Manufacturing & Prototyping
Driving Engineering Excellence: AM for BLOODHOUND SSC
Metal 3D printing the steering wheel and the nose of the world's fastest car - Find out how Renishaw is helping the BLOODHOUND SSC team to engineer the supersonic car that is destined to break the World Land Speed Record in South Africa in 2019 and then aim to achieve a speed of 1000mph the following year. In this video we hear from Andy Green OBE, driver, about the parts of the car that have been additively manufactured, and from Project Director, Richard Noble OBE, about how our education outreach programs are simultaneously helping to inspire a new generation of engineers.
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00:00:03 [Music] so we're five years ago blood hang project team based in Bristol came to Renishaw and they were looking for the best in British engineering companies to assist them so we have them actually two parts were in the car they were made by initial are both about added additive manufacturing it's the nose cone at the front is made by us and also the
00:00:37 steering wheel the steering wheel we've made up to the titanium which have been handcrafted bit the driver's hand so it's both Cummins for that lightweight them to use printing in titanium powder which is zero waste it's incredibly efficient into technology future but it's not just a gimmick for your they that's 3d printer this is a structural very high-speed race car and it just
00:00:59 works really well it is they showcase what are the pieces got great pressure to do technology that we could show off the world take we've got an enormous problem in breakfast which is basically the manufacturing as you know eight or nine percent of GDP now should be twenty to twenty-five percent and we've got a real shortage of engine we absolutely buy
00:01:26 into the vision that richer noble and the rest of the bloodhound team have for this project which is all about inspiring the next generation that are going to power the UK sector forward I want to be an engineer and build or engineer we'd have to really build on this thing you've got to get more on bustard right now I didn't get them into the schools well we did one hundred
00:01:48 twenty nine thousand kids last year we've got to do better this year yeah if you or somebody you know would like to get involved with helping us and other people in the engineering sector push the bounds of possibilities besides the engineering then get in touch with us [Music] you [Music]