The Federal-Mogul Chapel-en-le-Frith site (North Derbyshire) manufactures friction products (brake pads and shoes) for the automotive & rail sectors. The light vehicle market is a high volume, highly price driven market. Copper is currently utilised in friction products to add structural integrity, aid heat transfer and reduces juddering during braking etc. Recent studies have shown that copper from brake dust from cars is a significant contributor to pollution in waterways; this is then toxic to aquatic organisms. As a result of these studies two US states have introduced laws to limit copper content in brake pads to <0.1% by 2025. It is anticipated that similar limits will eventually be rolled out globally. In order to address this issue and protect and grow market share, Federal-Mogul will undertake a feasibility study to remove Cu from its light vehicle friction component formulation currently in use, by focusing primarily on the use of ‘Non-Asbestos Organic’ components as alternatives.

Driving energy reductions in industry through behavior change The Energy Project provides a series of tools to help drive energy use reductions in industrial environments through lightweight prompts to behaviour change. In contrast to standard approaches based on automating opportunities that are identified (often at high cost) our approach is to drive savings through prompting greater levels of worker engagement in energy use, creating self sustaining solutions. The interventions deployed are based on low cost re-deployable modules focused on opportunities identified by the workers in initial workshops. • live deployments at UK factory • driving employee engagement • fast to deploy • low cost modular system • adaptable for offices / factories The technology developed has been designed to be adaptable and flexible for a variety of industrial building types, factories / warehouses and offices. The central display module incorporates a GPRS connection to our database backend, which supports a sophisticated data analysis interface and rule driven alerts engine. The backend server allows web access to the team displays and our custom 3D energy viewer, an innovation that allows an instant overview of the energy status across a site.

The objective of this collaborative research is to engineer the surface of a ceramic disc to improve it’s robustness to the environment in which it operates and to potentially improve wear and make the surface renewable for sustainability.

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