STAM to attend the 2017 Advanced Engineering Conference
STAM, as part of a Trinity College Dublin team, is participating in a series of talks at the Advanced Engineering 2017 conference in the NEC in Birmingham across the 1st and 2nd of November 2017. Key talks the Trinity team will be covering include:
- How companies successfully partner with Irish Universities - Industry Engagement at Trinity College Dublin
- Making manufacturing processes SMART- embedding sensors into machine tools and processes- cases from the medical manufacturing industry
- Extreme Heat Transfer- unlocking the science to optimize the design and manufacturing next generation automotive systems and devices
- Metal Additive Manufacturing: From solid-state to laser processing and analytics at all scales, the complete additive manufacturing loop
Talk Details
Talk: How companies successfully partner with Irish Universities - Industry Engagement at Trinity College Dublin
Advanced Engineering Forum: Day 2 : 12.10-12.40
Trinity College, The University of Dublin, is Ireland highest ranked university and a member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU).
Trinity has a strong history and continued commitment to proactively seeing research commercialized, and impacting society. Companies engage with Trinity College to access our talent pipeline, license our technologies, collaborate to develop new products or processes, access our world class research infrastructure and expertise to provide technology and business solutions. Our industry partners are as varied and diverse as our research themes, ranging from well-known multinationals such as Intel, Google, IBM and Pfizer to innovative Irish SMEs like Sigmoid Pharma, Vitalograph and Welocalize.
Innovation at Trinity connects with society at many levels developing a vibrant start-up and entrepreneurial culture. The excellence of our graduates and staff is reflected in the success of our spin-outs and leading companies who employ them. The talk will (i) outline our key research themes, (ii) illustrate best practices engagement with industry case studies and (iii) identify international funding programmes that can support Industry accessing our graduate and research excellence.
Dr. Chris Keely
Senior Business Development Manager
Office of Corporate Partnership & Knowledge Exchange
Trinity Research and Innovation
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Talk: Making manufacturing processes SMART- embedding sensors into machine tools and processes- cases from the medical manufacturing industry
Connected Manufacturing Forum: Day 1: 12.30-13.00
(KEYNOTE)
INDUSTRY 4.0 proved to be an excellent vehicle for driving forward the agenda of connected machines and the Industrial Internet of Things. In the last 5 year, the pace of change in manufacturing industry regarding the levels of digitalisation has been dramatic, enabled by service offerings and solutions from vendors and suppliers and researchers. With this level of digital infrastructure in place, the key question arise of how to get value from the data, how to effect change in manufacturing processes that have impact, increasing energy efficiency, optimizing use of consumables, reducing risk of part damage. The opportunity now is to make the manufacturing process SMART. Dr. O Donnell will present on research undertake in the medical manufacturing industry on the use of embedded sensing in in-process analytics to drive change within the manufacturing processes.
Professor Garret O Donnell
Director Science and Technology in Advanced Manufacturing (STAM)
Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Department, Trinity College Dublin
Garret.ODonnell@tcd.ie
Talk: Extreme Heat Transfer- unlocking the science to optimize the design and manufacturing next generation automotive systems and devices
Automotive Engineering Forum: Day 1 : 12.50-13.10
Like many others, the automotive industry is being faced with increasing demand for information processing and are including evermore high technology electronic components and packages in their automobile designs. The current trends, including the computerization of transport, autonomous vehicles, high power LEDs, advanced thermal comfort and the pending proliferation of electric vehicle are changing the landscape of automotive thermal management. A particularly critical issue is the escalating power density of electronic components. As heat fluxes exceed 100 W/cm2, conventional air cooling technologies are no longer viable. In the near future, heat fluxes 10 times this level are projected and illustrates the obvious fact that if advanced cooling technologies are not engineered in pace with the advancement of electronics components, thermal management will inhibit progress of new age automobiles. In this this talk, some promising emerging technologies for extreme heat transfer will be discussed and future trends and outlook will be outlined.
Professor Anthony Robinson
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Department
Trinity College Dublin
Talk: Metal Additive Manufacturing: From solid-state to laser processing and analytics at all scales, the complete additive manufacturing loop
Performance Metals Engineering Forum: Day 2 : 11.00-11.20
Engineers of a certain generation got to know traditional manufacturing processes of machining, forming, casting and welding in their formal education, and in more recent year additive is something “new”. However the new engineers currently in their formative education accept that additive and 3D print is yet “another” technology that can be used- nothing new. A key question is presented, are we designing-for-additive-manufacturing or are we still thinking in our traditional way? A new multiscale research group with both fundamental and applied research in the additive manufacturing field of medical prosthesis, aero meta-material and oil and gas has proposed new models for considering these issues in the course of the applied research projects with industry. Examples of the approach and technologies are presented.
Professor Rocco Lupoi
Director Science and Technology in Advanced Manufacturing (STAM)
Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Department, Trinity College Dublin