High Value Manufacturing Catapul For The National Centre For Net Shape And Additive Manufacturing At The Manufacturing Technology Centre

国家净形状和添加剂制造中心设在现有的MTC工厂内，在具有工业意义的规模上展示整个添加剂制造(AM)工艺链-采用原材料和部件设计来生产完整的成品部件，其中工艺的每个阶段都受到仔细的监测和控制。凭借AM流程所有阶段的专业知识，该中心为对AM感兴趣的英国组织提供务实和公正的支持支持遵循三个阶段的方法：发现(AM的解释和选择适当的工艺)；演示(重新设计、生产和验证演示部件)；以及预生产(从演示过渡到全面生产)。该中心已经为供应链上的公司提供了100多个项目：原始设备制造商、一级供应商和中小企业-包括帮助以前没有航空航天部门经验的中小企业开发新的AM加工设备，为它们创造了重要的新市场机会。未来的工作将致力于将物理AM流程工业化，并展示有效的数字孪生兄弟如何对广泛行业的技术交付速度产生重大影响。

The National Centre for Net Shape and Additive Manufacturing, housed within the existing MTC facility, demonstrates the entire additive manufacturing (AM) process chain at an industrially relevant scale – taking raw material and part designs to produce fully-finished parts, where every stage of the process is carefully monitored and controlled. With expertise across all stages of the AM process the centre provides pragmatic and unbiased support to UK organisations interested in AM. Support follows a three-phase approach: discovery (explanation of AM and selection of appropriate process); demonstration (redesign, production and validation of demonstrator part); and pre-production (transition from demonstrator to full-scale production). The Centre has delivered over 100 projects for companies across the supply chain: OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and SMEs – including assisting SMEs with no previous experience of the aerospace sector to develop novel AM processing equipment, creating significant new market opportunities for them. Future work will aim to industrialise physical AM processes, and demonstrate how an effective digital twin can have a significant impact on the speed of delivery of the technology across a wide range of industries.