AMRC to build factory 2050

The University of Sheffield AMRC with Boeing has secured funding for a ￡43 million state-of-the-art research factory to meet the future needs of aerospace and other high-value manufacturing industries.

The AMRC Factory 2050 will be the UK’s first fully reconfigurable assembly and component manufacturing facility for collaborative research, capable of rapidly switching production between different high-value components and one-off parts.

The creation of the new facility is supported by a ￡10 million grant from the Research Partnership Investment Fund, managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). 

Leading manufacturers including Boeing, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems and Spirit AeroSystems are also committed to supporting the project.

Professor Keith Ridgway CBE, executive dean of the University of Sheffield AMRC, says:

"This will be the most advanced factory in the world. It will give us a home for the research and demonstration work associated with building the next generation of aircraft and energy technologies.

"The aim is to be able to manufacture any component as a one-off, and instantaneously switch between components. This will be a totally reconfigurable factory, one of the goals of the advanced manufacturing research strategy."

Professor Sir Keith Burnett, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, says:

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