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Large Scale Assembly Technology Centre
The large scale assembly technology centre was opened on the Sheffield Rotherham border in 2006 with a vision to provide UK manufacturers with new and innovative tools to assemble their products with increased efficiency and quality. CECA focuses on high value, low volume, difficult to handle components across all industry sectors.

To achieve this vision, CECA can work with your business to:
  • Identify real time industrial problems and provide innovative solutions
  • Foster collaborations and partnerships throughout the supply chain
  • Increase your awareness and understanding of new and novel assembly techniques and technologies
  • Identify future directions in assembly
Research and Expertise
CECA offers research and expertise in:
  • Large volume metrology
  • Automation and robotics
  • Vision and inspection systems
  • Smart tooling
  • Reconfigurable and automated fixturing
  • Location and positioning
  • Part recognition and manipulation
This technology centre is a division within the internationally acclaimed University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing. The AMRC is a £45 million collaboration between world-leaders in the aerospace supply chain, key government offices and international academic institutions. Key research and expertise at the AMRC includes machining, dynamics, structural integrity, damping, additive processes, fixturing, control systems and composites.
Boeing 787
Boeing 787
Services to Industry Download
Please click on the link below to download more information about the services offered by the Large Scale Assembly Centre.
services_to_industry_-_large_scale.pdf (PDF 57k)
CECA - Centre Of Excellence In Customised Assembly Loughborough University The University Of Nottingham The University Of Sheffield