Our Strategy
CAMTeC uses the unique AMRC model
This model encourages collaborative working throughout the aerospace supply chain.
Leading aerospace companies including Boeing, Rolls-Royce, GE Aerospace, Messier-Dowty and BAE Systems are already partners in CAMTeC.
New partners who can assist CAMTeC to make a step change in manufacturing cost and time are encouraged to contact CAMTeC and evaluate the potential benefits that can be achieved.
CAMTeC will focus on hybrid structures. This will build on the strengths in machining and metals manufacture developed at the AMRC and the assembly expertise being developed at the Centre of Excellence in Customised Assembly (CECA).
CECA will be the machining and drilling node of the National Composite Network (NCN).
Market insights
The industrial partners of CAMTeC provide a unique insight into market development and the direction of future research.
The strategic direction of all research work carried out is overseen and determined by the AMRC Board. This comprises representatives from all Tier 1 partners, funding agencies and the AMRC Directors.
CAMTeC brings a unique perspective to composite materials, driven by our close collaboration and experience with the industrial partners in developing efficient and affordable engineered solutions. This perspective is based on an understanding of the specific benefits offered by metals, composites, and combinations of the two.
The inclusion of hybrid structural approaches, incorporating both metallic and composite elements, in our portfolio of technologies is a distinguishing factor for CAMTeC. Hybrid structures are of particular interest to the aerospace, automotive, and construction industries, where the capabilities of a number of materials are combined synergistically in a single structure to achieve optimum performance at the most reasonable cost.
Understanding the specific requirements for composite structures that interface with and function together with other materials such as metals is critical to the successful development and transition of composite technologies.
This approach builds on the expertise in metals manufacturing offered by the AMRC, and our successful track record in providing timely manufacturing technologies that enable our partners and regional supplier companies to compete and win new business. Hybrid approaches may also include composite/metal laminates such as GLARE, as well as metal-matrix composites for specific applications.
CAMTeC's role in developing industry in the Yorkshire Humber region
South Yorkshire has traditionally had a global reputation for the development and production of some of the world’s most innovative materials and processing technologies and in particular this has been the case for steel and advanced metals.
However, the region has realised that its future lies in extending this expertise into advanced materials and composites, where the ambition to be a National Centre can only be fully realised by reaching out to national and international leaders in the field and fully integrating them into a research, development and Technology Transfer programme with a national and, indeed, international focus. With this in mind CAMTeC has enlisted the support of leading companies in the sector.
Through the implementation of step change manufacturing systems, tools and techniques, CAMTeC will assist companies in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region to become effective and sustainable members of the aerospace supply chain.
In turn, the Region is uniquely placed to support the development of CAMTeC due to its extensive materials processing background, funding opportunities, academic prowess, aspiration and emerging potential as a World Centre for materials related research.
The approach is holistic in that it incorporates skills, business support, investment, sites and premises, supply chain development, social inclusion and sustainable development. It places an emphasis on linkages between the private and public sector and puts links between industry and universities at the heart of economic development.
Partnerships
The strength of CAMTeC lies in partnerships that will enable:
- An industrial link providing complete supply chain integration across several industrial sectors.
- A link to major OEMs providing unique access to both 'state of the art' technology and the composites market
- A relationship with the Manufacturing Advisory Service, which will be built on to provide a one stop shop for technology transfer and manufacturing advice. There is no reason to separate support for composite materials from support for metals related activities.
- A relationship with the Engineering Employers Federation, which will be used to provide a co-ordinated approach to technology transfer in the Region.
- A link to the AMRC, which will provide access to expertise in machining and drilling composite materials and complement the work of the NCN.
- Access to expertise in embedded sensors and actuators and process modeling and simulation.
- An independent facility, which is not co-located or driven by the needs of a single industrial entity.
- A technology focus on composites and hybrid structures, which will give CAMTeC a unique position in the UK and internationally.
CAMTeC aims to work with collaborating partners to:
- Assist large Companies to become world leaders in their field.
- Assist smaller companies to become world class suppliers.
- Assist companies in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region to become effective members of the aerospace supply chain.
South Yorkshire has traditionally had a global reputation for the development and production of some of the world's most innovative materials and processing technologies and in particular this has been the case for steel and advanced metals.
The Region has realised that its future lies in extending this expertise into advanced materials and composites. However, it recognises that its ambition to be a National Centre can only be fully realised by reaching out to National and International leaders in the field and fully integrating them into a Research, development and Technology Transfer programme with a National and indeed International focus.
With this in mind CAMTeC has enlisted the support of leading companies.
Keep an eye on our latest news section to see our full list of our partners.
Flagship Projects
Typical Projects include:
- Design, Manufacture and testing of landing gear for Airbus as part of the DTI funded Integrated Wing Project.
- Coordination and lead partner of the EU FP6 Large Integrated Project - Aligning Holding and Fixing Large and Difficult to Handel Components (AFFIX).
- Lead partner in the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) supported project CECA, Centre of Excellence in Customised Assembly in collaboration with the Universities of Nottingham and Loughbrough.