Digital Meets Manufacturing:
The Impossible, Made Production-Ready.
As a proud Tier 2 Member of the AMRC, Razor bridges the gap between bleeding-edge academic research and heavy industry. We spin out projects, architect scalable microservices, and turn decades-old bottlenecks into automated breakthroughs.
Official AMRC Technology Partner
Bridging academic theory and heavy industrial reality.
The Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) is a world-class hub for engineering innovation. They are the people proving what is theoretically possible for the future of manufacturing.
But taking a breakthrough from a controlled research lab and making it survive the brutal, high-speed reality of a factory floor? That’s where Razor enters from stage right.
As a proud Tier 2 Member of the AMRC (view our listing on the AMRC directory), we work hand-in-hand with their incredible research teams to spin out projects, deliver groundbreaking webinars, and uplift UK manufacturers. When manufacturing hardware hits a digital ceiling, we take prototype logic and rebuild it into lightning-fast, production-grade software.
Advanced Innovation Realised:
The Rolls-Royce Project
How do you accelerate the manufacturing throughput of a crucial jet engine component for one of the world's most prestigious aerospace manufacturers? You bring together a massive research organisation and an agile technology consultancy to move fast.
Rolls-Royce engaged the AMRC to investigate a system for detecting secondary grain anomalies within aerospace turbine blades. Translated into English: checking if the internal structure of the jet engine blades is absolutely perfect.
The AMRC achieved the "impossible" by generating the required X-ray measurements using cost-effective hardware. University of Sheffield optical imaging experts advanced the research, creating a semi-automated MATLAB prototype. It proved the concept worked. But for a relentless production machine cell, a lab prototype isn't optimal. It simply wasn't fast enough.
Enter Razor.
Working seamlessly with the AMRC, we took the MATLAB prototype and entirely re-engineered its functionality into robust, production-grade frameworks. Rolls-Royce set a strict target: a maximum 15-minute overall processing time.
Combining the AMRC’s elite research with Razor’s software engineering firepower, we reduced the processing time by 10x - down to under 5 minutes for over 4,000 X-ray images, completely blowing past Rolls-Royce's expectations.
The Result: A Project Rammed with "Firsts"
- The first time the AMRC took an "impossible" concept to the first stages of production.
- The first project where the AMRC collaborated with an external agile technology consultancy.
- An extraordinary innovation catapulted from Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) 1 straight to MRL 7, fully primed to take the step to MRL 8 and the shop floor.
Processing Speed Acceleration
Reduced raw image parsing times from a strict 15-minute target down to under 5 minutes for over 4,000 high-resolution X-ray images.
Manufacturing Readiness Level
Catapulted prototype logic directly from the research lab to full production-grade readiness, primed for immediate deployment on the shop floor.
Images processed concurrently under 300 seconds using optimised framework re-engineering.
Proving it in production.
Theory is good. Results are better. Explore the digital transformations we’ve engineered alongside the AMRC:
3D Print Engineering Made Simple
Removing the friction from additive manufacturing workflows to get parts printed faster and smarter.
Microservices Architecture for the AMRC
Modernising legacy systems by decoupling data, enabling the AMRC to scale and adapt at the speed of modern tech.
Revolutionising Energy Management
Leveraging real-time data and digital twins to track, manage, and drastically optimise energy consumption on the factory floor.
Insight: Working with the AMRC
An inside look at how our strategic partnership is reshaping the UK's technological landscape.
Voices from the Vanguard of Manufacturing
"When the CEO rings me and says, ‘We thought we could do it 20 times quicker but have worked out a way to process it 4,000 times quicker’ that’s when you know you have partnered with the right guys."
Ben Morgan
CEO, AMRC
Driving the Digital Literacy Conversation
Watch our joint webinar with the AMRC, exploring how digital tools are completely reshaping the future of manufacturing.
Razor in the AMRC News
- Digital Meets Manufacturing at Sheffield Technology Parks
- Digital Meet Manufacturing is Critical to Economic Success
- Digital Tech Leader Razor Joins University of Sheffield AMRC
- Digital Literacy Will Help Manufacturers Unlock the Power of Data
- AMRC in the Race to Inspire Next Generation of Engineers
- National Manufacturing Day Ignites Spark for Future Engineers
- Search all Razor mentions on the AMRC Website >
Let's talk about the impossible.
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