The 30th International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Science...
James Gopsill presented his paper on Distributed Additive Manufacturing at TE2024...
From the 21st to the 24th June, I was very glad to host some of the co-investigators (Dr. Aleksandra...
The RiR with the Digital Cataput has produced a couple of papers to articulate the benefits of...
DMF Lab at the Design Conference 2024 Ten members of DMF Lab recently returned from a successful...
Digital Twins and Design for Many Manufacture at CIRP DESIGN 2024...
Significant progress continues to be made on the RiR and has resulted in the submission of an EoI to...
Edit: Recruitment is now closed. Thanks to all that have participated! We are recruiting...
Showcasing the future of work with AIgent operated supply chains...
The DMF lab are excited to be embarking on research in the new application area of Smart...
Today is the start of my Researcher-in-Residence project...
In November the DMF lab hosted Dr Tripp Shealy – an associate Professor from Virginia Tech...
In late November I travelled up to the University of Strathclyde to give a talk on the Physical...
Mixed Reality (MR) technologies have emerged as potential game-changers in the design landscape...
In Spring 2023 I found out that I was successful in my application to the Researcher in Residence...
I returned to visit la Universidad de Los Andes (Uniandes) in August this year after a pandemic...
Written by Michael Wyrley-Birch, one of our excellent summer interns. Over the past few weeks, I...
Written by Mike Wharton, one of our excellent summer interns. I’m now about a third of the way...
The DMF lab had their usual strong showing at the major conference for the research field last week...
Setting the stage to show the community our technical capabilities and upcoming research, this week...
The IDEA challenge returned in May 2023 for its third iteration! This time it was hosted by the...
This year we’re lucky enough to have three summer interns working with us on the 21st Century...
In April, thanks to Pump Priming funding from the faculty and the Research Staff Development Fund...
This week Chris and the team joined the launch event for the new ProSquared Network on the...
We opensourced our crossref API client written in Typescript and it has been referenced in the...
In this post, we discuss the computational requirements in scaling up an agent-based manufacturing...
As part of a keynote presentation I was asked to talk about digital twins with particular attention...
During the covid pandemic, occupancy in rooms had to be kept to a minimum. It can be difficult to...
As part of project clean access, we wanted to establish what the response of the maker community had...
We at the DMF lab hosted TrollLabs – a research group from the Norwegian University of Science...
Prof Ben from the lab joined colleagues from Exeter and Sheffield universities to discuss the future...
The DMF lab have just returned from FormNext 2022. What an amazing showcase of AM capability. Read...
The DMF lab are busy preparing the stand for FormNext 2022...
On 5th October 2022, BAM project team members, Jennifer Johns and Kautsar Ramli attended the AM-UK...
Soo-Hwa Kim is investigating the affordances of including machines agents that have memory that...
Owen Peckham is investigating the Minimum Viable Information requirements to broker deals between...
The DMF attended the tenth International Conference on Design Cognition and Computing (DCC'22) in...
BAM research associates Lorenzo Giunto and Mark Goudswaard are in Lugano this week presenting their...
Muhallab Al Ismaily is modelling how a Brokered Additive Manufacturing network could have supported...
The Brokering Additive Manufacturing research group present at the 16th International KES Conference...
The DMF lab welcomed The Product Partnership and representatives from the four founding companies:...
The second iteration of the IDEA challenge took place in April 2022 featuring teams from Blekinge...
Improving mixed-reality prototyping through a classification and characterisation of fidelity...
The Brokering Additive Manufacturing (BAM) team visit and present at TCT 3SXTY in Birmingham...
This video was originally presented at the Design Conference 2022 and provides an overview and...
This week the whole DMF gave a strong showing at one of our very favourite conference series –...
The Brokering Addtive Manufacturing team are looking for AM industry members to contribute in their...
n April, BAM project members Jennifer Johns and Kautsar Ramli attended MACH Conference 2022 at the...
Last week, we put the living lab through is paces through a shakedown test. Four ultimakers were...
We are delighted to announce that the DMF lab will be attending and presenting research at the 55th...
Lorenzo Giunta has passed his viva...
The BAM team discuss the architecture of their Living Lab agent-based additive manufacturing...
In a recent announcement from the Department of Health and Social Care Health Minister Edward Argar...
We are delighted to announce that the DMF lab will be attending and presenting research the 19th...
We're building the capability for anyone to connect to our Brokering Additive Manufacturing...
We are delighted to announce that the DMF lab will be attending and presenting our research at the...
We are delighted to announce that the DMF lab will be attending and presenting our research at the...
Throughout 2021 members of the DMF team (Prof Hicks, Dr Snider and Dr Goudswaard) have been working...
Project Clean Access – funded by The Royal Academy of Engineering has now finished. Given this...
The aims of the Brokering Additive Manufacturing project are to develop an agent-based distributed...
The lab and some of its research featured in the Dec/Jan 2021/22 issue of Develop3D Magazine –...
Version 3 of the PCA toolkit is shown in the picture below. It contains a number of updates with new...
We have created a Typescript client for the Ultimaker API...
We have been working with our marketing team at the University to provide some new content and...
Two groups of final year Mechanical Engineering students at the University of Bristol spent the...
Last week I gave a talk for La Universidad de Los Andes (Uniandes) in Bogota about the...
The team have been in full flow following the Brokering Additive Manufacturing meeting and created...
With the development of tools and methodologies for remanufacture becoming more prominent in the...
Over the summer, we employed some of our undergraduate engineering students to help out with...
In recent years there has been a lot of talk about technical debt in various fields. Technical debt...
The second of three reports as part of EC5.1 has been released by DETI and concerns the reported...
Photography courtesy of Peter Rosso As a first line of defence against the spread of COVID-19 the...
Brokering Additive Manufacturing officially started today (1st October 2021) with the team meeting...
Jennifer Johns is attending TCT this week to discuss AM and the opportunities for a networking and...
Written by Adam McGlenaghan Throughout the summer, I have been completing an internship with the DMF...
The DMF lab recently (remotely) attended the International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED)...
Prototyping is an indispensable activity in the product development process but what does...
What are the differences in performance and usability of digitisation techniques? In this video we...
The IDEA (International Design Engineering Annual) Challenge just completed its first iteration!...
Prototyping constitutes a wide range of methods spanning both physical and digital domains, each...
Brokering Additive Manufacturing has published and presented their second paper entitled “Achieving...
The Design Manufacturing Futures Lab has published and presented its first paper entitled "Quantum...
The Design Manufacturing Futures Lab has published and presented a paper entitled "Capturing...
Written by Louise Larsson Summary of project and intended outcomes In my individual research project...
Ben and James attended the Southwest Infrastructure Partnership (SWIP) workshop on Digital Twins to...
Jennifer Johns has written an article discussing to the potential of distributed manufacturing for...
On Monday we officially welcomed a cohort of five summer interns to the DMF lab. These include...
How can your users understand how a product will work before it’s been made? How can they...
Brokering Additive Manufacturing has published and presented its first paper entitled "Responding to...
Version 2 of the PCA toolkit is shown in the picture below. It contains a number of updates with new...
From August to December 2020 the PCA team were working in collaboration with la Universidad de Los...
The Project Clean Access team are working in collaboration with La Universidad de Los Andes in...
Limiting the number of people inside a shop or venue can help to maintain social distancing. This 3D...
Limiting the number of people inside a shop or venue can help to maintain social distancing. This...
Version 1 of the PCA toolkit is shown in the picture below. It contains a first set of products and...
The first of three reports as part of EC5.1 has been released by DETI and concerns the definition of...
Through the winter semester this year 2nd year students at the University have completed PCA...
Negligible-cost microfluidic device fabrication using 3D-printed interconnecting channel scaffolds...
The Product Design department at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano have been running...
Harry today presented his poster titled “Investigating strategies for mass property...
An exciting project that we’ve been working on will release in the next few weeks. Similar to...
A paper from 2019 found that speaking with a louder voice creates more aerosolised viral particles...
The Product Design department at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano have been running...
We would like to thank the organisers of Design 2020 for a fantastic virtual conference, with four...
The Workshop is a job scheduling tool for coordinating manufacturing in areas such as university...
The Product Design department at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano have been running...
Project Clean Access is about providing scientifically backed solutions to help create a safer...
We've had an extended abstract published and poster presented at MicroTAS 2020 that demonstrates a...
Harry has put together a video introducing material extrusion at a beginner level as part of Project...
We’re pleased to say we’ve been funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and are now...
Today we have opened four new clean access challenges that are open for submissions now: Clean...
Problem As our schools, universities, offices and workplaces are adapted to life with coronavirus...
The DMF lab has had three papers published today in the proceedings of Design 2020. Though the...
I have been working on justifying the need for refactoring in CAD models. The results of this...
I’ve finally gotten around to publishing my PhD work in the Computers in Industry journal:...
Project Clean Access has offcially launched on the DMF website. Please head over to the Project...
Problem A well-known piece of countryside etiquette is to take nothing but photos and leave nothing...
The T-Pen design features a dongle with a "T" shaped head that allows the user to apply force in 3...
Building on the USB interface, the design can be extended to also allow a pen (standard biro) or...
A simple adapter has been developed, that can be rapdily printed using FFF and SLA technologies, to...
In recent weeks the fight against Covid-19 has seen both an exponential demand for key medical...
We have put together a document summarising the MHRA minimum useful specification for an emergency...
Harry has had a poster accepted to DCC 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia for the end of June. The work...
Some of the work undertaken as part of the protoTwinning project involved an in depth understanding...
We started March 2020 with a quick visit the guys at Troll Labs at the Norwegian University of...
Harry’s first paper has been accepted to Design 2020! Titled “Looks like but does it...
On December 18th the DMF Lab hosted its first Open Day where we showcased our latest suite of design...
In November Ben visited Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota to build on existing links between the...
Building on the success of last year, Lee has rolled out the next generation of CityBlocks at the...
On 24th and 25th September 2019, Harry went to the TCT show in Birmigham to see the latest products...
City Blocks was delighted to be invited to Build London, hosted jointly by Royal Institute of...
The DMF Lab are at the CIRP GA 2019 in Birmingham this week, exhibiting what we do and who we are. Dr...
Five of the team (Chris, David, Harry, Lee and Mark) attended ICED2019 at TU Delft, Delft...
This week Chris and I have been in San Francisco visiting the Autodesk headquarters. Representatives...
City Blocks is back on the road, this time stopping at AVR Salento, Italy. A study into engaging...
We’ve just gotten back from the excellent Connected Everything 2019 conference hosted by the...
Anarchic manufacturing has been published and presented at two conferences this month, visiting...
Interesting two days at Autodesk’s Partners conference in London for Ben and Chris – even had...
Hybrid Prototyping’s first journal paper has been published in Design Studies, Vol 62. It...
The Lab hosted Prof Larry Mallak – Professor of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Engineering and...
During the successful pilot of City Blocks at Bristol Housing Festival, 149 unique cities were...
Our new Digital Manufacturing lab is officially open! Contained within the Queen’s Building at...
On Friday March 22nd the ProtoTwinning project (Full title – Improving the product development...
As well as being the opponent for a PhD defence in Trondheim Ben also visited the TrollLAB in the...
One of our long standing partners has won an i-FM Technology award for Innovation – Altuity...
In December I visited current and potential research partners in Colombia. The main purpose of the...
Earlier this month Prof Aydin Nassehi and Mark Goudswaard travelled to Modena in Italy for the 25th...
Following a number of successful UK events and meetings, Prof Hicks visited Autodesk, Apple and...
The DMF Lab were invited to exhibit our ‘Design By: X’ and ‘Make By:X’ tools and technologies at...
Next week the DaMF lab shall be conducting its annual writing retreat, with 12 members of the lab...