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C2I 2021: Manufacturing Technology Shortlist

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Runners up in this year's Manufacturing Technology category ranged from efforts to explore innovative applications of additive manufacturing through to techniques aimed at exploiting the benefits of automation. This category is sponsored by the High Value Manufacturing Catapult 

Category: Manufacturing Technology

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Project: Automated Welding Equipment System Inspection Monitoring (AWESIM)

Partners: Cavendish Nuclear with Doosan Babcock, Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Advanced Nuclear Research Centre, Frazer Nash Consultancy, Peak NDT and Aquila.

The AWESIM project was launched with the aim of reducing nuclear manufacturing costs by optimising welding and inspection processes.

The project has led to the development of an integrated package of machine learning, sensor technology and advanced remote manufacturing processes to deliver welding, weld inspection and potentially weld certification all in near real time.

The work, which is being led by Babcock's civil nuclear business Cavendish Nuclear, along with some of the UK's most renowned engineering and academic institutions, is being drive by urgent industry targets to achieve a 30 per cent cost reduction in nuclear new build along with savings of 20 per cent in nuclear decommissioning projects by the year 2030

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