NMIS Industry Doctorate Programme in Advanced Manufacturing

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland is an industry-led international centre of manufacturing expertise where research, industry and the public sector work together to transform skills, productivity and innovation to attract investment and make Scotland a global leader in advanced manufacturing.

Scotland’s manufacturing sector recognises that skills are an essential component of growth and innovation. Business leaders have identified a need for strategic support to help them understand where and how they should allocate their manufacturing investment in Industry 4.0 resources.

NMIS-IDP Cohort ‘1’

The following projects were awarded by SRPe in October 2018 under the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland Industry Doctorate Programme (NMIS-IDP).

Advanced Digital Manufacturing Techniques for Complex Warships

Academic Institution: University of Strathclyde

Industry Partner: BAE Systems Naval Ships

NMIS Industry Doctorate Programme in Advanced Manufacturing

NMIS-IDP Cohort ‘1’

Advanced Digital Manufacturing Techniques for Complex Warships

Linking Digital Manufacturing to a Digital Tablet: Simulating Tablet Disintegration Using Discrete Element and Pore-scale Modelling

Electroforming of Large Scale Nickel Structures for Leading Edge Energy, Aerospace and Marine Applications

Advanced Manufacturing for Personalised Vascular Grafts

Digital Manufacturing of Industrial Lasers

NMIS-IDP Cohort ‘2’

Studying Crystallinity Gradients in High Performance Thermoplastic Composites Manufactured by Automated Tape Placement

Development of Advanced Manufacturing Platform for High Integrity Forged Components

Investigation and Optimisation of a Design-for-Manufacture Deposition Method for Single Layer Graphene

Advanced Manufacturing for Vascular Graft Sealant Technology

Production of Whisky using Specialty Malts: An Optimised Process

Novel AI Techniques in Dealing with Manufacturing Variations for Automobile Assembly Systems

Investigation of Thermoplastic Composite Forming Processes for Automotive and Industrial Structures Production

Remanufacture of Marine Composite Components based on Improved Service Data and Field Diagnostics

Induced Ductile to Brittle Transition Impact Cut (IDBTIC)

NMIS-IDP Cohort ‘3’

A high yield micro-assembly for wafer scale, hybrid opto-electronic systems manufacturing

Complex data analytics in augmented manufacturing environments

Manufacturing packaging and assembly of advanced and highly integrated electronics

Flow Forming of Materials for Aerostructures

The Development of Automated Decision Making for Non Destructive Testing of Additive Manufactured Parts

Assembling Control Architecture for Integrated Quantum Circuits

Development of Liquid Moulding Process for Aerospace Grade Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

NMIS-IDP Cohort ‘4’

Digital design strategies for industrial crystallisation development: Considering active pharmaceutical ingredient properties and crystalliser hydrodynamics for process scale up

A framework for efficient design and manufacture of multifunctional composite materials for light-weighting aerospace structures

Investigation of Innovative Process Control Technologies for Manufacturing of High Precision Optical Film Stacks in Drum-Sputter Coaters

A Digital Twin for techno-economic modelling and optimisation of carbon bed systems for Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) abatement in the pharma industry

Development of hybrid compounds for compression moulding for structural composites

Process Developments for Sustainable Electrochemical Machining (SECM)

Towards lightweight corrosion-resistant impeller for vertical chemical pump through novel composites additive manufacturing

Characterisation of Manufacturing Defects in Composite Pipes

3D printing of microscale graded shape memory components for in-vivo actuated medical devices