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

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The manufacture of full scale demonstrator components at the AMRC validated the new approach in readiness for the launch of our new high technology disc factory near Newcastle.

Steven Halliday, Rolls-Royce

Generating synthetic data to train accurate AI object detection

This case study summarises the research completed by the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) Design and Prototyping Group’s digital design team to create a tool enabling the automated generation of labelled synthetic data for training machine learning object detection algorithms.

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