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The National Centre for Net Shape and Additive Manufacturing, housed within the existing MTC facility, demonstrates the entire additive manufacturing (AM) process chain at an industrially relevant scale – taking raw material and part designs to produce fully-finished parts, where every stage of the process is carefully monitored and controlled. With expertise across all stages of the AM process the centre provides pragmatic and unbiased support to UK organisations interested in AM. Support follows a three-phase approach: discovery (explanation of AM and selection of appropriate process); demonstration (redesign, production and validation of demonstrator part); and pre-production (transition from demonstrator to full-scale production). The Centre has delivered over 100 projects for companies across the supply chain: OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and SMEs – including assisting SMEs with no previous experience of the aerospace sector to develop novel AM processing equipment, creating significant new market opportunities for them. Future work will aim to industrialise physical AM processes, and demonstrate how an effective digital twin can have a significant impact on the speed of delivery of the technology across a wide range of industries.

This project is one of several 'Flagship-Projects' that form the Digital-Supply-Chain-Innovation-Hub (**DSCI-Hub**). These testbeds will act as development-environments for new technologies and solutions - demonstration environments to help inform UK manufacturers of the state of the art, enabling testing and benefits quantification for new technology providers, and sand-pits for manufacturers to design and test new solutions. The DSCI-Hub Industrial-Advisory-Group has identified that data sharing and collaboration are key elements for effective digital supply-chains. The project vision is to develop and demonstrate a method for seamless bidirectional engineering data communication in supply-chains. The project focuses initially on the Tempest-programme, with findings disseminated throughout the aerospace and defence industries and other high-value manufacturing supply-chains. Targeted outputs include: a) Universal **standards** for Model-Based Definition (**MBD**). b) Development of **novel frameworks** for MBD and software-agnostic tools for data-transfer c) **Demonstration** of the effectiveness of the new frameworks. This project is led by the High Value Manufacturing Catapult (**HVM-Catapult**). The work of the HVM-Catapult will be mainly delivered by two HVM-Catapult centres: the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre North-West (**AMRC**) and the National Composites Centre (**NCC**). The National Physical Laboratory (**NPL**), in WP2, leads a significant programme of work on standards development as co-investment. Industrial-partners are **BAE Systems** and **Rolls-Royce**, key members of Team-Tempest. **Thales** are very interested in participating in the project and can contribute significantly from a data security perspective. They are currently undergoing an internal approval-process and, when this is complete, we will look to integrate them into the project. Vendors such as **Salesforce** and **Siemens** have committed to the DSCI-Hub and will also contribute to this Flagship-Project. Rolls-Royce have provided the following statement-of-intent for this bid: "Rolls-Royce has an established supply-chain together with new-entrants driven through a process of open-innovation. We are selecting suppliers for Tempest in line with the programme requirements. At the time of writing this latest iteration of the Innovate-UK submission, we are unable to be explicit about which specific suppliers we will work with through the DSCI-Hub. This is because it will depend upon the design/make lead-time, and complexity of the parts being sourced, the digital maturity of the supplier, and the contracting timescales. However, we see a clear need for the DSCI-Hub from our early supplier-engagements and we are confident that, once launched, we will be using the DSCI-Hub with a broad selection of our suppliers including SMEs." **Grant is only required for the HVM-Catapult.**

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Topic of Centre: This i4Nano CDT will accelerate the discovery cycle of functional nanotechnologies and materials, effectively bridging from ground-breaking fundamental science toward industrial device integration, and to drive technological innovation via an interdisciplinary approach. A key overarching theme is understanding and control of the nano-interfaces connecting complex architectures, which is essential for going beyond simple model systems and key to major advances in emerging scientific grand challenges across vital areas of Energy, Health, Manufacturing (particularly considering sustainability), ICT/Internet of things, and Quantum. We focus on the science of nano-interfaces across multiple time scales and material systems (organic-inorganic, bio-nonbio interfaces, gas-liquid-solid, crystalline-amorphous), to control nano-interfaces in a scalable manner across different size scales, and to integrate them into functional systems using engineering approaches, combining interfaces, integration, innovation, and interdisciplinarity (hence 'i4Nano'). The vast range of knowledge, tools and techniques necessary for this underpins the requirement for high-quality broad-based PhD training that effectively links scientific depth and application breadth. National Need: Most breakthrough nanoscience as well as successful translation to innovative technology relies on scientists bridging boundaries between disciplines, but this is hindered by the constrained subject focus of undergraduate courses across the UK. Our recent industry-academia nano-roadmapping event attended by numerous industrial partners strongly emphasised the need for broadly-trained interdisciplinary nanoscience acolytes who are highly valuable across their businesses, acting as transformers and integrators of new knowledge, crucial for the UK. They consistently emphasise there is a clear national need to produce this cadre of interdisciplinary nanoscientists to maintain the UK's international academic leadership, to feed entrepreneurial activity, and to capitalise industrially in the UK by driving innovations in health, energy, ICT and Quantum Technologies. Training Approach: The vision of this i4Nano CDT is to deliver bespoke training in key areas of nano to translate exploratory nanoscience into impactful technologies, and stimulate new interactions that support this vision. We have already demonstrated an ability to attract world-class postgraduates and build high-calibre cohorts of independent young Nano scientists through a distinctive PhD nursery in our current CDT, with cohorts co-housed and jointly mentored in the initial year of intense interdisciplinary training through formal courses, practicals and project work. This programme encourages young researchers to move outside their core disciplines, and is crucial for them to go beyond fragmented graduate training normally experienced. Interactions between cohorts from different years and different CDTs, as well as interactions with >200 other PhD researchers across Cambridge, widens their horizons, making them suited to breaking disciplinary barriers and building an integrated approach to research. The 1st year of this CDT course provides high-quality advanced-level training prior to final selection of preferred PhD research projects. Student progression will depend on passing examinable components assessed both by exams and coursework, providing a formal MRes qualification. Components of the first year training include lectures and practicals on key scientific topics, mini/midi projects, science communication and innovation/scale-up training, and also training for understanding societal and ethical dimensions of Nanoscience. Activities in the later years include conferences, pilot projects, further innovation and scale up training, leadership and team-building weekends, and ED&I and Responsible Innovation workshops