A look inside the University of Sheffield AMRC with Boeing's new Factory 2050, currently under construction. The world’s first totally reconfigurable factory and soon to be the AMRC Integrated Manufacturing Group's new home.
The £43 million facility will address a rising need for high variation and mass customisation manufacturing. Factory 2050 will respond to requests for new products to be manufactured by optimising its own operations, using ‘Big Data’ technology to process large volumes of information, collected from sensors on each machine.
Factory 2050 is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, each of which are contributing £10 million to the project.
