Milne Research Limited

**_Robotic Fabrication of Tunnel Services using Industry 4.0 for Intelligent Distributed Manufacturing (_**_RoFab-4iDM) addresses safety and productivity problems that occur when fabricating customised mechanical and electrical (M&E) installation bracketry within rail and infrastructure tunnels._ **_RoFab-4iDM will radically improve productivity and worke...

Our study examines the feasibility of an Electric Road System (ERS) which comprises overhead lines providing a power source to 44T electric trucks. This is the first step to removing diesel trucks from our roads by 2035, and thus meeting the Government's '10-point' net-zero plan for climate change. Industry is responding to the challenge laid down by succ...

The rail industry is growing fast but passenger experience within stations is often poor, particularly for the disadvantaged. But, without engaging passengers to innovate and develop solutions, the track record of success are low. The project, led by Milne Research with Costain, IBM and Institute for Manufacturing, aims to solve this problem by developing...

Customer experience is enhanced it two ways, either improving services or resolving problems well. Either case cannot be achieved without engaging customers in innovation. However, for each customer-facing organisation (CFO) the cost and risks of building the necessary IT innovation infrastructure, individually, are considerable barriers. Worse still, suc...

Recent years have seen a huge growth in the complexity of manufacturing plant, and the measurement and control systems that it uses. Process control, condition indicating, performance measuring and QC parameters are routinely measured, howver the prupose to which this data is put are only two-fold: 1) keep the plant operating within a control regime and 2...