Winning the Weight Race: Opportunities and Challenges in Lightweighting
15 May 2019 - 16 May 2019
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Join us for our lightweighting conference on 15th-16th May 2019 exploring how advanced materials and technologies are taking the weight out of planes, trains and automobiles to improve efficiency and reduce costs as the UK makes the transition to a low carbon economy.
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Date: Wednesday 15th – Thursday 16th May 2019
Venue: The AMRC Factory 2050
Price: £150 plus VAT
Download the conference agenda here.
Why attend?
- Learn from technology and materials experts in aerospace, automotive, space and rail about the future of mobility
- Tours of state-of-the-art demonstrators and equipment
- Networking with industry and policy leaders
Speakers from
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Join us and hear from policy makers, industry leaders and manufacturing researchers who will provide deep insights into the future of mobility through powerful presentations and real-world technology demonstrators: from machining thin wall aerostructures and additive manufacture of satellite components, through to innovative castings of complex airframes, the design of joints containing dissimilar materials, and one-way-assembly.
Technical presentations from experts in the following organisations: ACT Blades, BAE Systems, BEIS, GKN, Group Rhodes, Laing O'Rourke, Lightweight Manufacturing Centre (NMIS), Lotus, McLaren Automotive, MSC Software, Northern Aircraft, Rolls-Royce, Rotherham Council, Shape Machining, Sheffield Council, Tata Steel, Tinsley Bridge, Ultimate Battery Company, University of Sheffield, Williams Advanced Engineering...with more still to be confirmed.
Sectors and technologies covered: Aerospace, Automotive, Construction, Rail, Space, Composites Manufacturing, Machining, Casting, High Strength & Light Weight Metals, Additive Manufacturing, Battery Technology.
Tours to showcase the AMRC's current lightweighting capabilities in:
Composites Manufacturing
- Automated Production - utilising automated fibre placement and advanced robotic filament winding to demonstrate the cost and performance benefits of the technologies.
- Advanced Curing - enabling technologies and autoclave alternatives that will reduce costs and energy, whilst enhancing throughput and quality of components.
- Novel Materials & Processing - the development of processes and materials to improve net shape component manufacture and material properties.
- Dry Fibre Technologies - working with traditional textile technologies, such as weaving and braiding, and pushing their capabilities beyond the conventional standards to produce novel composite fibre architectures.
- Composites machining - making subtractive composite processing affordable, fast and safe, so that it is more attractive to machine a high value-add component to net shape than to use any other technology.
Machining
- Lightweight Thin Wall Machining - milling part features with thin wall characteristics on a variety of materials, whilst maintaining dimensional accuracy and straightness.
- One-way Assembly - The ability to manufacture fastener-ready holes in composite-metallic stacks that fully comply to specification without the need to disassemble, inspect, deburr, clean or rework.
Castings
- Titanium Investment Casting - for weight optimised aircraft structural components.
- Optimisation of the Design for Manufacture - reducing components and wall thickness.
Design and Prototyping
- Design for Additive Manufacturing - allowing complex design geometries to be produced in polymers and metals that are topology optimised for lightweight structures.
- Analysis - developing and validating analyses for many structural, fluid flow and thermal design questions.
Robotics and Automation
- Lightweight reconfigurable carbon composite robotic machine tools - for faster drilling and milling applications and without having to make major investment in purpose-built machine tools, which cannot easily be moved.
- Robotic composite machining –for improved accuracy, increased throughput and safer working environments.
Additive Manufacturing
- The benefits of utilising powder metallurgy to produce lighter weight parts with reduced parts counts and increased functionality.
Cost: £150 + VAT (Two day conference - lunch included - plus dinner and drinks reception)
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Companies attending from:
3M UK Plc
ACT Blade
Advanced Propulsion Centre
AFRC
Airbus
AJE Powertrain Ltd
AMRC
Arrk
Aston Martin
Axillium Research
BAE
Biesse
Castings
DPMS Ltd
ELG Carbon Fibre
e-Xstream Engineering
Fluency Marketing
Ford
Fujitsu
GKN
GOM
Haydale Composite Solutions
Hexadex Limited
ICD Europe Ltd
Innoval Technology Ltd
Islabikes
Jaguar Landrover
Kennametal
Kingsbury
Kyocera
Kyocera SGS Tool
Lentus Composites
Lotus Sports Car Engineering
Magnomatics Ltd
Manchester University
McLaren Automotive
Metlase
Mills CNC
MSC Software
MTC
NCMT
Northern Aircraft
Northern Powerhouse
OSG
Pentaxia
Philip Bralsford Consultancy & Training
PK Forming
Polytec Ltd
PPA LTD
Primetals
Red Bull Technology
Rhodes Group
Rolls-Royce
Rosler UK
Rotherham Council
Sarclad
Senior Aerospace
Shape
Sheffield Council CEO
Siemens
Sigmatex
Simpact Engineering Ltd,
Surface Generation
Tata Steel
The Ultimate Battery Co.
Thinkfast Ltd
Tinsley
Tisics
Tyrolit
University of Nottingham
University of Sheffield
University of Sunderland
VDM Metals
Wallwork Heat Treatment
Williams F1
Event Address:
AMRC Factory 2050 Sheffield Business Park Europa Avenue Sheffield South Yorkshire United Kingdom S91ZAEvent Organiser:
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