The £48m Factory 2050 is now open at the University of Sheffield’s new advanced manufacturing campus on Sheffield Business Park.
It is the first building to complete on the 50-acre Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing site, which will eventually create 1,800 jobs and is a step towards the development of the UK’s first Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District.
The glass-walled “reconfigurable” Factory 2050 will be used in research programmes designed to revolutionise the manufacturing process, and has been designed by architects Bond Bryan, who worked with the concept of creating a circular factory first mooted in 2005, but not achievable due to budget constraints.
Factory 2050 will be home to the AMRC’s Integrated Manufacturing Group (IMG), which is currently installing cutting edge manufacturing and assembly technologies, advanced robotics, flexible automation, next generation man-machine interfaces and new programming and training tools that will drive its research, ready for it to be fully operation in spring next year. The factory has been designed to rapidly respond to the demands of its customers, switching production between different high-value components and one-off parts - but aesthetics were also at the forefront of the design process.
Bond Bryan Architects, which has a history of designing Advanced Manufacturing Research Centres nationally, said the building’s modern design proved that flexibility does not need to rely on traditional building form and layout.
Read More: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/future-yorkshire/research/robotics-data-driven-technologies-and-futuristic-design-work-is-complete-on-the-most-advanced-factory-in-the-world-1-7619165
It is the first building to complete on the 50-acre Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing site, which will eventually create 1,800 jobs and is a step towards the development of the UK’s first Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District.
The glass-walled “reconfigurable” Factory 2050 will be used in research programmes designed to revolutionise the manufacturing process, and has been designed by architects Bond Bryan, who worked with the concept of creating a circular factory first mooted in 2005, but not achievable due to budget constraints.
Factory 2050 will be home to the AMRC’s Integrated Manufacturing Group (IMG), which is currently installing cutting edge manufacturing and assembly technologies, advanced robotics, flexible automation, next generation man-machine interfaces and new programming and training tools that will drive its research, ready for it to be fully operation in spring next year. The factory has been designed to rapidly respond to the demands of its customers, switching production between different high-value components and one-off parts - but aesthetics were also at the forefront of the design process.
Bond Bryan Architects, which has a history of designing Advanced Manufacturing Research Centres nationally, said the building’s modern design proved that flexibility does not need to rely on traditional building form and layout.
Read More: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/future-yorkshire/research/robotics-data-driven-technologies-and-futuristic-design-work-is-complete-on-the-most-advanced-factory-in-the-world-1-7619165
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