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Future Metrology Hub: Enhancing Precision and Automation in Manufacturing

• Metrology is the infrastructure for manufacturing, and advanced metrology is being used to enhance the precision and automation of robotic machining systems.
• The Future Metrology Hub is one of 13 EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hubs focused on the measurement of features related to physical manufacturing, with over 70 academic and industrial partners.
• Accuracy in manufacturing is a fundamental requirement, with traditional product verification processes typically accounting for 10-20% of finished product costs, representing over £15 billion per year in the UK alone.
• The Hub is led by Professor Dame Jane Yang and focuses on creating groundbreaking embedded metrology and universal metrology informatics to be applied in a closed smart manufacturing environment.
• The Sheffield spoke of the Hub is focused on metrology informatics and the extraction of maximal information from product and in-process data to provide a health assessment of the parts being manufactured.
• The Hub has developed an advanced language that machines can read and interpret called the Category Semantic Language, and mathematics underpins the process of analyzing and interpreting measurement data.
• The Hub is developing ultra-high-speed 3D vision systems based on fringe projection and developing a form of lidar-like radar to achieve precise distance measurements of better than one-tenth of a micrometer.
• The Hub's research has led to innovation in the use of advanced metrology to increase the precision and automation of robotic machining, with a focus on aerospace manufacturing.
• The Hub is working with the High Value Manufacturing Catapult's metrology teams and their industrial partners to ensure alignment and relevance of research.
• The Hub is engaged with numerous large OEMs as well as smaller businesses to ensure that research is being carried through into the wider industrial landscape and solving challenges that businesses are facing.
• Projects such as Airbus' Wing of Tomorrow program and the Tempest Future Fighter program stand to benefit from the Hub's work, ensuring that the UK continues to compete globally in the manufacturing space.
• The Hub aims to deliver groundbreaking technologies that will lead to a step change in the UK manufacturing capability and is always keen to close its network of academic and industry partners.

Future Metrology Hub: Enhancing Precision and Automation in Manufacturing

• Metrology is the infrastructure for manufacturing, and advanced metrology is being used to enhance the precision and automation of robotic machining systems.
• The Future Metrology Hub is one of 13 EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hubs focused on the measurement of features related to physical manufacturing, with over 70 academic and industrial partners.
• Accuracy in manufacturing is a fundamental requirement, with traditional product verification processes typically accounting for 10-20% of finished product costs, representing over £15 billion per year in the UK alone.
• The Hub is led by Professor Dame Jane Yang and focuses on creating groundbreaking embedded metrology and universal metrology informatics to be applied in a closed smart manufacturing environment.
• The Sheffield spoke of the Hub is focused on metrology informatics and the extraction of maximal information from product and in-process data to provide a health assessment of the parts being manufactured.
• The Hub has developed an advanced language that machines can read and interpret called the Category Semantic Language, and mathematics underpins the process of analyzing and interpreting measurement data.
• The Hub is developing ultra-high-speed 3D vision systems based on fringe projection and developing a form of lidar-like radar to achieve precise distance measurements of better than one-tenth of a micrometer.
• The Hub's research has led to innovation in the use of advanced metrology to increase the precision and automation of robotic machining, with a focus on aerospace manufacturing.
• The Hub is working with the High Value Manufacturing Catapult's metrology teams and their industrial partners to ensure alignment and relevance of research.
• The Hub is engaged with numerous large OEMs as well as smaller businesses to ensure that research is being carried through into the wider industrial landscape and solving challenges that businesses are facing.
• Projects such as Airbus' Wing of Tomorrow program and the Tempest Future Fighter program stand to benefit from the Hub's work, ensuring that the UK continues to compete globally in the manufacturing space.
• The Hub aims to deliver groundbreaking technologies that will lead to a step change in the UK manufacturing capability and is always keen to close its network of academic and industry partners.