Enhanced Accuracy Automation THE NATIONAL COMPOSITES CENTRE The National Composites Centre’s mission is “to accelerate the growth of UK industrial output by enabling design and manufacturing enterprises to deliver winning solutions in the application of composites”. The centre forms part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult that provides UK businesses with a gateway to access the best manufacturing talent and facilities in the country. Members of the centre include Rolls-Royce, Airbus, GKN, AugustaWestland, Vestas and many others. THE BRIEF Serial axis robots are highly repeatable but have low point-to- point accuracy and the NCC needed a way of increasing the accuracy of their robots beyond that of the manufacturers specification. The aspiration was that the enhanced accurac

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