Babcock partners with Additure to increase equipment availability
February 21, 2023
Babcock International Group, headquartered in London, UK, has signed a framework agreement with Additure, Warrington, Cheshire, UK, to enhance its digital manufacturing capability within its land business. Focused on increasing customers’ platform availability, this collaboration is expected to develop digital solutions – such as Additive Manufacturing – to better manage complex, critical, low-volume parts. This approach will also utilise sustainability and move the production to the point of need.
Part of Kingsbury Machine Tools, Additure is the Additive Manufacturing division created last year to support customer research and development with AM technologies, as well as offering solutions for low volume production. With an accredited manufacturing capability, Additure brings a wide range of applications, including both Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) and Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) equipment, to the new collaboration.
“We’ve been working for some time with Kingsbury and the Additure team, so it is really exciting to be developing our relationship in this way, finding progressive, sustainable solutions for some long-standing challenges,” stated Louise Atkinson, Managing Director Defence Equipment at Babcock. “We are looking forward to utilising the advances in our combined approach to increase efficiency in our operations, which in turn increases our customer’s platform availability, by ensuring the right material is available where and when it is needed.”
Ian Brooks, Technical Director at Additure, added, “In any global supply business, it is crucial that the right materials and spare parts are in the right place at the right time. We will assist Babcock in this goal by enhancing its manufacturing capability with the latest digital engineering and manufacturing practices, providing a credible and cost-effective solution for the provision of critical, low-volume parts.”
In addition to this activity in Babcock’s Land business, the technology will be developed across the group to address similar challenges in Babcock’s wider operations. This partnership is expected to enable Babcock to accelerate this work to deliver value across all business sectors.
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