French, R. and Marin-Reyes, H. (2016) Underpinning UK High-Value Manufacturing: Development of a Robotic Re-manufacturing System. In: 2016 IEEE 21st Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA). 2016 IEEE 21st Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 06-09 Sep 2016, Berlin. IEEE ISBN 978-1-5090-1314-2
Abstract
Impact and its measure of outcome is a given performance indicator within academia. Impact metrics and the associated understanding play a large part of how academic research is judged and ultimately funded. Natural progression of successful scientific research into industry is now an essential tool for academia. This paper describes what began over ten years ago as a concept to automate a bespoke welding system, highlighting its evolution from the research laboratories of The University of Sheffield to become a platform technology for aerospace remanufacturing developed though industry-academia collaboration. The design process, funding mechanisms, research and development trials and interaction between robotic technology and experienced welding engineers has made possible the construction of a robotic aerospace turbofan jet engine blade re-manufacturing system. This is a joint collaborative research and development project carried out by VBC Instrument Engineering Limited (UK) and The University of Sheffield (UK) who are funded by the UK governments’ innovation agency, Innovate-UK with the Aerospace Technology Institute, the Science and Facilities Technology Council (STFC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 IEEE Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. |
Keywords: | Robot; Welding; Manufacturing; Academia |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) UNSPECIFIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL ST/M001938/1 EUROPEAN COMMISSION - FP6/FP7 AIDA - 262025 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL ST/I004262/1 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL UNSPECIFIED INNOVATE UK (TSB) UNSPECIFIED EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 654168 ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2016 14:10 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:34 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733705 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733705 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103490 |