Sheffield Forgemasters’ Research, Design & Technology (RD&T) team provides support to all of the manufacturing areas within the company from steelmaking through to finish machining.
Our work ensures that Sheffield Forgemasters remains a World leader in the manufacture of high quality carbon, low alloy and stainless steel castings and forgings for the most demanding applications.
Our business is characterised by the manufacture of small quantities of large, complex forged and cast components. As a result, full scale trials and prototypes are often too expensive or take too long to produce. Therefore a ‘right first time’ manufacturing capability is essential.
Casting, metal forming and heat treatment: these are the key processes that determine the quality and performance of our products. We can model these processes in detail using the latest computer software in order to design and optimise each step of the manufacturing process. This helps us to achieve ‘right first time’ products with the highest quality and performance and at the same time minimise risk and cost.
Modelling capabilities include:
Our business is characterised by the manufacture of small quantities of large, complex forged and cast components. As a result, full scale trials and prototypes are often too expensive or take too long to produce. Therefore a ‘right first time’ manufacturing capability is essential.
Casting, metal forming and heat treatment: these are the key processes that determine the quality and performance of our products. We can model these processes in detail using the latest computer software in order to design and optimise each step of the manufacturing process. This helps us to achieve ‘right first time’ products with the highest quality and performance and at the same time minimise risk and cost.
Modelling capabilities include:
We cannot model everything, so laboratory and industrial scale trials still have an important role in research & development. We have a range of experimental tools and investigative techniques at our disposal and use these to assist our manufacturing areas with carefully designed experiments to optimise products and processes.
Capabilities include:
We cannot model everything, so laboratory and industrial scale trials still have an important role in research & development. We have a range of experimental tools and investigative techniques at our disposal and use these to assist our manufacturing areas with carefully designed experiments to optimise products and processes.
Capabilities include:
