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Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)

The AMRC is a network of world-leading research and innovation centres working with advanced manufacturing companies of any size.

The AMRC has a global reputation for helping companies overcome manufacturing problems and has become a model for collaborative research involving universities, academics and industry.

They transform industrial and economic performance by making step changes in productivity, increasing competitiveness, developing new products and processes and training new talent and skills.

Their 110-plus industrial members range from global giants like Boeing, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems and Airbus to small companies.

Expertise for UK Manufacturers

The AMRC’s manufacturing expertise spans;

Machining
Hi-tech assembly and automation
Augmented and virtual reality
Robotics
Casting
Welding
Additive manufacturing
Composites manufacturing
Design
Structural testing and training for the aerospace, automotive, energy, medical and other high-value manufacturing sectors

More recently the AMRC has begun applying that expertise to the construction sector, where advanced manufacturing techniques are now being seen as essential to increasing capacity, overcoming skill shortages and shortening lead times.

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Technology Capabilities

The AMRC has a global reputation for helping companies overcome manufacturing problems and has become a model for collaborative research involving universities, academics and industry.

Advanced Assembly

Assembly is the general term for applications that assemble and inspect the fundamental parts to form a final product or sub-component.

Automation

Automation is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, and other applications with minimal or reduced human intervention.

Casting

Casting is a manufacturing process by which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and is then allowed to solidify.

Composites

Composite materials are materials made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties, that when combined, produce a material with characteristics different from the individual components.

Design

Design for manufacture is a term used to describe the process of designing products/parts/components in a way that optimises all the manufacturing functions as well as ensuring that design supports the optimisation of cost, quality and regulatory compliance.

Digital Manufacturing

Advanced manufacturing is a highly knowledge intensive sector where advances in IT systems have a huge role to play in improving manufacturing intelligence; capturing, sharing and managing big data; supporting collaboration; increasing efficiency & speeding up innovation.

Electronics

Electronics deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive electrical components and interconnection technologies.

Joining

Joining technology is fundamental to engineering and manufacturing.

Machining

Machining is any of various processes in which a piece of raw material is cut into a desired final shape and size by a controlled material-removal process.

Materials Characterisation

Materials characterisation refers to the broad and general process by which a material’s structure and properties are probed, measured and tested.

Metrology

Metrology (the science of measurement) provides critical quality assurance for manufacturing processes.

Modelling and Simulation

Modelling and simulation is getting information about how something will behave without actually testing it in real life.

Netshape and Additive Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is the process of creating objects directly from digital files via the successive addition of discrete layers of material.

Powder Technology

Many of the emerging production methods that produce net shape components begin with powdered metals.

Resource Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing

The efficient use of resources in manufacturing processes coupled with low carbon and low energy manufacturing processes is a major target across the whole of manufacturing industry.

Tooling and Fixtures

Tooling refers to workings or specialist manufacturing aids which are usually limited in use to a specific production line or the performance of a specific contract or job.

Visualisation and Virtual Reality

Virtual reality refers to a set of techniques in which one interacts with a synthetic (“virtual”) environment that exists solely in the computer.

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Contact Us

If you have any questions we'd like to hear from you. Whether you're interested in working with us or would simply like to know more about the AMRC, don't hesitate to get in touch.

AMRC with Boeing

Factory of the Future
Advanced Manufacturing Park
Wallis Way, Catcliffe
Rotherham
S60 5TZ

0114 222 1747

AMRC Factory 2050

Sheffield Business Park
Europa Avenue
Sheffield
S9 1ZA (Satnav: please use "S9 1XZ")

AMRC Training Centre

AMRC Training Centre
Advanced Manufacturing Park
Off Highfield Spring
Catcliffe, Rotherham
S60 8BL

https://www.amrc.co.uk