The team at Mechtech Automation Group was very pleased to welcome Rachel Chambers, Chief Operating Officer, DER-IC North East who visited Mechtech at its Birmingham site last week. Rachel was there to look at the latest Robopod & Benchpod solutions being supplied to DER-IC North East. Mechtech looks forward to seeing them live in action at the DER-IC facility!

About DER-IC North East

Newcastle University is leading the new Driving the Electric Revolution Industrialisation Centres (DER-IC) project following the Government’s announcement last year to invest £33m in a national network of four cutting-edge regional centres. The DER-IC – North East will concentrate on the prototyping, development, scale-up and testing of machines and drives.  The centres have access to a network of over £300m of Power Electronic, Machines and Drives equipment.  The additional £28.5m investment, which includes Robopod’s equipment, will fill key gaps for manufacturing and quality development.

Mechtech’s commitment to research and development of electrification technologies

Mechtech Automation Group delivers integrated smart factory automation solutions that can support electrification programmes. Our innovative automated solutions can provide the equipment and systems needed to automate a process and to assemble and test components specifically for the electrification sector such as: Rotors, stators, electric motors and batteries. Mechtech Automation Group is proud to be an ambassador of electrification and the electrification revolution.

Working collaboratively with our customers we develop and manufacture automated solutions that provide economy, speed and quality to any manufacturing production environment.  Our bespoke and standard automated solutions are supported by MAGserve which offers upfront, intermediate and post -machine services that can be supplied individually or as part of a turnkey solution, depending on requirements.  These include robotic cells, automated logistics using AMRs, smart flexible manufacturing, automated assembly lines, process automation and automated testing.

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