Public Funding for Sysemia Limited

Future Engineering System brings together SME CFMS, aerospace prime Rolls Royce, leading global engineering and technology services company Siemens, systems integrator Sysemia and digital quality specialist eQ-Technologic with academic specialists from the Sheffield Advanced Computing Research Centre and Leeds University Socio-Technical Centre. The consortium will develop and demonstrate a prototype Future Engineering System (FES) infrastructure to fully integrate engineering data sources within the process lifecycle management (PLM) tool chain. Within the FES, we will demonstrate the integration of raw data from CFD and FEA analyses via JT Open to Siemens PLM, with uncertainty quantification and management (UQ&M) functions and automated agent-based quality control. This will be exercised against real industrial use cases from Rolls Royce and demonstrated within a prototype system at CFMS. Dissemination to the wider community – including the aerospace, civil, automotive and renewable energy sectors – will be via a programme of open events.

Sysemia regularly undertakes research in projects carried out for its core aerospace market. It is an integral part of the company’s philosophy to substantially improve technology by investing time and money. Consequently, it has close working relationships with local universities where it sponsors postgraduate students. As part of its strategic development programme the company has taken existing capabilities in Knowledge Management and visualisation, and combined it with expertise in Museums, Cultural Communication, and Digital Entertainment to undertake this project. ‘Every Object Tells a Story’ aims to explore how technology can be used to enhance people’s experiences of their immediate space, its content and context. Delivering contextual information related to a physical environment and adapted to personal interest enables data to be used in targeted ways, making otherwise invisible connections visible. This allows users to make more sense of the world around them, and information providers to offer content exactly where and when it is needed

The High Efficiency END-to-End (HiEND) project addresses the ability of AM to operate as an effective manufacturing route for mid to mass market by proving a viable business/manufacturing model for producing 50,000 units p.a. for our target product within 3-5 year. Once completed we expect to be able to redefine the boundaries of AM capability and the component features that will make it a attractive process. Successful proof is not only that the number of units can be produced but includes achieving production at a competitive cost, quality and with an acceptable performance envelope.