Manufacturing Success within the Sheffield City Region? How we can help you...
Whether you represent a company from the rest of the UK or the rest of the world, if you want to set up a new manufacturing facility there is no better place globally to start this endeavour than in Sheffield and its surrounding region. Why, you will be rightly asking yourself. Three reasons: firstly the exceptional quality of the 150,000+ people who work in manufacturing in the Sheffield region; secondly, the innovation and maverick spirit that exists among our manufacturing businesses, universities and research and technology organisations; and thirdly, the networking, property, HR and unrivalled financial support that the Advanced Manufacturing Sheffield Region team can help your business to access for success.
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Global Manufacturing Excellence
The Sheffield city region has been renowned for engineering excellence for over 200 years and is host to world-leading manufacturing companies such as Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Corus, AESSEAL, Dormer Tools, Gripple, Sheffield Forgemasters, Davy Markham, Newburgh Engineering, Kostal, Koyo Bearings, Marshall Aerospace and Peglers. Sheffield is a centre of excellence for high technology precision engineering, boasting globally recognised companies including Doncasters Group, Technicut, Swann Morton and Symmetry Medical. Sheffield companies are at the vanguard of innovation in special metals. Leading Sheffield-based metals manufacturers include ATI Allvac, Corus and Outokumpu.
Research & Technology Organisations
The Sheffield city region is home to an abundance of knowledge and expert practice, pertinent to the manufacturing sector, which can be found within the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, within the unique cluster of research and technology organisations specialising in advanced manufacturing and materials technologies, and within the indigenous business base. Our team can broker introductions to this knowledge base to enable your business to expand, develop and prosper in the Sheffield region.
Areas of world-leading expertise include:
Leading Universities
Sheffield's universities are recognised internationally for research in engineering and materials sciences. Leading research centres at the University of Sheffield include IMMPETUS (Institute for Mechanical and Microstructural Process Engineering), the world-leading Electrical Machines and Drivers Group, the Ceramics and Composites Laboratory, the Sheffield Centre for Advanced Magnetic Materials and Devices (SCAMMD), and the Surface Engineering Group.
http://seg.sheffield.ac.uk/
Sheffield Hallam University's Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI) brings together a highly multi-disciplinary team of researchers who aim to achieve the highest standards in materials and engineering research covering a broad range of topics, from semiconductor to concrete and from theoretical modelling to industrial applied coatings.
www.shu.ac.uk/research/meri
A Skilled Workforce
Approximately 1,400 students per year graduate from Sheffield's universities in engineering disciplines and a well-established training infrastructure provides skilled engineers for Sheffield's advanced manufacturing companies. Based within the Sheffield city region, NAMTEC is the UK's research and skills centre for metals technology. NAMTEC has developed a wide range of training courses that have been tailored to meet the needs of the manufacturing industry (http://www.namtec.co.uk/ )
The BIS Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) plays a vital role in helping UK manufacturers to share knowledge, improve productivity and achieve success in an increasingly competitive global economy. The Yorkshire and Humber MAS is the best performing MAS in the country; delivering £170m of additional gross value added in the companies it has assisted to date. The Manufacturing Masters offers work-based learning applied directly to your business (http://www.mas-yh.co.uk/).
The Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP)
At the heart of Sheffield City Region's advanced manufacturing and materials technology capability is the AMP, a world-class technology park providing cutting-edge manufacturing solutions to ensure repetitive advantage for industry.
The technology organisations located on AMP are committed to developing novel manufacturing techniques which enable companies to manufacture better products in less time and at significantly reduced cost.
The AMP's technology focus is on materials and structures, including metals and composites, typically used in precision industries such as aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, medical, sports, environmental and energy, construction and defence.
Technologies developed on the AMP are already transforming some of the world's pre-eminent manufacturers. Meanwhile, globally recognised companies are establishing R&D or manufacturing facilities on AMP, to benefit from the Park's technology capabilities and industry networks, as well as the wider supply chain, knowledge and workforce capabilities of Sheffield City Region.
http://www.attheamp.com/
"The Sheffield region has a pedigree of engineering excellence and innovation in materials processing. The wealth of experience within the region's firms and universities was recognised by aerospace leaders such as Boeing, Rolls Royce, BAE Systems and Messier Dowty. Their vision of creating our global centre of excellence was built around Sheffield's engineering and ingenuity delivering better, quicker, cheaper and greener parts for future generations of aircraft."
Adrian Allen, Director of Business, Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre.
Nuclear AMRC (NAMRC)
The new Nuclear AMRC (NAMRC) facility on the Advanced Manufacturing Park, South Yorkshire, will focus on the machining, fabrication and assembly of components for new nuclear power stations. The NAMRC combines the manufacturing and engineering expertise of the University of Sheffield, with the nuclear and materials technology capacity of The University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute. Its mission is to deliver the highest quality of industry-focused R&D, to improve performance and capabilities while driving down costs, and to enable consortium members to become the suppliers of choice to the global nuclear industry.
Research areas will include:
- Large-scale laser cutting and welding using robotics and adaptive control.
- Machine tool optimisation.
- Developing large-scale demonstrators, to take innovative technologies and processes to preproduction level.
- Virtual manufacturing and assembly.
The NAMRC will:
- Be the focal point for the civil nuclear manufacturing industry in the UK.
- Drive up the capabilities and competitiveness of the nuclear manufacturing industry.
- Work with consortium members to develop world-leading manufacturing processes and technologies.
- Help UK manufacturing companies compete for nuclear contracts worldwide.
The NAMRC will help its member companies to:
- Enhance the quality, reliability and efficiency of their products and processes.
- Reduce production costs and complexity.
- Develop innovative products from proof-of-concept stage, through validation and prototyping, to pre-commercial production.
- Meet and exceed quality standards and achieve nuclear-specific accreditation.
- Build industry networks and develop a strong nuclear culture.
Work at the Nuclear AMRC will focus on metals engineering, and will not involve nuclear critical aspects such as fuels or other radioactive materials. Research and development topics at the Nuclear AMRC will be determined by the board of industrial partners, including Areva, Westinghouse, Rolls-Royce and Sheffield Forgemasters. This will ensure that work is focused on industrial commercial requirements, and can provide lasting value to members.
For more information about working with the Nuclear AMRC and opportunities in the nuclear supply chain, please see http://namrc.co.uk/