Manufacturing facilities occupy a wide area at RAL to enable their service and support for the projects they engage with, including workshops, assembly, and build areas.
Examples of their facilities include:
The workshop which houses the machines and the sheet metal fabrication facility
The workshop
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Dimensional metrology; which features strict climate controls to ensure a consistent and stable environment for measuring components. The workshop is kept to 20ºC (± 2ºC), with a relative humidity of 50 to 60% and less than 50 dB (decibels), with equipment operating.
Dimensional metrology
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The Additive Manufacture workshop with 2
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) and 1 Polyjet 3D printer.
Additive manufacture