Projects

NMIS-CATX-07757 - Net Zero Clean Energy 2026-27

McLaughlin, Graeme (Principal Investigator)

This programme of work supports the High Value Manufacturing Catapult Clean Energy Transition focus, delivering specific milestones in context to grid, electrification, nuclear, and wind.

01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2027

NMIS Internship: The Human-Machine Partnership: AI for Sustainable Engineering Processes

Brisco, Ross (Principal Investigator) McLaughlin, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Johnson, Isaac (Researcher)

An affordance is a design intention that guides user behaviour. It allows a designer to understand how to interact with an object or system. In the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and engineering design, AI affords a designer with greater data visualisations, design optimisations, predictive maintenance and smart products. Affordances bridge the gap between technical capabilities and practical user behaviour. By making AI technologies intuitive, transparent, and empowering, we can unlock their potential to drive a transition towards a circular economy, where resources are used efficiently, and waste is minimised.

As engineering designers begin to explore the potential of AI, they provide examples of appropriate and inappropriate use of AI throughout the design process. This project will work with established data sets, and company contacts in industry to build an understanding of the the state-of-the-art knowledge of engineering industry on the use of AI. Through the lens of sustainable engineering practices, which themselves have a vast dataset of standards and requirements, the Intern will be challenged with simplifying the design for sustainability process using AI. This may come in the form of guidance, or a prototype tool to demonstrate the possibilities.

02-Jan-2025 - 22-Jan-2025

DIGF-DIRF-07115 - SmartStart Manufacturing Pilot

McLaughlin, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Bisland, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Robertson, Gordon (Co-investigator) Mathew, Pritty (Co-investigator) Canavan, Michael (Co-investigator) GAUTHAMAN, Prabhakaran (Principal Investigator) Henry, Gwenole (Co-investigator)

The Programme targets organisations seeking feasibility studies and business cases to support financial investment decisions for their expansion into the offshore wind supply chain. Eligible beneficiaries for the Programme were be invited by the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership to make a submission against the project call Success was measured through KPIs to help inform the effectiveness of the ongoing Manufacturing Advisory Programme. 4 companies were onboarded into the programme, and a wide range of project scope was delivered across capabilities such as discrete event simulation; materials and manufacturing process assessment; cost modelling and value for money assessment, to name a few.

11-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026

DIGF-DIRF-06936

McLaughlin, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Swanson, Cameron (Academic)

07-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2025

DIGF-CRAD-06303 - ReMake Glasgow Innovation Accelerator

Mathew, Pritty (Researcher) Reimer, Andreas (Principal Investigator) Bisland, Graeme (Researcher) Canavan, Michael (Researcher) Glen, Lewes (Researcher) Lynch, Robert (Researcher) McLaughlin, Graeme (Researcher) Robertson, Gordon (Researcher)

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025

DIGF-DIRF-05923

Ingram, Rory (Principal Investigator) Lynch, Robert (Co-investigator) McLaughlin, Graeme (Co-investigator) Sims, Ryan (Co-investigator)

09-Jan-2022 - 05-Jan-2022

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