Milestone for world’s first digital factory

Posted on 12 Feb 2015 by Victoria Fitzgerald

Construction has begun on the UK's first fully-reconfigurable digital factory at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in collaboration with Boeing.

Factory 2050 will be the UK’s first totally reconfigurable, digital factory, built to respond to an increasing requirement for advanced manufacturers to be able to make rapid changes to product design, as a result of ever-changing customer demands. It is designed so that machines and manufacturing modules can easily be moved around the shop floor.…

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