Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)

McLaren had a revolutionary idea about how to change the manufacturing processes around carbon fibre, but we needed somebody to help us bring that innovation to industrialisation. The AMRC with their expertise in materials and manufacturing were the ideal partner to go on that pathway with us.

Boeing has 100 years of aviation behind it and we know that innovating is the key to the future. That’s why our relationship with the AMRC is so important.

Collaboration with the AMRC is allowing us to develop new customised solutions and methods, pushing technological boundaries and helping us to design and build the next generation of industrial systems for our new fuel-efficient aircraft.

At Rolls-Royce, we’re interested in achieving step change capability within our manufacturing processes and technology and the way we do that is by working with the AMRC.

As a result of working with the AMRC, we have purchased our own 3D printer that has been used for a multitude of things, from machine parts, to jigs, to a scaled plan of our factory. It has also helped our business to save a sum of money and we have also seen massive gains in productivity.

The robot cell has enabled us to unblock bottlenecks by freeing up resource. It’s a massive impact for an SME like Footprint Tools, and we could not have done it without the R&D and innovation talents of the AMRC.

Without the AMRC I don’t think we could have reached the point we are at now. It really was that decisive for us; it was a major factor in our business moving forward.

I can’t emphasise enough how happy we’ve been with the work by the AMRC engineers. They produced designs for our guard idea for a handheld laser marking machine, showing that there is real potential for this to be a world-beating product.