he University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has completed a deal for one of the UK’s largest ever deployments of AR, with plans to use the technology across all three of it’s UK sites.
The AMRC, who work with more than 120 industry partners such as BAE Systems and Airbus, Boeing, Rolls-Royce and McLaren Automotive have signed an agreement with PTC to roll out Vuforia Expert Capture (VEC) software.
The AR software enables tasks to be recorded using wearable devices, which can then be turned into a step-by-step tutorial video with instructions for workers to implement across multiple sites and companies.
The new AR deal builds upon a long term relationship between the two organisations. VEC had a pivotal role in remotely sharing manufacturing expertise safely to a multitude of new production lines supporting the build of more than 13,000 ventilators for the VentilatorChallengeUK Consortium (VCUK).
Head of Digital at the University of Sheffield AMRC, Professor Rab Scott stated:
"Vuforia Expert Capture will be used primarily by our Factory 2050 teams to deliver upskilling and reskilling solutions for our aerospace partners, with the potential for much wider application into other sectors… Our involvement in VCUK gave us first-hand experience of the power of AR in helping to quickly set up new manufacturing lines safely by rapidly transferring production knowledge to different facilities.”
Scott went on to say:
"It has the potential to transform future supply chains and this is something we wanted to explore in more detail by giving researchers, our existing manufacturing partners and SMEs easy access to VEC and other PTC technologies."
The AMRC operates from facilities at the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham, together with AMRC Cymru in North Wales and AMRC North West in Lancashire.
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