Precision guided flexible forming: closed-loop control of geometry and properties for high value metal component manufacture
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Engineering
Abstract
Manufacturing involves only three types of processes - adding, changing or removing material. 'Metal Bashing' - changing the shape of metal components without removal or additions - is easily over-looked or even derided as the 'ugly duckling' of manufacturing technology, yet continues to be central to UK manufacturing, and always will be: jet engines, medical scanners, cars, high-rise offices and contemporary industrial equipment all depend on metal forming, both to define component geometries and to create the properties such as strength and toughness which determine product performance. Despite great excitement over additive processes such as 3D printing, metal forming will never be replaced, because the high-performance properties of steel, wrought aluminium and other key metals can only be developed as a result of careful control of deformation and temperature over time. Globally we use 25 times more steel than any other metal - in the UK our consumption drives production of 500kg of steel per person per year - and every steel product has been shaped by several metal forming processes. Inevitably, metal forming processes are therefore central to the production of a third of all manufactured exports from the UK which are in total worth over £75bn. However, the tools required for forming metal components are custom-made for each application at great cost, so metal forming is often expensive unless used in mass production, yet the drivers for development of future high-value UK manufacturing require increased flexibility and smaller batch sizes without sacrificing either the accuracy or properties of metal parts.
In the past twenty years, several research labs around the world have responded to this challenge and explored the design and development of novel flexible metal forming equipment. However these processes have largely failed to move from the lab into industrial use, due to a lack of precision and a failure to guarantee product microstructure and properties. Recent developments in sensors, actuators, control theory and mathematical modelling suggest that both problems could potentially be overcome by use of closed-loop control, and in work leading to this proposal, we have demonstrated the first online use of a stereo-vision camera in a flexible sheet metal forming process to provide the feedback needed to control the final shape of the sheet precisely. This has shown us that closed-loop control of forming is possible and valuable, but involves a trade-off between product quality, process flexibility and production speed.
This proposal therefore brings together four disciplines, previously un-connected in the area of flexible forming, to explore this trade-off and develop the key knowledge underpinning future development of commercially valuable flexible metal forming equipment: mechanical design of novel equipment; control-engineering in both time and space; materials science of metal forming; fast mathematical process modelling. At the heart of our proposal is the ambition to link design, metallurgy and modelling to control engineering, in order to identify the opportunity for developing and applying flexible forming, and to demonstrate it in practice in four well focused case-studies.
The proposal comes with £1.2m gearing, including support for five PhD students to work within the project, and substantial commitments of time and trials from Siemens Metals Technologies, Firth Rixson and Jaguar Land Rover. The outcomes of the work will be communicated through publications, demonstrations, workshops for both industry and academic developers, and through an edited book.
In the past twenty years, several research labs around the world have responded to this challenge and explored the design and development of novel flexible metal forming equipment. However these processes have largely failed to move from the lab into industrial use, due to a lack of precision and a failure to guarantee product microstructure and properties. Recent developments in sensors, actuators, control theory and mathematical modelling suggest that both problems could potentially be overcome by use of closed-loop control, and in work leading to this proposal, we have demonstrated the first online use of a stereo-vision camera in a flexible sheet metal forming process to provide the feedback needed to control the final shape of the sheet precisely. This has shown us that closed-loop control of forming is possible and valuable, but involves a trade-off between product quality, process flexibility and production speed.
This proposal therefore brings together four disciplines, previously un-connected in the area of flexible forming, to explore this trade-off and develop the key knowledge underpinning future development of commercially valuable flexible metal forming equipment: mechanical design of novel equipment; control-engineering in both time and space; materials science of metal forming; fast mathematical process modelling. At the heart of our proposal is the ambition to link design, metallurgy and modelling to control engineering, in order to identify the opportunity for developing and applying flexible forming, and to demonstrate it in practice in four well focused case-studies.
The proposal comes with £1.2m gearing, including support for five PhD students to work within the project, and substantial commitments of time and trials from Siemens Metals Technologies, Firth Rixson and Jaguar Land Rover. The outcomes of the work will be communicated through publications, demonstrations, workshops for both industry and academic developers, and through an edited book.
Planned Impact
The intention of this proposal is to develop basic understanding of flexible metal forming technology, delivering insights and capabilities to industry, and raising broader awareness of the future potential of flexible forming. The work programme includes four case-studies designed specifically to facilitate impact within the three businesses with whom the proposal was created. Siemens Metals Technologies are equipment developers, where both Firth Rixson and Jaguar Land Rover are equipment users, of bulk and sheet forming equipment respectively. Two of the case studies - flexible ring rolling and sheet free-forming - have been chosen to be of immediate interest to these two users, while the third examines the generic possibility that the requirement for stiffness in equipment and tooling designs could be substituted by actuation. The final case study will use the example of profile-forming to develop means to identify areas where flexible forming will have most commercial potential in future. The intention of the case studies is that they may reveal specific technical opportunities, while also delivering impact within the partners, through skills and knowledge developed through project participation.
To raise awareness beyond the three partner companies of the opportunities identified by the project, we have budgeted for an annual one-day workshop on flexible-forming, to be organised in collaboration with the relevant KTNs, to engage with a broader spectrum of UK industry, share the potential, and seek further opportunities for development and deployment. Where the results of the work demonstrate real commercial potential, we will jointly seek extension funding in collaboration with other institutes such as the Advanced Forming Research Centre, to develop the work into industrial prototypes. Intellectual property opportunities will be pursued through the two Universities' well developed routes.
Future development of flexible forming technologies in the UK will depend on increased awareness of the broad opportunity created by the work of the project, so we will work to communicate the opportunity widely. To pursue this, we have requested support to produce a well-designed brochure - for broad physical and virtual distribution - and to create a short video to introduce the technology area.
To raise awareness beyond the three partner companies of the opportunities identified by the project, we have budgeted for an annual one-day workshop on flexible-forming, to be organised in collaboration with the relevant KTNs, to engage with a broader spectrum of UK industry, share the potential, and seek further opportunities for development and deployment. Where the results of the work demonstrate real commercial potential, we will jointly seek extension funding in collaboration with other institutes such as the Advanced Forming Research Centre, to develop the work into industrial prototypes. Intellectual property opportunities will be pursued through the two Universities' well developed routes.
Future development of flexible forming technologies in the UK will depend on increased awareness of the broad opportunity created by the work of the project, so we will work to communicate the opportunity widely. To pursue this, we have requested support to produce a well-designed brochure - for broad physical and virtual distribution - and to create a short video to introduce the technology area.
Publications
Allwood J
(2019)
Folding-shearing: Shrinking and stretching sheet metal with no thickness change
in CIRP Annals
Allwood J
(2016)
Manufacturing at double the speed
in Journal of Materials Processing Technology
Allwood J
(2016)
Closed-loop control of product properties in metal forming
Allwood J
(2016)
Closed-loop control of product properties in metal forming
Allwood J
(2016)
Closed-loop control of product properties in metal forming
in CIRP Annals
Arthington M
(2016)
Curvature control in radial-axial ring rolling**This work was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK.
in IFAC-PapersOnLine
Arthington M
(2014)
Real-time measurement of ring-rolling geometry using low-cost hardware
Arthington M
(2019)
Control of ring rolling with variable thickness and curvature
in International Journal of Material Forming
Arthington M
(2015)
Measurement and control of variable geometry during ring rolling
Cawthorn C
(2014)
Comparison of Analytical Models for Sheet Rolling
in Procedia Engineering
Description | We have created a framework of understanding that translates the world of metal forming into the world of control engineering and vice versa. This has been published as a 15,000 word very well illustrated paper in the Annals of CIRP, written in collaboration with colleagues at seven leading universities world-wide. It was selected as a plenary keynote presentation for the August 2016 General Assembly of the International Academy of Engineering's General Assembly. In parallel with developing this framework, we have developed case studies - simulating the control of microstructure in hot rolling, and physically controlling wall thickness and curvature in a flexible ring rolling process - which are helping us to clarify the research challenges in the area. One of the PhD students associated with the project has designed, constructed and commissioned a novel process for flexible ring rolling. He is now employed as a post-doc on this project and will continue to develop the machine, and to deploy new control strategies so that it becomes a case study for the work of the project. We have discovered a novel approach to forming net shape components in sheet metal. In collaboration with industrial designers at the MTC Catapult in Anstey, we designed and built two test-rigs to confirm the design of a process based on this approach during 2017. In the last year of the funding, we filed a patent on the process (GB1814069.9), and meanwhile have designed a novel machine to make full parts with the process. Some of the components of this machine were purchased through this grant, and the machine is being completed and commissioned under EPSRC grant EP/S019111/1. A new PhD student joining us in Oct 2020 will explore its capability and more broadly we are using the machine as a case study for examining how industrial supply chains may or may not adopt new processes that offer substantial improvements in resource efficiency. |
Exploitation Route | The keynote paper is already being cited widely. The MTC Spinning machine was used to explore producing components for a new ONIAC shell based particle accelerator being developed by Siemens for medical diagnostics. Two other commercial approaches - from Tefal and Nissan - began with exploration in our lab, and Nissan have now secured Innovate UK funding to extend this work at the MTC. We have a consortium of industrial partners looking at the development of an industrial prototype for our new flexible ring rolling machine. Our new process for sheet metal forming, is being developed in our lab at present, and if successful will be expanded into industrial prototype. |
Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
Description | Primetals have completed the design and construction of a new £1m industrial prototype of our asymmetric mandrel-free spinning process which is now operating at the Manufacturing Technology Catapult in Anstey. Our previous work led to the patented invention of this process, and through this project we are supporting the implementation of control systems on the new machine. Tefal and NIssan are both working with Primetals and MTC to take the process forward further. Separately in September 2017, we hosted the world's leading research conference on metal forming in Cambridge, the 12th International Conference on Technology of Plasticity. This was a major event, attracted a record number of participants, and as well as delivering the conference we included a specific outreach event for teenagers: we invited 500 local secondary school pupils to the opening event and put on a dramatic show about metal forming, funded by £90,000 of donation support, and starring Sir Tony Robinson (Blackadder). The show was filmed by BAFTA winning Oggi Tomic, and a 32 minute film of the show is soon to be released on YouTube with subtitles in the 23 languages of the conference delegates. Out of the work on this funding, the Cambridge Engineering team (Allwood, Cleaver, Nagy) invented a novel process "folding-shearing" for forming sheet metal components at mass production speeds, with radically reduced material wastage. We filed for patent protection of this idea on 29th August 2018, filing number GB1814069.9, and during the last year of this funding designed a manifestation of the process and purchased the components for its manifestation. We are now assembling the machine under separate funding (EPSRC grant EP/S019111/1), aiming to commission it in the Summer of 2020, and we published our first paper on the idea in 2019. Cleaver with the support of Allwood and Dr Horton (Business Manager of the UK FIRES programme) undertook entrepreneurship training in the University of Cambridge in order to develop a business-plan and pitch for a new company "DeepForm" to exploit the new process. He was awarded third prize in an internal competition, and has been listed as one of the top 7 "ones to watch" in a Cambridge Cluster entrepreneurial competition. Under the UK FIRES programme, new tooling is being developed to demonstrate DeepForm operation in a conventional press, and this tool will be used as the trigger for launching the DeepForm spinout - which now has a board of advisors and a list of interested lead customers. By 2023, DeepForm has attracted convertible loans to fund 2.1 employees to end of 2023, is in negotiation with several customers about a first full order, and will go to seed funding during the year. On the date of making this addition in March 2024, DeepForm has signed the papers for its first major funding round, securing the next two years and creating several new jobs. The funding was secured based on a full customer order to try out a complete tool set in industrial conditions, and pending quality approval, the customer has committed to ordering several sets of tools for an upcoming new product. Meanwhile, two PhD students funded by the EPSRC DTA award, are continuing to develop the science behind the process, and are revealing new opportunities to expand the process. |
Sector | Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
Impact Types | Economic |
Description | Cambridge-Rutherford Memorial Scholarship |
Amount | £92,301 (GBP) |
Organisation | Royal Society of New Zealand |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | New Zealand |
Start | 09/2013 |
End | 09/2016 |
Description | College Fellowship |
Amount | £1,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Department | Corpus Christi College |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2014 |
End | 08/2016 |
Description | College Lectureship & Fellowship |
Amount | £31,165 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Department | Gonville and Caius College |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2011 |
End | 09/2016 |
Description | Funded through Dr Brambley's Royal Society URF grant |
Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2015 |
End | 08/2015 |
Description | Royal Society University Research Fellowship |
Amount | £422,269 (GBP) |
Funding ID | UF100844 |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2011 |
End | 09/2016 |
Title | Asymptotic modelling of sheet rolling |
Description | Introduced asymptotic modelling in the field of metal rolling. Pre-existing slab models can be generalised and greatly extended by these techniques. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | We now have a model for the internal stress distribution in a rolled sheet. This is vital for consideration of microstructural changes. |
Title | Predictive tool for thermal transport in hot rolling |
Description | A crude thermal model was introduced to aid the design of an experimental rolling machine. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The model, provided to our engineering colleagues in the form of a simple computer program, allowed reasonable estimates regarding thermal processes to be made during the design process. |
Title | Research data supporting "Parametric toolpath design in metal spinning" |
Description | The file /data/experiments.csv contains the parameters used in each experiment. In /data/ there is a folder for each experiment, named after the ID of that experiment (it therefore corresponds to the first column of /data/experiments.csv ). Each of these folders contains the following files: forcePosLog.txt Contains the tool positions and force log. Each row contains contains the following data separated by commas (all in mm and mm/s unless stated): 1. Number of rotations of spindle 2. Working roller axial position (centre of 15mm nose radius) 3. Working roller radial position (centre of 15mm nose radius) 4. Blending roller axial (centre of 15mm nose radius) 5. Blending roller radial (centre of 15mm nose radius). 6. Support roller axial (Note that support rollers aren't used so 6-8 are irrelevant). 7. Support roller top radial 8. Support roller bottom radial 9. Working roller axial velocity (commanded, rather than measured) 10. Working roller radial velocity (commanded, rather than measured) 11. Working roller axial force (in kN) 12. Working roller radial force (in kN) 13. Laser power (Off:0; full power: 31) 14. Laser exposure (micro seconds) 15. Wrinkle amplitude - measured online and I found it not to be very reliable; not used in paper. 16. Wrinkle frequency - number of wrinkles around circumference, not very reliable and not used in paper 17. Time (in ms) taken to measure the wrinkles 18. The ID of the 3D shape data used to measure wrinkes - note that every 5 3D shape measurements is saved as shape3D_[ID].txt scanShapes.txt Contains a series of measurements taken as the workpiece rotates. If there are n rows in total, the first n/2 rows contain X coordinates, the second half are Y coordinates. Each row corresponds to one profile. You will need to process these into R-Z coordinates using the scanParams.txt files. scanAngles.txt Contains the angle (in rotations of spindle) at which the measurements in X are taken. Element i contains the angle at which the profile on row I and i+n/2 are measured in scanShapes.txt scanParams.txt Contain the laser calibration data at the time the scan is taken in the following order: 1. Rotation of the data (rotate measured X-Y data by this to get to Z-R coordinates). 2. Axial displacement (add this to Z coordinates) 3. Radial displacement (add this to R coordinates) 4. Axial scale (multiple axial coordinates by this 5. Radial scale (multiply radial coordinates by this) Shape3D_X.txt is the same format as scanShapes.txt but taken mid process. X gives the ID of the measurement, which can be used to correspond to the online wrinkle measurement ID in column 18 of forcePosLog.txt Shape.txt contains a log of the shape, taken more frequently than shape3D_X.txt files, but only the mean profile. It also contains the tool positions etc. at the time the shape measurement is taken. It contains groups of three rows, the first of which contains data in the same form as each row of forcePosLog.txt. The second row contains the Z coordinates and the third contains R coordinates along the profile (they are already rotated, so no need to worry about laser parameters). Thickness.txt contains the thickness measurements. The top row of this file should be headers: Point, Parallel and Perpendicular. The next row contains the data: -1, the value the dial guage read with no sheet in between (i.e. the zero value), the distance between measurement points. The subsequent rows contain the data: measurement point number, thickness when measuring along direction parallel to rolling direction, same in perpendicular direction. The measurement point number is 0 at the very centre, and is a distance s from the centre, where s is given by measurement point number x distance between measurement points. Toolpath.txt contains the toolpath that the tool was meant to follow. Each row is one command with each element separated by commas in the following order (all in mm) 1. Number of rotations of spindle 2. Working roller axial position (centre of 15mm nose radius) 3. Working roller radial position (centre of 15mm nose radius) 4. Blending roller axial (centre of 15mm nose radius) 5. Blending roller radial (centre of 15mm nose radius). 6. Support roller axial (Note that support rollers aren't used so 6-8 are irrelevant). 7. Support roller top radial 8. Support roller bottom radial 9. Total velocity (units/s) - The distance "units" are given by the square root of the sum of squares of the velocity of all the tools, including the spindle, in either mm/s or rotations/s. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/247395 |
Description | European Study Group with Industry/Teknova - Silicon Carbide Production |
Organisation | Teknova |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Modelling of Silicon Carbide production begun at the 100th European Study Group with Industry. We provided some basic modelling and critical analysis of previous models |
Collaborator Contribution | The partners provided industrial expertise and data |
Impact | Research paper in preparation |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Siemens Metals Technologies |
Organisation | Siemens AG |
Department | Siemens VAI Metals Technologies |
Country | Austria |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sponsor of PGFF project and two connected PhD students separate from project |
Collaborator Contribution | Data & advice |
Impact | N/A |
Start Year | 2011 |
Title | RING ROLLING PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR RING ROLLING |
Description | Design and operation of flexible radial profile ring rolling machine Novel machine design enabling radial profile ring rolling: axial rolls at same location as radial tools, and multiple constraint rolls around ring circumference |
IP Reference | CP7105463 |
Protection | Patent granted |
Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | N/A |
Title | Automatic compensation for springback in FAS |
Description | Software for automatically compensating for springback on a flexible metal spinning machine |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | Improved accuracy of products producing using flexible spinning machine |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.10.357 |
Title | Automatic support roller positioning in FAS |
Description | Software for positioning the internal rollers in a flexible metal spinning machine |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | Improved possibility of using flexible spinning machines in place of conventional spinning machines |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.10.357 |
Company Name | Deepform |
Description | Deepform develops a sheet metal pressing technology and press tool designs that aim to reduce the amount of metal waste in the automotive industry. |
Year Established | 2022 |
Impact | The company has attracted a fast start Innovate UK grant, ~£150k of convertible loans for initial funding, and CEO Chris Cleaver has been funded by a RAEng Enterprise Fellowship for a year. Having started full-time work in August 2022, Chris has completed detailed designs for our first customer, who is close to signing the first major order, while opening up channels to several further customers, taking on a first employee to support him, and we are anticipating our first seed-funding round during 2023. |
Website | https://deepform.co.uk/ |
Description | 12th ICTP in Cambridge, UK |
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 | 12th ICTP, in Cambridge, UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.ictp2017.org |
Description | 2nd ERP Plenary 2016 |
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 | 2nd ERP Plenary 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | ASK Metal Forming meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | speech at ASK Metal Forming in Aachen, Germany |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | CDT lecture on Energy and the Foreseer Project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CDT lecture Energy and the Foreseer project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.foreseer.group.cam.ac.uk/foreseer-tool/ |
Description | CIRIA seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | talk at CIRIA seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | CIRP |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | participation and speech at CIRP meeting, Paris |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | CIRP General Assembly |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CIRP General Assembly |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | CIRP General Assembly, Cape Town |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CIRP general assembly |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.cirp.net/ |
Description | CIRP general assembly, Lugano, Switzerland |
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 | 2017 CIRP general assembly, Lugano, Switzerland |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Dissemination meeting with Arcelor Mittal - PhD industry sponsor |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Dissemination meeting with Arcelor Mittal - PhD industry sponsor |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Dissemination meeting with Jens Holst, Siemens, industry partner, PhD sponsor |
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 | Dissemination meeting with Jens Holst, Siemens, industry partner, PhD sponsor |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | EIP Meeting on Raw materials |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | EIP Meeting on Raw materials |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | EPSRC Manufacturing the Future conference at IfM |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | gave speech at the EPSRC Manufacturing the Future conference held at IfM, Cambridge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | EPSRC circular economy meeting with Shyeni Paul |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | EPSRC circular economy meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | ERP plenary meeting |
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 | ERP plenary meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Engineering Masterclass for sixth form students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Engineering Masterclass for sixth form students |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | FitUK2 Event at Strathclyde; |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | speech at the FitUK2 Event at Strathclyde university |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Further dissemination meeting with Sanjeev Gupta, Liberty House |
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 | Further dissemination meeting with Sanjeev Gupta, Liberty House, re UK steel industry future |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | ICTP 2014 (Nagoya, Japan) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Some useful discussions, and spirited discussion with previously unknown potential collaborators after talks. Closer contact with research groups in Germany and Russia. Learned about several new processes that are particularly amenable to our modelling techniques |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.jstp.or.jp/commit/ictp/ictp2014/ |
Description | Industry sponsor visit |
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 | Industry visit with the purpose of updating on research activities and progress on industry sponsored PhD students in the group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | International programme lecture on "living well with less" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Cambridge international programme lecture on "Living well while using less: we could, but would we?" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | JLR Cambridge, Milestone 2 review |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | JLR M2 review |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Liberty House video about UK steel industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Liberty House video about UK steel industry |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Liberty House, GreenSteel council |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | participation with Liberty House at the their Green Steel council meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Liberty Vehicle technology discussions |
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 | a visit to Liberty Vehicle Technologies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Market survey on flexible ring rolling |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Confirmed interest in the idea of flexible ring rolling, generated case study 'demonstration' parts, led to further collaboration on conceptual design of machine N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Material Demand Reduction workshop |
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 | Material Demand Reduction workshop - including a Royal Society publication |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2016 |
URL | http://www.uselessgroup.org/news/material-demand-reduction-workshop-royal-society-philosophical-tran... |
Description | Meeting with Caleb Deeks at HM Treasury re UK steel |
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 | Meeting with Caleb Deeks at HM Treasury re UK s |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Meeting with Clive Maxwell, Director General at DECC |
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 | Meeting with Clive Maxwell, Director General at DECC |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Meeting with Julian Kelly at the HM Treasury re UK steel |
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 | Meeting with Julian Kelly at the HM Treasury re UK steel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Meeting with Liberty House advisors - UK steel industry |
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 | Meeting with Liberty House advisors - UK steel industry |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Mtg with Primetals & MTC |
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 | Dissemination mtg with Primetals & MTC |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Mtg with Robert Fell, Recyclemetals |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Mtg with Robert Fell, Recyclemetals |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Mtg with Sanjeev Gupta, Liberty House on UK steel industry |
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 | expert panel dissemination to Sanjeev Gupta at Liberty House on the UK steel industry |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Presentation at the London Materials Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the London Materials Society |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Public lecture on steel industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | a public lecture on steel industry |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Tata Steel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | research group visit and presentations to industrial sponsor |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Tata industry sponsor project meeting in Cambridge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Tata industry sponsor project meeting in Cambridge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Teach First Futures Cambridge Residential |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Motivated students to consider maths at university Too soon to see impact |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | World Steel 50th Anniversary dinner and panel |
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 | speaking at the world steel 50th anniversary dinner and participating in a panel discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | half day workshop for University of Tokyo on technical aspects of manufacturing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | half day workshop for University of Tokyo on technical aspects of manufacturing |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | meeting at BIS with Dominic James et al re "A bright future for steel" |
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 | meeting at BIS with Dominic James et al re "A bright future for steel" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | meeting with John Loughead at BEIS re materials forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | meeting with John Loughead at BEIS re materials forum |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | networking lunch with Bernice Lee, Director of the Hoffman Centre on the sustainable resource economy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | networking lunch with Bernice Lee, Director of the Hoffman Centre on the sustainable resource economy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | networking lunch with Rachel Brown, EPSRC re circular economy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | networking lunch with Rachel Brown, EPSRC re circular economy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | networking with World Steel organisation |
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 | networking with contacts at World Steel dinner event |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | speech at industry facing event, organised by Andre van der Merwe |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speech at industry facing event organised by Andre van der Merwe |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | treasury meeting with Liberty House |
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 | treasury meeting with Liberty House re UK steel industry |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |