CONSULTING THE EXPERTS


Border Archery has called upon the University to help advance its world-class production techniques


Engineering expertise at the University of Edinburgh is helping a Scottish archery equipment company develop and manufacture a new and improved product range.


Border Archery Ltd is a designer and manufacturer of archery equipment used by amateur and professional archers around the world. The company’s high performance bows are globally recognised for their extremely high quality, which are 100 per cent handmade at present. The company was looking to introduce new products to complement their existing capabilities and also considered the use of new materials for their bows. However, this required the design and production of components, some of which have to be cut from modern aerospace materials using computer numerically controlled (CNC) machining, which was a massive step for the company. The company contacted Interface – the knowledge connection for business, which approached the University to identify whether any academics at Edinburgh had the relevant expertise to help the company.


Dr Frank Mill, an expert in industrial applications of computer-aided design systems within the University’s School of Engineering, was selected for this project,


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and Edinburgh Research and Innovation’s Consultancy Office helped negotiate the contract as well as funding from Sporting Chance Initiative’s STAR award scheme. The project involved concept design, 3D modelling of prototypes, material selection, finite element-based stress/


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Edinburgh’s support gives Scottish SME a sporting chance to bring Scotland to the forefront of the archery industry


vibration analyses and the development of possible workholding and cutting strategies for CNC-based manufacture of a new longbow. Once this has been completed, the project will be brought in-house at Border Archery.


Dr Mill was able to apply his expertise


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