Blog – Page 13 – Design and Manufacturing Futures Lab

3rd August 20213rd February 2025By Chris CoxMake

Language of Collaborative Manufaturing

Language of Collaborative Manufacturing The Language of Collaborative Manufacturing was a £1.9M research project sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research […]

3rd August 20213rd February 2025By Chris CoxDesign

PhysiCAD

PhysiCAD While CAD systems have been immensely beneficial they require specialist knowledge and expertise for their operation, particularly where advanced modelling, simulation […]

23rd July 20213rd August 2021By Chris Cox

To twin or not twin and when is a twin not a twin?

Ben and James attended the Southwest Infrastructure Partnership (SWIP) workshop on Digital Twins to help answer what a twin is and when […]

19th July 202115th October 2021By James GopsillProject: Brokering Additive Manufacturing

BAM in Metal AM

Jennifer Johns has written an article discussing to the potential of distributed manufacturing for AM.

6th July 202110th March 2025By Lorenzo Guinta

Lorenzo Giunta

Lorenzo Giunta Lorenzo is a visiting researcher collaborating on Proto-twinning. Contributions to the project include the development of a physical rig […]

30th June 20213rd August 2021By Chris Cox

Welcoming our Summer Interns

On Monday we officially welcomed a cohort of five summer interns to the DMF lab. These include Lousie Larsson, Oliver Shiffmann, Lloyd […]

25th June 20211st July 2021By Chris Snider

Augmented Prototyping – Reconfigurable, functional interfaces for real-time user customisation

How can your users understand how a product will work before it’s been made? How can they understand what it will feel […]

23rd June 202121st January 2025By James GopsillProject: Brokering Additive Manufacturing

Brokering Additive Manufacturing has published and presented its first paper entitled “Responding to rapidly changing product demand though a coordinated additive manufacturing production system: a COVID-19 case study” at the Manufacturing Engineering Society International Conference (MESIC 2021).

16th June 202127th January 2025By Chris Cox

Legacy Projects

Legacy Projects This is a repository of all our legacy projects that are not currently active. Show all Design Make Manage Design: […]

11th June 202110th March 2025By Chris CoxMake

Brokering Additive Manufacturing

Brokering Additive Manufacturing (BAM) https://dmf-lab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/agents.mp4https://youtu.be/-Ioozler69Ahttps://youtu.be/NIVwWAGOLS8 Society is driving the need for Responsive Manufacturing and requires fundamental research to come-up with strategies that […]