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05 Mar 2024

C2I 2023 Manufacturing Technology Winner: A single-click automated manufacturing metrology demonstrator

Advanced manufacturing has driven the need for sophisticated inspection technologies.

Team members across multiple sites are seeking to produce the single-click measurement solution utilising several non-contact measurement technologies in combination with machine learning - University of Nottingham

Category: Manufacturing Technology

Project: A single-click automated manufacturing metrology demonstrator

Partners: Midlands Centre for Data-Driven Metrology; Manufacturing Metrology Team (MMT) (Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham); The Nottingham Advanced Robotics Laboratory (NARLy); The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Research Group (Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham); Intelligent Automation Centre (Loughborough University); Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (Coventry University)

In the space of a few decades 3D printing has evolved from a means of visualizing designs in a solid 3D format to a tool that is as vital to manufacturers as machine tools.

3D printing, or additive manufacturing, builds a part layer-by-layer while CNC machinery reduces billet with cutting tools to produce a part.

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