Automated Manufacturing Facilities

The ADMC plans to provide a flexible facility for manufacturing businesses to explore, innovate, create, and reduce the risk of implementing an automated manufacturing project, with the aim to address productivity improvement needs and reduce costs.

A range of equipment will be available to undertake this work. Some of this will be made available from equipment suppliers and systems integrators who are members of the ADMC, including those partners showcasing their systems in the centre. The ADMC will also purchase production and assembly equipment to complement its offer to partners and members.

Please contact the ADMC team should you wish to get involved in this facilities and equipment selection process via andy.dean@ashfield.gov.uk

Typical of the work the ADMC will undertake with businesses are:

• Providing opportunities for members to review the benefits from automation in their field, including observing demonstrations based on the facilities and equipment housed within the centre.
• Testing and validating manufacturing automation solutions, either on the equipment available in the centre or by building a bespoke automation cell within it. The latter allows for the development and proofing of new processes, bespoke to specific business needs, without disrupting the existing manufacturing facilities of those businesses.
• Providing access to and involvement with manufacturing automation research and development being undertaken in the centre by its staff, its partner Nottingham Trent University, and other research and technology development organisations.
• Providing pathways to sources of manufacturing automation funding to undertake development projects within the Centre, working with the likes of Innovate UK, the UK lead for innovation nationally (https://www.ukri.org/councils/innovate-uk/).
• Allowing colleagues to generate the skills and expertise to install, operate and maintain the automated manufacturing cell away from their existing workplace.

There may be opportunities to undertake some of this work on your premises whilst the ADMC is being built. If you have a manufacturing automation opportunity to discuss, please contact the ADMC to arrange a review visit via andy.dean@ashfield.gov.uk