Introducing the

High Value Manufacturing

Catapult Centres

Andrew Mayfield

Head of Strategic Growth

Manufacturing Technology Centre

24 June

Market failure Bridging the Valley of Death

Many innovations fail here

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Academia and Early Stage Research

Industry and Commercialisation

HVM Catapult Overview

AFRC Advanced Forming

Research Centre

CPI Centre for

Process

Innovation

NCC The National

Composites Centre

NAMRC Nuclear

Advanced

Manufacturing

Research Centre

AMRC Advanced

Manufacturing

Research Centre

MTC Manufacturing

Technology Centre

WMG Warwick

Manufacturing

Group

What we do

Drive growth of manufacturing Help companies of all sizes incubate and

develop new technologies to commercial reality

Take the risk out of innovation Give business access to

World class open sourced equipment

The UK’s best relevant research knowledge

At elbow support from engineers, scientists, technicians

An environment of collaboration and open innovation - Cross sector

- Cross technology

- Whole supply chain

- Even among direct competitors

How are Centres Funded?

The funding model draws

equally from 3 sources

Collaborative R&D projects

funded

Core public

funding

Business funded R&D contracts

Manufacturing Technology Centre Coventry

Key competencies • High integrity fabrication

• Advanced tooling & fixturing

• Intelligent automation

• Net shape & additive manufacturing

• Metrology & non-destructive testing

• Operational efficiency & process

modelling

AMRC Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre Rotherham

Key competencies • High performance machining

• Advanced structural testing

• Hybrid and metallic composites

• High value assembly

• Advanced machining & materials research

AFRC

Advanced Forming

Research Centre

Strathclyde

• Die Life

• Forging

• Residual stress

• Thermal processes

• Material characterisation

• Superplastic & Incremental sheet forming

Key competencies

Centre for Process Innovation Wilton & Sedgefield

Key competencies • Printable electronics

• Bioenergy and Biorefinery

• Biologics

• Formulations

• Industrial Biotechnology

• Anaerobic digestion

NAMRC Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre Rotherham

Key competencies • Large-scale welding and cladding

• Fabrication of civil nuclear components

• Innovative machining & tool optimisation

• Robotic machining using metrology

• Near Net Shape (NNS) manufacture

NCC

The National Composites Centre Bristol

Key competencies • Design, analysis & simulation of

advanced composites applications

• Product & process development

prototyping and validation

• Manufacturing, inspection & testing

• Knowledge transfer & training and

• Collaborative working environment

Warwick Manufacturing Group Coventry

Key competencies • Metrology and visualisation

• Battery characterisation and development

• Modelling and physical verification of all-

electric and hybrid drives

• Modelling & fabrication of lightweight

structures and automotive composites

Businesses working with HVM Catapult

Over the past 12 months, HVM Catapult exceeded its performance targets

Headline achievements

• 1263 private sector clients involved in 914 projects

• 40% contribution from Industry

• Over 1750 SME engagements in 12 months

• SME’s accessing £60m of annualised project value

• HVM Catapult sales order book over £218m

• Over 50% of order book is collaborative R&D

• £3.90 of industry and collaborative funding attracted for

every £1.00 of core funding from TSB

• 1200+ engineers, technicians and support staff employed

by HVM Catapult supporting industry