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Doing it the Wright way

AMRC engineer-in-training Rebecca Wright – a self-confessed teenage tearaway who turned her life around with an apprenticeship – says she’s proud to have reached the final of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2019.
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AMRC Cymru opens for business in North Wales

A £20m state-of-the-art research and development facility in North Wales, which will be operated by the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, was officially opened today.
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UK joins hands with Canada to do the Salsa

The AMRC has joined forces with a UK tech start-up and a global engineering giant in a transatlantic bid to disrupt the $3 billion metal additive manufacture (AM) market by using Artificial Intelligence and robotics to carry out the labour intensive removal of the support structures essential in AM.
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AMRC ‘inspires’ next generation of female engineers

More than 100 schoolgirls from across the Sheffield City Region have now been shown the huge potential of a career in engineering thanks to the AMRC's #AMRCtribe campaign.
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Amplifying the brilliance of Sheffield’s manufacturers

Digital-tech companies are keen to amplify the ‘humble brilliance’ of the Sheffield City Region’s manufacturing sector but say the biggest obstacles are often cultural rather than technological.
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Reinforcing global partnerships

A global player in the tyre and construction reinforcement markets has teamed up with the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) to develop new advanced composite technologies.
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Starman Brian Cox rockets into Rotherham

World renowned physicist and TV astronomer Professor Brian Cox will be the star of a stellar new event supported by the AMRC to inspire the north’s next generation of scientists and engineers.
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'Construction corridor’ plan revealed by MP during AMRC visit

THE north of England has the potential to become a world-leader in the creation of modern, high-quality homes, said Housing Minister Esther McVey when she spoke to industry leaders during a visit to the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre.
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Satellite system getting ready for launch

A former soldier in the Parachute Regiment has taken a giant leap towards creating a novel launching system using balloons to put satellites into space following a collaboration with the AMRC.
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Digital Meet Manufacturing is critical to economic success

Industrialists across the Sheffield City Region are holding back on investment in productivity-improving technologies because of poor access to funding, skills and hands-on ‘demonstrators’, according to a new report published by researchers at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with the AMRC.
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Helping healthcare firm de-risk automation investment

Robotics and automation researchers at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) are helping a Yorkshire-based healthcare group improve the efficiency of their production facilities by testing the adoption of new technologies without the need for any capital investment to validate the system.
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Digital Meets Manufacturing at Sheffield Technology Parks

Sheffield Technology Parks has joined forces with the AMRC in a year-long campaign to connect the city’s burgeoning digital and creative community to the region’s diverse manufacturing sector.
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A world-class centre for advanced manufacturing. Open to manufacturers of all sizes.

The AMRC is a network of world-leading research and innovation centres working with advanced manufacturing companies around the globe. We transform industrial and economic performance by making step changes in productivity, increasing competitiveness, developing new products and processes and training new talent and skills.

Our 110-plus industrial members range from global giants like Boeing, Rolls-Royce, McLaren Automotive, BAE Systems and Airbus to small companies.

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Working with the AMRC to find a solution to keep Bloodhound on track was an ideal opportunity to show what we can do.

Donna Saul, Maher

Medical students flying high with aid supply drone

Medical students who won UK Space Agency funding to develop a drone that delivers medical supplies to emergencies and remote areas are flying high after help from the AMRC in creating concept designs for the unmanned aircraft.