Centre for Precision Manufacturing
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EDITORIAL
Centre for Precision Manufacturing Xichun Luo1
© International Society for Nanomanufacturing and Tianjin University and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
The Centre for Precision Manufacturing (CPM) is an internationally leading research centre for advanced manufacturing. The centre researches and develops materials, processes, tools, machinery, and numerical modelling techniques for improving economic and technical performance of materials and manufacturing processes with advanced precision, micro- and nano-manufacturing techniques. CPM is one of the most successful centres in Europe in attracting external funding (over £40 million) to conduct industry-relevant research. The centre led the EU FP6 flagship integrated project MASMICRO, one of the largest-ever funded EU projects in the EU NMP theme (€21.4 million budget and 36 partners from 13 EU countries) which led to a series of new design and manufacturing solutions in dealing with materials, size effects, micro-handling, inspection, benchtop machine designs, and manufacturing systems integrations and being evaluated as “the project could help Europe become the world leader in mass-manufacture of microcomponents”, FP7 Polytubes project (€5.0 million, 18 partners), FP7 Micro-FAST project (€7.5 million, 18 partners) and UK EPSRC flexible manufacturing programme Micro3D project (£2.1 million, 10 partners). The centre’s staff played key roles in EPSRC/TSB funded SAMULET Project, EU FP7 M3-2S, and ManuCloud Projects. Currently, the centre is leading a H2020 Fast-SMART project (€6.8 million, 13 partners) and a UK EPSRC future manufacturing systems project SMART-MAN (£2.8 million, 11 partners) and plays a key role in three H2020 projects with a research folio of over £12 million. The Centre for Precision Manufacturing is proud of setting the agenda in terms of its innovative approach. Our seminal work in micromanufacturing and hybrid machining has now been recognised internationally thanks to the two popular books published by Elsevier in 2010 (2nd edition in
* Xichun Luo [email protected] 1
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
2015) and 2018. The centre is comprised of three research groups, including: • Precision Forming and Micro-manufacturing, led by
Prof. Yi Qin.
• Precision and Ultra-precision Machining, led by Prof.
Xichun Luo.
• Light Metals Advanced Technology: led by Dr. Andrzej
Rosochowski.
Professor Yi Qin is a Professor in Manufacturing Technology and Systems, Director of the Centre for Precision Manufacturing, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Manufacturing Review, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture, Secretary to the Committee of the UK University Manufacturing Engineering Consortium, and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Professor Qin has published over 250 technical articles on various subjects in the fields of materials, manufacturing, and numeric modelling, including a book “Micro-Manufacturing Engineering and Technology” (published by Elsevier
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