UK Advanced Manufacturing Industry
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What is Advanced Manufacturing?
Advanced Manufacturing is the term used to describe innovation within the manufacturing industry. Advanced Manufacturing within the UK can be used to classify companies that use innovative technologies and processes to increase production and productivity.
Typically, what’s different between traditional and advanced manufacturing is the use of versatile production methods that drive efficiency. This includes companies leveraging automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, software, AR & VR, digital design and other cutting-edge processes that add value in the manufacturing process.
Advanced Manufacturing helps to support a wide range of other industries, with techniques being used across electric vehicle production, robotics, pharmaceuticals and much more.
Advanced Manufacturing sector summary
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Here are the key facts about the Advanced Manufacturing sector. The sector has a turnover of £131.6bn currently, has received £16.4bn of investment and the sector is growing at 0.7% per year.
Advanced Manufacturing verticals
Our industry data goes deep. See the top verticals and specialisms making waves in the UK Advanced Manufacturing industry today.
Our Advanced Manufacturing RTIC is made up of 15 individual verticals. The top verticals in this sector include Computer Aided Manufacturing, and Digital Design. You can find out more about the verticals by downloading our RTIC report, or by signing up for a free trial of The Data City platform.
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RTIC0065 Advanced Manufacturing 9645 companies
Companies using the most innovative technologies and processes to increase productivity, often in the highest value-add parts of manufacturing sectors.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Advanced Measurement226 companies
Companies which can complete the measurement of workpieces between operations with high speed, high efficiency, high accuracy and high flexibility.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Artificial Intelligence458 companies
Companies leveraging AI and machine learning, manufacturers can improve operational efficiency, launch new products, customize product designs and plan future financial action.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Augmented and Virtual Reality170 companies
Enhancing and augmenting existing product and service design and enabling entirely new techniques using virtual worlds
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Advanced Manufacturing: Coating Tech1060 companies
Companies offering services for covering that is applied to the surface of an object, usually referred to as the substrate. The purpose of applying the coating may be decorative, functional, or both.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Computer Aided Manufacturing1888 companies
Companies using software and computer-controlled machinery to automate a manufacturing process.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Cutting and Machining866 companies
Cutting is a technique where the operator moves a material (workpiece) such as metal and the tool in relation to each other in order to shape the workpiece into the desired form through shaving, drilling, etc
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Advanced Manufacturing: Data Services433 companies
Companies using data to drive efficient and responsive production systems.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Digital Design1475 companies
Digital Design, Manufacturing & Services (DDMS) is a digital-first approach to the way products are designed, manufactured and operated.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Digital Twins110 companies
The digital twin is a virtual representation of the as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained physical product
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Advanced Manufacturing: Forging1312 companies
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of a metal through hammering, pressing, or rolling.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Forming1290 companies
Forming is a mechanical process used in manufacturing industries wherein materials (mostly metals) undergo plastic deformations and acquire required shapes and sizes by application of suitable stresses such as compression, shear and tension
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Advanced Manufacturing: Industrial IoT450 companies
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) refers to interconnected sensors, instruments, and other devices networked together with computers’ industrial applications.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Moulding459 companies
A process that involves shaping a liquid or malleable raw material by using a fixed frame; known as either a mould or a matrix.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Prototyping1448 companies
Companies creating early samples, models, or releases of a product built to test a concept or process.
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Advanced Manufacturing: Robotics and Automation784 companies
Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, is software that is integrated with business processes in order to automate certain activities, minimize human errors, and maximize productivity
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Advanced Manufacturing industry growth
Based on a growth rate of 0.7%, we expect that this sector could be worth £158.8bn by 2026. Below you can see our forecast of the growth of the sector.
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