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.
AMRC
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.
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.
AMRC stories
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AMRC with Boeing
Factory of the Future
Advanced Manufacturing Park
Wallis Way, Catcliffe
Rotherham
S60 5TZ
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