CSIRO’S FUTURE SCIENCE VISION AT THE INTERSECTION OF PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL SCIENCES: ACTIVE INTEGRATED MATTER

A number of megatrend forecasts predict dramatic changes in the world by 2030. These will be wide ranging, from personalised food and therapeutics, to increased extreme weather events and human-free autonomous manufacturing and maintenance environments known as ‘dark factories’. There will be an increased expectation for better products that are cheaper and more environmentally sustainable. A growing demand for personalised or customised products will require the development of sophisticated autonomous processes and maintenance systems.

For individual companies this may seem daunting. How to innovate fast enough to stay ahead of the competition? These challenges provide an opportunity for early adopters of next generation technologies to gain a competitive edge.

The AIM technology platform will provide industry with the tools needed to tackle these global challenges, capitalise on trends, and ensure preparedness for future population, climate and environmental scenarios. The goal of AIM is to lead ground breaking advances at the interface of big data, materials, processing, sensors and autonomous system sciences. Scientific developments at these interfaces will drive the i-manufacturing or manufacturing 4.0 revolution, and solve problems we face now and in the future. Our 2030 vision is to work with our partners and collaborators to harness the scientific advances presented by these technologies, and take on our national and global challenges.

Put simply in AIM the research focus is on smart material or physical technologies connected with the digital world. CSIRO’s vision for this research platform is to drive towards 2030. Undertaking the research today that will set Australian industry ahead of the curve tomorrow. AIM has participation from all of CSIROs different business units and is truly interdisciplinary in its approach to drive discovery.

AIM has seven different test beds. From the future of “Autonomous Design” through to “Bringing the Factory to the Consumer” this presentation will detail the vision developed by the CSIRO scientists and engineers in AIM on the future of manufacturing and the opportunities that are there for Australian businesses.

Presented by:
Dr Danielle Kennedy
Director of CSIRO’s Active Integrated Matter Future Science Platform

Dr Danielle Kennedy is the director of CSIRO’s Active Integrated Matter Future Science Platform, known as AIM, a long term investment by CSIRO in visionary long term science. A materials and nanoscience with a PhD in chemistry, Danielle has worked at the interface of disciplines coupling robotic experimental techniques, with big data analysis and Synchrotron characterisation to fast track materials discovery in advanced nanomaterials. In her current role directing Active Integrated Matter, or AIM, a new CSIRO future science platform Dr Kennedy leads more than 200 researchers working across materials, robotics, physical processing, sensors, informatics and autonomous systems.

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