth (jobs, economic growth) of the nation. The Hub will shape the national debate and strategy around manufacturing and manufacturing research with the academic, industry and innovation communities, sponsors, policy makers and the public. It will train and nurture a new generation of manufacturing and engineering leaders. The Hub will deliver a programme of public engagement activities to contribute to the important narrative to increase the profile and prestige of manufacturing and engineering within the UK, which is critical to help address the nation's skills gap.
Organisations
- University of Sheffield (Lead Research Organisation)
- Lanner Group (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC (Collaboration)
- National Physical Laboratory (Collaboration)
- TWI The Welding Institue (Collaboration)
- Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) (Collaboration)
- Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- Höganäs (Collaboration)
- Rolls Royce Group Plc (Collaboration)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Lund University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- DURHAM UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- TISICS (Collaboration)
- Carpenter Technology Corporation (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- ZF Friedrichshafen (Collaboration)
- Magnomatics (Collaboration)
- UTC AEROSPACE SYSTEMS (Collaboration)
- Royal HaskoningDHV (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- McLaren Applied Technologies (Collaboration)
- Romax Technology (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- FluxSys (Collaboration)
- Edinburgh Napier University (Collaboration)
- Airbus Group (Collaboration)
- Hexagon (Collaboration)
- Dyson (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (Collaboration)
- Raytheon Technologies Corporation (Collaboration)
- GKN (Collaboration)
- Nissan Motor Company (Collaboration)
- Ricardo UK Ltd (Collaboration)
Publications
Chen X
(2023)
A model to account for magnetic permeability changes resulting from edge damage caused by laser cutting in a high performance cobalt-iron alloy
in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Escudero-Ornelas I
(2023)
Modelling interdependencies in an electric motor manufacturing process using discrete event simulation
in Journal of Simulation
Farnsworth M
(2022)
Augmented classification for electrical coil winding defects
in The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
| Description | A key achievement of this project so far has been the development and deployment, for the first time, of advanced manufacturing process monitoring methods into electrical machine manufacture, e.g. use of vision systems for real-time coil winding inspection. We have broadened the scope of the programme to incorporate a new activity on sustainable manufacturing of electrical machine components for the circular economy and this has already identified several exciting opportunities. We have established and started to use a state-of-the-art robotic coil winding facility. |
| Exploitation Route | Several collaborative projects have been initiated to take forward the generic findings into processes for specific companies and products. These short translation and feasibility studies will in due course provide impact exemplars for dissemination but are currently commercially confidential. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Energy Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Transport |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/ |
| Description | In-Process monitoring in electrical machine manufacturing: A review of state of the art and future directions |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://revistas.utb.edu.co/index.php/tesea/article/view/440 |
| Description | On the requirements of digital twin-driven autonomous maintenance |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2021/6621235/ |
| Description | Real-time discrete event simulation: a framework for an intelligent expert system approach utilising decision trees. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/baztech/element/bwmeta1.element.baztech-7a79ac1c-0d76-448b-a815-6504199f11ee |
| Description | Real-time discrete event simulation: a framework for an intelligent expert system approach utilising decision trees. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1600921&dswid=-8621 |
| Description | Real-time discrete event simulation: a framework for an intelligent expert system approach utilising decision trees. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=O1NBEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA315&ots=1P00Eulxli&sig=rlURPX... |
| Description | APC 15 |
| Amount | £3,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Advanced Propulsion Centre |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 11/2022 |
| Description | Catapult 2020-2021 |
| Amount | £53,066 (GBP) |
| Organisation | High Value Manufacturing Catapult |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Catapult 2020-2021 |
| Amount | £187,391 (GBP) |
| Organisation | High Value Manufacturing Catapult |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Catapult 2022-2023 |
| Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | High Value Manufacturing Catapult |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Company Contribution |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 02/2024 |
| Description | EPSRC ICASE 2021 - Novel rotor design for cost optimised, high temperature, high speed aerospace applications with Rolls-Royce |
| Amount | £88,885 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 210009 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Department | Industrial Cooperative Awards in Science & Technology |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account - 'Ideas to Innovation' |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | Mexican Government Funding Scheme (CONACYT) |
| Amount | £64,518 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Mexico |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Mexico |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Title | Cable assembly image database |
| Description | A large image dataset of lab based cable assembly tasks, including RGB, Depth, and segmentation data. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Database will be added to the github repository listed below for public access |
| URL | https://github.com/cdrwolfe/Cable-Manipulation |
| Title | Cable segmentation model |
| Description | A set of DNN cable segmentation models for the object detection and segmentation of cables in natural scenes |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Models will be added to the github repository listed below for public access |
| URL | https://github.com/cdrwolfe/Cable-Manipulation |
| Title | Coil defect classification model |
| Description | A CNN classificaiton model for the detection of coil winding defects using the developed image datasets |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Paper published that used associated dataset. Model will be added to the github repository listed below for public access |
| URL | https://github.com/cdrwolfe/Wire-Manipulation |
| Title | Coil defect image database |
| Description | A small sample image dataset of stator tooth wire coil defects, consisting of three classes (good, gap failure, and crossover failure) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Paper published that used associated dataset. Database will be added to the github repository listed below for public access |
| URL | https://github.com/cdrwolfe/Wire-Manipulation |
| Title | GAN models for coil defect image generation |
| Description | A generative advesarial network model for the generation of coil winding defect images |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Models will be added to the github repository listed below for public access |
| URL | https://github.com/cdrwolfe/Wire-Manipulation |
| Title | Infra-red imaging of Litz wires with and without enamel |
| Description | Infra-red imaging of Litz wires with and without enamel. Data supporting Tiwari, D. et al. Inspection of Enamel Removal Using Infrared Thermal Imaging and Machine Learning Techniques. Sensors 2023, 23, 3977. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Infra-red_imaging_of_Litz_wires_with_and_without_enamel... |
| Title | Infra-red imaging of Litz wires with and without enamel |
| Description | Infra-red imaging of Litz wires with and without enamel. Data supporting Tiwari, D. et al. Inspection of Enamel Removal Using Infrared Thermal Imaging and Machine Learning Techniques. Sensors 2023, 23, 3977. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Infra-red_imaging_of_Litz_wires_with_and_without_enamel... |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Aerospace Technology Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Fluxsys |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | GKN |
| Department | GKN Aerospace |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Hexagon |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Magnomatics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Nissan Motor Company |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Raytheon Technologies Corporation |
| Department | Collins Aerospace |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Royal HaskoningDHV |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | TISICS |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day conference at AMRC, University of Sheffield. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers, a poster session and tours of AMRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2023 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Invited Speakers |
| Organisation | Edinburgh Napier University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day in-person conference at AMRC in September 2021. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners listed sent individuals who attended and presented at the conference. |
| Impact | The outcome was a successful conference in the field of electrical machines. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Invited Speakers |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day in-person conference at AMRC in September 2021. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners listed sent individuals who attended and presented at the conference. |
| Impact | The outcome was a successful conference in the field of electrical machines. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Invited Speakers |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Department | Warwick Manufacturing Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day in-person conference at AMRC in September 2021. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners listed sent individuals who attended and presented at the conference. |
| Impact | The outcome was a successful conference in the field of electrical machines. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference - Keynote Speaker |
| Organisation | Aerospace Technology Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | FEMM Hub held a one-day in-person conference at the ARMC in September 2023. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Kiran Harish presented at our Annual Conference with a presentation titled "Destination Zero - the technology journey to 2050". He contributed his time as a guest keynote speaker. |
| Impact | The outcome was a successful conference in the field of electrical machines. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | GKN |
| Department | GKN Aerospace |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM hub held a one-day conference in Birmingham. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers and a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2024 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Hexagon |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM hub held a one-day conference in Birmingham. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers and a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2024 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC |
| Department | Jaguar Land Rover |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM hub held a one-day conference in Birmingham. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers and a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2024 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Magnomatics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM hub held a one-day conference in Birmingham. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers and a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2024 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | McLaren Applied Technologies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM hub held a one-day conference in Birmingham. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers and a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2024 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM hub held a one-day conference in Birmingham. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers and a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2024 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Royal HaskoningDHV |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM hub held a one-day conference in Birmingham. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers and a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2024 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | UTC Aerospace Systems |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM hub held a one-day conference in Birmingham. The day itself consisted of presentations from invited speakers and a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry contacts listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | Attendees now receive our newsletter and are likely to attend our conference in 2024 based on feedback. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Invited Speakers |
| Organisation | GKN |
| Department | GKN Aerospace |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day in-person conference at the IET in Birmingham in November 2023 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Presented at the 2023 FEMM Hub conference |
| Impact | The outcome was a successful conference in the field of electrical machines. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Invited Speakers |
| Organisation | Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day in-person conference at the IET in Birmingham in November 2023 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Presented at the 2023 FEMM Hub conference |
| Impact | The outcome was a successful conference in the field of electrical machines. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Invited Speakers |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day in-person conference at the IET in Birmingham in November 2023 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Presented at the 2023 FEMM Hub conference |
| Impact | The outcome was a successful conference in the field of electrical machines. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Invited Speakers |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Department | Warwick Manufacturing Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The FEMM Hub held a one-day in-person conference at the IET in Birmingham in November 2023 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Presented at the 2023 FEMM Hub conference |
| Impact | The outcome was a successful conference in the field of electrical machines. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | 3rd In-Person FEMM Hub Conference Tuesday 28th of November 2023 - Keynote Speaker |
| Organisation | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | FEMM Hub held a one-day in-person conference at the IET in Birmingham in November 2023 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Fleischer the Director of Machines, Equipment and Process Automation at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. His keynote titled "Facing the Challenges in Electric Motor Production" covered Challenges and Trends in Development and Manufacturing; Flexible and Scalable Manufacturing Processes and Sustainability in Electric Motor Production. |
| Impact | FEMM Hub held a one-day in-person conference at the IET in Birmingham in November 2023 |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Case Study discussions (Strathclyde) |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Discussions took place on life cycle assessment in electrical motors. This involved several people from FEMM Hub. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Several business development people and engineers discussed the support of a FEMM Hub PhD project through the supply of data. |
| Impact | The data will be used in the PhD thesis. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Collaboration for workshop delivery (Newcastle) |
| Organisation | Höganäs |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Worked with industry partners to design workshop. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Creation, Collation and gathering of information, data and examples for the SMC workshop - 4 staff from Hoganas |
| Impact | Workshop successfully delivered |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Collaboration with the Exeter Centre for Circular Economy (ECCE) |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Department | Exeter Centre for Circular Economy (ECCE) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The vision of this collaboration between the EPSRC Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub and the Exeter Centre for the Circular Economy is to accelerate a new activity on circular economy in electrical machine manufacture by means of a structured discovery phase including linking with the UKRI National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub hosted at Exeter. The EPSRC Hub team is contributing to this collaboration by conducting a systematic literature study and consultation with industrial partners to define current practices. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Exeter Centre for the Circular Economy is contributing to this collaboration by seconding staff from its EPSRC Circular 4.0 Programme (EP/R032041) to the EPSRC Hub with an aim to jointly develop data-driven techniques to select the most appropriate CE strategies for electrical machines. |
| Impact | A questionnaire is being used to consult with industrial partners to define current practices and a draft of the literature review to define the state-of-the-art in this field. The Universities of Sheffield and Exeter have a collaboration agreement as part of the EPSRC Circular 4.0 Programme (EP/R032041). |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaborative discussions and workshop |
| Organisation | ZF Friedrichshafen |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Members of the FEMM Hub at Strathclyde have been involved discussions with members of staff at ZF to discuss a new collaboration within the project. The contributions included technical discussions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Team members from ZF provided industrial advice and guidance as well as the delivery of a day long workshop and visit by FEMM Hub members. |
| Impact | Main outcome so far is a workshop. Further outcomes will follow. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DES Model discussions (Sheffield) |
| Organisation | Lanner Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | FEMM Hub researchers involved in discussions on discrete element simulation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Industry partners provided input and advice on discrete element simulation |
| Impact | A workshop was delivered and ongoing work is likely to produce other outputs. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | DES Model discussions (Sheffield) |
| Organisation | Raytheon Technologies Corporation |
| Department | Collins Aerospace |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | FEMM Hub researchers involved in discussions on discrete element simulation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Industry partners provided input and advice on discrete element simulation |
| Impact | A workshop was delivered and ongoing work is likely to produce other outputs. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on Factory Set Up (NMIS) |
| Organisation | Ricardo UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Members of the FEMM Hub took part in discussions with industry |
| Collaborator Contribution | X1 work package lead provided advice and guidance on factory set ups described in the 2023 annual report |
| Impact | Will inform research and potential future outputs |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Discussion on hydroforming (Strathclyde) |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Members of FEMM Hub took part in discussions with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Two engineers provided advice and guidance in hydroforming discussions |
| Impact | Will inform research and potential future outputs. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Discussions for funding proposal |
| Organisation | TWI The Welding Institue |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | FEMM Hub researchers met with TWI engineers to discuss funding proposal |
| Collaborator Contribution | TWI visited the University of Sheffield to discuss work leading to short proposal submission for FEMM Hub rapid spend feasibility study |
| Impact | Short feasibility project funded. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Hub First In-person Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | GKN |
| Department | GKN Aerospace |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This was a one day conference organized by FEMM Hub to disseminated initial research findings. Each Grand Challenge theme presented an update and there was also a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry partners listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | No direct outcomes at this stage, although the conversations that took place are likely to lead to further collaborations. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Hub First In-person Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This was a one day conference organized by FEMM Hub to disseminated initial research findings. Each Grand Challenge theme presented an update and there was also a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry partners listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | No direct outcomes at this stage, although the conversations that took place are likely to lead to further collaborations. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Hub First In-person Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Raytheon Technologies Corporation |
| Department | Collins Aerospace |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This was a one day conference organized by FEMM Hub to disseminated initial research findings. Each Grand Challenge theme presented an update and there was also a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry partners listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | No direct outcomes at this stage, although the conversations that took place are likely to lead to further collaborations. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Hub First In-person Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This was a one day conference organized by FEMM Hub to disseminated initial research findings. Each Grand Challenge theme presented an update and there was also a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry partners listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | No direct outcomes at this stage, although the conversations that took place are likely to lead to further collaborations. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Hub First In-person Conference - Industry Attendees |
| Organisation | ZF Friedrichshafen |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This was a one day conference organized by FEMM Hub to disseminated initial research findings. Each Grand Challenge theme presented an update and there was also a poster session. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The industry partners listed all attended the conference and provided expert advice and feedback on the work presented. |
| Impact | No direct outcomes at this stage, although the conversations that took place are likely to lead to further collaborations. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Hub First In-person Conference - Invited Keynote Speakers |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | FEMM Hub held a one day conference at the IET in Birmingham. This was the first in-person event due to covid restrictions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners listed attended the conference - contributing their time as guest keynote speakers. |
| Impact | The outcome was a successful conference in the field of electrical machines. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Hub First In-person Conference - Invited Keynote Speakers |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | FEMM Hub held a one day conference at the IET in Birmingham. This was the first in-person event due to covid restrictions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners listed attended the conference - contributing their time as guest keynote speakers. |
| Impact | The outcome was a successful conference in the field of electrical machines. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Roadmap Workshop |
| Organisation | Aerospace Technology Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | On Tuesday 22nd of November, the FEMM Hub Team ran a one-day workshop at Factory 2050. The purpose of the workshop is to get essential industrial input to the FEMM hub roadmap, including • Information to complete the picture that we have started to create, i.e. we need to fill-in any gaps in coverage • Endorsement from industry partners • Signposting to any information (drivers, usage assumptions, performance needs) (either public domain or unpublished) which could direct work to meet specific needs of FEMM hub represented sectors • MOST IMPORTANTLY - there are many potential research directions for research into the manufacture of future electrical machines. The workshop will allow you to provide guidance / input on where the priorities lie |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contributed at the workshop by taking part in activities inputting to the roadmap. |
| Impact | We have produced a document which will be published in April 2023 |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Roadmap Workshop |
| Organisation | GKN |
| Department | GKN Aerospace |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | On Tuesday 22nd of November, the FEMM Hub Team ran a one-day workshop at Factory 2050. The purpose of the workshop is to get essential industrial input to the FEMM hub roadmap, including • Information to complete the picture that we have started to create, i.e. we need to fill-in any gaps in coverage • Endorsement from industry partners • Signposting to any information (drivers, usage assumptions, performance needs) (either public domain or unpublished) which could direct work to meet specific needs of FEMM hub represented sectors • MOST IMPORTANTLY - there are many potential research directions for research into the manufacture of future electrical machines. The workshop will allow you to provide guidance / input on where the priorities lie |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contributed at the workshop by taking part in activities inputting to the roadmap. |
| Impact | We have produced a document which will be published in April 2023 |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Roadmap Workshop |
| Organisation | Lanner Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | On Tuesday 22nd of November, the FEMM Hub Team ran a one-day workshop at Factory 2050. The purpose of the workshop is to get essential industrial input to the FEMM hub roadmap, including • Information to complete the picture that we have started to create, i.e. we need to fill-in any gaps in coverage • Endorsement from industry partners • Signposting to any information (drivers, usage assumptions, performance needs) (either public domain or unpublished) which could direct work to meet specific needs of FEMM hub represented sectors • MOST IMPORTANTLY - there are many potential research directions for research into the manufacture of future electrical machines. The workshop will allow you to provide guidance / input on where the priorities lie |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contributed at the workshop by taking part in activities inputting to the roadmap. |
| Impact | We have produced a document which will be published in April 2023 |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Roadmap Workshop |
| Organisation | Raytheon Technologies Corporation |
| Department | Collins Aerospace |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | On Tuesday 22nd of November, the FEMM Hub Team ran a one-day workshop at Factory 2050. The purpose of the workshop is to get essential industrial input to the FEMM hub roadmap, including • Information to complete the picture that we have started to create, i.e. we need to fill-in any gaps in coverage • Endorsement from industry partners • Signposting to any information (drivers, usage assumptions, performance needs) (either public domain or unpublished) which could direct work to meet specific needs of FEMM hub represented sectors • MOST IMPORTANTLY - there are many potential research directions for research into the manufacture of future electrical machines. The workshop will allow you to provide guidance / input on where the priorities lie |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contributed at the workshop by taking part in activities inputting to the roadmap. |
| Impact | We have produced a document which will be published in April 2023 |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Roadmap Workshop |
| Organisation | Romax Technology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | On Tuesday 22nd of November, the FEMM Hub Team ran a one-day workshop at Factory 2050. The purpose of the workshop is to get essential industrial input to the FEMM hub roadmap, including • Information to complete the picture that we have started to create, i.e. we need to fill-in any gaps in coverage • Endorsement from industry partners • Signposting to any information (drivers, usage assumptions, performance needs) (either public domain or unpublished) which could direct work to meet specific needs of FEMM hub represented sectors • MOST IMPORTANTLY - there are many potential research directions for research into the manufacture of future electrical machines. The workshop will allow you to provide guidance / input on where the priorities lie |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contributed at the workshop by taking part in activities inputting to the roadmap. |
| Impact | We have produced a document which will be published in April 2023 |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Roadmap Workshop |
| Organisation | ZF Friedrichshafen |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | On Tuesday 22nd of November, the FEMM Hub Team ran a one-day workshop at Factory 2050. The purpose of the workshop is to get essential industrial input to the FEMM hub roadmap, including • Information to complete the picture that we have started to create, i.e. we need to fill-in any gaps in coverage • Endorsement from industry partners • Signposting to any information (drivers, usage assumptions, performance needs) (either public domain or unpublished) which could direct work to meet specific needs of FEMM hub represented sectors • MOST IMPORTANTLY - there are many potential research directions for research into the manufacture of future electrical machines. The workshop will allow you to provide guidance / input on where the priorities lie |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contributed at the workshop by taking part in activities inputting to the roadmap. |
| Impact | We have produced a document which will be published in April 2023 |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | FEMM Hub research related activity 2021 |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Related research and expertise provided by members of FEMM Hub. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Funding support provided for activity aligned. |
| Impact | Work ongoing and publication are likely later in the year. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Related Research 2020 |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research and expertise provided by FEMM Hub members at the University of Sheffield |
| Collaborator Contribution | Funding provided in support of aligned research activities. |
| Impact | Results have contributed to research publications currently ongoing. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Gas Turbines and Electrical Machines discussion (Strathclyde) |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Members of FEMM Hub took part in discussions with engineers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Industry engineers provided advice and guidance on potential research focus. |
| Impact | Will feed into future research outputs |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industry and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting - September 2021 |
| Organisation | Durham University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | At this half day meeting in Birmingham, members of the FEMM Hub Executive team provided information and updates to the advisory boards. This included a top level overview from the director. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All board members took part in open discussion on the achievements of the Hub and planning for the future. Direction on impact matrices and contribution of the Hub were examined Recommendations were made. |
| Impact | Impact has been introduced as a key focus for all future activities. An industry day has been held to get wider input from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industry and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting - September 2021 |
| Organisation | GKN |
| Department | GKN Aerospace |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | At this half day meeting in Birmingham, members of the FEMM Hub Executive team provided information and updates to the advisory boards. This included a top level overview from the director. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All board members took part in open discussion on the achievements of the Hub and planning for the future. Direction on impact matrices and contribution of the Hub were examined Recommendations were made. |
| Impact | Impact has been introduced as a key focus for all future activities. An industry day has been held to get wider input from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industry and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting - September 2021 |
| Organisation | Lund University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | At this half day meeting in Birmingham, members of the FEMM Hub Executive team provided information and updates to the advisory boards. This included a top level overview from the director. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All board members took part in open discussion on the achievements of the Hub and planning for the future. Direction on impact matrices and contribution of the Hub were examined Recommendations were made. |
| Impact | Impact has been introduced as a key focus for all future activities. An industry day has been held to get wider input from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industry and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting - September 2021 |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | At this half day meeting in Birmingham, members of the FEMM Hub Executive team provided information and updates to the advisory boards. This included a top level overview from the director. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All board members took part in open discussion on the achievements of the Hub and planning for the future. Direction on impact matrices and contribution of the Hub were examined Recommendations were made. |
| Impact | Impact has been introduced as a key focus for all future activities. An industry day has been held to get wider input from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industry and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting - September 2021 |
| Organisation | Raytheon Technologies Corporation |
| Department | Collins Aerospace |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | At this half day meeting in Birmingham, members of the FEMM Hub Executive team provided information and updates to the advisory boards. This included a top level overview from the director. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All board members took part in open discussion on the achievements of the Hub and planning for the future. Direction on impact matrices and contribution of the Hub were examined Recommendations were made. |
| Impact | Impact has been introduced as a key focus for all future activities. An industry day has been held to get wider input from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industry and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting - September 2021 |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | At this half day meeting in Birmingham, members of the FEMM Hub Executive team provided information and updates to the advisory boards. This included a top level overview from the director. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All board members took part in open discussion on the achievements of the Hub and planning for the future. Direction on impact matrices and contribution of the Hub were examined Recommendations were made. |
| Impact | Impact has been introduced as a key focus for all future activities. An industry day has been held to get wider input from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industry and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting - September 2021 |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | At this half day meeting in Birmingham, members of the FEMM Hub Executive team provided information and updates to the advisory boards. This included a top level overview from the director. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All board members took part in open discussion on the achievements of the Hub and planning for the future. Direction on impact matrices and contribution of the Hub were examined Recommendations were made. |
| Impact | Impact has been introduced as a key focus for all future activities. An industry day has been held to get wider input from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industry and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting - September 2021 |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | At this half day meeting in Birmingham, members of the FEMM Hub Executive team provided information and updates to the advisory boards. This included a top level overview from the director. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All board members took part in open discussion on the achievements of the Hub and planning for the future. Direction on impact matrices and contribution of the Hub were examined Recommendations were made. |
| Impact | Impact has been introduced as a key focus for all future activities. An industry day has been held to get wider input from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industry and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting - September 2021 |
| Organisation | ZF Friedrichshafen |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | At this half day meeting in Birmingham, members of the FEMM Hub Executive team provided information and updates to the advisory boards. This included a top level overview from the director. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All board members took part in open discussion on the achievements of the Hub and planning for the future. Direction on impact matrices and contribution of the Hub were examined Recommendations were made. |
| Impact | Impact has been introduced as a key focus for all future activities. An industry day has been held to get wider input from all partners. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industry input into Sustainable Manufacturing Theme (Strathclyde) |
| Organisation | Raytheon Technologies Corporation |
| Department | Collins Aerospace |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Researchers from FEMM Hub discussed the work of one of the themes with industry partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Industry partners provided responses to a survey as well as taking part in interviews. |
| Impact | No outputs, but will be used to inform research and later papers. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Industry input into Sustainable Manufacturing Theme (Strathclyde) |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Researchers from FEMM Hub discussed the work of one of the themes with industry partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Industry partners provided responses to a survey as well as taking part in interviews. |
| Impact | No outputs, but will be used to inform research and later papers. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Life Cycle Assessment meeting (Strathclyde) |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Members of FEMM hub held discussions with staff members. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff members provided advice and input into research discussions. |
| Impact | Will contribute to publications. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Litz wire samples |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The research team have used these samples in CT scanning. They are part of the work under grand challenge 'In-process tracking and tractability for zero-defect manufacture of electrical machine'. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Samples of Litz wire terminations made by various techniques such as soldering, hot crimping. |
| Impact | There has been a case study and samples have been used in analysis. Results from this will contribute to further published papers. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Partner Connect Workshop |
| Organisation | Lanner Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This was a one-day Creativity at Home workshop lead by professional facilitators. All FEMM grand challenge themes participated, providing overviews and being part of conversations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our industry partners led the workshop topics by providing challenges in advance and then discussed them in more detail in focus groups. These groups were then able to identify specific activities that would begin to identify key research areas for the second half of the programme. |
| Impact | nEw collaborations are already beginning and it is hoped that many others will follow. These will be reported next year. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Partner Connect Workshop |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This was a one-day Creativity at Home workshop lead by professional facilitators. All FEMM grand challenge themes participated, providing overviews and being part of conversations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our industry partners led the workshop topics by providing challenges in advance and then discussed them in more detail in focus groups. These groups were then able to identify specific activities that would begin to identify key research areas for the second half of the programme. |
| Impact | nEw collaborations are already beginning and it is hoped that many others will follow. These will be reported next year. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Partner Connect Workshop |
| Organisation | Raytheon Technologies Corporation |
| Department | Collins Aerospace |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This was a one-day Creativity at Home workshop lead by professional facilitators. All FEMM grand challenge themes participated, providing overviews and being part of conversations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our industry partners led the workshop topics by providing challenges in advance and then discussed them in more detail in focus groups. These groups were then able to identify specific activities that would begin to identify key research areas for the second half of the programme. |
| Impact | nEw collaborations are already beginning and it is hoped that many others will follow. These will be reported next year. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Partner Connect Workshop |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This was a one-day Creativity at Home workshop lead by professional facilitators. All FEMM grand challenge themes participated, providing overviews and being part of conversations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our industry partners led the workshop topics by providing challenges in advance and then discussed them in more detail in focus groups. These groups were then able to identify specific activities that would begin to identify key research areas for the second half of the programme. |
| Impact | nEw collaborations are already beginning and it is hoped that many others will follow. These will be reported next year. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Partner Connect Workshop |
| Organisation | Romax Technology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This was a one-day Creativity at Home workshop lead by professional facilitators. All FEMM grand challenge themes participated, providing overviews and being part of conversations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our industry partners led the workshop topics by providing challenges in advance and then discussed them in more detail in focus groups. These groups were then able to identify specific activities that would begin to identify key research areas for the second half of the programme. |
| Impact | nEw collaborations are already beginning and it is hoped that many others will follow. These will be reported next year. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Partner Connect Workshop |
| Organisation | ZF Friedrichshafen |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This was a one-day Creativity at Home workshop lead by professional facilitators. All FEMM grand challenge themes participated, providing overviews and being part of conversations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our industry partners led the workshop topics by providing challenges in advance and then discussed them in more detail in focus groups. These groups were then able to identify specific activities that would begin to identify key research areas for the second half of the programme. |
| Impact | nEw collaborations are already beginning and it is hoped that many others will follow. These will be reported next year. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | PhD Sponsorship |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | One PhD student is working on research aligned to Rolls Royce topes of interest in electrical machines. Academic know how is also contributed. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner has provided finance to support the PhD for the duration of the programme. |
| Impact | No outcomes yet, but papers will be published. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Project progress meetings |
| Organisation | Carpenter Technology Corporation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Each month, each grand challenge theme presents a technical progress report to date. This is shared with theme partners and industry partners. Meeting are all held online. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of these partners listed have attended one of more of the theme meetings (68 meetings in the case of one partner). They have provided valuable input and technical discussion. |
| Impact | Outputs from themes meetings are still at the early research stage and are likely to give rise to publications etc in the future. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Project progress meetings |
| Organisation | Raytheon Technologies Corporation |
| Department | Collins Aerospace |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Each month, each grand challenge theme presents a technical progress report to date. This is shared with theme partners and industry partners. Meeting are all held online. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of these partners listed have attended one of more of the theme meetings (68 meetings in the case of one partner). They have provided valuable input and technical discussion. |
| Impact | Outputs from themes meetings are still at the early research stage and are likely to give rise to publications etc in the future. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Project progress meetings |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Each month, each grand challenge theme presents a technical progress report to date. This is shared with theme partners and industry partners. Meeting are all held online. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of these partners listed have attended one of more of the theme meetings (68 meetings in the case of one partner). They have provided valuable input and technical discussion. |
| Impact | Outputs from themes meetings are still at the early research stage and are likely to give rise to publications etc in the future. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Project progress meetings |
| Organisation | Romax Technology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Each month, each grand challenge theme presents a technical progress report to date. This is shared with theme partners and industry partners. Meeting are all held online. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of these partners listed have attended one of more of the theme meetings (68 meetings in the case of one partner). They have provided valuable input and technical discussion. |
| Impact | Outputs from themes meetings are still at the early research stage and are likely to give rise to publications etc in the future. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Project progress meetings |
| Organisation | Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Each month, each grand challenge theme presents a technical progress report to date. This is shared with theme partners and industry partners. Meeting are all held online. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of these partners listed have attended one of more of the theme meetings (68 meetings in the case of one partner). They have provided valuable input and technical discussion. |
| Impact | Outputs from themes meetings are still at the early research stage and are likely to give rise to publications etc in the future. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Project progress meetings |
| Organisation | ZF Friedrichshafen |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Each month, each grand challenge theme presents a technical progress report to date. This is shared with theme partners and industry partners. Meeting are all held online. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of these partners listed have attended one of more of the theme meetings (68 meetings in the case of one partner). They have provided valuable input and technical discussion. |
| Impact | Outputs from themes meetings are still at the early research stage and are likely to give rise to publications etc in the future. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research programme discussions & case study (Sheffield) |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | FEMM researchers discussed findings with industry partners |
| Collaborator Contribution | Industry meetings to provide feedback on the results on termination samples. |
| Impact | Case study produced. More outputs likely. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Support of Electrical Machine Group Research (Newcastle) |
| Organisation | Dyson |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Delivery of research activities by two research associates within the electrical machines and drives group at the University of Newcastle |
| Collaborator Contribution | Industrial support and finance to pay for research on high speed machine applications. |
| Impact | Outcomes will occur later in 2022. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Support of Electrical Machine Group Research (Newcastle) |
| Organisation | Höganäs |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | RA working on high speed machine design and analysis at University of Newcastle. Academic expertise also contributed |
| Collaborator Contribution | Funding of researcher made by Hoganas. Input and feedback of research |
| Impact | No outcomes as yet - but due this year. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASE Award - Industry Contribution |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | FEMM Hub researcher working on idustry aligned project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Industry Partner contributes time, materials and financial support. |
| Impact | This project is still active - publications will result |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Title | Blender 2D / 3D cable image generation tool |
| Description | A set of scripts built within the blender environment for the generation of synthetic images for cable winding and assembly processes |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Scripts will be added to the github repository listed in column 'C' for public access |
| Title | Coil winding demonstrator |
| Description | A sensorised desktop linear coil winder system for capturing process data during coil winding activities |
| Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Currently used within the ACSE / FEMM hub lab |
| Title | Discrete Event Simulation Model in Witness |
| Description | A discrete event simulation model to demonstrate the linear coil winding process and understand interdependencies in the winding process. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Model and supporting information added to github repository |
| URL | https://github.com/Div-Tiwari/DES-for-coil-winding/upload/main |
| Description | 9th - 10th December 2019- Short course for KTN/APC/UKRI personnel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of a two-day course on Electrical Machines and Drives, the Hub Director (G.W Jewell) delivered two half-day sessions using the course material developed for the Hub one-day short course. This particular course was attended by 13 staff from the KTN, Innovate UK, URKI and APC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | An article on Professor Geraint Jewell's secondment to AMRC was featured in the AMRC Journal Issue 14. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Professor Geraint Jewell was interviewed by James Crossling for the AMRC journal to discuss his two-year secondment at Factory 2050 to drive forward the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre's (AMRC) goals to support zero emission flight. In the article he discusses the role of the FEMM hub in this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.amrc.co.uk/pages/the-amrc-journal |
| Description | An article on the circular economy FEMM Hub research project in Italian Stampare in 3D. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article in Italian detailing the new FEMM Hub project on the circular economy, featuring an interview with Dr Jill Miscandlon from the AFRC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://stamparein3d.it/il-future-electrical-machines-manufacturing-hub-femm-ha-annunciato-un-nuovo-... |
| Description | Article in 3D printing industry titled "UK UNIVERSITIES PUSH FOR SUSTAINABLE ELECTRIFICATION WITH 3D PRINTING" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | In March 2021, the FEMM Hub featured in 3D Manufacturing magazine. The article featured an interview with FEMM hub researcher Dr Jill Miscandlon where see explained te work of FEMM hub in sustainability with focus on additive manufacture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/uk-universities-push-for-sustainable-electrification-with-3d-pri... |
| Description | Article in Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technology International titled Greener EVs: New project launched to re-use end of life electric vehicle parts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published article in Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technology International titled Greener EVs: New project launched to re-use end of life electric vehicle parts. Dr Jill Miscandlon was interviewed for the piece. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.electrichybridvehicletechnology.com/news/manufacturing/greener-evs-new-project-launched-... |
| Description | Article in Electronic Specifier to highlight the launch of the FEMM Hub, published Feb 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Electronic Specifier is Europe's premier publisher of information resources to the Global Electronics Industry. They published an article to highlight the launch of the FEMM hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.electronicspecifier.com/news/analysis/hub-launched-to-increase-electrification-in-uk-man... |
| Description | Article in Energy Management titled Circular economy project set to ensure clean energy solutions don't increase landfill waste published on 4th of March 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An article in Energy Management titled Circular economy project set to ensure clean energy solutions don't increase landfill waste. The article features an interview with Dr Jill Miscandlon at the AFRC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.energymanagementmag.co.uk/circular-economy-project-set-to-ensure-clean-energy-solutions-... |
| Description | Article in Future Net Zero titled New project launches to ensure more electric machines doesn't mean more landfill |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | An article describing the new circular economy FEMM Hub project featured in Future Net Zero. Future Net Zero aims for businesses to collaborate, to inform the debate and to engage with audiences. The article featured an interview with FEMM Hub Project lead Dr Jill Miscandlon. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.futurenetzero.com/2021/03/04/new-project-launches-to-ensure-more-electric-machines-doesn... |
| Description | Conference presentation at the IECON 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | IECON 2021 is the 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), focusing on contemporary industry topics ranging from electronics, controls, manufacturing, to communications and computational intelligence. FEMM Hub Researcher Dr David Hewitt presented his presentation titled "Prediction of the Impact of Thermal Cycling on Machine Lifetime Based on Accelerated Life Testing and Finite Element Analysis" virtually to a global audience on Friday the 15th of October during the Electrical Machines and Drives session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://submit.ieee-ies.org/submit/iecon21/schedule.html |
| Description | Delivered FEMM Hub Training titled AC Power Losses - Monday 13th of June |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The session titled "AC Power Losses" took place on Monday 13th of June at 10am and was delivered by Hub Director, Professor Geraint Jewell (University of Sheffield) and Dr Rafal Wrobel (Newcastle University) who works on GC1.1. The session covered key issues of AC conductor loss, from fundamentals of the electromagnetic mechanisms at play through to practical strategies for minimising the magnitude of losses. The training was very well received by participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-delivers-two-successful-training-courses-in-june/ |
| Description | Delivered FEMM Hub Virtual Training titled Core Iron Loss in Electrical Machines. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 18th of March 2021, Professor Geraint Jewell delivered a training session to over 100 FEMM hub members on Core Iron Loss. Iron losses are a critical factor in determining the power density limits and efficiency of electrical machines, in particular with the inexorable growth in demand for electrical machines operating at higher speeds and driven from variable frequency power converters. The training presented a comprehensive review of several aspects of iron losses in electrical machines. It included the discussion of material properties, underlying loss mechanisms and aspects of electromagnetics, but the principal focus was on the impact of material selection, machine design, core manufacture and operating conditions. A significant proportion of the tutorial was at an introductory and general level with no pre-requisites assumed in terms of specific electrical machine knowledge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Delivered FEMM Hub Virtual Training titled Fundamentals and the latest Trends in Thermal Management of Electrical Machines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The tutorial on "Fundamentals and Latest Trends in Thermal Management of Electrical Machines" by Dr Rafal Wrobel (University of Newcastle) was compiled to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject, that includes a mix of selected fundamental knowledge and the latest research and developments. The tutorial started with the fundamental heat transfer mechanisms, which were presented in detail, in the context of a more reliable thermal design methodology. This introductory section follows up with selected manufacturing and assembly aspects, which are challenging to accurately account for and significantly affect the machine's thermal behaviour. The discussion on theoretical methods is supplemented with variety of standard and custom experimental techniques used to inform thermal design of electrical machines. The tutorial finished with technology challenges associated with the next generation of electrical machines, with several examples of new thermal management concepts discussed in detail. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Delivered FEMM Hub Virtual training titled Soft magnetic Composites in Electrical Machines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Glynn Atkinson from Newcastle University presented a training session on 30th June on the topic of Soft Magnetic Composites for Electrical Machines. This three-hour training session was delivered via Webex to 90 delegates drawn from our academic and industry partners. Glynn was supported during the session with input and contributions to the question and answer session by Tushar Batra, Steve Jordan and Lars Sjoberg from Alvier Mechatronics and by Marcus Lenberg and Ye Zhou from Höganäs AB. The training session covered the fundamentals of powder and component manufacture, including detailed discussion of the latest Somaloy® material properties exhibiting higher permeability and lower loss, especially at higher frequencies and grades for machining to allow prototyping. The opportunities for innovative machine designs with three-dimensional flux paths was discussed alongside useful design-for-manufacture rules for using SMC in machines. The session concluded with several case studies and examples of electrical machines which employ SMCs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/hub-training-course-soft-magnetic-composites-for-electrical-mach... |
| Description | Delivered a 2-day FEMM Hub Training course titled An Introduction to Electrical Machines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Professor Geraint Jewell delivered a two-day course for FEMM Hub members. The purpose of this course was to provide an introduction to electrical machines for those with a technical background but who have little or no specific background knowledge in machines. Although starting from an introductory level, there was sufficient content at an intermediate level to be of value to participants with some background in electrical machines. The course covered a number of different things. Starting from the basics of electrical machines, including aspects such as the anatomy, construction and fundamental operating principles, the course will develop an understanding of the operation of different types of machines (induction, DC, permanent magnet, wound-field synchronous and reluctance machines). The course covered loss mechanisms and thermal behaviour in machines. Although the course didn't cover design methodologies per se, the various electrical / thermal / mechanical / manufacturing trade-offs were discussed and illustrated via case studies. The course will touch on the role of power converters in terms of their basic functionality as viewed from a machine perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Dr Jill Miscandlon presents at Automotive IQ 's 10th Advanced E-Motor Technology Conference in Munich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The 10th Advanced E-Motor Technology Conference returned on the 21 - 23 February 2023 in Munich. This event attracted experts from across the supply chain, including Advanced Electric Machines, Audi, Automobili Estrema, Elaphe Propulsion Technologies, Renault Group, Mahindra Racing, Punch Powertrain, Schaeffler, Valeo, Umbra Group, Volkswagen and many more. The industry has reached a place where the design of e-motors is well understood and now there is a push to learn how to produce environmentally e-motors from the design stage, and to get to a point where recycling and secondary life is a priority and not an afterthought. Our lead researcher from NMIS, Dr Jill Miscandlon was invited to present at this event as a result of her work on work-package GCX1. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-lead-researcher-presents-at-automotive-iq-s-10th-advanc... |
| Description | Dr Lloyd Tinkler invited as keynote speaker at WEMDCD2023 in Newcastle April 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | FEMM Hub lead researcher Dr Lloyd Tinkler was invited to give the Keynote presentation at 6TH IEEE WORKSHOP ON ELECTRICAL MACHINES DESIGN, CONTROL AND DIAGNOSIS - WEMDCD 2023, 13TH - 14TH APRIL 2023 NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, ENGLAND |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://wemdcd2023.com/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub Attend Engage with Live event in Birmingham November 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UKRI's Driving the Electric Revolution Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, hosted Engage with LIVE! 2023. This conference was for the Power Electronics, Machines & Drives (PEMD) supply chain community and key enabling technology providers working towards global decarbonisation and building a net zero economy. This event provided a showcase of the latest PEMD examples from sectors including aviation, automotive, energy generation & supply, manufacturing, marine, off-road, rail, robotics & AI, semiconductors and skills. This one-day in-person event will enable UK industry to network across sectors and share insights for navigating the global transition to cleaner, safer, and more resilient technologies. The FEMM Hub had a stand in the exhibition space. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/events/engage-with-live-2023/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub Director Presents at the Henry Royce Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Henry Royce Institute, in collaboration with the LightForm EPSRC Programme grant, is running a seminar series showcasing the research at Manufacturing the Future EPSRC funded projects. The aim of the series is to increase awareness of ongoing research in these projects, to inspire multidisciplinary collaborations between the grant holders and their institutions, and to introduce the Manufacturing the Future EPSRC funded projects to the wider materials community. On Thursday the 8th of October, FEMM Hub Director, Professor Geraint Jewell headed to the Royce Institute at The University of Manchester and presented to both an online and in-person audience as part of the "Materials in Manufacturing the Future" seminar series.During his presentation, he highlighted the work of the FEMM Hub and its research programme, with particular focus on materials-related aspects, notably the potential for structural components to play a role in enhancing power density and our work on soft magnetic material measurements and modelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/materials-in-manufacturing-the-future-seminar-series/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub Outreach Event at King Edward VII School in Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A team of FEMM Hub researchers including Dr Divya Tiwari and Dr Mike Farnsworth conducted an outreach activity at King Edward VII School in Sheffield on November 30th which involved approximately 40 children aged 11-15 years. Pupils were introduced to digital manufacturing and its role in the manufacturing of future electrical machines. This was followed by practical sessions where the pupils built some circuits involving a variety of sensors and then made their own motors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-outreach-at-king-edward-vii-school-in-sheffield/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub PhD students visit and present at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Between 26th and 30th November 2022, three FEMM Hub PhD students from the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Sheffield attended a week-long winter school at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Applications were invited from across Germany, with a special invitation to all FEMM Hub PhD students, to apply for this Winter School which aims to inspire young engineering researchers to grow their connections and allow them an opportunity to present to fellow engineers.During the Winter School students, including the FEMM Hub PhD's Choong, Dan and Reece, presented a summary of their research projects to researchers from across engineering disciplines and backgrounds with time for questions at the end. The five days at KIT also consisted of visits to the various laboratories within the institute, including the manufacture of stators and windings and various vehicle testing facilities, a focus of KIT research. The visit allowed for our FEMM Hub students to network with familiar minded academics from similar stages of their career. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-visit-karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub Present at EDPC 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 29th and 30th of November, FEMM Hub members Dr Lloyd Tinkler and Gianmarco Pisanelli travelled to Regensburg, Germany to attend the 13th International Electric Drives Production Conference (E|DPC). The conference attracted over 200 attendees from 16 different nations to share knowledge and insights in the field of electric drives production. Day 1 kicked off with two keynotes, the first from Dr. Benno Pichlmaier, Director Global Research & Advanced Engineering, AGCO Corporation titled "Electrification for Agricultural Machines - Challenges and Opportunities" and the second from Dean Petrovski, Production Engineering, DeepDrive GmbH titled "Radial-Flux Electric Machine with Low Production Cost and High Efficiency". The conference then split into parallel sessions, with FEMM Hub researcher Gianmarco Pisanelli (see right) presenting his research titled "Flexible Manufacturing of High-value Low-volume Electrical Machines through Robotic Coil Winding" during the first session on Winding Technologies. Dr Lloyd Tinkler (see left) presented during the Soft Magnetic Materials session on day 2 chaired by Dr. Michael Waasner, Gebr. Waasner Elektrotechnische Fabrik GmbH. His presentation titled "Manufacturing Processes for 2.5D Laminated Stacks" received great feedback and proved a great topic of discussion over the lunch break that immediately followed. For more information on the conference, please visit: https://www.edpc.eu/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/news/femm-hub-present-at-electric-drives-production-conferen... |
| Description | FEMM Hub Presentation at Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) event "Electrical Machine Design For Manufacture" on 10th of July 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hub Director Professor Geraint Jewell presented at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) event "Electrical Machine Design For Manufacture" on the 10th of July at the IET Austin Court in Birmingham and bring together leading speakers from Industry and Academia to discuss the methods and processes involved in manufacturing electric motors. Professor Jewell gave delegates an overview of the hub before discussing power density and in-process inspection for electrical machines. He joined other presenters from ZF group, Advanced Propulsion centre, Warwick Manufacturing, HV Wooding Ltc, Nidec Control Techniques Dynamics, University of Cardiff and Vacuumschmelze. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://events.theiet.org/electric-machine-design-for-manufacture |
| Description | FEMM Hub Presents at PEMD 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | FEMM Hub members from a variety of our partners attended the 11th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2022) in Newcastle last week. Held over 4 days, from 21st June to 23rd June 2022, PEMD 2022 is the largest UK conference in power electronics, machines and drives which attracted over 300 delegates from all over the world. The event opened with a chair's welcome from Dr Nick Baker (Newcastle University) before a keynote speech from David Wright (Group Chief Engineer and Group Director of Safety, Health and Business Resilience - National Grid) titled "Designing in Resiliency to a Net Zero Electricity Systems". FEMM Hub Director, Professor Geraint Jewell, presented in the final session of the day "Roadmaps and Industry Challenges - Collaboration session in association with DER-IC" where he was joined by Jon Regnart (Advanced Propulsion Centre UK), Paul Jarvie (Lead SW & Wales, DER-IC), Prof Jon King (Warwick Manufacturing Group and DER-IC Midlands) and FEMM Hub Scientific Advisory Board Member Professor Peter Tavner (Durham University).The FEMM hub was also represented during the poster sessions. Dr. Alexei Winter and Dr. Lloyd Tinkler (Both AMRC) presented FEMM Hub activities on 'Remote laser cutting of high Cobalt content electrical steel: preliminary results and microscopy'.Dr Nabeel Ahmed (Newcastle University) presented "Design, analysis, and comparison of IPM machines with Concentrated and Distributed Winding for a high-performance traction application". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-presents-at-pemd-2022/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub Presents at Whiston Junior and Infant School in Rotherham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On the 17th of October 2023 the FEMM Hub attended Whiston Junior and Infant school in Whiston, Rotherham, S60 4DX reaching 50 pupils |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Project Lead Dr Jill MIscandlon featured an episode of Enlit's podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jill Miscandlon was featured in Enlit's podcast discussing the challenges that the FEMM hub is trying to address, and some of the work we are currently doing within the hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.enlit.world/formats/podcasts/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub Project Lead Features on Energy Transitions Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Picking only the most inspirational individuals working on innovative solutions and ideas in the energy sector, Dr Heather Johnstone, Director of Initiate at Enlit Europe invited Dr Jill Miscandlon onto her podcast to discuss her role within the FEMM Hub. Jill, leader of our cross-cutting theme "Sustainable manufacturing of electrical machine components for the circular economy" was interviewed for Enlit Europe for their "Energy Transitions" podcast. During the 20 minute podcast, Jill introduces the FEMM Hub and describes the research currently taking place within it before discussing the development of a more sustainable lifecycle for electrical machines and the design principles that can optimise efficiency.Kicking off the podcast, Jill discusses how the team are integrating the manufacturing considerations into the design stage of the machine, when typically an electrical machine would be designed for optimum efficiency with the design then handed over for manufacture which may result in a costly change in the design if problems occur. By integrating both manufacture and design during the initial stages, alterations are not only quick and cheap to make but you can use novel manufacturing techniques to allow for new options for design and materials. These changes are essential if we are going to hit ambition targets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-project-lead-features-on-energy-transitions-podcast/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub Research Presented at IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics in Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2023) hosted by Institute industrial IT of Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe and Fraunhofer IOSB-INA took place in Germany from 17th - 20th July 2023. Attended by Industry experts, researchers, and academics, this conference provided a forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of-art and future perspectives of industrial information technologies. PhD student Mr Izhar Oswaldo presented his research work at the conference. His presentation titled 'Hybrid Computational Framework for Early Fault Detection in Coil Winding Manufacturing Process Using Knowledge Distillation' discussed the utilisation of the knowledge distillation approach to improve the performance of the discrete event simulation model for early detection of faults in the coil winding process during the manufacture of electrical machines. To achieve this, a hybrid model was developed using supervised machine learning algorithms that could maintain model accuracy while reducing simulation time. This work was co-authored by Divya Tiwari, Michael Farnsworth and Ashutosh Tiwari. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Roadmap presented at IET event - Powering net zero in Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Powering Net Zero 2023, held in Glasgow, UK, brought together engineers, planners, and innovators who are passionate about finding solutions to the climate crisis. It had engaging talks from industry leaders and academics, covering topics like renewable energy, future power systems, energy storage, and electric vehicles. Professor Michael Ward presented on behalf of the FEMM Hub Roadmap team titled "DEVELOPING REQUIREMENTS FOR FUTURE ELECTRICAL MACHINE MANUFACTURE TO ACHIEVE A NET ZERO FUTURE" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | FEMM Hub School Engagement Event at Charnock Hall Academy in Sheffield on 11th of March 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On Monday 11th of March 2024 the FEMM Hub director, FEMM hub Manager, Lloyd Tinkler (GC2.3 lead) and two PhD students visited Charnock Hall Academy in Sheffield to engage pupils in an engineering workshop. Professor Geraint Jewell gave the students a presentation on what it is to become and engineer before we delivered 4 workshops which had 30 students in each. In the workshop the students worked in pairs to make a motor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Training Session - Modelling and Mitigation of Bearing currents in Electrical Machines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 80+ industry contact joined presenters Dr Xiao Chen and Dr Daniele De Gaetan on an online training session on TUESDAY 20TH OF FEBRUARY 2024 1 - 3pm (online). Abstract: Electrical machines are widely used in conjunction with power converters which use high frequency witching devices to modulate machine terminal voltages in order to control the machine speed or torque. The high frequency switching produced by the power converter can cause high frequency parasitic currents flowing through the machine bearings, leading to deterioration of the lubrication film and surface damage to the rolling parts of the bearings. This training session will explain the high frequency bearing current mechanism, review of bearing current modelling approaches, review of bearing current mitigation techniques, and our research activities on bearing currents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/news/femm-hub-training-modelling-and-mitigation-of-bearing-c... |
| Description | FEMM Hub Training Session with external company DuPont titled Fundamentals, Application and Present Insulation Materials by DuPont Kapton® in Aerospace and Electrical Machines. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rafal Wrobel (Newcastle University) has been building a relationship with external company, DuPoint and organised a training session with them for FEMM Hub members looking at thermal management solution, in particular Kapton polyimide films. The high temperature insulation system rated for 200 deg. C and beyond of mid and high AC voltage motors supplied by variable frequency inverters needs a very reliable insulation of winding wire, slot liner and coil insulation. Kapton® polyimide films for their more than 50 years history have proved their long-term reliability as insulation material working in a very harsh environment when combination of high dielectric and mechanical strength, voltage endurance and operation at temperatures from -60 to 260°C is required. Kapton® and Oasis® aerospace wire insulation products set the standard in commercial, defence, and satellite applications. In motor control, new SiC and GaN inverters with faster dv/dt amplitude, improved the strand insulation is required. Comparative accelerated pulse endurance testing of the different competitive wire samples, will be covered. Corona-resistant Kapton® as wire insulation has success in such applications as rail traction motors, high voltage coils of transformers, pump generators and currently also is being tested for e-mobility applications. Participants received information on their thermal management solution, Kapton® MT+ polyimide film with the highest thermal conductivity, has also been tested in the slot liner laminate with Nomex® paper - this new generation laminates dissipate heat better than the previous generation which may help to avoid the overheat and maintain the efficiency of the motor. The training session was attended by 59 industry partner members and research staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Training Session: The Impact of Modern Power Electronic Converters on Machine Insulation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Professor Jiabin Wang from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield kicked off the first of the Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub training sessions of 2021, presenting "The Impact of Modern Power Electronic Converters on Machine Insulation" to 96 delegates. This training session was available exclusively to academic and industry partners of the FEMM Hub. By hosting this training virtually, it facilitated attendance from different parts of the world from companies including Rolls-Royce, ZF Group, Siemens Gamesa, Protean Electric, Aerospace Technology Institute, University of Strathclyde Advanced Forming Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, The University of Sheffield, Newcastle University, Carpenter Technology Corporation, Dyson, Collins Aerospace and Höganäs AB. The training course covered insulation structures and designs of typical electrical machines over a wide range of power, speed and torque ratings. The effects of impulse and high frequency PWM voltage produced by power electronic converters on voltage distributions in machine winding and insulation systems were analysed and characterised, and measures to mitigate these effects were discussed. The potentials for advanced manufacturing processes that may improve insulation systems were also highlighted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/the-impact-of-modern-power-electronic-converters-on-machine-insu... |
| Description | FEMM Hub Virtual Conference 2020 - 16th November 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Given the current global pandemic, a decision was made to move the 1st FEMM Hub (in person) conference from November 2020 to June 2021. Despite lockdown, FEMM hub researchers and PhD's have been progressing well with their research and we wanted to share their progress through a series of short presentations for participants to view at their leisure. Interest in these presentations has increased the number of attendees at our monthly update meetings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-virtual-conference/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub Virtual Training Session delivered by AMRC titled Untangling the Requirements of a Digital Twin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | On the 29th of March, Jonathan Eyre from the Advanced Manufacturing Centre delivered a training session for FEMM hub members on Digital Twins. This was organised as a result of a request from our industry board during a monthly project meeting. Digital twins are often mentioned in discussions but it is often unclear what it means to have a digital twin. What are the key essential parts to have a digital twin and what is just a simulation? This webinar provided an overview of the recent AMRC report Untangling the requirements of a Digital Twin collating the key cross-sectoral considerations from current implementations and how to approach the technology area. It also included industrial case studies and a use case of where they might be applicable to this research area, before opening up to questions. It was positively received by our industry board. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Virtual Training Session delivered by Lanner and University of York titled Factory Planning and Simulation using Discrete Event Simulation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | FEMM Hub's first training event of the year was delivered virtually to an audience from across our partners and collaborators. Peter Ball, Professor of Operations Management from the University of York Management School, and Annie Heaney, Business Development Manager from Lanner Group Limited, jointly provided an introduction to Factory Planning and Simulation using Discrete Event Simulation (DES). DES is one of the most popular techniques for modelling the activities in a factory and the flow of parts. It is able to identify bottlenecks on the manufacturing shop floor and undertake what-if analyses of various change scenarios. The session provided a useful insight into the introduction of simulation and the difficulties and benefits of implementing such systems into factory planning and design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | FEMM Hub Virtual training titled Manufacturing Opportunities for Electrical Machines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The session took place on Monday 20th of June at 1pm titled "Manufacturing Opportunities for Future Electrical Machines. This session was jointly delivered by Dr Jill Miscandlon (AFRC) and Dr Lloyd Tinkler and colleagues at the AMRC. The popular session introduced novel manufacturing routes which have been used for the manufacture of non-active components in electrical machines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-delivers-two-successful-training-courses-in-june/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub Virtual training titled NDT and digital manufacturing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The session was run by Dr Pavan Addepalli is a Lecturer in Degradation Assessment based with the Centre for Digital Engineering and Manufacturing, Manufacturing Theme at Cranfield University. Prof. Erkoyuncu is Head of the Centre for Digital Engineering and Manufacturing and a Professor of Digital Engineering. The online session took place on the 18th of August, will provide a detailed overview of how NDT is used by engineers and researchers proving a platform to look into the current trends with a potential vision of how the future landscape might look like. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/new-femm-hub-training-session-announced/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub engage with the South Yorkshire Division of the IET - evening presentation April 18th 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On Tuesday 18th of April, FEMM Hub Director Professor Geraint Jewell presented to members of the IET's South Yorkshire Division in the Diamond Building, University of Sheffield. His presentation titled " Electrical Machines: Application and Manufacture" was followed by a question and answer session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/hub-director-to-present-for-the-iet/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub exhibits at MACH 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | After 4 long years, MACH 2022 finally returned to the NEC in Birmingham. Kicking off on the 4th of April with a keynote from Katherine Bennett, CEO of the HVM Catapult, the event continued for the remainder of that week allowing time for attendees to attempt to visit over 500 exhibitors who were showcasing various engineering-based manufacturing technologies throughout the many halls of the exhibition centre. In parallel, the seminar programme and presentations at the impressive AMRC stand also proved popular with delegates. The Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing hub, along with the Future Metrology Hub, MAPP Hub and Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub shared an EPSRC stand within the Education and Development Zone which aimed to inspire the next generation of engineers. Throughout that week, the stand was manned by different members of the FEMM Hub team with many useful conversations had by all. We look forward to visiting the next MACH which is taking place on the 15 -19th of April 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-exhibits-at-mach-2022/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub host A-Level students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | FEMM Hub researchers hosted four days of work experience for A-level students in August 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | FEMM Hub inspires young people at STEM school event - Get up to speed with STEM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Members of the FEMM Hub were pleased to be able to take part in the 'Get Up To Speed with STEM' outreach event at Magna Science Adventure Centre recently. This regional showcase aims to engage young people in all matters relating to innovation, design and manufacturing in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, and it returned to Magna following it's enforced two year break due to the pandemic. This year there were over 4,000 people registered to attend from 72 schools across Yorkshire and Derbyshire. They were treated to fun and interactive exhibits from a wide variety of employers, businesses and education providers highlighting the wealth of opportunities in STEM. The FEMM Hub attended as part of the Discover STEM exhibition from the University of Sheffield and had a very busy day introducing many school pupils to the principals of electrical machines and their uses. It was particularly great to see our PhD students, Choong, Reece, Alex and Dan interacting with the young people as there have been so few opportunities for this type of engagement since they started on their FEMM Hub projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-inspires-young-people-at-stem-school-event/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub present at the "Engage with...LIVE" event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Engage withLive event attracted over 280 delegates from across the UK where they discussed PEMD supply chain requirements, challenges and opportunities and explore future prospects for partnerships, collaborations and projects. All with the aim for UK industry to seize the economic opportunities from the global transition to clean technologies and electrification. When delegates weren't listening to the great lineup of speakers and panel discussions, they had the opportunity to network with over 40 'show and tell' exhibitors that lined the Octagon theatre.he final panel discussion of the day was chaired by our hub director Professor Geraint Jewell titled "Building supply chain capability through Innovations in Electric Machine Manufacturing: How can the UK manufacture competitively in a global market?". The panel members included Rowan Crozier (Brandauer), Dave Latimer (Magnomatics), Jill Miscandlon (FEMM Hub Project Led), David Moule (FEMM Hub Industry Board Member and ZF Group) and Jim Winchester (Electrified Automation). It proved a lively panel kicking off with a question from the Chair on what they see as their biggest challenge and opportunity. Challenges included: the issue of scaling up for SME's, the size of the machines they want to be involved in the manufacture of and the current lack of manufacturing infrastructure in the UK to do this and getting different experts together speaking the same 'language' to push things forward. Opportunities included: collaboration to break the mould on how we traditionally make electrical machines (the example of a recent project with the AMRC and Magnomatics was given); lightweighting but adding extra functionality, reducing time for prototype manufacturing to full scale, optimising the early stages of design of the EM and groups like the FEMM hub bringing different experts together. Discussions then touched on design for disassembly, sustainability which included understanding what the materials within the EM are capable of in the future, condition monitoring over the life of the machine, best practices and lamination stamping. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/engage-with-the-femm-hub/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub take part in British Science Week 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Hub Manager Laura O'Keefe and two PhD students attended 2 primary schools in New Mills on the 16th of March as part of British Science Week with the EPSRC Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub to encourage pupils to consider going to University and to learn more about a career in #engineering. The children were amazing, asked us lots of interesting questions about electrical machines and worked together during the tasks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7042146202653483008/ |
| Description | FEMM Hub visit Templars Primary School in Coventry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On the 30th of November, the FEMM Hub team travelled to Coventry to engage with 90 year 6 students with the aim of inspiring them to become the next generation of engineers. Professor Geraint Jewell opened the school engagement event at Templars Primary School with a 30 minute presentation aimed at inspiring students to consider a career in engineering, detailing how engineering makes an impact to their everyday life and the benefits it provides before opening the floor for questions. Pupils were interested to uncover the wide range of engineering disciplines and the realisation that they were already working on the skills that would get them there. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hub-visit-templars-primary-school/ |
| Description | FEMM hub presentation at the "Winning the Weight Race: Opportunities and Challenges in Lightweighting" conference, May 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 15th and 16th of May, Professor Jewell presented to policy makers, industry leaders and manufacturing researchers at the Lightweighting Conference at AMRC. The lightweighting conference provided deep insights into the future of mobility through powerful presentations and real-world technology demonstrators: from machining thin wall aerostructures and additive manufacture of satellite components, through to innovative castings of complex airframes, the design of joints containing dissimilar materials, and one-way-assembly. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://amrc.co.uk/files/document/287/1557763462_AMRC_LightWeighting_AGENDA.pdf |
| Description | Feature article in Aerospace Manufacturing online magazine featuring FEMM Hub researcher Dr Jill Miscandlon titled "How cool is that" in June 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Aerospace Manufacturing has grown to become the leading business-to-business publication that focuses on the design, production and supply chain elements of the civil, defence and space sectors. It is published 10 times each year, the magazine provides industry news and exclusive features on the latest technologies, along with comment from key aerospace organisations and industry figureheads. Distributed to over 16,000 decision-making industry professionals within Europe, Aerospace Manufacturing's informed editorial content serves as a regular source of vital information for those in the aerospace industry making the important decisions that will help shape the aircraft of tomorrow. In June 2021, Dr Jill Miscandlon, senior manufacturing engineer at the University of Strathclyde's Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) and Professor Yuan from the University's department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, featured in an article which examined the cool ways to research fully-electric long-haul flights - combining low temperatures and manufacturing expertise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.aero-mag.com/how-cool-is-that/ |
| Description | Feature article in Insider titled New project set to ensure clean energy solutions don't increase landfill waste |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | An article about the FEMM Hub's circular economy project featured in Insider.co.uk, Scotland's most authoritative business2business publication. Insider features regular reports, including a listing of Scotland's Top 500 companies, a quarterly listing of corporate deals and profiles of rising stars and leaders in the public and private sector. The article features an interview from Dr Jill Miscandlon, AFRC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.insider.co.uk/news/new-project-set-ensure-clean-23598763 |
| Description | Feature article in the Institute of Mechanical Engineers titled Electric aircraft require a new engineering approach. We've started work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Feature article in the IMechE describing AFRC and University of Strathclyde's EEE departments' involvement in the FEMM Hub and their work on electrical machines for high integrity applications including propulsion systems for aircraft. Their aim is to revolutionise the design of these machines by bringing manufacturing to the start of the design process. The article describes the hub research which focuses on lightweighting electrical machines by using novel manufacturing techniques to manufacture non-active components. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/feature-electric-aircraft-require-a-new-engineering-approac... |
| Description | Hub Director Delivers Keynote at EMD Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Electrical Machines and Drives (EMD) Research Group and IEEE University of Sheffield Student Branch held the EMD Symposium 2022 in Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield on the 15th of September 2022. Over 50 academic staff, PGR students and PDRAs attended this academic event. The first keynote of the event was delivered by Prof. Zi-Qiang Zhu on electrical machines in electric vehicles; Various types of torque production mechanisms were reviewed before a demonstration of how to generate ideas for new machine topologies. Hub Director Prof. Geraint Jewell then made a keynote speech on a review of advances and challenges in electrical machine manufacture. He described the background of a limited breakthrough in materials for the active parts of electrical machines in recent decades, the presentation reviewed the potential for increasing machine power density by improved thermal performance and light-weighting of structural elements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/hub-director-delivers-keynote-at-emd-symposium/ |
| Description | Invitation to be topic editor - Editorial Board of Micromachines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Michael Farnsworth acted as a Topical Advisory Panel Member from February 2020 to February 2022 for the Micromachines Journal. The journal reported the following outcomes for 2021: 1. IF 2.891 (14.58% increase), rank Q2 (23/64; Category: Instruments and Instrumentation); 2. Newly included categories: Physics, Applied; Chemistry, Analytical; 3. A total of 1603 papers published in 2021 (48.4% increase); published its 5000th paper; 4. A total of 6335 citations (papers published in 2019 and 2020); |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.mdpi.com/journal/micromachines |
| Description | Invited Speaker at University of Sheffield Engineering Researcher Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Xiao Chen presented on behalf of the FEMM hub at the University of Sheffield Engineering Researcher Symposium which took place on the 21st of June 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/ers2023/home |
| Description | Keynote presentation by Professor Ash Tiwari titled Transforming Foundation Industries at the Network+ Workshop (Online) Foundation Industries 4.0 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In February 2022, Professor Ash Tiwari delivered the keynote speech at the Network+ Workshop (Online) Foundation Industries 4.0. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote speech by Professor Ash Tiwari at the 2nd International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Ash Tiwari delivered a keynote presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing in January 2022 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing, abbreviated as I-4AM (pronounced i-forum), is a biennial conference series, intended to provide a platform to bring together all stakeholders in manufacturing and Industry 4.0, in particular those in academia and industry, in both India and abroad for them to deliberate on the nature, needs, challenges, opportunities, problems and solutions in this transformational area of endeavour. A specific focus of I-4AM is to provide a platform for exploring avenues for creating a vision of, and enablers for sustainable, affordable, and human-centric Industry 4.0, and to showcase cutting edge practice, research and educational innovation in this crucial and rapidly evolving area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cpdm.iisc.ac.in/i4am22/ |
| Description | Launch of the Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On Wednesday the 12th of June, The University of Sheffield hosted leading figures from academia and industry at the official launch of the Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing (FEMM) Hub. Held at Factory 2050, part of the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), the launch event was attended by 120 people from academia and industry. This included Professor Koen Lamberts, President and Vice-Chancellor, at the University of Sheffield together with leading academics and industry figures from Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Siemens-Gamesa, GKN Aerospace and funding partners. The attendees at the hub launch heard presentations from the FEMM Hub industrial and academic partners on the opportunities and challenges in electrical machine manufacturing and the research activities proposed to address and overcome these challenges. They also participated in networking sessions and attended demonstrations of new industrial digital technologies within the advanced manufacturing facilities of the AMRC's Factory 2050. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/hub-launch/ |
| Description | Manufacturing the Future utilising the UK's Large Facilities - Town Hall Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The EPSRC sponsored event's goal is to help define and lead the National Agenda on Utilising x-rays, photons and neutrons to Manufacture the Future. It will involve industry, academics and Large Facilities' representatives. The meeting will focused on how best to increase the engagement between the EPSRC's Hubs (both Future Manufacturing Hubs and the UK Catalysis Hub) with the Large Facilities (Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron Source, and the Central Laser Facilities) on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. The agenda for the meeting will included: • The current state of the art • An international perspective • An industrial perspective |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mapp.ac.uk/events/town-hall-meeting-manufacturing-the-future-utilising-the-uks-large-facilit... |
| Description | NMIS team present at Sustainable Manufacturing Enabling Net Zero - Opening up the Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 29th of November, Dr Jill Miscandlon and Leigh Paterson joined manufacturers, sustainable manufacturing experts, and stakeholders at the "Sustainable Manufacturing enabling Net Zero" event at the Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Delegates had the opportunity to listen to keynote speakers, such as Louise MacGregor, Head of Circular Economy, Zero Waste Scotland, share their experiences and opportunities on how you can benefit from adopting more sustainable processes in manufacturing, the supply chain, and usage of products and services. A series of breakout sessions introduced practical concepts associated with carbon reduction in businesses, opportunities for training, and new industry sectors. FEMM Hub project lead Jill Miscandlon and Leigh Paterson concluded the day with their session titled "Opportunities in Electrification Manufacturing" which was well received by the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/sustainable-manufacturing-enabling-net-zero-opening-up-the-conve... |
| Description | One day short course titled "An Introduction to Electrical Machines" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The one-day course was intended to provide an introduction to electrical machines for Hub academic / research staff, Hub PGRs and individuals from Hub partner companies. It was attended by 32 delegates including several RAs from the hub and engineers from companies such as Romax, Dyson, NPL, Rolls-Royce, Siemens Gamesa and Protean Electric. Although starting from an introductory level, there was sufficient content at an intermediate level to be of value to participants with some background in electrical machines. Course description: Starting from the basics of electrical machines, including aspects such as the anatomy, construction and fundamental operating principles, the course will develop and understanding of the operation of different types of machines (induction, DC, permanent magnet, wound-field synchronous and reluctance machines). The course will cover loss mechanisms and thermal behaviour in machines. Although the course will not cover design methodologies per se, the various electrical / thermal / techanical / manufacturing trade-offs will be discussed and illustrated via case studies. The course will touch on the role of power converters in terms of their basic functionality as viewed from a machine perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participated in BEIS/UKRI visit ro AMRC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The AMRC and NAMRC at Sheffield hosted a large (~20) delegation from BEIS and UKRI. The visit included two round-table discussion (concerned with Productivity and Sustainability) at which the Hub perspective were represented by the G.W Jewell This was followed by a facility tour in which researchers from the Hub (Lloyd Tinkler and Alexei Winter) presented their research on automated coil winding and remote laser cutting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Participation on an expert panel during Enlit Europe Dec 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jill Miscandlon was invited to attend Enlit Europe conference in Milan (Dec 2021). During the conference, she took part in two events, the an first Expert Interview: Working to Make Circularity a Reality and the second, participation on an expert panel titled Achieving a Circular Mind. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.enlit-europe.com/speakers/jill-miscandlon |
| Description | Poster presentation at PEMD 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 23rd and 24th of October members of the FEMM Hub travelled to Brussels to attend PEMD, an international conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives. The two-day event kicked off with a Keynote speech by Dr.Ing Sigurd Øvrebø, Managing Director Rolls-Royce Electrical Norway titled "From air to water and back again - 25 years of power electronics in different applications". FEMM Hub Members Dr Lloyd Tinkler and Dr Alexei Winter both presented posters at the event, in addition to speaking to delegates on the AMRC stand. Information about PEMD 2024 can be found here: https://pemd.theiet.org/pemd-2024/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/news/femm-hub-travel-to-brussels-for-pemd-2023 |
| Description | Presentation at Recycle and Waste Management Conference 2021 titled Driving Electrical Machines into a Sustainable World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jill Miscandlon of the AFRC presented at the 2021 Recycle and waste management conference. The conference is a collaboration between the two leading UK events for the waste, recycling and resource industries. The event attracted over 7000 visitors, 200+ speakers across 9 conference theatres, 150+ CPD accredited sessions, 600+ exhibitors, live material processing, 50+ vehicle demonstrations and exclusive free to attend networking events including the Local Authority Lounge, Women in Sustainability, private meetings, the Careers Corner and the Innovation Awards. Dr Miscandlon's presentation "Driving electrical machines into a sustainable world" discussed the research taking place within the FEMM hub, and the future manufacturing challenges in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.rwmexhibition.com/rwm-2021/driving-electrical-machines-into-a-sustainable-world |
| Description | Presentation at The Scottish Resources Conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jill Miscandlon presented on day 2 of the Scottish Resources Conference during session two: Why is Carbon Management important and what's the role for our sector? With the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere becoming a concern, the session looked at why carbon management is important to control and monitor the impacts and what the role is for our sector to reduce our carbon emissions? The session was chaired by Linda Ovens, CIWM Scotland Centre Councillor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.circularonline.co.uk/Webinars/scottish-resources-conference-2021-day-2/ |
| Description | Presentation at the 2021 FEMM Hub Conference titled An integrated approach for optimised manufacturing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th of September 2021, the FEMM Hub held its first In-Person conference on the 13th of September 2021 at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 50 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Dr Jill Miscandlon presented An integrated approach for optimised manufacturing in a session chaired by Dr Alexei Winter (AMRC). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hubs-1st-in-person-conference-attracted-a-national-audience... |
| Description | Presentation at the 2021 FEMM Hub Conference titled Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) based condition monitoring of electrical machines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th of September 2021, the FEMM Hub held its first In-Person conference on the 13th of September 2021 at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 50 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Professor Jiabin Wang of Sheffield University presented Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) based condition monitoring of electrical machines during a session chaired by Dr Mike Farnsworth (University of Sheffield). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hubs-1st-in-person-conference-attracted-a-national-audience... |
| Description | Presentation at the 2021 FEMM Hub Conference titled Flexible manufacturing systems for electrical machines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th of September 2021, the FEMM Hub held its first In-Person conference on the 13th of September 2021 at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 50 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Dr Lloyd Tinkler of Sheffield University presented Flexible manufacturing systems for electrical machines during a session chaired by Dr Divya Tiwari (University of Sheffield). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hubs-1st-in-person-conference-attracted-a-national-audience... |
| Description | Presentation at the 2021 FEMM Hub Conference titled Making sustainability an integral part of the design equation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th of September 2021, the FEMM Hub held its first In-Person conference on the 13th of September 2021 at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 50 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Dr Jill Miscandlon presented Making sustainability an integral part of the design equation in a session chaired by Dr Alexei Winter (AMRC). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hubs-1st-in-person-conference-attracted-a-national-audience... |
| Description | Presentation at the 2021 FEMM Hub Conference titled Manufacturing Challenges Faced When Producing Electrical Machine Coils From Hollow Conductors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th of September 2021, the FEMM Hub held its first In-Person conference on the 13th of September 2021 at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 50 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Dr Steve Forrest of Sheffield University presented Manufacturing Challenges Faced When Producing Electrical Machine Coils From Hollow Conductors during a session chaired by Dr Divya Tiwari (University of Sheffield). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hubs-1st-in-person-conference-attracted-a-national-audience... |
| Description | Presentation at the 2021 FEMM Hub Conference titled Measurement of build-factors in cobalt iron state cores |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th of September 2021, the FEMM Hub held its first In-Person conference on the 13th of September 2021 at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 50 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Professor Geraint Jewell of Sheffield University presented Measurement of build-factors in cobalt iron state cores during a session chaired by Dr Mike Farnsworth (University of Sheffield). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hubs-1st-in-person-conference-attracted-a-national-audience... |
| Description | Presentation at the 2021 FEMM Hub Conference titled Modular machines, performance and manufacturing challenges |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th of September 2021, the FEMM Hub held its first In-Person conference on the 13th of September 2021 at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 50 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Dr Glynn Atkinson of Newcastle University presented Modular machines, performance and manufacturing challenges during a session chaired by Dr Alexei Winter (AMRC). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hubs-1st-in-person-conference-attracted-a-national-audience... |
| Description | Presentation at the 2021 FEMM Hub Conference titled Monitoring and Inspection of Electrical Machine Manufacturing Processes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 13th of September 2021, the FEMM Hub held its first In-Person conference on the 13th of September 2021 at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 50 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Professor Ash Tiwari of Sheffield University presented Monitoring and Inspection of Electrical Machine Manufacturing Processes during a session chaired by Dr Mike Farnsworth (University of Sheffield). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/femm-hubs-1st-in-person-conference-attracted-a-national-audience... |
| Description | Presentation at the 3rd in-person 2023 FEMM Hub Conference Dr Alexei Winter, AMRC, University of Sheffield, titled An overview of Catapult projects at AMRC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 28th November 2023, the FEMM Hub held its third In-Person conference at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 80 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Dr Alexei Winter, AMRC, University of Sheffield, presented An overview of Catapult projects at AMRC chaired by Dr Xiao Chen (University of Sheffield). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/events/femm-hub-conferences/hub-conference-2023 |
| Description | Presentation at the 3rd in-person 2023 FEMM Hub Conference Dr Lloyd Tinkler AMRC, University of Sheffield titled Manufacturing processes for 2.5D stators |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 28th November 2023, the FEMM Hub held its third In-Person conference at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 80 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Dr Lloyd Tinkler AMRC, University of Sheffield, presented Manufacturing processes for 2.5D stators during a session chaired by Dr Xiao Chen (University of Sheffield). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/events/femm-hub-conferences/hub-conference-2023 |
| Description | Presentation at the 3rd in-person 2023 FEMM Hub Conference, Michael Ward, Univesity of Strathclyde titled FEMM Hub Roadmap |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 28th November 2023, the FEMM Hub held its third In-Person conference at Austin Court IET in Birmingham. Over 80 attendees listened to presentations, networked and enjoyed a poster session. Michael Ward, Univesity of Strathclyde presented FEMM Hub Roadmap. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/events/femm-hub-conferences/hub-conference-2023 |
| Description | Presentation at the AMRC Tech Fellows conference in November 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Lloyd Tinkler presented at the AMRC Tech Fellows conference (10/11/2021) covering FEMM Hub work to AMRC partner companies, e.g. Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Airbus. The Tech Fellows conference gave members an opportunity to learn about the progress and achievements of AMRC Research Groups and the outcome of completed board generic projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.amrc.co.uk/events/tech-fellows-conference-2020 |
| Description | Presentation at the Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Conference 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jill Miscandlon presented the work within FEMM hub to a non-electrical machine audience at the Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Conference 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at the Advanced Propulsion Centre Power Electronics and Electrical Machines Spoke Event on the 13th of November in Birmingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | APC Power Electronics and Electrical Machines Spokes Symposium 2019 Power Electronics Machines and Drives technologies underpin the electrification of our energy and transport systems but to make them more effective it is essential to realise improvements in power density, costs of manufacturing, reliability and techniques for integration. The Advanced Propulsion Centres Power Electronic & Electric Machines Spokes symposium, looked at a holistic approach to developing these key technologies in tandem. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.apcuk.co.uk/event/apc-power-electronics-and-electrical-machines-spokes-symposium-2019/ |
| Description | Presentation at the International Conference on Manufacturing Research titled Investigation of process dependencies on defect generation within electrical machine manufacturing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In September 2021, Oswaldo I., Tiwari, D., Farnsworth M., Tiwari, A presented "Investigation of process dependencies on defect generation within electrical machine manufacturing" at the International Conference on Manufacturing Research ICMR2021 which was held virtually. The conference presentation was intended for a target audience from industry and academia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/ATDE210051 |
| Description | Presentation by Professor Geraint Jewell at the IET Communities Live Webinar 'Impact of High Frequency Switching on Electrical Machines - Part 3' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was an invited contribution to a series of webinars on a specific topic with electrical engineering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation by Professor Geraint Jewell at the Rolls-Royce Community of Practice Meeting to introduction to the FEMM Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This general overview presentation was delivered to an internal community of practice event which draws on engineers from across Rolls-Royce with an interest in electrification. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation during NMIS Insights Webinar- Manufacturing Scotland's Electric Future. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jill Miscandlon presented FEMM hub research during the NMIS Insights Webinar. The purpose of this event was to engage SME's with the manufacturing challenges around electrification and show them how they can get engaged. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR0a9NKmU8g&list=PLdnbrSQ2dyG3_JprL3vZ2ppN7XYqW4GE-&index=6&t=2085s |
| Description | Presentation from the University of Strathclyde at the Winning the Weight Race: Opportunities and Challenges in Lightweighting event at the AMRC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The lightweighting conference provided deep insights into the future of mobility through powerful presentations and real-world technology demonstrators: from machining thin wall aerostructures and additive manufacture of satellite components, through to innovative castings of complex airframes, the design of joints containing dissimilar materials, and one-way-assembly. The University of Strathclyde presented on Day 1 of the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.amrc.co.uk/events/factory-2050-conference-winning-the-weight-race |
| Description | Presentation of FEMM Hub Research Video at the launch of the ITM Power / AMRC gigafactory project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The University of Sheffield and energy storage and clean fuel company ITM Power have launched a pioneering collaboration to advance the hydrogen sector, including an agreement for a new ITM Gigafactory. At the launch in Nov 2021, delegates were shown a video detailing FEMM Hub research specifically the work that AMRC did with Magnomatics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/university-sheffield-and-itm-power-announce-green-hydrogen-gigafact... |
| Description | Presentation of Rolls-Royce Activities in FEMM 2021 at an internal Rolls-Royce meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Company-specific presentation to invited Rolls-Royce personnel from across the company to both provide an overview of general FEMM activities and present in detail Rolls-Royce funded aligned projects outcomes in 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation of the Electrical Machines Research at AMRC during the AMRC / Airbus Quarterly Strategy Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This presentation included 6 slides (~40% of overall presentation) on the research activities of the FEMM hub and the capabilities of the equipment established in GC2.3. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Press article in Digit titled AFRC to Join New Hub to Advance Electrification in UK Manufacturing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | DIGIT is Scotland's leading technology media & events company, dedicated to providing tech news, views, opinion for IT & Digital users & consumers. They have developed partnerships spanning industry, academia, government, membership groups, regulatory bodies and innovation centres. In Feb 2019, an article was published highlighting AFRC's involvement in the FEMM hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.digit.fyi/afrc-to-join-new-hub-to-increase-electrification-in-the-uk/ |
| Description | Press article in Enlit titled Electricity's circular economy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | In April 2021, Enlit (end-to-end platform that addresses every aspect of the energy transition) featured an article on the new Circular Economy workpackage titled Electricity's circular economy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.enlit.world/decarbonisation/electricitys-circular-economy/ |
| Description | Press article in Manufacturing Management titled AFRC project explores role of circular economy published on 3rd of March 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An article in Manufacturing Management which describes how a more sustainable life cycle for electrical machines will be developed through FEMM Hub research, with an aim to adopt a circular economy approach that loops the materials back into manufacture at the end of life. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.manufacturingmanagement.co.uk/content/other/afrc-project-explores-role-of-circular-econo... |
| Description | Press article on the HVM Catapult webpage highlighting AFRCs involvement in the FEMM Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The press article highlighted The University of Strathclyde's Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) and department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering involvement in forming the Scottish arm of the FEMM hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://hvm.catapult.org.uk/news/the-future-is-electric-afrc-part-of-new-hub-launched-to-increase-el... |
| Description | Press release showcasing FEMM Hub researcher Dr Jill Miscandlon during "This is Engineering Day" 3rd of November 2021. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Driving the Electric Revolution Industrialisation Centres (DER-IC) is a UK-wide partner network with world class capability in Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD) research. The DER-ICs encourage industries to collaborate with our network of excellence in academia and Research Technology Organisations (RTOs), growing this capability, and promoting this both in the UK and overseas to transform the UK into a PEMD exporter. For This is Engineering Day, they showcased PEMD researchers from across their network, and the vital work they are doing to combat climate change. FEMM Hub researcher Jil Miscandlon was featured in this article. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.der-ic.org.uk/post/this-is-engineering-day-2021 |
| Description | Professor Ashutosh Tiwari invited to give Keynote presentation at ICAC2022 in Birmingham September 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Tiwari was invited to give the Keynote at the 27th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC2022) , Birmingham, Sep. 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ieee-ras.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1616&catid=10 |
| Description | Professor Geraint Jewell presented at the Driving the Electric Revolution 'Engage with' series in June 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This is a series of presentations organised and promoted by the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) in which various organisations and companies present an overview of their capabilities in the field of Power Electronics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Tech Lead in Novel Robotics presents at CWIEME, Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gianmarco Pisanelli discussed his work around Grand Challenge 2.3 on Flexible Manufacturing and Customisation. In his talk he discussed how his work on the robotic coil winding brings the benefits of automation to lower volume coil manufacture with the potential of offering several advantages, firstly in reducing costs through improved productivity, but also in providing increased process reliability and greater traceability for high performance applications. The conference has expanded the FEMM Hub network of connections with engineers, researchers and suppliers in the electrical machines field which will ideally evolve into fruitful collaborations to help us drive the electrical revolution in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://electricalmachineshub.ac.uk/the-femm-hub-flies-to-berlin/ |
| Description | Virtual presentation at ICEM 2020 - Opportunities and challenges of employing heat-pipes in thermal management of electrical machines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rafal Wrobel presented at ICEM 2020 (Gotenberg Sweden). The conference was moved to an online platform due to Covid-19. Dr Wrobel presented the following paper "Opportunities and challenges of employing heat pipes in thermal management of electrical machines" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Virtual presentation at IEEE ECCE 2020 - A feasibility study of heat pipes for thermal management of electrical machines. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rafal Wrobel presented at IEEE ECCE 2020. This conference was moved to a virtual platform due to Covid-19. The paper presented was titled "A feasibility study of heat pipes for thermal management of electrical machines". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Virtual presentation by Hub Director at the UK Manufacturing Forum workshop (25th of March 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Professor Geraint Jewell was invited to attend and present at the UK Manufacturing Forum workshop to discuss recommendations for government for higher impact investment in the UK's research and innovation ecosystem. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Virtual presentations at UK Magnetics Society Online Conference - 25th/26th of August 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Three of our PhD students - Charlie Scott, Leigh Paterson and John McKay - each presented at the UK Magnetics Society Virtual Conference 2020. As a result of the Covid 19 pandemic, this conference was moved online. The conference offered a platform to students working in magnetics related subjects to talk about their research and work. The students also engaged in several talks from academics and industrialists which included FEMM Hub investigator Professor Barrie Mecrow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukmagsoc.org/events/magnetics-students-online-conference/ |