The University of Sheffield
Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC)

Business Resource Optimisation for Aftermarket & Design on Engineering Networks (BROADEN)
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Following on from the successful proof-of-concept project for a GRID-based Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment (DAME), is BROADEN (Business Resource Optimisation for Aftermarket and Design on Engineering Networks).

BROADEN is a multi-site, DTI funded project which aims to build a Rolls-Royce Grid as a proving ground for utilising Web/Grid services technology to fully exploit available IT resources. This is required for:
  • integrating diagnostic tools for health monitoring across development test and in-service aero-engines
  • large scale and innovative numerical simulations of high fidelity CFD and design optimisation
  • large scale agent-based modelling of aftermarket processes incorporating logistics and the supply chain
  • the formulation of a strategy to transfer proven Grid technology to production LANs
BROADEN is a major collaboration involving the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering at The University of Sheffield, Rolls-Royce plc, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Lost Wax Media Ltd, Streamline Computing Ltd, Oxford BioSignals Ltd, Cybula Ltd and the Universities of York and Leeds.
 

Principal Investigators

Sheffield Project Manager

  • Jeff Allan

Research Associate
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