Factory 2050: Connecting the past to the future

Posted on 7 Feb 2018 by Jonny Williamson
A Bridgeport milling machine and an old Colchester lathe, old machines packed with sensors communicating data in just the same way as any new machinery does - image courtesy of AMRC.

Nick Peters reports on an inspiring visit to Sheffield’s Factory 2050.

The research projects taking at Factory 2050 produce real-world answers to today’s manufacturing problems – image courtesy of AMRC. The Factory 2050 project at AMRC should make any visitor’s pulse beat a little faster. The research projects going on here, producing real-world answers to today’s manufacturing problems, are fascinating and engrossing.…

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