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UKs Digital Manufacturing Centre enters close collaboration with Renishaw

Published on : Monday 12-10-2020

Places first additive manufacturing machine order of two RenAM 500Q systems.

October 2020 – An exciting step towards the UK-based additive manufacturing facility's opening in Q1 2021, the Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC) has confirmed it has purchased two Renishaw RenAM 500Q machines – chosen to increase efficiencies and quality while reducing each part's weight, waste and costs – as well as a joint development collaboration with Renishaw's leading additive manufacturing team.

The Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC) has today announced its first metal powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (AM) machine purchase of two Renishaw RenAM 500Qs. Both the organisations will work together to increase quality and efficiencies in additive manufacturing and share learnings within metal AM.

A key step towards the Digital Manufacturing Centre's 2,000 sqm production facility opening in Q1 2021, as well as a statement of intent, the Renishaw RenAM 500Q machines have been chosen by the DMC due to their cutting-edge capabilities within metal additive manufacturing, increased productivity and quality control, as well as Renishaw's proven capabilities in additive manufacturing. Renishaw's development collaboration with the Digital Manufacturing Centre will see the DMC's engineering team provide critical feedback, development and learning of the machines and their outputs, to ensure maximum efficiencies and increase innovation within metal AM. While for Renishaw, the Digital Manufacturing Centre will provide a range of new commercial applications for its technologies.

“The process of machine and material selection for the Digital Manufacturing Centre is crucial to our success and therefore a decision process we haven't taken lightly. Offering the service of being a technology partner to our clients means that we [the Digital Manufacturing Centre] have to be armed with state-of-the-art, innovative additive manufacturing methods and machinery, and learnings within that to ensure we're constantly offering the best technologies,” explains Kieron Salter, Digital Manufacturing Centre CEO.

“The decision to forge a close collaboration with Renishaw and purchase two RenAM 500Q machines was a natural step to offer our clients all of these things, while benefitting from the support of a local manufacturing supplier. Renishaw is a leader in metal additive manufacturing, its RenAM 500Q machine offers unrivalled productivity, quality control and ability to create a light component but with high torsional strength – one of the key benefits of metal AM innovations – as well as reduced costs per part. Not only this but our close collaboration will mean the DMC's engineers will be in close contact to Renishaw's team to ensure maximum efficiencies and learnings within additive manufacturing, so we are constantly learning, evolving and innovating.”