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Advanced Manufacturing Precinct
RMIT University's Advanced Manufacturing Precinct (AMP) facility brings together research, design and advanced manufacturing in one location, providing new opportunities for innovation and product development/prototyping.
Digital manufacturing technologies housed at the AMP include high-speed multi-axis machining centres that use subtractive processes and additive manufacturing technologies, and include Selective Laser Melting (SLM) and Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM).
The equipment can build final products direct from a computer model in diverse materials, ranging from timber and polymers, to resins and composites or metals and high tech alloys. Highly accurate digital coordinate measuring machines (CMM) will allow detailed verification for quality assurance and reverse engineering.
As a result, some traditional manufacturing processes such as cutting, milling, grinding, tool-making, die-casting and plating can be by-passed. This offers dramatic savings in time, materials, energy and other costs, and significant reductions in adverse environmental impact.
These new manufacturing technologies will enable the production of a greater diversity of innovative products that meet a very wide range of consumer needs compared to conventional manufacturing technologies.
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