The document discusses how exponential technological growth will impact tribological coatings. It notes that technology is advancing at an exponential rather than linear rate, as increased knowledge and tools drive further innovation. Major trends include increased data collection via sensors and the Internet of Things, allowing for predictive maintenance of coated assets. This will move surface engineering beyond passive coatings to connected, sensing surfaces integrated into digital platforms. Tribological coatings must adapt to leverage trends in data analytics, nanotechnology, and biomimetics to remain competitive in the future.
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Surface Ventures: What Exponential Growth of Technology means for Tribological Coatings
1. School of something
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School of Mechanical Engineering
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Surface Ventures
What Exponential Growth
of Technology means
for Tribological Coatings
Tomasz Liskiewicz, Institute of Functional Surfaces
Keynote Lecture
15th International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering
Sept 12-16, 2016, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
2. Outline
Exponential Growth
Global Technology Trends
Protective and Tribological Coatings
Summary and Conclusions
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4. Linear
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
30 linear steps: end up
about 30 meter away
Exponential
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32
30 exponential steps: billion
meters away (26 times
around the planet)
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5. Knowledge grows exponentially
The more we know the greater our
ability to learn
The greater our ability to learn the
faster we expand our knowledge base
Growth of knowledge fuels growth of
technology
Each new scientific discovery becomes
a tool with which novel technologies
are invented
Technology feeds on itself
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6. Law of accelerating returns
Every generation of technology stands on the shoulders of the last
generation of technology
We use our best tools to build even better ones
The rate of progress continues to speed up from version to version
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Transcendence (2014)The Singularity is Near
Ray Kurzweil (2005)
7. Technology feels like it is accelerating,
because it actually is
Moores Law
Exponential rise of integrated circuits
Processing power doubles every two years
Cost decreases at the same rate
Related technologies/industries driven by
computing speed and power
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http://content.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2048601,00.html
10. Exponential growth of computing
based technology
40 years ago: one computer took up a
whole building
Today: the computer in your cell phone
is a million times cheaper and a
thousand times more powerful
In 20 years: what fits in your pocket now
will fit into a blood cell and will again be
millions of times more cost effective
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11. Human genome project
Started in 1990
After 7.5 years: only 1%
was completed
Sceptics were predicting
100 years to complete
Ray Kurzweil predicted:
15 years
Genome successfully
sequenced in 2003
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singularity.com
14. How to think exponentially
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15. Exponential growth surprise factor
Exponential growth radically different from our intuition
Intuition about the future hardwired in our brains
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singularityhub.com
17. Ray Kurzweils predictions in 2016
The genetics revolution will allow us
to reprogram our own biology
The nanotechnology revolution will
allow us to manipulate matter at the
molecular and atomic scale
The robotics revolution will allow us
to create a greater than human non-
biological intelligence
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18. The industries of the future, Alec Ross (2015)
Explores the next waves of innovation in robotics,
genetics, coding and big data and how they will
affect our world
Trends covered:
Robotics
Advanced Life Sciences
Code-ification of Money
Cybersecurity
Big Data
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What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly (2010)
The Inevitable, Kevin Kelly (2016)
Technology in a wider context of human evolution
Human evolution with technology has been a trend of
improvement
Technology is like a living organism
Technology has its own needs
20. Deloitte: Tech Trends 2016
(Innovation in the Digital Era)
Right-speed IT
Augmented & virtual reality go to work
Internet of Things: From sensing to doing
Reimagining core systems
Autonomic platforms
Blockchain: Democratized trust
Industrialized analytics
Social impact of exponential technologies
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21. Biomimetics trend towards ideality
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22. Biomimetics friction in nature
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(100nm=0.1亮m)
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10-4
(100亮m=0.1mm)
10-3
(1mm)
10-2
(10mm)
10-1
(100mm=0.1m)
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23. TRIZ
TRIZ: Theory of Inventive Problems Solving
Teoriya Resheniya Izobreatatelskikh
Zadach
TRIZ message: Innovation Can Be Codified
There are universal principles of invention
that are the basis for creative innovations
that advance technology
If these principles are identified and
codified, they can be taught to make the
process of invention more predictable
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24. TRIZ
Using the knowledge and experience of former
inventors
2m patents studied by Altshullers team
5m (?) patents studied up to date
Problems and solutions were repeated across
industries
Patterns of technical evolution were repeated
across industries
Innovations can use scientific effects outside the
field where they were developed
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Genrich Altshuller
25. TRIZ trends
Prediction where the systems will evolve in the future
Indication of the most likely successful future direction
Assessment and development of intellectual property
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Immobile
system
Joint
Multiple
joints
Completely
elastic
Liquid/
gas
Field
26. TRIZ surface specific trend
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27. Protective & Tribological Coatings
in the context of Exponential
Technology
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28. Protective & Tribological Coatings in Exponential Technology
Outline:
Big Data
Internet of Things
Sensors
Maintenance Monitoring
Platform Economy
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29. Big Data
Land was the raw material of the agricultural age
Iron was the raw material of the industrial age
Data is the raw material of the information age
90% of the worlds digital data
has been generated over the last two years
Big Data term describes how these large amounts of data can now be
used to understand, analyse, and forecast trends in real time.
The industries of the future, Alec Ross (2015)
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30. Smart Manufacturing Enterprise
These three operational environments will set
the stage for the smart manufacturing
enterprise:
Smart Enterprise Control: tight integration
of manufacturing assets with the wider
enterprise
Asset Performance Management:
improved asset performance by wireless
sensors, easy cloud connectivity and data
analytics
Augmented Operators: increased
productivity by use of mobile devices, data
analytics and augmented reality
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31. Industrial Internet of Things
Connected assets operate as part of a larger system that make up the
smart manufacturing enterprise
The assets possess varying levels of intelligent functionality (from simple
sensing and actuating, to control, optimisation and full autonomous
operation)
Consumer IoT: moderate value so far (nice to have solutions)
Commercial IoT: real business value
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http://www.visualcapitalist.com/industrial-internet-things-next-big-growth-driver/
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Quick adoption of internet related technologies
100 million people travelled by air: 70 years after invention of the airplane
100 million people to use telephone: 50 years
100 million PC users: 14 years
100 million Internet users: 7 years
Facebook acquired 100 million users in 2 years
34. Sensors the nervous system of the IIoT
Small, cheap, many of them
1000s of sensors vs. a technician with a gauge
(data resolution)
Single performance tasks linked to complex
analytical models (temperature, vibration,
acoustics)
E.g. fiber optic systems available collecting
spatially continuous strain and temp. data along
the length of the fiber in real time
Towards smart sensors with autonomous
learning capability (more data more finely
tuned)
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35. The immediate business need (Case Study)
ABB sensors package for low-voltage motors
No additional infrastructure (incorporated battery &
storage)
Technician syncs data wirelessly
Downtime reduced up to 70%
Preventive maintenance extends life of the motor by 30%
Improve motor efficiency by 10%
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machinedesign.com
36. Neural dust sensor/implant (Case Study)
2x1mm, battery-less
Can monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real
time
Temperature, pressure, oxygen, pH
Fit-bit like device
Also stimulate nerves and muscles
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UC Bercley
ScienceNews, Aug 8, 2016
37. Maintenance Monitoring
Maintenance 1.0: wait until it breaks
Maintenance 2.0: monitoring
maintenance (determine breakdown
by oil, vibration, thermal analysis etc.)
Maintenance 3.0: predictive
maintenance (asset management
along with more improved condition-
based techniques)
Maintenance 4.0: proactive
maintenance (sensors, data analysis,
determination of trends)
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38. New Economy: from Product to Platforms
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Accenture, Technology Vision 2016, Trend 3: Platform Economy
39. Advanced Materials Systems Framework
Materials technologies move beyond the
frontier of new molecules and materials
Value creation through functional solutions
Leveraging inventive combinations of:
Materials
Process technologies
Business models
Partnerships
Collaborations
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Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited Global Manufacturing Industry Group
40. Cost of missing the trend: Kodak
1996: $28 billion market cap and 140,000 employees
2012: Kodak filed for bankruptcy
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singularityhub.com
42. Summary and conclusions
In the not-too-distant future, billions of smart things in the physical
world will be sensing, responding, communicating and sharing data
Surface Ventures: studying engineering surfaces in the context of the
exponential growth of technology
Moving from passive coating to connected-sensing-responsive surface
Surface engineering progress fuelled by trends: digitalisation,
nanotechnology, platform solutions, biomimetics
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43. Summary and conclusions
The potential of IoT lies in the ability to link automation systems with
enterprise planning and product life cycle systems
Simple measurements BUT deep analytics (underpinned by tribological
models)
Predictive maintenance, improved operational efficiency
Businesses will pay a high cost of not paying close attention to
technology trends
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44. The future has many names: For the weak, it means
the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the
unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
- Victor Hugo
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I skate to where the puck is going to be,
not where it has been.
- Wayne Gretzky
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t.liskiewicz@leeds.ac.uk
@tomliskiewicz
Tomasz Liskiewicz
School of Mechanical Engineering
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom