Research
GIFT-SMART Center

“SMART”: Smart Manufacturing with AI and Reliability Technology

About the Center

Focusing on the industrial and technological transformation on "AI + manufacturing" for renewable energy system equipment, this initiative explores cutting-edge smart manufacturing technologies characterized by ultra-high efficiency, reliability, intelligence, and low carbon consumption. It conducts research on key scientific theories and technologies, including high-reliability design of system form-performance coordination, highly efficient and smart extreme manufacturing, quality inspection and control, as well as intelligent operation and maintenance. The goal is to drive technological leaps and high-quality development in smart manufacturing across industries such as automotive, energy storage, photovoltaics, nuclear power, aviation, and shipbuilding.

 

Director

Sun Jin

Executive dean of GIFT

Director

 

Core Members

Jun Ni 

Professor

Intelligent maintenance of 

large-scale manufacturing 

systems

Sun Jin

Professor

Complex product manufacturing 

quality control

Mian Li

Professor, ASME Fellow

System reliability design

 

 

Jing Zou  

Assistant Researcher

Manufacturing system modeling 

and control

Ruixiang Zheng

Assistant Researcher

Energy system reliability design 

 

 

Research Directions

• Reliability Modeling and Intelligent Design for Form-Performance Coordination: system reliability design, form-performance coordination for modeling, fault analysis, and intelligent operation and maintenance.

Key Flexible Manufacturing System Modeling and Intelligent Control: quality inspection, lean modeling, intelligent process and procedure control, energy management, etc.

• Highly Efficient and Reliable Embodied Intelligent Manufacturing Technology: highly efficient and reliable embodied intelligence technologies under complex environments, such as new energy vehicles and aerospace applications, including in-situ assembly, inspection, transportation, etc.

• Disruptive Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies with Multi-physics Fusion: disruptive manufacturing and atomic-scale manufacturing technologies that integrate physical, chemical, mechanical, and information fields, such as micro/nano robotics, spatter-free welding, and adaptive bonding, etc.

 

Selected Project(s)

· Project 9-sigma