Craftsman Tools Limited

The Advanced Machinery & Productivity Initiative will enable invention, realise innovation, and adoption of new machinery and robotics through UK equipment manufacturers. The programme enables economic prosperity through the design, development and manufacture of intelligent machinery, robotic and cooperative systems demanded by existing and emerging indu...

Advanced manufacturing is essential to the UK economy. The following extracts are from 'The UK Government Industrial Strategy, June 2019'; ''The UK automotive sector is a great success story.It is hugely important to the UK economy ... it employs 159,000 people directly in vehicle manufacturing, with an additional 238,000 in the supply chain, most outside...

This project will create a new product that will automatically improve the surface finish of boring operations in production machine tools. It combines mechanical design for optimising sensor location with advanced modelling to ensure optimal and robust correction values. It builds on the successful Innovate UK project, "Intelligent tool-holding for metal...

The vision is to develop single platform machine for Interrupted HYbrid additive / subtractive Manufacture with integrated inspection technologies -- for the purposes of this bid, defined as IHYM. This will be based on blown powder additive and 5-axis mill-turn machining. We will develop process capability in four application areas where we have identifie...

Craftsman Tools Ltd is a multi-award winning UK precision engineering company specialising in innovative solutions for tool-holding, work-holding and supply chain management services and solutions. They seek to create new intelligent tool-holding incorporating “internet of things” (IoT) sensing technology that, in conjunction with dynamic models, enables ...

To embed a systems engineering approach to the automated manufacture of innovative static tool-holding.

In the machine tool manufacturing sector, which deals with shaping metal & other rigid materials, an integral part of the manufacturing process is high precision cutting. The conventional method of removing heat from the cutting tool area is spraying coolant from an external nozzle onto the cutting zone . This is an ineffective method as the coolant is un...

Manufacturing technology is essential for the creation of all modern products and contributes £6.7tr to the global economy; UK manufacturing makes up 11% of UK GVA, 54% of UK exports, and directly employs 2.6M people. Machine tools are used across all engineering industries and indirectly by almost every sector. An integral part of the machine tools are t...

Vibration in metal cutting is familiar to every machine tool operator. This phenomenon is recognized in operations like internal turning, threading, grooving, milling, boring and drilling. There are several reasons why vibration problems occur. They are often related to the machine tool itself, the clamping of the tool, the length and diameter of the tool...