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
1.
To raise the quality, capability and cost-competitiveness of the UK civil nuclear manufacturing supply chain, to a level of “best global practice”
2.
To work with UK Manufacturers and develop world- leading manufacturing processes and technologies

Tier 1:
Tier 2:
March 2014

We Operate in the UK Civil
Nuclear Market Place
Nuclear New Build
Nuclear Decommissioning
Existing Nuclear Fleet

Nuclear AMRC Work
Programmes
Supplier Development
Programme
• Getting companies to market, and developing their capability and cost-competitiveness
Innovative
Manufacturing
Programme
• Ensuring capability to compete on cost, quality and time to delivery

Supplier Development
Programme

Skills
Safety
Quality

Welding
Virtual
Reality
Machining

Nuclear AMRC Technology Themes
Welding & Cladding
Materials
Development
Structural
Integrity
Advanced Machining
Inspection & NDE
Thermal &
Surface Treatment
Design &
Quality
Modeling,
Simulation &
Visualisation
Mechanisation
& Automation
Hot Isostatic
Pressing
(HIPing)
Additive Layer
Processes
Productivity &
Manufacturing
Optimisation
Applied
Metrology
Assembly

Sharing in Growth
• £38m over 4 years: £18m for supplier development
• 15 companies in two tranches
• Tranche 1 (5 companies): selected and work commenced
• Tranche 2 (10 companies): in final assessment
Fit for Nuclear (F4N)
• £2-4m over 2-4 years
• Interventions with 300 - 400 firms
• 130 firms assessed to date

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

■ 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

HVM Catapult

The High-Value
Manufacturing Catapult
(HVMC) is a consortium of 7 worldleading 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