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Project Summary:

Nearly every wealth creating sector/industry relies on experience gained and redeployed by individuals. To examine the possibility of knowledge and experience capture and its redeployment, the project is being undertaken with the toolmaking industry.

Project Partners:
Brunel University
Gauge and Toolmakers Association
Corus Automotive
Dzus Fastners
Technology Application Network Ltd

Need:

UK tool designers need to be able to design tooling for high value added product markets, in a cost and time efficient way, to stay competitive – or just to remain in existence. If the UK tooling industry were to disappear there would be no motivation for large companies whether they be automotive, aerospace, medical or any other to manufacture in the UK!

Solution:

Eliminate the repetitive tasks, capture the knowledge and thought processes to enable experience to be automated, built upon and not lost with each new generation of designer.

Benefits:

The scoping study has begun to identify a range of approaches – which if applied may ensure the existence and possible growth of a new generation of the UK tool design and making industry.