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Mike Tynan Chief Executive Officer March 2014. Imperatives for the UK Civil Nuclear Industry. UK Imperatives Civil Nuclear. Diverse Technology. UK Imperatives Civil Nuclear. Economic Strike Price. UK Imperatives Civil Nuclear. Develop UK Advanced Manufacturing Capability and Capacity.
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Mike Tynan Chief Executive Officer March 2014
UK Imperatives Civil Nuclear Diverse Technology
UK Imperatives Civil Nuclear Economic Strike Price
UK Imperatives Civil Nuclear Develop UK Advanced Manufacturing Capability and Capacity
UK Imperatives Civil Nuclear Creating long term, sustainable, high value jobs
Site of the Advanced Manufacturing Park – Orgreave Coal Mining Restoration Scheme (1994) Cleaned up extensive contamination and dereliction from 200 years of mining Recovered four million tonnes of shallow coal reserves Coking works – 1990 before demolition
Nuclear AMRC Purpose To help UK manufacturers win work
Nuclear AMRC Key Objectives • To raise the quality, capability and cost-competitiveness of the UK civil nuclear manufacturing supply chain, to a level of “best global practice” • To work with UK Manufacturers and develop world-leading manufacturing processes and technologies
Nuclear AMRC members Tier 1: Tier 2: March 2014
We Operate in the UK Civil Nuclear Market Place Nuclear New Build Existing Nuclear Fleet Nuclear Decommissioning
Nuclear AMRC Technology Themes Welding & Cladding Materials Development Advanced Machining Structural Integrity Inspection & NDE Thermal & Surface Treatment Mechanisation & Automation Design & Quality Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIPing) Modeling, Simulation & Visualisation Additive Layer Processes Assembly Productivity & Manufacturing Optimisation Applied Metrology
Nuclear AMRC Shopfloor TBT Deep Hole Borer Installed Machining 5 multi-axis Milling and Turning sets (5 through 9 axis) TBT Deep Hole Borer Welding GTAW Multi-wire SAW Groove SAW Orbital Welding Cell Shaped Metal Disposition Pro-beam EBW Submerged Arc Cladder Narrow Gap welder
Nuclear AMRC Shopfloor Soraluce HBM 5-sided Complex Machining Set Commissioning/Installing Large EBW 1m3 HIP Diode Laser Cladder Co-ordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) facility Soraluce HBM Starrag 60 tonne VTL Fully Operational Autumn 2014
Virtual Reality (VR) • Full immersion, interactive “cave” • Interactive “power wall” • Capability: • Training in nuclear environments • Virtual Product visualisation • Assembly and Maintenance simulation • Factory layout optimisation linked to Discrete Event Simulation
High Value Manufacturing Catapult • The High-Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC) is a consortium of 7 world-leading research centres with £350m public & private investment and working with over 160 industrial partners. It receives grant funding of around £30m per annum
namrc.co.uk m.tynan@namrc.co.uk