Bringing Innovation into Reach with Mitacs - A282
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| Document Type | Article |
| Document Identifier | 231 |
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Introduction
In this presentation, Joseph will explain:
- How Mitacs funding fits into the innovation ecosystem
- Research and Development program options and how Mitacs supports industry and academia
- International mobility programs for students and PDFs, with an emphasis on Quantum opportunities
- How to combine Mitacs projects with other funding options like NSERC Alliance Advantage to achieve more objectives
- How academics can find eligible partners and companies actively looking for researcher collaboration
Guest Speakers
Joseph Santarelli is a Senior Business Development Advisor at Mitacs, a national non-profit funding organization, which empowers Canadian innovation through effective partnerships that deliver solutions to our most pressing problems. He has a background in Mechanical and Civil engineering and has over five years of experience developing industry and academic collaborations that support social and technological innovation in Canada. Joseph has helped hundreds of companies, non-profits, professors, and students work together across all disciplines to create meaningful change to improve quality of life for all Canadians by assisting them in accessing funding and a national network of academics and innovators.
This event is hosted by CKN, FIP-Composites@Western and National Research Council, and CACMSA.
Webinar
Webinar slides
Mitacs Supporting Research and Innovation Slide Deck:
Additional information for select chapters
| Chapter | Chapter Title | Links to related information in the Knowledge in Practice Centre |
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| 1 | Welcome & introductions | N/A |
| 2 | Audience Survey | N/A |
| 3 | Mitacs mission | N/A |
| 4 | What does Mitacs do? | N/A |
| 5 | Mitacs Globalink | N/A |
| 6 | Accelerate and business strategy internship | N/A |
| 7 | Mitacs Accelerate - NSERC Alliance | N/A |
| 8 | Finding a company partner | N/A |
| 9 | Key takeaways | N/A |
| 10 | Q&A | N/A |
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Welcome
Welcome to the CKN Knowledge in Practice Centre (KPC). The KPC is a resource for learning and applying scientific knowledge to the practice of composites manufacturing. As you navigate around the KPC, refer back to the information on this right-hand pane as a resource for understanding the intricacies of composites processing and why the KPC is laid out in the way that it is. The following video explains the KPC approach:
Understanding Composites Processing
The Knowledge in Practice Centre (KPC) is centered around a structured method of thinking about composite material manufacturing. From the top down, the heirarchy consists of:
- The factory
- Factory cells and/or the factory layout
- Process steps (embodied in the factory process flow) consisting of:
The way that the material, shape, tooling & consumables and equipment (abbreviated as MSTE) interact with each other during a process step is critical to the outcome of the manufacturing step, and ultimately critical to the quality of the finished part. The interactions between MSTE during a process step can be numerous and complex, but the Knowledge in Practice Centre aims to make you aware of these interactions, understand how one parameter affects another, and understand how to analyze the problem using a systems based approach. Using this approach, the factory can then be developed with a complete understanding and control of all interactions.
Interrelationship of Function, Shape, Material & Process
Design for manufacturing is critical to ensuring the producibility of a part. Trouble arises when it is considered too late or not at all in the design process. Conversely, process design (controlling the interactions between shape, material, tooling & consumables and equipment to achieve a desired outcome) must always consider the shape and material of the part. Ashby has developed and popularized the approach linking design (function) to the choice of material and shape, which influence the process selected and vice versa, as shown below:
Within the Knowledge in Practice Centre the same methodology is applied but the process is more fully defined by also explicitly calling out the equipment and tooling & consumables. Note that in common usage, a process which consists of many steps can be arbitrarily defined by just one step, e.g. "spray-up". Though convenient, this can be misleading.
Workflows
The KPC's Practice and Case Study volumes consist of three types of workflows:
- Development - Analyzing the interactions between MSTE in the process steps to make decisions on processing parameters and understanding how the process steps and factory cells fit within the factory.
- Troubleshooting - Guiding you to possible causes of processing issues affecting either cost, rate or quality and directing you to the most appropriate development workflow to improve the process
- Optimization - An expansion on the development workflows where a larger number of options are considered to achieve the best mixture of cost, rate & quality for your application.
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