Hub Vision

The Future Metrology Hub aims to transform the UK’s manufacturing performance by delivering significant improvements in the speed, accuracy and cost of measurement.

The vision is driven by the need to develop and deploy new and more effective measurement solutions and practice, and encompasses a wide range of disciplines and a mixture of fundamental and applied research. ‘‘Grand Challenge” research themes are focussed on the development of new technologies that will enable a step‑change in the application of embedded metrology solutions in the manufacture of high‑value geometric products, in readiness for deployment within autonomous manufacturing systems. This includes the development of new sensor/ instrument technologies across a range of scales that can deliver high speed, high accuracy and affordable real‑time measurement of product geometry (size, shape, form, surface texture), as well as new software/systems to resolve two key challenges; a) the integration of metrology/verification into the design process and

b) smart data analytics systems to accurately and efficiently extract and exploit large metrology data sets from multi‑scale sensor networks.

Applied research programmes are running in parallel to underpin the Hub’s vision, stimulate new areas of research and support the progression of fundamental and early‑stage research towards industrial deployment.