Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMIC)
Co-location facility for your business to work collaboratively with local university staff and industry experts to develop innovative technology solutions.
Who it is for
AMIC is an open access centre for industry and there are a number of ways for industry to engage:
- events
- directly funded projects
- grant funded projects
- SME and skills programmes
- membership
Membership is not a requirement to work with AMIC, but provides an attractive model for businesses to collaborate and build strategic relationships.
Support you can get
NIACE provides:
- secured offices for participants and university partners to co-locate and perform research together
- workshops (fabrication and processing)
- laboratories (mechanical testing, polymer processing, 3D weaving, microscopy, thermal analysis)
- meeting rooms
- design visualisation facility
- conference facility
Our expertise and capability supports multiple sectors including Aerospace, Automotive, Construction, Marine, Renewables and Space.
We offer knowledge and skills together with access to likeminded businesses in different aspects of engineering and manufacturing through workshops and introductions to new technologies.
We offer an opportunity to reduce development times, share project responsibility, have the potential to access funding and provide access to equipment for manufacturing and testing not currently available to the company.
NIACE provides an opportunity for organisations across the globe to become members, working on joint projects and de-risking of research and development activities. Participating businesses are encouraged to regularly place their employees at the centre to maximise learning.
Support organisers
- Queen's University Belfast (QUB)