High Value Manufacturing Catapult presentation from 24 June 2014 CDE Innovation Network event in Cardiff

1. Introducing the
High Value Manufacturing
Catapult Centres
Andrew Mayfield
Head of Strategic Growth
Manufacturing Technology Centre
24 June

2. Market failure
Bridging the Valley of Death
Many innovations fail here
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Academia and
Early Stage Research
Industry and
Commercialisation

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. AFRC
Advanced Forming
Research Centre
Strathclyde
• Die Life
• Forging
• Residual stress
• Thermal processes
• Material characterisation
• Superplastic & Incremental sheet forming
Key competencies

9. Centre for Process
Innovation
Wilton & Sedgefield
Key competencies
• Printable electronics
• Bioenergy and Biorefinery
• Biologics
• Formulations
• Industrial Biotechnology
• Anaerobic digestion

10. 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

11. NCC
The National
Composites Centre
Bristol
Key competencies
• Design,analysis& simulationof
advancedcompositesapplications
• Product & process development
prototyping and validation
• Manufacturing, inspection & testing
• Knowledge transfer & training and
• Collaborative working environment

12. Warwick Manufacturing Group
Coventry
Key competencies
• Metrology and visualisation
• Battery characterisation and development
• Modelling and physical verification of all-
electric and hybrid drives
• Modelling & fabricationof lightweight
structures and automotive composites

13. Businesses
working with
HVM Catapult

14. 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