Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
Helping UK manufacturers win work in nuclear and other high-value, low-carbon industries.
Manufacturing innovation
Working with manufacturers to develop the technical capability to compete on cost, quality and delivery, and developing new techniques and technologies for the nuclear sector.
Supply chain development
Helping UK manufacturers compete globally by raising quality and productivity, reducing costs, developing new capabilities and becoming Fit For Nuclear.
Technological Capabilities
Our capabilities are tailored to the needs of the UK’s nuclear supply chain, but we can tackle manufacturing challenges across a host of other demanding sectors.
Machining technologies
Joining technologies
Additive & near-net shape manufacturing
Automation & digitalisation
Controls & instrumentation
Material engineering
Analysis & simulation
Product & process verification
Modularisation
companies worked with in 2021
SME engagements in 2021
value of new contracts won with help from our Fit For Nuclear programme
Nuclear AMRC impact
We work with hundreds of companies of all sizes to help them realise their ambitions in nuclear and other sectors.
Fit For Nuclear helps us maintain the very highest standards that our trusted customers and partners expect.
The Nuclear AMRC’s knowledge of the latest manufacturing technologies will increase Jacobs’ capability to develop novel manufacturing systems and product solutions for its clients.
The Nuclear AMRC continues to provide tremendous innovation for this game-changing technology, leading the development and demonstration of electron beam welding for nuclear applications.
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CASE STUDY
Smart robotics makes magnet placement 60 times faster
Sheffield-based magnetic gear technology company Magnomatics wanted to explore how robotic technologies can optimise manufacturing processes and drive big productivity improvements for its wind turbine generators.
3 February 2022
CASE STUDY
Saving tonnes of carbon in nuclear welding
Welding the thick-walled steel sections of a reactor pressure vessel is an extremely time-consuming task, with each join taking around ten days to complete and releasing tonnes of carbon.
3 February 2022
CASE STUDY
Greening the UK’s most carbon-intensive industrial region
The AMRC and Nuclear AMRC will work together to apply their expertise in developing the UK supply chain for the low-carbon energy sector, building on the proven Fit For Nuclear model to meet the challenges of industrial decarbonisation.
3 February 2022
CASE STUDY
Creating jobs in nuclear energy
Nuclear is an obvious answer, but lead times are lengthy and the financing challenges for large reactors are formidable.
3 February 2022
CASE STUDY
Developing the UK energy supply chain
More than 860 companies have already completed the online F4N assessment, with most receiving ongoing support and development from the Nuclear AMRC’s team of industrial advisors.
3 February 2022
CASE STUDY
Leading the Ventilator Challenge
On the 16th of March 2020, the Government asked UK industry to support the NHS in its fight against COVID-19. The VentilatorChallengeUK (VCUK) Consortium, led by the HVM Catapult’s outgoing CEO Dick Elsy and made up of more than 33 businesses from the aerospace, automotive and medical sectors, came together at speed to build medical ventilators.
3 February 2022
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Nuclear AMRC (Head Office)
University of Sheffield
Advanced Manufacturing Park
Brunel Way
Rotherham S60 5WG
Telephone
+44 (0)114 222 9900
Nuclear AMRC (Midlands)
iHub
Infinity Park Way
Infinity Park
Derby DE24 9FU
Nuclear AMRC (Birchwood)
The Renaissance Centre
601 Faraday Street
Birchwood Park
Warrington WA3 6GN