Network Plus: Industrial Systems in the Digital Age
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Nottingham
Department Name: Faculty of Engineering
Abstract
Industry and Manufacturing are changing with the advent of smart digital, autonomous and intelligent technologies. Values for manufacturers are changing from production to technological knowhow and design; ownership models are changing from outright ownership to collaborative and long term partnership; media are continuing their shift from physical to digital; there is an increasing focus on distribution of work and service; and the partnership between the manufacturing sector and the technology sector is increasingly key. This shift is taking place in the societal and business context of the UK in the 21st Century. In order to harness the potential from this shift, the changes in human skills, capabilities and working environments needs to be considered, alongside the development and change in business models that underpin industry and innovation.
European colleagues have responded to this notion with a systems approach by coining the term 'Industrie 4.0'(or Industry 4.0). Changes to future industrial systems in the digital age demands funded research in order to ensure that the UK is well placed within an international context to respond to the challenges presented from industry and to implement new science and engineering into real world systems as quickly and effectively as possible.
This proposal outlines a Network Plus activity that will bring together core colleagues from the Manufacturing, Digital Economy, Design, Human Factors and Business communities to build new collaborations between leading academics and industry partners. The network will move beyond Industry 4.0 to develop new 'state of the art' perspectives on future industrial systems, which will encompass technology advances, and human, business and social perspectives, to ensure a full understanding of the realities of implementing digital technologies into future industrial systems. There will be a particular focus on ensuring that challenges addressed within the Network Plus are driven by the current and future industrial context.
The Network Plus will a) identify relevant elements from these existing activities to conduct international benchmarking and establish the UK lead in specific elements of relevance to Future Industrial Systems in the Digital Age; b) enhance cross-sectorial learning; and c) identify new, discipline-bridging, agenda-setting opportunities for feasibility studies leading to scientific insight and future funding applications from national and international funders.
European colleagues have responded to this notion with a systems approach by coining the term 'Industrie 4.0'(or Industry 4.0). Changes to future industrial systems in the digital age demands funded research in order to ensure that the UK is well placed within an international context to respond to the challenges presented from industry and to implement new science and engineering into real world systems as quickly and effectively as possible.
This proposal outlines a Network Plus activity that will bring together core colleagues from the Manufacturing, Digital Economy, Design, Human Factors and Business communities to build new collaborations between leading academics and industry partners. The network will move beyond Industry 4.0 to develop new 'state of the art' perspectives on future industrial systems, which will encompass technology advances, and human, business and social perspectives, to ensure a full understanding of the realities of implementing digital technologies into future industrial systems. There will be a particular focus on ensuring that challenges addressed within the Network Plus are driven by the current and future industrial context.
The Network Plus will a) identify relevant elements from these existing activities to conduct international benchmarking and establish the UK lead in specific elements of relevance to Future Industrial Systems in the Digital Age; b) enhance cross-sectorial learning; and c) identify new, discipline-bridging, agenda-setting opportunities for feasibility studies leading to scientific insight and future funding applications from national and international funders.
Planned Impact
This Network Plus will generate impact for the following groups:
- Industry: through new knowledge generated in feasibility studies, including new insight into data sets examined via feasibility studies, new partnerships formed through industry participation in networking events, new research potentially directly funded by industry, and competitive advantage both for specific industrial network participant and industry within the UK as a whole. Industry will benefit through participation in Network Plus events, supporting academic placements in industry, and feasibility studies, and through the resources produced by the Network Plus, including a road map and accessible demonstrations of Future Industrial Systems in a Digital Age. These outputs will help industry identify suitable collaboration partners for future research, and determine opportunities for investment in new technologies.
- Policy makers: through identification of key challenges and opportunities for the UK in future industrial systems, demonstration of potential technologies to be deployed within industrial settings, and prioritisation of requirements for research and capital investment, and use of the road map produced as part of the Network Plus which will identifies strengths and opportunities for UK industry and academia for future Industrial Systems in the Digital Age. This will enable them to decide on financial priorities, encourage partnerships between key industrial and academic stakeholders, and influence standards and regulatory frameworks.
- General public: through new insight into the future notions that will be embedded in digitally-led industrial systems. This will be achieved through accessible dissemination resources such as videos.
- Industry: through new knowledge generated in feasibility studies, including new insight into data sets examined via feasibility studies, new partnerships formed through industry participation in networking events, new research potentially directly funded by industry, and competitive advantage both for specific industrial network participant and industry within the UK as a whole. Industry will benefit through participation in Network Plus events, supporting academic placements in industry, and feasibility studies, and through the resources produced by the Network Plus, including a road map and accessible demonstrations of Future Industrial Systems in a Digital Age. These outputs will help industry identify suitable collaboration partners for future research, and determine opportunities for investment in new technologies.
- Policy makers: through identification of key challenges and opportunities for the UK in future industrial systems, demonstration of potential technologies to be deployed within industrial settings, and prioritisation of requirements for research and capital investment, and use of the road map produced as part of the Network Plus which will identifies strengths and opportunities for UK industry and academia for future Industrial Systems in the Digital Age. This will enable them to decide on financial priorities, encourage partnerships between key industrial and academic stakeholders, and influence standards and regulatory frameworks.
- General public: through new insight into the future notions that will be embedded in digitally-led industrial systems. This will be achieved through accessible dissemination resources such as videos.
Publications
Alhumayani H
(2020)
Environmental assessment of large-scale 3D printing in construction: A comparative study between cob and concrete
in Journal of Cleaner Production
Bowler A
(2021)
Convolutional feature extraction for process monitoring using ultrasonic sensors
in Computers & Chemical Engineering
Bowler A
(2021)
Domain Adaptation and Federated Learning for Ultrasonic Monitoring of Beer Fermentation
in Fermentation
Bowler A
(2021)
Predicting Alcohol Concentration during Beer Fermentation Using Ultrasonic Measurements and Machine Learning
in Fermentation
Charnley F
(2019)
Simulation to Enable a Data-Driven Circular Economy
in Sustainability
Easson M
(2018)
Structure/Function Analysis of Nonwoven Cotton Topsheet Fabrics: Multi-Fiber Blending Effects on Fluid Handling and Fabric Handle Mechanics.
in Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
Fisher O
(2021)
Multiple target data-driven models to enable sustainable process manufacturing: An industrial bioprocess case study
in Journal of Cleaner Production
Fisher O
(2022)
Data-driven modelling for resource recovery: Data volume, variability, and visualisation for an industrial bioprocess
in Biochemical Engineering Journal
Gomaa M
(2021)
3D printing system for earth-based construction: Case study of cob
in Automation in Construction
Gomaa M
(2019)
Thermal performance exploration of 3D printed cob
in Architectural Science Review
| Description | The Network Plus identified a series of challenges and demonstrators that provided a strong basis for focussed research and innovation in digital manufacturing. It brought together a community of over 270 members reflecting a range of industry and academic participants, who are now collaborating effectively on a range of multidisciplinary projects. Three international conferences were hosted by the network, and eight placements were hosted for early career researchers. We funded 11 feasibility studies that all had strong industry engagement. On the basis of the framework established further funding for Connected Everything II was awarded in Mid 2019. |
| Exploitation Route | Research challenge reports published. Networks established. Feasibility study reports all published and freely available to all to use. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Chemicals,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Retail,Transport |
| URL | http://www.connectedeverything.ac.uk |
| Description | Thematic area documents have been developed and made publicly available via the network web site. We understand that these documents have been referred to by network members as part of preparation of further funding bids and other publications. These documents also provided the basis for academic input into the Made Smarter ISCF bid. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| Impact Types | Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Enable Programme - Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Leadership Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Supporting the development of the research pillar of ISCF Made Smarter programme |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Reference to Connected Everything research themes included within Made Smarter ISCF objectives. |
| URL | https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/404/overview |
| Description | EPSRC Digital Manufacturing Funding Call (funding awarded to Cranfield University) |
| Amount | £775,606 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R032041/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | EPSRC MAPP hub project: Programmable In-Powder Sensors (PIPS) for Real Time Metrology and Data Analysis in Powder Processes |
| Amount | £47,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 08/2019 |
| Description | University of Liverpool EPSRC IAA (Impact Acceleration Account) |
| Amount | £12,367 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | University of Nottingham EPSRC IAA (Impact Acceleration Account) |
| Amount | £10,750 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 07/2018 |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://research.cardiff.ac.uk/converis/portal/detail/Dataset/85543144?auxfun=<=en_GB |
| Description | Collaboration with the Manufacturing Technology Centre of the HVM Catapult in relation to the second round feasibility studies |
| Organisation | Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Network Plus has provided input into the ongoing development of policy and research around the industry strategy |
| Collaborator Contribution | The MTC contributed £60k towards the funding of 5 feasibility studies (as part of the second round of funding, 6 having been previously funded). These monies added to the funds provided by the EP/001246/1 funding and enabled an additional study to be awarded (the plan and budget had been for 10 projects). The MTC was actively involved in the reviewing of the submitted proposals as well as the final funding decisions. |
| Impact | It is too early in the lifecycles of the funding projects to identify outputs or outcomes as only 2 of the 5 projects have kicked off, with the remaining 3 due to kick off in March/April 2018 |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | A real-time porosity prediction model for laser powder bed fusion builds |
| Description | Recent developments in additive manufacturing (AM) monitoring methods have been introduced to satisfy the quality standards expected in risk averse industries (e.g. aerospace and biomedical implants). However, due to limitations such as slow response rates of the sensors equipped in AM systems and significant image processing requirements, it is difficult to apply these developmental monitoring methods on production systems in realtime. The work herein proposes a real-time predictive model that can be used to indicate defective areas in layers of laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) builds. A second-order auto-regressive (AR) model was trained on a photodiode signal and was used to predict porous regions of the builds. Existing defective areas of the build were first identified using a database of computer tomography (CT) images. Induced defects could provide a poor representation of real defect phenomena. Hence an L-PBF build with naturally formed defects was examined in this study. By comparing the machine-learnt predictions with the CT images it was demonstrated that the proposed predictive model is capable of predicting pores, with a minimum diameter of approximately 100 µm, in L-PBF builds with an average true positive rate (TPR) of 88.47%. |
| IP Reference | 2118009.6 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2021 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | To get to this point the timeline was: Connected Everything feasibility study (2017) PhD completed in area of research (2020) Patent submitted (2022) |
| Description | 2017 Industrial Systems in the Digital Age 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 | The 2017 Conference was held on 20 and 21 June at the University of Glasgow, attracting nearly 90 delegates, representing over 40 institutions/ organisations. There were 3 keynote talks, 6 feasibility studies presentations, 2 presentations from industry perspectives, 11 oral presentations and over 30 poster presentations. Delegate feedback has been sought via an online survey post conference - of the responses been submitted to date, all have said that they were either Satisfied (35%) or Very Satisfied (65%) with the event overall and 95% would recommend the conference to a colleague. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://connectedeverything.ac.uk/activities/events/conference-2017/ |
| Description | AFRC Digital Manufacturing Workshop (Feb 2017) |
| 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 | On 10 February 2017, the AFRC held a research focussed workshop on the theme of digital manufacturing, where academic experts were given the opportunity to meet, discuss and capture current research and discuss potential future opportunities in digital manufacturing. The Network Plus was promoted by one of the speakers and, together with some personal representation by the Network Plus manager, resulted in the sign up of new members to the Network as well as plans to undertake future related activity with a number of organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://hvm.catapult.org.uk/news-events-gallery/events/digital-manufacturing-workshop/ |
| Description | Appetite for Engineering Conference 2017 (Feasibility Study PI Nik Watson) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Over 150 senior executives from all areas of the food and beverage production sector came together at Appetite for Engineering to discuss challenges and opportunities and they left inspired to consider new solutions to tackle old production problems and to adopt more innovative and novel approaches to ensure their continuing success in this competitive sector. Dr Nik Watson presented the Network funded BrewNet feasibility study at this conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://appetite4eng.co.uk/speakers |
| Description | Connected Everything Conference 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 | The 2018 Conference was held on 26 and 27 June at Newcastle University, attracting 95 delegates, representing over 40 institutions/ organisations. There were 3 keynote talks, 6 feasibility studies presentations, 5 presentations from industry perspectives, 6 other presentations, a workshop session to inform ISCF Wave 3 Made Smarter research challenges and over 30 poster presentations. Delegate feedback has been sought via an online survey post conference - all have said that they were either Sat |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://connectedeverything.ac.uk/events/conference-2018/ |
| Description | Connected Everything Winter Workshop 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The workshop was organised by Professor Ahmad Lotfi and Mr. Pedro Machado and took place from 9-11 January 2019 at Nottingham Trent University. It featured 15 keynote talks by established researchers and also provided an opportunity for the 30 PhD students and early career researchers who attended to share their research experiences. The workshop was successful in achieving its aim to present recent advances in industrial digitalisation, robotics and automation to PhD students and early career researchers working in related fields. Participants had a great opportunity for learning, discussion and networking with fellow researchers from other institutes. The event triggered some follow-up meetings between speakers and participants for preparing proposals targeting UK funding opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://smartindustry4.uk/ |
| Description | Connected Everything conference 2019 |
| 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 | Conference held in Nottingham to close the first tranch of funding for Connected Everything. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://connectedeverything.ac.uk/conference-2019-2/ |
| Description | Connected Everything: 2017 Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Machine Learning in Manufacturing Summer School: Addressing the Challenges of Industry 4.0, which took place from 12-15 September 2017 at Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, was a collaboration between Professor Darek Ceglarek from Warwick Manufacturing Group and Dr Rajesh Ransing from Swansea University. The Summer School was funded by Connected Everything: Industrial Systems in the Digital Age, the EPSRC Funded Network Plus and kindly sponsored by Natural Computing Applications Forum (NCAF) and Neural Computing and Applications (NC&A) Journal. Industry 4.0, Digital Manufacturing, Big Data Analytics have created new opportunities for cross-fertilisation of machine learning and manufacturing streams. The objective of the Summer School was to bring together research students and early career researchers in statistics, the machine learning and data mining community with interest in manufacturing as well as manufacturing researchers who wanted to see how information technology and artificial intelligence could help them. The summer school aimed to bring those interdisciplinary teams together. 30 Postgraduate students and early career researchers attended. Amongst the topics explored were Predictive Analytics and Data Visualisation in Manufacturing; Supply Chain Management and Connected Enterprise; Automated Inspection and Image Processing; and Human-Robot and Robot-Robot Interactions. Leading experts from manufacturing industries spoke on the current challenges they were facing in their journey towards Industry 4.0. They identified expectations from machine learning community and presented a number of inspiring and thought-provoking case studies. In addition, there were group discussions, hands-on examples on industry-relevant problems, and a mock EPSRC style panel review meeting. Students were asked to bring a poster of their current work/interests and prepare a 'reflective' presentation starting with their machine learning problem and sharing their experience on what worked best, what could have done better, what did not work as expected, and any topics that they want to suggest for group discussions. The purpose of the presentation was to facilitate peer discussions and Q&A in order to gain feedback. Time was also allocated some time for group discussions on topics of delegates' choice. Students also received the chance to take part in the Summer School Competition: a chance to win £1000 prize, sponsored by the Neural Computing and Applications Journal, on the Uni-pol Challenge on data analytics and machine learning. It was an opportunity for machine learning experts to make a difference. The organisers are also preparing a special issue of the Neural Computing and Applications Journal. Plans are in place to hold a similar event next year at Swansea and continue then every year at different University locations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ncaf.org.uk/ |
| Description | D4I Group meeting March 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hosted the D4I group meeting at the University of Nottingham, which was attended by 42 industrial representatives, members of professional associations, academics and those working within the HVM Catapult. Professor Sharples gave a talk on the development of key research challenges and how they are influencing work on the ISCF digital manufacturing proposal. Moira Petrie gave a talk on the upcoming Connected Everything conference and highlighted the different ways delegates could get involved. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Digital 4 Industry [D4I] Industry Forum event December 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented the work of the Network to the group, with specific focus on our activities around the identification of the research challenges underpinning the move to industrial digitalisation. Presentation was used to kick off a workshop session and identification of strengths and gaps in this work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Digital 4 Industry [D4I] group meeting (August 2017) |
| 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 | Hosted the D4I group meeting at the University of Nottingham, which was attended by 40 industrial representatives, members of professional associations, academics and those working within the HVM Catapult. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Disruptive Innovation Festival (online, November 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mariale Moreno (Cranfield) and Windo Hutabarat (Sheffield) gave a presentation on their Circular Economy 4.0 feasibility study, funded by the network, raising the profile of their project and the network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Formulation 4.0 meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The meeting showcased a number of ongoing activities which are aimed at accelerating the uptake of industry 4.0 principles throughout the formulation supply chain. Exective Group member Professor David Brown (Portsmouth) presented the work of Connected Everything and talked through some of the tools that may enable Formulation 4.0 for processes and plants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.formulation.org.uk/f4home.html |
| Description | Industry 4.0 Summit (Feb/March 2018) |
| 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 | The Industry 4.0 Summit was held over 2 days. The Network had a stand as part of the event's exhibition. The primary focus of this stand was to publicise our 11 funded feasibility studies, although other activities were also highlighted. A number of interesting discussions were had and we were able to signpost interested delegates to the appropriate contacts for further discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MTC Annual Conference 2016: Digitising Manufacturing 2016 Policy, End Users & Society (Nov 2016) |
| 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 | This conference built on the previous year's event. Over 100 delegates from academia and industry attended this day conference, which focused on understanding how to drive digitisation of the UK manufacturing sector. Speakers from Sweden and Germany provided a European context. The Network Plus was publicised in one of the talks, which generated interest and sign up of new members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.the-mtc.org/Industry%204.0%20Conference/Digitising%20Manufacturing%202016%20-%20Conferenc... |
| Description | Manufacturing 2075 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk at Manufacturing 2075 event at Cranfield University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Manufacturing for the Future event (London) (Jan 2017) |
| 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 | Organised by Digital and Physical Science South, this workshop focussed on the relationship between "physical and digital" to consider how ideas of the Circular Economy and more generally environmental and social issues, Servitisation, Automation, and the whole 'maker approach' should influence the future of manufacturing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Network Plus Kick Off Meeting (Oct 2016) |
| 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 | 59 delegates representing UK universities, Catapults and industry attended the Network Plus kick off event on 17 October 2016. The delegates heard presentations from the HVM and Digital Catapults, the FCO Science and Innovation Network and the EPSRC, as well as insights from representatives of the academic community on the current issues facing research supporting the digitisation of industry. Delegates then took part in a series of workshop activities. On key activity focussed on identifying thematic areas about which the Network would focus future event activity over the next three years. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | New technologies and measurement of biomechanical risk factors: Keeping employees' digital footprints under control |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation exploring potential for physiological and subjective measures for capturing real time industrial performance and experience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UK Manufacturing Forum (Warwick, December 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event brought together leading academics, senior figures from industry and the HVM Catapult to explore both emerging trends and opportunities for collaboration across the national manufacturing ecosystem to lever the greatest benefit for the UK and multiply our economic impact. The work of the network was presented by Executive Group member Professor Roger Maull (University of Surrey) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://hvm.catapult.org.uk/news-events-gallery/news/uk-manufacturing-forum-research-uk-success/ |
| Description | UK Manufacturing Forum 2018 |
| 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 | This event brought together leading academics, senior figures from industry and the HVM Catapult to explore both emerging trends and opportunities for collaboration across the national manufacturing ecosystem to lever the greatest benefit for the UK and multiply our economic impact. The work of the network was presented by Professor Sarah Sharples (Nottingham). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UK-China Food Detection Forum (Jiangsu China, Nov 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Nik Watson was invited to this event in China to present his work on the BrewNet feasibility study being funded by the network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | University Outreach day at Ricardo Knowledge |
| 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 | Ricardo Knowledge held a University Outreach Day at their new Centenary Innovation Centre to showcase their expertise, research, support and training facilities. Professor David Brown represented the Network at this event and promoted its work to the industry as well as academic representatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |