Expert Tooling & Automation Limited

The Multi-Application Bonding (MABond) programme is focussed on developing and leveraging advanced technologies to reduce the number of fasteners from future airframe designs. Unlike existing uses of adhesives in aerospace, this project will pave the way for use in more highly loaded and critical joints, which previously required rivets, nuts and bolts or...

Significant development effort has been invested in the reduction/elimination of tailpipe emissions, light-weighting and the general improvement and on-shoring of battery technology, bringing huge gains and new knowledge for car manufacturers and their suppliers. However, the industry must now look toward a NetZero future (manufactured goods and associate...

Project ELEVATION (Electric Lightweight Vehicle Platform and Digital Toolchain) is a six-partner collaborative R&D project led by Aston Martin Lagonda with Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), Expert Tooling & Automation, Creative Composites, Fuzzy Logic Studio and WMG, University of Warwick. Project ELEVATION will accelerate the development of a luxury...

Leyland Trucks currently do not produce any BEV trucks through primary production processes at their site in Leyland. Current commitment from PACCAR provides the Leyland team with a 10 truck/shift solution which will combine both ICE and battery electric vehicles on one production line. The team believes that, through innovations relating to automation an...

Mag-Cure will result in a step-change for the manufacture of electric motors used in Electric Vehicles, by bringing to market a novel adhesive bonding technology allowing the rapid curing of adhesive systems (reducing production cost/time of production/removing bottlenecks), as well as providing a solution for end-of-life/quality control by ensuring the a...

The marine transport industry contributes 940 million tonnes of CO2 annually, which is responsible for 2.5% of global greenhouse emissions. To meet UK's commitment to the Paris Agreement, a greener reduced / zero emissions' maritime transport solution should be developed, aiming at limiting the increase of global temperatures to 1.5 degrees and therefore ...

To automate computer-aided fixture to produce a series of automation Algorithms to target key manufacturing tooling components.

eSHADOW ~ Electrified Structural Hybrid Automotive Developments for Optimised Weight eSHADOW is a Ford led collaborative industry research project that aims to focus on the development of hybrid material structural engineering tools to promote lightweight design and verification for Product Development processes. The research will be conducted with a tota...

Innovative high strength aluminium alloys, novel processing, joining and assembly technologies have been developed for use in light weight crash resistant battery enclosures and for the integration of such structures into ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs). The optimum combination of extrusions and sheet can provide architectural flexibility in meeting b...

Development of ever lighter vehicle bodies will increase efficiency and environmental performance of all Aston Martin vehicles through reduced vehicle mass, and offers opportunity for increased range and improved attributes of electrified products. Mass reduction is a critical element to achieving these improved vehicle emissions and efficiency. Replacing...

Stiffer, lighter vehicle structures are required to enable mainstream electrification of common vehicle platforms, boosting adoption of electrified vehicles and improving their environmental performance. However, this requires a step-change in cost effective structural performance at a design, material and manufacturing-level which is currently unmet acro...

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