Zeeko Limited

This Proposal confronts manufacturing challenges that constrict the on-going revolution in complex ('freeform') optical surfaces, these promising radical performance-improvements, yet with fewer components. We focus primarily on resolving the lack of worldwide capability for nano-scale-accurate, super-smooth freeforms that i) can survive high laser-powers...

Polishing of precision surfaces such as lenses and mirrors requires a rubbing action, rather than 'cutting' as with a grinding machine or lathe. Such lens or mirror surfaces, and particularly complex surfaces, are required for a huge range of modern products, ranging from digital and phone cameras, to LED lighting, to advanced defence and space systems. M...

The SEAMLESS project represents a major technical and commercial advance in the area ofpost processing for additive manufacturing. The poor surface quality for AM parts has been amajor barrier for full process adoption, which will be addressed in this project. The SEAMLESSsolution combines a number of surface finishing and post processing technologies inc...

Within the aerospace sector, aftermarket services account for over 50% of revenue generated by aero engine manufacturers (Rolls-Royce Annual Report, dated March 2013). Central to this is the ability to inspect and repair high unit cost components. Many processes are manual but given the ever-increasing quality, cost and delivery requirements and the safet...

We think so often of the materials from which things are made - wood, metal, plastic etc. Frequently, however, the real function of a material, beyond its internal strength, comes from the quality of its surfaces. This is the case where materials 'rub' (gears, bearings, knee and hip joint-implants etc), reflect or transmit light (lenses, mirrors etc), man...

Precision surface grinding is a standard but expensive way to generate different complex surface shapes into common engineering materials such as glasses and metals. We propose to bridge the gap between surface grinding and polishing to develop a process capable of delivering these forms using a computer controlled polishing machine and a novel ‘grolishin...

To develop ultra-high precision Multi-Axis Miniature Ultrasonic Polishing technology for super-finishing of high value-added miniature components.