LAST NEWS
Rotary event at the Golf del Sur in Tenerife
Tuesday, 8, December, 2015
Car Show from the company Canary Cars
On Tuesday 8 December, a nice golf tournament organized by the Rotary Club was held at the beautiful Golf Club Del Sur in Tenerife, the Spanish Ocean Pearl of the Atlantic.
The primary successful target of the event, apart to entertain with an high level golf competition, was the collection of funds for beneficence scopes.
Several important sponsors and supporting companies and institutions were present, among the others the Spanish banking group ‘La Caixa’, the Switzerland Dental Clinics ’Medical Implant’, the Italian fashion brand ‘Dodo Intimo’.
The tournament provided a great opportunity for European Rotarians to play on the incredible green just few weeks before professional events.
The Rotarians came from more than 20 countries, exiting the international spirit of the event.
New Factory of the Future 2050
Friday, 13, November, 2015
During our last visit in Sheffield we had the pleasure to visit the construction area of the new Factory of the Future 2050.
From the first design rendering till today a lot of work has been done and the facility is almost ready for the opening, expected for the first half of 2016.
Factory 2050 will be the UK’s first fully reconfigurable assembly and component manufacturing facility for collaborative research, capable of rapidly switching production between different high-value components and one-off parts.
The creation of the new facility is supported by a £10 million
Prof. Keith Ridgway, Founder of AMRC is explaining the future development of the Advanced Manufacturing Park grant from the Research Partnership Investment Fund, managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).
AMRC Factory 2050 will combine technologies including advanced robotics, flexible automation, unmanned workspace, off-line programming in virtual environments linked to plug-and-play robotics, 3D printing from flexible automated systems, man-machine interfaces, and new programming and training tools. The building will have an area of around 6,730 sq m, and will be constructed largely from glass, to showcase the advanced manufacturing technologies being developed within. It will house around 75 AMRC staff plus visiting staff from our partner companies.
Factory 2050 aims to anchor a new wave of advanced manufacturing development on the Sheffield Business Park, around half a mile from the fantastic Advanced Manufacturing Park which is now reaching the limits of its available land.
AMRC Main Board Meeting
Friday, 13, November, 2015
Prof. Keith Ridgway strategic presentation
The brilliant presentation carried out by Keith focused on new strategic points.
First he stressed the importance of internal relationships and flux of technology expertise ofthe people in AMRC, the real human capital and precious real assets of the famous Research and Development Institution.
Moreover, with respect to the past, more group autonomy should be sustained, giving more freedom to the development of creative initiative. This, in conjunction with a clear focus on the finance control and the brand management will generate breakthrough innovations.
Following the same approach Keith Ridgway underlined that a better integration of the technical groups is fundamental to generate cross fertilization.
Concerning the new AMRC structures it is notable that the new Casting Organization has been created and fully operative, through the brand new £15 millions 1000 kg furnace, that is attracting new partners and supporters (it is the biggest titanium casting facilities in the world).
To attract future customers, AMRC is also pushing hard for the quick development of the Light Weightening Centre and the Fast Make Centre, exploiting the latest innovations in the field of the Additive Manufacturing.
Prof. Keith Ridgway, Founder of AMRC with Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante in front of the biggest aerospace parts ever manufactured in Titanium by Additive Manufacturing
New conferences facilities will be created and bought in the city center, in order to continue the series of investments for the development of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District, that will transform and regenerate the city of Rotherham and Sheffield.
In fact, the ground occupied by the old airport will be completely renovated to build the futuristic technological park, following the new philosophy of Innovation Districts.
Talking about the AMRC international activities, Keith announced that the Korean AMRC is currently established to use the facilities of KCTech in Jeonju, and that its operability is already confirmed within the frame of the CCAM in Virginia.
The big question
Prof. Keith Ridgway concluded with a provocative question to the attendance. The proportion of GDP coming from manufacturing and services is respectively going down and stepping up in the last 40 years. So the big question is still open: today is it better to investing into the manufacturing sector or moving to the services?
Only in 10 years we will be able to verify the right answer.
Pictures: Prof. Keith Ridgway, Founder of AMRC with Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante in front of the biggest aerospace parts ever manufactured in Titanium by Additive Manufacturing; Prof. Keith Ridgway, during his presentation in front of the Executives and Engineers of the AMRC at the Annual Technical Fellow 2015 in Sheffield (UK); Prof. Keith Ridgway, during his presentation in front of the Executives and Engineers of the AMRC at the Annual Technical Fellow 2015 in Sheffield (UK); Dr. Eng. Sergio Durante at dinner with AMRC Board Member. In the photo Dr. Bart Moenster from BOEING, Dr. Bertrand Petot from Mesier Bugatti Dowty SAFRAN