Driving the global designs of cars through a new partnership

Members of Deakin's School of Engineering are involved in a new International Centre for Innovative Manufacturing through a new partnership with global car maker, General Motors.

The International Centre for Innovative Manufacturing (ICIM), which launched today in Geelong, focuses on developing world-leading innovative and competitive solutions for manufacturers and suppliers into the future.

The partnership will be driven by researchers in the school and Deakin’s Institute for Frontier Materials, and include members from industry and suppliers.

Professor Jeong Yoon, chief investigator on the ICIM board of directors, said the centre would develop technology-driven solutions designed to ensure members produced the most innovative, competitive and capable automotive products in the world.

“The partnership is modelled on the UK’s Sheffield University Boeing Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, which has been invited to collaborate with the new group,” Professor Yoon said.

He added that the initial focus of the new centre would be to develop advanced constitutive and failure models, including calibration test procedures, before implementing the models into commercial software.

Read more at the Deakin Newsroom website: Deakin has global designs on cars of future through partnership with GM.