Advanced Manufacturing (Sheffield) Limited

Additive manufacturing (AM) is increasingly seen as a pivotal technology for the future of the aerospace industry due to its unique capabilities and advantages over traditional manufacturing methods, such as forging and casting. Metallic AM offers several advantages over such methods, in the form of additional design complexity, weight reduction, material...

Public description Supply chain resilience is a widely studied topic of significant impact on our society. As organisations outsource production to one another they create economies of scale and reduce prices but also increase the risk of disruption that cascades throughout the entire supply chain if any member of the chain is disrupted. Typically, organi...

The Stabilisation Support for Aerospace Recovery (ASSURER) project is a support application to balance out some of the increased costs associated with current Aerospace innovation projects as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Aerospace sector has taken a significant hit during the last 18 months, but prior to the pandemic was growing at a significant...

The **PREDICTOR** application follows on from previous work conducted on developing a machine learning model to improve machining process design in manufacturing as part of the UK-Canada enhancing industrial productivity programme. The original work was developed specifically for machining operations in manufacturing taking production data and providing r...

The **RAVINE** project aims to reduce the time impact of the metrology processes carried out by CMM tactile probing for Advanced Manufacturing (Sheffield) Ltd (AML) through the application of rapid visual scanning technologies for complex aerospace components.

The current business and regional jet aircraft market is expected to expand significantly in the next five years, requiring up to a threefold increase in production rates for higher volume components such as aerofoils for the associated aero-engines. As a result, the supply chain needs to make a step change improvement in its production rates on these typ...

Commercial aviation has been heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, with significant production disruption combined with decreased demand leading to deferral of aircraft orders. While this will be felt across the industry, SMEs are particularly vulnerable and job losses are expected throughout the sector. To reduce the impact on jobs and market share,...

The SmartCal project will develop a dynamic calibration system using RFID tagging and advanced software to allow precision manufacturers to drastically reduce non-conformance issues, improve process efficiency and reduce cost in the calibration cycle. This will be achieved through tool degradation, location tracking and smart software.

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Advanced Shaft Manufacturing

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...