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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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AMRC helps hang glider design take ‘first step forward’ in years

Hang glider design could take its first significant step forward in two decades, thanks to a collaboration between the UK’s only manufacturer of the aircraft and the AMRC.
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Award success for AMRC apprentice

A self-confessed teenage tearaway who turned her life around with an engineering apprenticeship has made the finals of the National Apprenticeship Awards.
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Korean students glide out of the ‘awesome’ AMRC

A group of South Korean students have ended an ‘awesome’ four-week visit to the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) by experiencing what it’s truly like to be an engineer in designing, manufacturing and then testing their own gliders.
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CGI movie technology used to create Industry 4.0 Digital Operating Theatre demonstrator

Technology which could ‘advance patient care and improve patient safety’ during surgery, has been developed at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC).
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AMRC a 'great inspiration' for Scotland plans

Scotland’s economy secretary Derek Mackay came to the AMRC this week to gain a deeper understanding of what could be achieved with his government’s plans for the £65m National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS).
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Bioengineering student instrumental in AMRC medical project

A bioengineering student undertaking a ‘year in industry’ placement with the University of Sheffield AMRC Design and Prototyping Group has been instrumental in developing technologies for a major medical project.
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Engineers make fashion their bag

Fashion isn’t the usual forte for AMRC engineers – more used to grappling with aerospace and automotive challenges than next season’s catwalk designs – but they got in touch with their creative side when a Doncaster entrepreneur asked for help in realising her dream for a new clutch bag.
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AMRC plays key role engineering new world record

The University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has scaled new heights, playing a key role in a new world record for the number of people playing the same piano at the same time.
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Education Secretary ‘hugely impressed’ by AMRC

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has highlighted the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) as a ‘brilliant example’ of how a leading university can collaborate with industry to boost skills and jobs.
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Mimic the brilliance

The leaders of an audacious £20 billion transformation plan for Australia’s third largest regional economy have teamed up with the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) to build a high value added manufacturing district connected to an emerging Aerotropolis around the new Western Sydney airport.
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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 was very beneficial and gave me peace of mind as we had one opportunity to get things right.

David Flannery, Managing Director, ACS Stainless.

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.