engineering services

The Centre has access to a range of high specification equipment for the demonstration of CNC milling, CNC turning, vacuum casting, rapid prototyping, wire erosion and metrology.

Engineering Services

The impressive portfolio of machines and equipment used is available for hire.

HEC's leading edge CNC machine tools:

HAAS machines

TM-1 Toolroom CNC Mill

TL-1 Toolroom CNC Lathe

VF-2 5-axis CNC Mill

Wire Erosion

Mitsubishi RA90 wire erosion machine

Inspection

Quantum 6104 CNC controlled CMM 

CADCAM

Solidworks 2010

CAMworks 2010

Rapid Prototyping machines

Stratasys Fortus 360mc FDM

Z Corp Z510 3D printer

Equipment Hire

HEC has access to fully equipped machine rooms with a range of premium specification machine tools for the development of engineering and manufacturing solutions. This equipment can be used to provide training courses and also a troubleshooting /development service to external and internal clients.  

Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping (RP) can significantly cut new product development times and cost. RP can also be a fantastic selling tool by putting parts and assemblies in your customers hands during sales negotiations.  There are two ways to access the equipment:

Pay per Project

Send over your 3D CAD files in STL format and the staff at Hethel will run the rapid prototyping and simply post you the finished item. Charging is based on labour, material and equipment useage and discounts are available for startup businesses and those with innovative ideas but little or no financial backing. Typically the average complete price for a small item e.g. microplate, would be less than £100 but quoataions are always supplied before commencing work.