We are leveraging our materials, modelling and digital expertise across FutureForge research and development projects. This work will help us address complex challenges and opportunities within the forging supply chain.
Find out about all the latest news and developments below.
Scotland’s reputation as a beacon of manufacturing and engineering innovation has been cemented today (21st March) with the launch of the world’s most pioneering, industry scale, fully digitally enabled, forging research platform at the AFRC.
Transvalor, a leading software developer in manufacturing process modelling, has joined the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), part of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), as a Tier One Partner.
In part three of the AFRC’s FutureForge series with Forge Magazine, learn about why the FutureForge facility at the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre will be perfectly sizes for larger industrial scale research activity, while also small enough to encourage ambitious research projects aiming to demystify the ‘dark art’ of forging.
Part two in the AFRC’s FutureForge series with Forge Magazine explores how forging could take the path of a more sustainable future and embrace the circular economy, resulting in less or even, zero waste.
In part one of the AFRC’s three-part FutureForge series with Forge Magazine, discover the problems that FutureForge is aiming to solve and what the one of a kind forging facility aims to achieve in collaboration with the wider forging supply chain.
The AFRC has made a £2.3-million investment in new kit as it seeks to enhance the competitiveness of the UK’s automotive, aerospace, and medical manufacturing sectors.
The AFRC has secured £16.5million to establish a major new advanced engineering facility that will put Scotland at the forefront of the movement to transform one of the manufacturing sector’s most traditional and important supply chains.
Six major players in the forging and forming industries have joined the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), part of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) Group, just months after it established an outreach office in Sheffield to support a cluster of innovative companies vital to the UK’s transition to a greener economy.
The UK’s forging and forming community is set to benefit from a unique pathway to cutting edge equipment and world class academic expertise from both north and south of the border, thanks to a new partnership between two world leading research organisations.
The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) has recently welcomed two new Tier Two members to the organisation. Both companies provide unique skills to further complement the centre’s forging capability and bring a 21st century perspective on traditional processes.
A productivity boosting rotary forge that can provide up to 90% materials savings compared to conventional machining is being shipped from Scotland to a world leading forging company in Sheffield, consolidating a research partnership with the University of Strathclyde's Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) – part of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS).
Sheffield Forgemasters, the castings and forging company tackling some of the world’s most complex engineering challenges in clean energy and defence, has signed up as a Tier One Partner with the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), part of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland.