Ford Motor Company and
McLaren Automotive were among major companies supporting the launch of Digital
Engineering and Test Centre (DETC).
DETC has been set up to drive forward the
development of advanced propulsion technology in the UK.
Over 120 delegates descended on the
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London, to learn how the automotive
sector could benefit from collaboration with London’s digital sector to
capitalise on state-of-the-art developments in digital engineering and gaming technology.
“The whole day went extremely well”,
claimed DETC programme director Jon Horsley. “There has been really meaningful
engagement between the digital and automotive sectors. We have started the
snowball rolling with the launch and now it’s back to the day job! We have lots
to do to help those businesses and academia make the most of the excellent new
contacts and creative ideas they left the event with yesterday.”
A unique industry-academic venture
within the new Loughborough University London campus, the DETC will focus on
both product development and advanced manufacturing engineering.
It aims to create and use virtual
engineering tools and techniques to accelerate the development, test and
manufacture of automotive propulsion systems.
By ‘power training’
engineers in applications including digital engineering, gaming, big-data and
high-power computing, DETC claims it will strive to help solve some of the upcoming challenges
facing automotive in the fields of design, development, manufacturing, testing,
validation and verification.
Co-located on the same floor as the
High Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute and the Advanced Propulsion
Centre’s (APC) London office, and being an APC ‘spoke’, DETC brings
specific functional, technological and regional capability to the APC’s
network.
For more
information on the Digital Engineering and Test Centre visit www.detc.uk
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