News: Kawasaki robot is final piece of composite jigsaw

Specialist magazine, Machinery, features the AMRC with Boeing Composites Centre at the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham.


The Centre has recently installed a £860,000, Kawasaki robot-based, Automated Dynamics-supplied system that "offers the most advanced, indeed a claimed unique, capability in the UK, according to the Centre's business unit manager, Richard Scaife."

The system will allow for the flexible manufacture of low-volume high-value composite components and will be used on the Next Generation Composite Wing project set to revolutionise aircraft wing development in UK.

Richard Scaife told the magazine: "Much of our work is project based and we are asked for different things at different times – it is very random. It can be aircraft, sporting goods, small motors, offshore work, pressure systems – the range has been quite startling; all demanding different knowledge, rules and applications. But we can assemble cross-functional teams, using personnel from other areas of the AMRC."

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Machinery article
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