Metrology for precision and additive manufacturing

Lead Research Organisation: University of Nottingham
Department Name: Faculty of Engineering

Abstract

Since the beginning of humanity our societies have been based on commerce, i.e. we make things and we sell them to other people. Relatively simple beginnings led to the Industrial Revolution and now to the technological age. Over-generalising, the Far East are currently the masters of mass manufacture and the West are (or wish to be) the masters of advanced manufacture - the production of high-value goods, often involving a significant degree of innovation. To be able to manufacture goods in a cost-effective, environmentally-sustainable manner, quality control procedures are required. And quality control in turn requires an appropriate measurement infrastructure to be in place. It is a sub-set of this measurement infrastructure that is the subject of this fellowship.

The UK government has been investing heavily in advanced manufacturing. In the academic arena, there are the sixteen EPSRC Centres of Innovative Manufacturing. To ease the pain of transferring academic research to the manufacturing sector, there are the seven High-Value Manufacturing Catapults (the Manufacturing Technology Centre being the main one of note here). For industry, there are a number of funding initiatives and tax breaks. To support this burgeoning UK advanced manufacturing infrastructure, there are a small number of academic centres for metrology - those based at Huddersfield and Bath are the main players. And, at the top of the measurement tree, there is the world-class National Physical Laboratory - a centre of excellence in metrology. But, there are still some gaps in the manufacturing metrology research jigsaw, and the aim of this fellowship is to plug those gaps.

Coordinate metrology has been used for decades in the manufacturing industry as the most dominant form of process control, usually employing tactile coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). However, due to the slow speed of tactile systems and the fact that they can only take a limited amount of points, optical CMMs are starting to flourish. On the smaller scale, there are many optical surface measuring devices that tend to be used off-line in industry. When making small, high-precision, complex components, with difficult to access geometries, it is a combination of the surface measurement systems and the CMMs that is required. This requirement is one of the main aims of the fellowship - to develop a suite of fast, high-accuracy, non-contact measurement systems, which can be employed in industry. These principles will also be applied to the field of additive manufacturing - a new paradigm in manufacturing which is seeing significant government support and, in some cases, media hype. As with high-precision components, a coordinate metrology infrastructure for additive manufacturing is required, in many cases in-line to allow direct feedback to the manufacturing process. This is the second field of metrology that the fellowship will address.

The outputs of the fellowship will be in the form of academic publications; new measurement instruments, along with new ways to use existing instruments; methods to allow manufacturers to verify the performance of their instruments; and the necessary pre-normative work that will lead to specification standards in the two fields (currently lacking). The academic world will benefit from the fundamental nature of elements of the research, and the industrial manufacturing world will benefit from the techniques developed and routes to standardisation. But, ultimately, it will be the UK citizens that will reap the greatest benefit in terms of new and enhanced products, and the wealth creation potential from precision and additive manufacturing.

Planned Impact

The aim of the fellowship is to undertake early stage, fundamental manufacturing research to establish new metrology technologies demanded for the effective control of manufacturing of emerging products. Advanced manufacturing is only possible with a suitable quality control system in place, and this in turn requires a suitable metrology infrastructure. Currently, there are two surface metrology camps: 1) surface topography measurement, and 2) coordinate metrology. Whilst these two camps have had a significant impact on manufacturing over the past few decades (for example, the tactile CMM revolutionised the automotive industry), there are still a number of dimensional measurement issues that need to be addressed. This fellowship will address fundamental issues with two remaining areas of research: precision coordinate metrology and metrology for additive manufacturing. Therefore, the work in the fellowship will be of significant benefit to industry interested in the development, design and manufacture of complex high-value products, such as aerospace engine components, customised medical devices and complex packaging solutions. Such products all require tight tolerances to be maintained, requiring high levels of quality control, and present a serious challenge to manufacturers. In addition, metrology will play a pivotal role in effective process optimisation and control for the development and successful application of additive manufacturing. The fundamental metrology know-how created in this fellowship will allow more responsive and more accurate metrology systems to support scientific development, engineering design and manufacturing.

This fellowship will deliver the fundamental and underpinning metrology necessary for manufacturing with precision or additive manufactured components, and will lead to the engineering of new functions and attributes into a product, such as lower mass, better fuel efficiency (through tighter tolerances) and easily-recycled/replaced parts. The project will also provide a metrological platform for implementation of coordinate and surface measurement instrumentation into the manufacturing chain by matching the design tolerances with appropriate measurement uncertainties. At the end of the fellowship, a number of industrial measurement systems and methods will be available to industry, and in-line control of complex processes will become feasible. The IP developed will also be exploited through the instrument manufacturing partners in the project, potentially resulting in several new commercial instruments. The project has real technological and scientific relevance and, therefore, a large potential to create a positive impact on people's lives through improvements in fields as diverse as medicine, transport, energy conservation and leisure products.

Developing future engineers
It is recognised that the involvement of undergraduate and postgraduate students with the project team represents a significant impact. These students will be the next generation of metrologists, researchers and engineers; as such they are well placed to transfer learning from the project into industry or other areas of engineering research. To closely support complimentary research tasks, seven PhD students will be trained as part of the project. These students will develop highly sought-after transferable research skills, useful to both academic and industrial applications. In addition to this core activity, there will be opportunities for MSc projects, group design projects, literature review projects, and MEng/BEng final year projects. Based on these opportunities, the academic team will work closely with the project's industrial partners to produce a range of exciting project themes.

Publications

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Alblalaihid K (2016) Performance Assessment of a New Variable Stiffness Probing System for Micro-CMMs. in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

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Alburayt A (2018) Lateral scale calibration for focus variation microscopy in Measurement Science and Technology

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Allwood J (2016) Manufacturing at double the speed in Journal of Materials Processing Technology

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Chee Law A.C. (2020) Curvature-based segmentation of powder bed point clouds for in-process monitoring in Solid Freeform Fabrication 2018: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium - An Additive Manufacturing Conference, SFF 2018

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Chesna J (2016) Aerial wetting contact angle measurement using confocal microscopy in Measurement Science and Technology

 
Description This award has led to over 100 journal publication, several patent applications, a spin out company and multiple enagement activities. It has allowed the new concept of information-rich metrology to be developed - a new way to approach manufacturing metrology that has wide implicaions for digital manufacturing.
Exploitation Route The award will result in industrial measurement and calibration systems. I have also applied for an RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies.
Sectors Aerospace

Defence and Marine

Agriculture

Food and Drink

Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Education

Electronics

Energy

Environment

Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology

Transport

 
Description The project results have been used to set up a university spin-out company: Taraz Metrology Ltd, which manufactures optical instruments using the concepts of IRM developed in the award.
First Year Of Impact 2018
Sector Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Transport
Impact Types Economic

 
Description Advanced computed tomography for dimensional and surface measurements in industry (AdvanCT)
Amount £3,500,000 (GBP)
Organisation European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2018 
End 07/2021
 
Description Angelo Beraldin Distinguished Visiting Fellowship
Amount £6,000 (GBP)
Organisation Royal Academy of Engineering 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2016 
End 02/2016
 
Description Calibration and correction of optical topography measuring technology
Amount £112,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Nottingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2019 
End 04/2020
 
Description Coherence scanning interferometry for difficult manufacturing applications
Amount £120,000 (GBP)
Organisation National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT) 
Sector Public
Country Mexico
Start 09/2016 
End 10/2019
 
Description Design for metrology in additive manufacturing
Amount £120,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2019
 
Description Design of a Multi-sensor in-situ Inspection System for AM
Amount £100,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2017 
End 12/2021
 
Description Designed thermo-mechanical properties using cellular structures (PhD)
Amount £120,000 (GBP)
Organisation Government of Thailand 
Sector Public
Country Thailand
Start 09/2018 
End 10/2021
 
Description Development of XCT techniques to measure the internal dimensional properties of AM parts
Amount £120,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2020
 
Description Development of camera-based systems for micro-coordinate metrology
Amount £180,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2019
 
Description Development of camera-based systems for micro-coordinate metrology
Amount £180,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2019
 
Description Development of methods for measuring the surface topography of AM parts
Amount £120,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2019
 
Description Development of non-contact methods for measuring the outside geometry of AM parts
Amount £180,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 1648639 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2019
 
Description EMPIR MetHPM
Amount € 199,010 (EUR)
Organisation European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2018
 
Description Generic methodology to determine quality assurance and validation processes for additively manufactured parts
Amount £180,000 (GBP)
Organisation Centre for Doctoral Training in Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2016 
End 10/2020
 
Description H2020 MICROMAN
Amount € 251,688 (EUR)
Funding ID 674801 
Organisation European Commission 
Department Horizon 2020
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2019
 
Description Information-rich metrology applied to coherence scanning interferometry
Amount £120,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Nottingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2016 
End 10/2019
 
Description Integrated metrology 10-year roadmap for advanced manufacturing (MetMap)
Amount £50,000 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/R513507/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2018 
End 04/2020
 
Description METROSURF
Amount € 309,235 (EUR)
Funding ID 624770 
Organisation European Commission 
Department Horizon 2020
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2017
 
Description Micro/nano robotics for single cancer cells
Amount £4,000,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 734174 
Organisation European Commission 
Department Horizon 2020
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 01/2017 
End 01/2021
 
Description Mining optical scattering data for in-process surface measurement
Amount £54,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Nottingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2017 
End 08/2017
 
Description Point cloud analysis of 3D measurement data using a priori information
Amount £60,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Nottingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2017 
End 10/2020
 
Description Precision additive metal manufacturing (PAM2)
Amount £4,000,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 721383 
Organisation European Commission 
Department Horizon 2020
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 09/2016 
End 10/2020
 
Description Precision engineering applications of additive manufacturing
Amount £120,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Nottingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2016 
End 10/2019
 
Description Real-time metrology of micro-targets for high power laser systems operating at high repetition rates
Amount £180,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2019
 
Description Reference algorithms and metrology on aspherical and freeform lenses (FREEForm)
Amount £3,500,000 (GBP)
Organisation European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2016 
End 07/2019
 
Description Surface topography analysis software validation
Amount £180,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 10/2019
 
Description Verification for robotic fringe projection (ARTEFACT)
Amount £200,000 (GBP)
Organisation Institute For New Economic Thinking 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United States
Start 03/2018 
End 03/2019
 
Description Verifying XCT measurement of additive manufacturing parts
Amount £120,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2014 
End 10/2018
 
Description Alicona 
Organisation Alicona
Country Austria 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Alicona are working closely with us to improve their instrumentation and calibration methods. We have put one self-funded PhD student on the calibration issues. The Alicona focus variation microscope is heavily utilised by my group and throughout the Faculty and has led to several papers in the planning stage. We have also purchased a 5 degree of freedom motion stage that allows us to measure complex geometries and this arrives in March 2016. We also now have a funded H2020 project (see MICROMAN in funding, which pays for a PhD student to work on a new wifi focus variation probe for Alicona (to be used with machine tools).
Collaborator Contribution Alicona have placed a £100k instrument in our lab on a permanent loan basis. They work closely with on surface measurement research, calibration and new measurement system development. They are members of the fellowship advisory board.
Impact Several papers with many academics in the Faculty and outside: MaCaulay G D, Senin N, Giusca C L, Leach R K 2016 Study of manufacturing and measurement reproducibility on a laser textured structured surface Measurement 94 942-958 Tosello G, Haitjema H, Leach R K, Quagliotti D, Gasparin S, Hansen H N 2016 An international comparison of surface texture parameters on polymer artefacts using optical instruments Ann. CIRP 65 539-562 Senin N, Moretti M, Leach R K 2017 Shape descriptors and statistical classification on areal topography data for tile inspection on tessellated surfaces Measurement 95 82-92 Hirsch M, Patel P, Li W, Guan G, Leach R K, Sharples S, Clare A D 2017 Assessing the capability of in-situ nondestructive analysis during layer based additive manufacture Additive Manufacturing 13 135-142 Vaithilingam J, Simonelli M, Saleh E, Senin N, Wildman R D, Hague R J M, Leach R K, Tuck C J 2017 Combined inkjet printing and infra-red sintering of silver nanoparticles using a swathe-by-swathe and layer-by-layer approach for 3-dimensional structures ACS Appl. Mat. Interf. 9 6560-6570 Rabani A, Senin N, Helmli F, Butler-Smith P, Leach R K 2016 An integrated measurement method for complex micro-scale geometries Proc. 16th Int. euspen Conf., Nottingham, UK, Jun 83-84 Thompson A, Senin N, Leach R K 2016 Towards an additive surface atlas Proc. ASPE Summer Topical, Rayleigh, NC, Jun 156-161 Multiple measurements for a large number of staff and students, allowing process understanding, improvement and control.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Bruker 
Organisation Bruker Corporation
Department Bruker Nano
Country Germany 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution We are currently recruiting a PhD student to work on how to apply ISO standards to the calibration of this type of hybrid surface-CMM instrument (stopped) We have a 4th year undergrad student investigating the effect of environment on the existing Bruker surface measuring instruments in the Faculty (complete)
Collaborator Contribution They are contributing a completely new 5 axis CMM with coherence scanning interferometry probe (cancelled). Bruker continue to be a member of the fellowship advisory board
Impact It was decided not to continue with this instrument-research collaboration as the terms were not mutually favourable. Barker A, Syam W P, Leach R K 2016 Measurement noise of coherence scanning interferometry in an industrial environment Proc. ASPE, Portland, OR, Oct 594-599
Start Year 2015
 
Description HIT 
Organisation Harbin Institute of Technology
Country China 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Annual lecturing at HIT Keynote presentation at IS3COM conference in Harbin Involvement in EMPIR project (FreeFORM) to develop scattering coatings to improve the angle sensitivity of optical instruments Winning EU RISE proposal (MRS4Cell) to work with HIT on optical transfer function for confocal microscopy - 55 months of secondments funded from 2017 - 2021 Delivered 2 week course on metrology in HIT (Dec 2018) New confocal microscope delivered to our labs Award of High Level Expert Status and associated funcding (£50k for travel)
Collaborator Contribution 3 x RA researchers for 1 year each to work on our research Visiting professorship for Prof. Leach Honorary professorship for Prof. Liu (HIT) Expert Status for Prof. Leach
Impact Several papers in preparation Su R, Wang Y, Coupland J M, Leach R K 2017 On tilt and curvature dependent errors and the calibration of coherence scanning interferometers Opt. Express 25 3297-3310
Start Year 2015
 
Description Hard Problem solution with NIST 
Organisation National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Joint project with NIST open additive manufacturing system to link surface defects to function
Collaborator Contribution Visit and lectirong in NIST (May 2019) Afaf Remani (PhD student) secured secondment funding to visit NIST for 6 months in April 2020
Impact Paper submitted to MAPP conference (June 2020) Presentation at CIRP Paris 2020
Start Year 2019
 
Description Loughborough 
Organisation Loughborough University
Department Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Experimental verification of linear theory of focus variation microscopy Theoretical coding and experimental verification of linear (foil) theory of coherence scanning interferometry Visting professorship for Prof. Leach Honorary Professorship for Prof, Coupland (Loughborough)
Collaborator Contribution Supply of rigorous code for calculating e-m scattering - needed for many aspects of our research Visiting professorships
Impact Several joint papers prior to joining Nottingham. Papers in preparation. Su R, Wang Y, Coupland J M, Leach R K 2017 On tilt and curvature dependent errors and the calibration of coherence scanning interferometers Opt. Express 25 3297-3310
Start Year 2015
 
Description NPL 
Organisation National Physical Laboratory
Department Environmental Measurement Group
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Additive manufacturing of samples PhD student on design for merology for additive manufacturing EngD student on testing of surface texture software measurement standards PhD student on testing of materials properties for additive manufacturing
Collaborator Contribution Part funding for PhDs and EngD above Attendance on steering committee for Fellowship
Impact 83. Todhunter L, Leach R K, Lawes S D A, Blateyron F 2017 Comparison of Type F2 software measurement standards for profile surface texture parameters Meas. Sci. Technol. 28 065017. Smith I M, Harris P M, Todhunter L, Leach R K, Giusca C L, Jiang X, Scott P J 2017 Algorithms and software for areal surface texture function and feature parameters Meas. Sci. Technol. 28 105008. Todhunter L D, Leach R K, Lawes S D A, Blateyron F 2017 Industrial survey of ISO surface texture parameters CIRP J. Manufac. Sci. Technol. 19 84-92. Todhunter L, Leach R K, Lawes S D A 2017 An industrial survey on the use of surface texture parameters Proc. Met. & Props, Gothenburg, Sweden, Jun 166-167. Todhunter L, Leach R K, Lawes S D A, Blayteron F 2017 An analysis of Type F2 software measurement standards for profile texture parameters Proc. IMEKO, AMCTM XI, Glasgow, UK, Aug 11-12. Rivas Santos V M, Sims-Waterhouse D, Piano S, Maskery I, Leach R K 2017 Metrological design of calibration and benchmarking artefacts for an additive manufacturing system Proc. euspen/ASPE Dimensional Accuracy & Surface Finish in AM, Leuven, Belgium, Oct 24-27. Bitar I, Aboulkhair N, Leach R K 2017 The application of composite through-thickness assessment to additively manufactured parts SFF Symp. 2017, Austin, USA, Aug
Start Year 2015
 
Description Renishaw 
Organisation Renishaw PLC
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Consultancy with Renishaw to review their encoder manufacturing technology Considering Renishaw as an early adopter for out fringe projection technology (for additive manufacturing).
Collaborator Contribution Support letters for EPSRC proposals Member of fellowship advisory group. Supplied "naked" AM SLM machine for development work.
Impact Commercial report to Renishaw on encoder error budget
Start Year 2015
 
Description Rutherford Appleton Lab 
Organisation Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution RAL are supporting a PhD to investigate the hybrid kinematics for fast laser fusion target delivery. Third party contract to develop control system for laser alignment tool.
Collaborator Contribution Project scope and supervision.
Impact Karim S, Piano S, Leach R K 2018 Error modelling and validation of a high-precision five degree of freedom hybrid mechanism for high-power high-repetition rate laser operations Prec. Eng. under review. Karim S, Leach R K, Piano S, Tolley M 2017 Error modelling of a hybrid five degree of freedom mechanism for manipulation of high repetition rate laser microtargets Proc. 6th Target Fab. Workshop, Greenwich, UK, May. Karim S, Leach R K, Piano S, Tolley M 2017 Error modelling of a hybrid five degree of freedom mechanism for manipulation of high repetition rate laser microtargets Proc. ASPE, Charlotte, USA, Oct under 372-377
Start Year 2015
 
Description Surface characterisation for Apple 
Organisation Apple
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Developed methods for comparing the processing/machining features for iPad and iPhone cases.
Collaborator Contribution Project funding.
Impact New methods for surface texture feature analysis. Papers in preparation.
Start Year 2016
 
Description University of Arkansas 
Organisation University of Arkansas
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Developed a portable photogrammetry system for tooth measurement
Collaborator Contribution Provided problem, visited and gave a presentation, put together NSF grant, linked with museums and contributed to follow on grant application
Impact Instrument sale, follow on grant application, papers to come
Start Year 2018
 
Description Xaar 
Organisation Xaar plc
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Feasibility study on the off- and in-line measurement of ink-jet nozzles Working with metrology team to optimise edge detection methods Developing in-line nozzle measurement technology under Hermes project Developing additive manufacturing verification artefact. Supporting PhDs in thermal analysis and fringe projection Developing in-line monitoring for additive process Developing photogrammetry system for additive processes
Collaborator Contribution Funding and supplying metrology problems and samples.
Impact Nozzle measurement feasibility report Hermes project and agreement to match funds. Rivas Santos V M, Sims-Waterhouse D, Piano S, Maskery I, Leach R K 2017 Metrological design of calibration and benchmarking artefacts for an additive manufacturing system Proc. euspen/ASPE Dimensional Accuracy & Surface Finish in AM, Leuven, Belgium, Oct 24-27.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Zygo 
Organisation Zygo Corporation
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution 2 x PhD students working with Zygo instrumentation Research into instrument calibration and correction
Collaborator Contribution Supply of top-end coherence scanning interferometer and supervision of students Second instrument supplied (an upgrade)
Impact Su R, Wang Y, Coupland J M, Leach R K 2017 On tilt and curvature dependent errors and the calibration of coherence scanning interferometers Opt. Express 25 3297-3310. Gomez C, Thompson A, Su R, DiSciacca J, Lawes S, Leach R K 2017 Optimisation of surface measurement for metal additive manufacturing using coherence scanning interferometry Opt. Eng. 56 111714. Ekbert P, Su R, Leach R K 2017 High-precision lateral distortion measurement and correction in coherence scanning interferometry using an arbitrary surface Opt. Express 25 18703-18712. Liu M Y, Cheung C F, Cheng C H, Su R, Leach R K 2017 A Gaussian process based stitching method for high dynamic range optical measurement of precision surfaces Prec. Eng. 50 99-106. Su R, Thomas M, Leach R K, Coupland J M 2017 Effects of defocus on transfer function of coherence scanning interferometry Opt. Lett. 43 82-85.
Start Year 2016
 
Title Surface Analysis 
Description Surface measurement method using imaging and machine learning 
IP Reference GB1806168.9 
Protection Patent application published
Year Protection Granted 2018
Licensed Yes
Impact New instrument for AMT now being licenced to Taraz
 
Company Name Taraz Metrology 
Description Taraz Metrology develops optical metrology systems for industrial 3D printing set ups. 
Year Established 2018 
Impact First funding awarded from university and company is just starting up now.
Website http://taraz-metrology.com
 
Description 13th International Symposium of Measurement and Intelligent Instruments 
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 Richard Leach and Rong Su attended the 13th International Symposium of Measurement and Intelligent Instruments in Xi'an, China from 22nd to 25th September 2017. The meeting was attended by over 200 metrology experts and students, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds. Many of the themes this year were well-aligned to the work of MMT and there was a focus of in-line measurement in manufacturing. Attendance of the conference was partially funded by a joint H2020 project to encourage collaboration between EU and China (see project details).

Richard presented a keynote paper entitled "Information-rich metrology: changing the game" (related paper here) and Rong presented an oral paper on our work on optical distortion correction with Peter Ekberg of KTH, entitled: "High-precision lateral distortion correction in 2D and 3D optical imaging systems using an arbitrary surface" (see related journal paper). As a long-term member, Richard attended the board meeting of the International Committee of Measurement and Instrumentation (ICMI) and presented a proposal to host the 15th ISMTII in 2021 - this was accepted. The 14th ISMTII will be in Niigata, Japan in 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description 14th International Symposium on Measurement and Intelligent Instruments 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Joe Eastwood, George Gayton, Carlos Gomez, Richard Leach and Mingyu Liu attended the 14th International Symposium on Measurement and Intelligent Instruments from 30th August to 2nd September 2019 in Niigata, Japan. They presented 4 oral papers:
Autonomous close-range photogrammetry using machine learning
Modelling fringe projection based on linear systems theory and geometric transformation
Defect detection for structured surfaces via light scattering and machine learning
Comparison of two noise reduction methods in coherence scanning interferometry for surface measurement
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description 16th Met & Props Conference in Gothenburg 
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 Richard Leach, Nicola Senin, Xiaobing Feng, Adam Thompson, Lewis Newton, Luke Todhunter, Anas Aburayt and Carlos Gomez attended the 16th International Conference on Metrology and Properties of Engineering Surfaces, Gothenburg, Sweden, from 26th to 29th May 2017. The meeting was attended by over 100 surface metrology experts and students, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds. Richard chaired a session and presented a keynote paper on work performed by Nicola Senin, Adam Thompson and himself, plus entitled "Additive manufacturing surfaces - the 'true' story"; summarising our work on measuring metal AM surface (Ann. CIRP, Meas. Sci. Technol.). The following oral papers were also presented by Adam Thompson (paper), Xiaobing Feng (paper) and Richard Leach (paper); along with the following posters by Anas Aburayt (paper, poster), Luke Todhunter (paper, poster), Lewis Newton (paper, poster) and Carlos Gomez (paper, poster).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description 17th International euspen Conference 
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 Richard Leach attended the 17th International euspen Conference in Hannover, Germany from 29th May to 1st June 2017. The meeting was attended by over 300 precision engineering and metrology experts and students, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds. The theme this year was the new SI and there were high quality keynotes on the new SI in general, and the Kibble balance and Avogadro sphere approaches to the redefinition of the kilogram. Richard chaired a session and presented a poster paper on work performed by Wahyudin Syam, Ian Maskery and himself, plus Jianwei Wu and Bo Zhao (HIT) entitled "Design of mechanically-optimised metrology frames using lattice structures" (paper, poster); describing our work on the development of vibration isolation techniques using additively-manufactured lattice structures (paper submitted to Precision Engineering). Richard, Nicola Senin and Adam Thompson were also co-authors on a paper from University of Huddersfield entitled "Results from an interlaboratory comparison of areal surface texture parameter extraction from X-ray computed tomography of additively manufactured parts" (paper, poster).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description 19th euspen Conference 
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 Sofia Catalucci, Hamid Hadian, Giacomo Maculotti, Richard Leach, Samanta Piano and Darukumalli Subbareddy attended the 19th International Conference of the European Society of Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology in Bilbao. Sofia presented an oral paper "Automated assessment of object coverage in smart, optical form measurement", Giacomo presented an oral paper "Multi-sensor data fusion for the characterisation of laser cladded cermet coatings", Hamid presented a poster "Gear measurements using optical point autofocus profiling" and Reddy presented a poster "On-machine optical surface topography measurement sensor based on focus variation". MMT was also co-author on two other papers on European project results, "Material standards design for minimum zone fitting of freedom optics" and "Micro product and process fingerprints for zero-defect net-shape manufacturing". Posters can be found here. Richard chaired a workshop on In-process Manufacturing Metrology and a technical session. Well done to Sofia and Gicomo who both won a Haidenhain Scholarship.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description 2nd MetMap conference 
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 Met Map 2 "Integrated Metrology for Additive Manufacturing" was a great success with an excellent set of talks for all the UK experts and a great keynote from Marco Grasso from Politecnico Milano (programme here).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact ofia Catalucci, Mohammed Isa, Richard Leach and Lewis Newton attended the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE) from 28th October to the 1st November 2019 in Pittsburgh, USA. Sofia presented an oral paper on "Intelligent systems for optical form measurement: automated assessment of pose and coverage" and Isa an oral on "Kinematic error analysis of stage tracking using stereo vision". Richard was nominated for an ASPE board position (to be voted on), presented the MMT work at the University of Pittsburgh and co-chaired the annual meeting on Precision Engineering journal. The next meeting will be in Mineapolis 2020. Thanks to Dr Graham Siddal for sponsoring Sofia to attend as part of his annual prize to MMT. Sofia will now go on for a secondment in UNCC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact ofia Catalucci, Mohammed Isa, Richard Leach and Lewis Newton attended the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE) from 28th October to the 1st November 2019 in Pittsburgh, USA. Sofia presented an oral paper on "Intelligent systems for optical form measurement: automated assessment of pose and coverage" and Isa an oral on "Kinematic error analysis of stage tracking using stereo vision". Richard was nominated for an ASPE board position (to be voted on), presented the MMT work at the University of Pittsburgh and co-chaired the annual meeting on Precision Engineering journal. The next meeting will be in Mineapolis 2020. Thanks to Dr Graham Siddal for sponsoring Sofia to attend as part of his annual prize to MMT. Sofia will now go on for a secondment in UNCC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description 4th ASTM Symposium on Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured Materials & Parts 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Richard Leach attended the 4th ASTM meeting from 8th to 10th October 2019 in Washington, USA. The meeting is designed to bring together experts in AM integrity and look at how standards can be developed at rapid pace. Richard presented an invited talk entitled: "Measurement and characterisation of as-built metal additive surfaces" on the MMT work to develop on-machine and post-process measurement methods. He also discussed a draft ASTM/ISO good practice guide in this area being produced in collaboration with EWI, USA
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description 7th CIA-CT Conference "Industrial Applications of Computed Tomography" 
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 Ifeanyi Echeta attended the 7th CIA-CT Conference "Industrial Applications of Computed Tomography" held at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby on the 13th of June 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description AET 2019 
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 Richard Leach gave a keynote presentation at the 2nd AET Symposium on SMART and ACSM Manufacturing at University College Dublin on 16th August 2019, chaired by Prof. Fengzhou Fang. The event was attended by over 100 researchers and included several presentations on state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies. Richard's paper was entitled "Smart shape measurement in manufacturing" (see abstract here). Richard also attended a board meeting for the International Academy of Engineering & Technology and was elected a Fellow.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description ASPE 2017 Spring Topical Meeting 
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 Richard Leach attended the ASPE 2017 Spring Topical Meeting "Precision Engineering and Optics: What are the Limits of Precision, and How to Characterize Them?"" in Westward Look Wyndham Resort & Spa, Tucson, Arizona, USA from 24th to 25th April 2017. The meeting was attended by around 40 experts and students, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds. Richard gave an oral paper on work performed by Rong Su, Peter Ekberg (KTH) and himself, entitled "High-precision lateral distortion correction in coherence scanning interferometry using an arbitrary surface". The Spring Topical was a good opportunity for informal discussion and debate, and included a tour of the seriously-impressive University of Arizona Mirror Lab, where they are manufacturing the 8.4 m freeform mirrors for the Giant Megellan Telescope. Richard also visited the famous University of Arizona optics group and took part in the Tucson March for Science.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description ASPE Annual Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Waiel Elmadih, Shah Karim and Richard Leach attended the 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering in Las Vegas, USA from 4th to 8th November 2018. The meeting was attended by around 300 precision engineering, manufacturing and metrology companies and researchers from across the world. The keynote talk featured an update on the James Webb Space Telescope. MMT attended tutorials, had a total of 4 oral and 1 poster paper, and were involved in discussions about the technical leadership of ASPE. Richard chaired a session on machine metrology. The next meeting in the series will be in Pittsburgh in 2019.

Elmadih W, Syam W P, Maskery I, Leach R K "Designing low frequency bandgaps in additively manufactured parts using internal"
Leach R K, de Groot P, Haitjema H "Infidelity and the calibration of surface topography measuring instruments"
Villarraga-Gómez H, Korner L, Leach R K, Smith S T "Representing the specification of industrial X-ray computed tomography with amplitude-wavelength space"
Karim S, Piano S, Leach R K, Tolley M "Calibration of a high-precision five degree of freedom hybrid mechanism"
Su R, Thomas M, de Groot P, Coupland J M, Leach R K "Determination of the lateral resolution for an interference microscope using a micro-scale sphere"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description ASPE Annual Conference 
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 Richard Leach, Shah Karim and Waiel Elmadih attended the ASPE Annual Conference hosted by UNCC, Charlotte, NC, USA from 29th October to 3rd November 2017. Our visiting professor, Peter de Groot was also present. The meeting was attended by around 400 precision engineering and metrology experts, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds. Waiel presented an oral paper (with Wahyudin Syam, Ian Maskery and Richard) entitled "Additively manufactured lattice structures for precision engineering applications" and Shah Karim presented a poster paper on our work with RAL on laser fusion target delivery (with Samanta Piano, Richard and Martin Tolley) entitled "Error modelling of a hybrid five degree of freedom mechanism for manipulation of high repetition rate laser microtargets" (paper, poster). Shah and Karim joined a team from University of Rochester on the student challenge. Richard also attended the Metrology Technical Leadership Committee and is tasked to put together a keynote on in-process measurement for next year. The next meeting in the series will be in Las Vegas in October 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description ASPE Summer Topical Meeting on Additive Manufacturing (Rayleigh, USA) 
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 Keynote "Towards a UK strategy for AM metrology"
Co-chaired the meeting and chaired a session
Co-authored 1 oral and 1 poster presentation
Gave 3 hour tutorial of surface metrology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/researc...
 
Description ASPEN/ASPE 2017 Spring Topical Meeting 
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 Richard Leach attended the ASPEN/ASPE 2017 Spring Topical Meeting "Manufacture and Metrology of Structured and Freeform Surfaces for Functional Applications" in Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong from 14th to 17th March 2017. The meeting was attended by over 80 experts and students, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds. Richard chaired a session and gave an oral paper on work performed by Adam Thompson, Nicola Senin, Ian Maskery and himself, entitled "A metrology horror story: the additive surface"; describing our work on the measurement of surface texture for AM using a range of instruments and comparison methods.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description Advancing Precision in Additive Manufacturing Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Andrew Dickins, Richard Leach, Lewis Newton, Vicente Rivas Santos and Adam Thompson attended the 2018 ASPE and euspen Summer Topical Meeting on Advancing Precision in Additive Manufacturing in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA from 22nd to 25th July 2018. The meeting was attended by around 120 machine manufacturers, metrology companies and researchers from across the world. This was a very lively meeting with many discussions about how technologies and concepts from the world of precision engineering can influence additive manufacturing. MMT had a total of 4 oral papers (all available here).

Andrew "Design of a multi-sensor in-situ inspection system for additive manufacturing"
Lewis "Focus variation measurement of metal additively manufactured surfaces"
Vicente "Benchmarking of an additive manufacturing process"
Adam "Correlating volume and surface features in additively manufactured parts"
Richard co-chaired the conference (with John Taylor) and 2 sessions (machine design and XCT) and Adam chaired a session (surface metrology). Richard presented a tutorial on the basics of dimensional metrology and Adam presented a tutorial on XCT metrology (with Massimiliano Ferrucci). The next meeting in the series will be in France in 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description CIRP GA in Birmingham 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Richard Leach and Danny Sims-Waterhouse attended the 69th CIRP GA in Birmingham, UK from 18th to 24th August 2019. The GA was chaired by Prof. Leung Soo and Prof. Raj Roy and was one of the best ever! Prof. Julian Allwood organised the excellent 88-pianist record to kick us off (shown on BBC 1) and the rest of the entertainment was fantastic. Organisation was perfect, partner's program enjoyed (led by Richard's wife Sharmin) and catering excellent. Richard presented a keynote in the main auditorium on AM metrology and was a co-author on the keynote presented by Prof. Wei Gao in STC S. Danny presented on our smart coordinate metrology work in STC P and Richard was promoted to vice chair of STC S.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description CIRP General Assembly 
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 Richard was involved in the following:

presented a paper in STC S part 1, co-authored with Adam Thompson, Nicola Senin and Claudiu Giusca (Cranfield) on a paper in the Ann. CIRP "Topography of selectively laser melted surfaces: A comparison of different measurement methods" (see link)
attended a planning meeting for STC S 2019 keynote on "On-machine surface metrology for precision manufacturing" (Tohoku lead)
chaired a planning meeting for STC P 2019 keynote on "Geometrical metrology for metal additive manufacturing" (Nottingham lead)
attended a planning meeting for STC P 2020 keynote on "Dimensional artefacts for establishing traceability in manufacturing metrology" (DTU lead)
acted as the secretary of STC S
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description CIRP General Assembly in Tokyo 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Richard was involved in the following:

presented a paper in STC S part 1, co-authored with Danny Sims-Waterhouse, Rong Su, and Fabrizio Medeossi, Simone Carnignato and Enrico Savio (Padova) on a paper in the Ann. CIRP "Fusion of photogrammetry and coherence scanning interferometry data for all-optical coordinate measurement"
was co-author of a presentation by Benny Cheung in STC P part 1, co-authored by Xiaobing Feng, Samuel Liu and Chenyang Zhao (Hong Kong Poly) on a paper in the Ann. CIRP "Hierarchical-information-based characterization of multiscale structured surfaces"
presented in STC P part 2 an update on the 2019 keynote on "Geometrical metrology for metal additive manufacturing" (Nottingham lead)
presented in STC S part 2 an update on ISO 213 WG 16
presented in STC P part 2 "Solving traditional form measurement problems using artificial intelligence"
attended a progress meeting for STC S 2019 keynote on "On-machine surface metrology for precision manufacturing" (Tohoku lead)
attended a progress meeting for STC P 2020 keynote on "Dimensional artefacts for establishing traceability in manufacturing metrology" (DTU lead)
attended a planning meeting for STC S 2022 keynote on "The implications and evaluation of geometrical surface defects" (UNCC lead)
attended a planning meeting for STC P 2022 keynote on "Dimensional metrology with industrial X-ray computed tomography" (KU Leuven lead)
acted as the secretary of STC S
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description CIRP Winter Meeting 
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 Richard Leach, Wahyudin Syam and Adam Thompson attended the CIRP Winter Meeting from 15-17 February 2017 in Paris, France. They were involved in the following:

Richard presented an update to STC P on the 2019 keynote on "Geometrical metrology for metal additive manufacturing" (lead author)
Adam presented in STC S on "X-ray computed tomography for the measurement of internal surface texture of additively manufactured hollow parts" (co-author Lars Korner, Nicola Senin, Simon Lawes, Ian Maskery, Richard Leach)
Richard acted as secretary of STC S for the first time and attended the Liaison Committee meeting
Richard presented in STC S on the surface texture parameter survey that Nottingham is leading (now complete and paper being drafted)
Richard is a co-author for STC P 2020 keynote on "Material measures for dimensional metrology" (DTU lead)
Richard is a co-author for STC S 2019 keynote on "On-machine surface metrology for precision manufacturing" (Tohoku lead)
Nicola Senin is a co-author for STC S 2018 keynote on "Multiscale analyses and characterizations of surface topographies"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description CIRP Winter meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Richard Leach and Wahyudin Syam attended the CIRP Winter meeting, Paris, France from 21st to 23rd February 2018. Wahyudin presented in STC P: "The use of periodic structures in machine design" (work by Wahyudin, Richard, Waiel Elmadih and Ian Maskery). Richard presented an update on the STC P keynote for 2019 on "Geometrical metrology for additive manufacturing", acted as secretary for STC S, and presented: "Surface slope limits in the measurement of areal surface topography" (work by Richard, Peter de Groot and Han Haitjema).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description CIRP Winter meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Richard was involved in the following:

presented in STC P on an approach to calibration of XCT (see here)
Han Haijema presented in STC S on a potential surface topography noise comparison (see here)
presented in STC P an update on the 2019 keynote on "Geometrical metrology for metal additive manufacturing" (Nottingham lead)
presented on a potential keynote in STC P for 2023 on "Machine learning in production metrology" (KIT lead)
attended a progress meeting for STC P 2020 keynote on "Dimensional artefacts for establishing traceability in manufacturing metrology" (Padova lead)
attended a planning meeting for STC S 2022 keynote on "The implications and evaluation of geometrical surface defects" (UNCC lead)
attended a planning meeting for STC P 2022 keynote on "Dimensional metrology with industrial X-ray computed tomography" (KU Leuven lead)
acted as the secretary of STC S
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description CIRP presentations 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Paris 2016: STC S presentation on surface texture survey
Guimaraes 2016: STC S co-author on oral paper, presentation on surface texture survey and on additive surface metrology, STC P presentation on information-rich metrology and on 2019 keynote
Paris 2017: STC S acted as secretary, presentation on surface texture survey, co-author on presentation on XCT for additive surfaces
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016,2017
 
Description Dimensional X-ray Computed Tomography (dXCT) conference 
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 Adam Thompson and Lars Körner attended the Dimensional X-ray Computed Tomography conference at The Future Metrology Hub in Huddersfield in the final week of June. Adam presented an oral paper, entitled "X-ray computed tomography surface topography measurement: industrial case studies" and Lars presented a poster entitled "Simulation of continuous high aspect ratio tomography for surface topography measurements". Adam also contributed to the pre-conference tutorial day, teaching the history and principles of X-ray computed tomography as well as method for performing surface measurements with the technology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description Hosted the 3rd dXCT conference 
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 3rd Dimensional X-ray Computed Tomography conference was a resounding success. Held at the University of Nottingham from 2-3 July 2018, the conference was attended by around 80 academic and industrial XCT users and researchers and was proceeded by a popular day of tutorials. We are also proud to announce that Lars Korner won the best oral presentation prize and Adam Thompson the best poster (he got best oral last year too). Ifeanyi Echeta also presented a poster. The next in the series will be in University of Huddersfield in Summer 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description IMCC conference 
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 Richard Leach attended the 17th International Manufacturing Conference in China (IMCC), Shenzhen, China from 23rd to 25th November 2017. The meeting was attended by around 800 manufacturing experts, mainly from China, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds. Richard presented an invited paper in a special additive manufacturing session entitled "Enriching metrology for additive manufacturing", summarising our research in this field. The next meeting in the series will be in 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description ISO 213 WG 16 
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 Richard attended ISO technical committee 213 working group 16 (Surface texture) from 25-26 September 2018 in Poznan, Poland. The committee have now sent ISO 25178 part 600 for publication - this is the list of metrological characteristics (conceptually developed by Richard and Claudiu Giusca whilst at NPL, with input from WG 16), allowing surface texture measuring instruments to be calibrated. Part 700 (how to determine the metrological characteristics) was also voted to become a formal new work item. The new framework of characterisation standards was also discussed - this should harmonise profile and areal methods. Richard presented on a review of scattering methods to address whether WG 16 should bring these instruments into the 600/700 fold - the committee decided to write a formal review document and continue the discussion in the next meeting (February 2019, CERN Geneva). Prof. Seewig and Richard also presented on a round robin to measure the new areal calibration artefacts developed at the University of Kaiserlautern.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description ISO 213 WG 16 meetings in BSI London 
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 Luke Todhunter and Richard Leach attended the ISO 213 WG 16 meetings in BSI London from 6-7 Feb 2018. The group are currently working on harmonising the profile and areal texture standards into one framework and on instrument calibration. Richard, Peter de Groot and Han Haitjema put forward and idea to shorten the time to publication for the calibration standard by removing much of the superfluous (their opinion) detail. This was well received and will be further considered. The next meeting will be in Poznan, Poland in September 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description Integrated Metrology for Precision Manufacturing conference 
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 Met Map 1 a success! From the 22-23 January we held the first of two conferences on Integrated Metrology for Advanced Manufacturing at the AMRC in Sheffield. Around 65 experts from industry, academia and the Catapults attended and presented a series of keynotes, state-of-the-art reviews and general talks. Discussion was lively and the key themes of new sensors, enhanced speed, data processing, control and standards came up several times. The programme is on the website below and presentation slides will be available soon. The next conference on additive manufacturing will in June at MTC. See the conference pages here.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering (icOPEN) in Shanghai 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Richard Leach attended the International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering (icOPEN) in Shanghai, China from 8th to 11th May 2018. The meeting was attended by around 400 optical and photonics experts, mainly from China, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds. Richard presented an invited paper in a special information-rich metrology session entitled "Enhancing freeform shape measurement using artificial intelligence", summarising our research in this field. The next meeting in the series will be in in Thailand in 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description International Conference on Surface Metrology (Poznan, Poland) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Keynote presentation: "Additive surface: new challenges"
Chaired session
Attended ISO 213 meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/researc...
 
Description International Forum on Microscopy 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Richard Leach attended the International Forum on Microscopy from 7th to 8th September 2019 in Beijing, China. IFM is one of the premiere meetings in the field of microscopy and many of the talks focused on the future of the subject. All talks were invited and given by some of the top researchers in the world. Richard chaired a session and presented a keynote entitled: "Towards a complete framework for calibration of optical surface measuring instruments" on the MMT work to develop the ISO calibration framework and virtual optical instruments. The first day talks are available here.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description International Precision Assembly Seminar 
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 Richard Leach attended the International Precision Assembly Seminar (IPAS) at the Majestic Conference Centre, Chamonix, France from 13th to 15th January 2018. Organised by the University of Nottingham's Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (IfAM) and helmed by IfAM director Professor Svetan Ratchev, the seminar featured twenty presentations, two keynote addresses and a dissemination session for the Horizon 2020 project OPTIMISED. While previous IPAS seminars have focused on precision assembly at the micro-scale, this year's theme explored the importance of precision assembly to larger assembly domains. The first keynote address was given by Dr Graham Herries, Director of Digital Technologies at multinational construction and civil engineering company Laing O'Rourke, and described the revolution occurring in modern construction, where digital technologies and extensive 3D modelling are now required to achieve millimetre precision in extremely large construction projects. Day two saw the second keynote given by Dr Luis Ribeiro, Associate Professor in Manufacturing Engineering of Linköping University in Sweden. The talk addressed design challenges in cyber-physical assembly systems, and the importance of not just capturing data in assembly, but also having a system architecture that can use it to achieve improvements in precision and cost. The importance of system-wide intelligence and information exchange to precision assembly was highlighted in several of the presentations given at the seminar.

Richard presented an oral paper entitled "Information-rich manufacturing metrology" and chaired a session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description International Workshop on Computational Imaging and Optical Metrology, Shanghai 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Rong Su was invited to give talk entitled "Information-optimised optical manufacturing metrology" at the International Workshop on Computational Imaging and Optical Metrology (CIOM), co-organised by Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and ZYGO Corporation took place on 11-12 July 2019 in Shanghai, China. The event brought together leading university scholars, institute leaders, practicing engineers and industry professionals to share advances in the interrelated fields of computational imaging and optical metrology, including instrumentation, applications and computational methods for advanced imaging systems.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description IoP Tribology presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Talk on "Additive surfaces: added challenges" to the Institute of Physics Tribology Group
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Keynote at ToScA 
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 Richard Leach delivered a keynote on traceability for X-ray computed tomography at the RMS ToScA conference at the University of Warwick on 11th September 201
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description MAPP Conference 
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 Matthew Hutchinson, Richard Leach, Nicola Senin, Danny Sims-Waterhouse, Petros Stavroulakis, Adam Thompson and Taufiq Widjanarko attended the 1st International Conference of the Manufacturing using Powder Processes (MAPP) EPSRC Hub in Sheffield, UK from 30th to 31st January 2018. The conference had several talks on the themes of the Hub: 1. In-situ process and performance characterisation, 2. Advanced characterisation And 3. Modelling, optimisation and control. This was the first time that MMT exhibited the CAGE fringe projection system and our photogrammetry technology. Nicola presented an oral paper entitled "Towards a quantitative understanding of surface topography in additive manufacturing" which outlined information-rich metrology, feature based surface characterisation and extraction of surface data from X-ray CT. Adam Clare from Nottingham also attended and presented a paper on "Finding and fixing defects in metal powder bed processes", focusing on work on spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy and featuring MMT's in-process research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description MESIC Conference, Madrid 2019 
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 Richard Leach attended the 8th Manufacturing Engineering Society International Conference (MESIC) in Madrid, Spain from 19th to 21st June 2019. Richard presented a keynote entitled "Estimating uncertainty for 3D point cloud measurement" and chaired a session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description Met & Props 2019 
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 Carlos Gomez, Richard Leach, Mingyu Liu, Lewis Newton, Adam Thompson and Luke Todhunter attended the 22nd Metrology & Properties of Surfaces Conference from 3 - 5 June in Lyon, France. They presented 4 oral papers: Mathematical reference standards for validating software for calculating surface texture parameters, Feature-based characterisation of Ti6Al4V electron beam powder bed fusion surfaces fabricated at different orientations, Surface characterisation with light scattering and machine learning, Case studies in X-ray computed tomography surface texture measurement; and one poster: Characterisation of the surface topography evolution of an ink-jet printed transparent fluoroplastic with coherence scanning interferometry.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description Metrology for Additive Manufacturing 
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 8 December 2015, we held the first dissemination event for the Fellowship project at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry. The event was attended by around 70 people and sparked some excellent debate. Thanks to all the speakers and to euspen for helping us organise and promote the event. Further events of this kind will be held next year.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/manufac...
 
Description Opening keynote at the 7th Micronarc Alpine Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact I gave the opening keynote at the 7th Micronarc Alpine Meeting at Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland from 31st January - 2nd February 2016.
The talk was entitled: "Next generation optical micro-metrology: beating the current barriers".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/manufac...
 
Description Quality Control for Additive Manufacturing conference (Coventry, UK) 
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 Organised and co-chaired the event
Opening talk
Co-authored 4 oral presentations on additive metrology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/researc...
 
Description SPIE Optical Metrology 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Richard Leach and Matthew Thomas attended the SPIE Optical Metrology Conference from 23-27 June 2019 at the International Congress Centre, Munich, Germany. Matthew presented and oral paper entitled "Modelling of coherence scanning interferometry for complex surfaces based on a boundary element method" and Richard presented a plenary paper entitled "Towards a complete framework for calibration of optical surface and coordinate measuring instruments".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Andrew Dickins attended and presented at the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 2019 in Austin Texas, USA to an audience of industrial and academic representatives. The conference focusses on all aspects of additive manufacturing and the advances being made to all related processes and applications. The work presented was titled "A sensor fusion approach for in-situ measurement of metal laser powder bed fusion".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description euspen 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Patrick Bointon, Lars Körner, Richard Leach, Giacomo Maculotti, Lewis Newton, Pablo Pérez (student from Zaragosa), Danny Sims-Waterhouse and Luke Todhunter attended the 18th International Conference of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (euspen) in Venice, Italy from 4th to 7th June 2018. The meeting was attended by around 370 precision engineering, metrology and manufacturing experts, from across the world, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds. MMT had a total of 7 papers (all available here).

Oral:
Patrick "The effects of vibration on fringe projection systems"
Danny "Photogrammetric coordinate metrology"
Poster:
Luke "A programmable software framework for the generation of simulated surface topography"
Lewis "Feature-based characterisation of evolving surface topographies in finishing operations for additive manufacturing"
Pablo "Lateral error compensation for focus variation microscopy"
Lars "Development of an X-ray radiograph simulator: from STL file to grey scale image"
Giacomo "Measurement noise evaluation, noise bandwidth specification and temperature effects in 3D point autofocusing microscopy".
Richard also chaired a metrology session. The next meeting in the series will be in Bilboa in 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description euspen Conference, Nottingham 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Chaired the euspen Internation Conference.
Co-author on oral paper and 2 posters
Co-chaired interest group meeting on optical metrology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/researc...
 
Description euspen Micro/Nano Manufacturing meeting 
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 Richard Leach attended the euspen Micro/Nano Manufacturing Special Interest Group meeting hosted by University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK from 8th to 9th November 2017. The meeting was attended by around 70 MN manufacturing experts, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds, and was supported by the MICROMAN EU project. Richard presented a keynote paper entitled "Enriching micro-scale metrology with an all-optical dimensional measuring system". Richard also chaired the metrology session and the following day, attended the euspen Council meeting. The next meeting in the series will be in 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description euspen SFS meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Adam Thompson, Rong Su and Richard Leach attended the euspen Structured & Freeform Surfaces Interest Group meeting in ENS-Cachan Paris, France from 26th to 29th November 2018. The meeting was attended by around 80 researchers and industrialists, and papers were presented on cutting-edge topics in surface manufacture and metrology. MMT attended a meeting on the EMPIR FreeFORM project, a tutorial on texture characterisation. Richard presented an oral paper (see the paper), Adam presented a state-of-the-art review on additive surfaces and Rong had a poster paper. Richard also chaired the conference. Our visiting professor, Peter de Groot also presented a paper on freeform optics measurement and a stand-in talk on instrument transfer function. The next meeting in the series will be in 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description euspen Structured and Freeform conference (DTU, Denmark) 
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 Chaired meeting
Oral presentation on complex form metrology for additive manufacturing
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/researc...
 
Description euspen/ASPE Conference on Dimensional Accuracy and Surface Finish in Additive Manufacturing 
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 ichard Leach, Nicola Senin, Adam Thompson, Siwen Chen, Vicente Rivas Santos and Lewis Newton attended the euspen/ASPE Conference on Dimensional Accuracy and Surface Finish in Additive Manufacturing in KU Leuven, Belgium from 10th to 11th October 2017. The meeting was attended by around 80 experts and students, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds and from mixed fields including AM, precision engineering, quality and metrology. Many of the themes this year were well-aligned to the research of MMT and there was a focus of surface texture measurement both post and in-process. Especial focus was given to understanding the industrial specification, i.e. what accuracy is needed for function, what finishing processes are needed, etc. Vicente presented an oral paper on our work with NPL and Xaar on design for metrology, entitled "Metrological design of calibration an benchmarking artefacts for an additive manufacturing system" , Nicola presented an oral paper on our work on feature analysis of PBF surface, entitled: "Feature-based characterisation of laser powder bed fusion surfaces", Adam presented a poster paper (first author was Carlos Gomez) on our CSI optimization work with Zygo, entitled "Optimisation of surface topography characterisation for metal additive manufacturing using coherence scanning interferometry" (see full paper and poster), Zhenkai Xu (from ACEL) presented a poster paper on defect evolution mapping, entitled "Defect evolution in laser powder bed fusion additive manufactured components during thermo-mechanical testing" and Jack Disicacca (Zygo) presented an oral paper on true-colour CSI for AM surfaces, entitled "True-color 3D surface metrology for additive manufacturing using interference microscopy". Richard also chaired the full day session in metrology. The next meeting in the series will be in the USA in 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description euspen/ASPE Precision Additive Manufacturing conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Richard Leach, Lewis Newton and Amrozia Shaheen attended the euspen/ASPE Advancing Precision in Additive Manufacturing conference in Nantes, France from 16-18 September 2019. Lewis presented an oral paper on "Comparison and validation of segmentation methods for feature-based characterisation of metal powder bed fusion surfaces", Amrozia an oral on "Automated characterisation of multi-view fringe projection system for three-dimensional measurement of additively manufactured parts" and Richard an oral on "Multi-sensor measurement system for metal laser powder bed fusion inspection". Amrozia won the best paper award! Richard co-chaired the conference and chaired a session. The conference was lively with good debates on how precision principles can help the commercialisation of AM technologies. The next in the series will be in Oak Ridge, USA in November 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/advanced-manufacturing-technology-research-group/resear...
 
Description gave a keynote presentation entitled "Fundamental limitations of optical 3D measuring instruments" at the 12th International Symposium on Measurement Technology and Intelligent Instruments (ISMTII) in Taipei, Taiwan 22-25 September 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Well attended conference on metrology. Met many fellow researchers, discussed collaborations and disseminated the fellowship plans.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://ismtii2015.me.ntu.edu.tw/