查看更多>>摘要：As the previous issue of MWP went to press the Shockwaves from June's referendum result had only just hit an industry that - by and large -had argued strongly in favour of remaining in Europe. Two months on, and although we may be no closer to knowing what Brexit might look like, how it might be achieved or when, if at all, it's actually likely to happen, industry has at least had time to consider the problems, priorities and opportunities presented by a post-Brexit world.
查看更多>>摘要：Sheffield Forgemasters has secured defence export contracts worth over $30m (?23m) to supply castings for the US Navy's OHIO submarine replacement programme. The project has been granted full approval by the UK government.
查看更多>>摘要：Cranfield University and consortium partners have completed a three-year FP7 project to improve aircraft maintenance and repair processes by integrating health management capabilities with additive manufacturing (AM). A total of 12 partners took part in the RepAIR project, which focused on on-site maintenance and repair of aircraft by integrated direct digital manufacturing.
查看更多>>摘要：The Aerospace Growth Partnership (AGP) has published Means of Ascent, a strategy document outlining how the aerospace sector will build on achievements gained since 2010, According to trade body ADS, a key feature of the strategy is the industry's Supply Chain Competitiveness Charter, which has been designed to strengthen relationships between large companies and their suppliers to ensure they work together more effectively to raise productivity and competitiveness.
查看更多>>摘要：The re-opening of the Dalzell plate mill at Motherwell has moved forward with the first delivery of steel slab to the site for nearly a year. Around 1,500 tonnes of slab from the British Steel plant at Scunthorpe arrived by train at Dalzell in preparation for the restart of steel plate production by new owners Liberty House Group in September.
查看更多>>摘要：The cost of storing nuclear waste could be reduced following a new investment that boosts AMRC Castings' ability to produce large-scale castings. The organisation is part of the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and it has installed a CMS Poseidon 5-axis CNC machine to produce large-scale, di-mensionally accurate replica patterns from polystyrene.
查看更多>>摘要：Qinetiq has worked with the National Composites Centre to introduce a composite material that protects aircraft against high-impact and lightning strikes. The technology introduces a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) into a carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic.
查看更多>>摘要：A manufacturer of textile testing machinery has invested over ?150,000 into a new CNC machining centre to further its aims of improving quality reducing production times, and being prepared for growth. Based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, James Heal expects to build on its 140-year heritage with the acquisition of a DMG Mori NLX2500SY/700 CNC lathe, which is billed as a machine that "achieves powerful turning capabilities and outstanding milling performance", enabling operators' to machine different workpieces - such as simple or complex shaped components - with one operation.
查看更多>>摘要：I think it is fair to say that business and industry have been shocked by the outcome of the vote on 23 June and we have entered a period of political and economic uncertainty. Most industry leaders are supporting a 'business-as-usual' stance, but to underpin this they require urgent reassurance and sight of long-term stability There's an urgent need for constancy of purpose and I offer up the High Value Manufacturing Catapult as the example of that constancy We have been operating for just approaching five years, helping industry to bring the UK's best research into commercial reality It's an offer that industry has grasped very quickly.
查看更多>>摘要：Foundation tools specialist Pro-Dig (Europe) has recently invested in four new high-performance CNC machine tools from Mills CNC. The machines - two large-capacity Doosan Puma 400LB (long-bed) lathes, and two heavy-duty box guideway Doosan Mynx 5400 (BT 40) vertical machining centres - were installed at Pro-Dig's UK manufacturing facility in St Neots, Cambridgeshire in early 2016, and are being used to machine different-sized and different diameter (200mm-1.5m) continuous flight augers (CFA) male and female hollow-stem couplings.
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