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INDUSTRY NEWS
UK CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (AM) TO BE OPENED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON
A new UK Centre of Excellence for Additive Manufacturing (AM) is to be launched thanks to a partnership between the University of Wolverhampton and 3D printing company EOS. Partially funded by the UK’s Regional Innovation Fund (RIF), the centre will be based in the Elite Centre for Manufacturing Skills (ECMS) at the University of Wolverhampton’s Springfield Campus. The partnership will provide access to cutting-edge technology from EOS and AMCM, and specialise in the development of advanced materials and processes for demanding applications within industries such as space, automotive, aerospace, electronics and quantum computing. The University of Wolverhampton’s Additive
Manufacturing Research Group and its spin off company, Additive Analytics, will lead material and process development activities. Industries ranging from automotive and electronics to quantum computing and aerospace are already expressing interest, highlighting the broad applicability of copper AM for thermal management and electrification, due to its exceptional thermal and electrical properties. Whilst copper has desirable properties, it is challenging to laser process, hindering its widespread adoption in AM. The work of the consortium aims to address this by
leveraging cutting-edge technologies, processes and expertise to drive efficiency and reduce material waste. Building on the University of Wolverhampton’s
20-year relationship with EOS machines, the new Centre of Excellence will be bolstered by the adoption of an AMCM 290 FLX, the next generation laser powder bed fusion system capable of processing challenging materials, such as copper. The AMCM 290 FLX is a customised EOS M 290 machine equipped with state-of-the-art nLIGHT beam shaping laser technology, high temperature processing capabilities and excellent oxygen control. Professor Arun Arjunan, director of the ECMS and Centre for Engineering Innovation and Research at the University of Wolverhampton, said: “The establishment of the UK Centre of Excellence for copper AM marks a significant milestone in additive manufacturing, setting the stage for a new era of innovation, sustainability and responsible manufacturing. Future projects will investigate the integration of laser process data and machine learning, and artificial intelligence technologies for efficient material and laser process development.” Adding to this, Nathan Rawlings, sales manager at EOS UK, said: “The UK manufacturing sector has always pushed forward
ARROWSMITH ENGINEERS WINS KING’S AWARD PLUS STRING OF £MULTI-MILLION CONTRACTS
Coventry-based Arrowsmith Engineering, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of precision aerospace components, has secured a string of new £multi-million contracts just days after it was named as a King’s Award for Enterprise winner for International Trade. Part of the rapidly growing ASG Group, the company has sealed long-term agreements with ITP Spain, Incora and Rolls-Royce in the UK and Germany, delivering the largest order book in its 57-year history. Jason Aldridge, managing director, commented: “It has been some week… From securing the International Trade title in the King’s Award for
Enterprise on Monday to announcing our largest orderbook, underpinned by these landmark long- term agreements with some of the biggest names in aerospace. “Civil aviation – a major market for us – literally dropped off the cliff (40% reduction) with the pandemic
and we had to show good old-fashioned resilience and a fair bit of business innovation to get through it. But now we are back and targeting our best-ever year of over £11m sales.”
www.asg-group.co/arrowsmith
CHERRY EMBEDDED SOLUTIONS AND RUTRONIK CONCLUDE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente, a leading distributor of electronic components in Europe, and Cherry Embedded Solutions, have concluded a distribution agreement for the whole of Europe with immediate effect. As a result, Rutronik is expanding its product
portfolio of Rockchip-based System-on-Modules (SoM) and single-board computers (SBC) for professional and industrial customers in the
future markets of robotics, digital healthcare, smart displays, and intelligent video surveillance. CHERRY Embedded Solutions’ reliable and secure modules stand out in particular for their application-specific performance and cost effectiveness. They are designed and manufactured in Vienna, Austria.
www.rutronik.com MAY 2024 DESIGN SOLUTIONS 7
and embraced innovation. Additive Manufacturing with materials such as copper offers huge benefits for product designers, but they can be demanding for manufacturers to work with. This new Centre of Excellence will create and test the processes that enable material benefits to be reliably and consistently realised in real-world manufacturing component manufacturing.”
eos.info
amcm.com
A FREE GUIDE TO MACHINERY SAFETY STANDARD EN 60204-1
Safe Machine’s free white paper entitled ‘EN 60204-1 for machine builders and panel builders – a guide to avoiding common errors’, presents ways in which machinery often fails to comply with this safety standard’s requirements. EN 60204-1 ‘Safety of machinery. Electrical equipment of machines. General requirements’ is a designated standard. It therefore provides a presumption of conformity when machines are UKCA marked to the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations. This is the equivalent of using harmonised standards when CE marking to the European Machinery Directive – which is still required when exporting from Great Britain to the EU. The non-compliances highlighted in the white paper are equally applicable to machines that are UKCA marked for the GB market and CE marked for export to the EU.
www.safemachine.co.uk
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