SMEA Lecture: Advanced Metal Manufacturing Processes
20 March 2018 - 20 March 2018Sheffield Metallurgical and Engineering Association
Advanced Metal Manufacturing Processes
Professor Mark Rainforth, Director of the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Metals Processing
The Advanced Metals Processing theme in the Henry Royce Institute is to establish a world leading facility for metals discovery, processing, characterisation, upscaling and manufacturing.
The focus of the presentation will be on metals process innovation in the "missing gap" between small-scale laboratory metals processing and the industrial scale. It will address the key themes of materials discovery, resource efficient materials manufacture, light weighting, flexible manufacturing, prototyping and production scale-up. Exploring the Henry Royce Institute and some exciting examples of recent developments in resource efficient high performance metal alloys.
Date: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Venue: Holiday Inn, Royal Victoria – Sheffield, Victoria Station Road, S4 7YE
Coffee and Biscuits at 5.30pm, Presentation at 6.00pm.
This lecture is open and free to all.