Manufacturing Technology Centre
The MTC focuses on delivering bespoke manufacturing system solutions for its member customers, which include Airbus, Rolls Royce, and Siemens, among others.
Stratasys has partnered with the UK’s Manufacturing Technology Centre to drive forward the organisation’s objective to demonstrate new processes that pushes the boundaries of traditional manufacturing on an industrial scale.
The MTC focuses on delivering bespoke manufacturing system solutions for its member customers, which include Airbus, Rolls Royce, and Siemens, among others. This collaboration will see Stratasys work closely with MTC to make additive manufacturing central to the projects undertaken in conjunction with these members. Stratasys’ contribution will support MTC’s role to research and advise industry’s on the technology’s capabilities across multiple platforms.
Operating from Coventry, the MTC is part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, which is supported by Innovate UK.
“We aim to inspire great British manufacturing on the global stage and central to achieving this are our partnerships with leading technology providers like Stratasys, through whom we are deploying some of the world’s most advanced, market-disruptive 3D printing based technology solutions,” said Ross Trepleton, Group Technology Manager, MTC. “Working with Stratasys, we have a clear objective to demonstrate additive manufacturing technology’s existing capabilities to our members and explore the opportunity to push the envelope in other areas.
“This includes the ability to produce end-use engineering components, as well as the capability to build complex parts with multiple materials and give multi-functionality to a single component, using 3D printing. We’re also looking at the potential to functionally grade parts by material composition.”
J750
Stratasys J750
Through this partnership MTC will have access to some of the additive manufacturing industry’s leading technology. This will include the Stratasys J750 full colour, multi-material 3D printer which allows customers for the first time to mix-and-match full colour alongside an unprecedented range of materials. MTS will now be able to produce supremely realistic parts, in one print process, without the need for lengthy post-processing, assembly or painting.
“The MTC is the UK’s renowned epicentre for developing and proving innovative manufacturing processes and technologies that equip companies with the know-how to compete on the global stage,” said Andy Middleton, President, Stratasys, EMEA. “This partnership and the integration of our technology solutions at the MTC underscores the fact that, more than ever, the UK is committed to exploring ways to bring growth to the UK economy and promote the real business benefits achievable from transformational technologies like additive manufacturing.”
Trepleton adds: “Additive manufacturing has been recognised as a key disruptive technology, and it continues to play an increasing role in realising digital manufacturing and Industry 4.0. Right now, the MTC is developing the means to ensure that additive manufacturing is suitable for the end user, de-risking the technology for UK industry.”
