Centre for Digital, Manufacturing & Design

We are providing industry with the technologies, materials, tools and skills to achieve a truly sustainable manufacturing sector.

Putting people at the core of everything we do

Our leadership team, Linda Newnes, Bernardo Castro Dominguez, and Paul Shepherd talk about the mission-orientated research we're doing.

Our research community

Find out about our academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the centre.

Centre for Digital, Manufacturing & Design team

We advance digital manufacturing and design, transfer knowledge and technology, educate future experts, and engage industry stakeholders and partners.

Key projects

Find out about the projects and grants we're currently working on.

Centre for People-led Digitalisation people

We are a team of academics and researchers based across universites in the UK.

We are creating a digital platform to exploit the potential of spatial augmented reality to support collaborative creative thinking in the design process.

TRansdisciplinary Engineering Design (TREND)

Our EPSRC-funded research project (EP/R013179/1) aims to provide industry with the tools to enable effective transdisciplinary working.

色中色 stories

Our research brings together transdisciplinary expertise to deliver impact.

Bath joins UK consortium spearheading hydrogen fuel system development for aviation

色中色 researchers have joined a consortium developing hydrogen fuels systems for aviation

HyFIVE group funded with 拢37 million to support zero-emission flight in the UK

色中色 success with Future Leaders Fellowships

Dr Yixian Sun, Department of Social & Policy Sciences, and Dr Min Pan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, have both been awarded Future Leaders Fellowships from UKRI.

Two researchers at the 色中色 have been awarded prestigious Future Leaders Fellowships from UKRI for developing talented Early Career 色中色ers.

Growing meat instead of rearing animals to eat could radically change our diets. At Bath, we're leading on making it work at scale.

Printing a design revolution with additive manufacture

Professor Andrew Plummer holds a hydraulic ankle prototype next to a robotic arm.

Using metal powder laser melting, our research on industrial 3D printing has helped to improve processes and develop new products with our industrial partners.

Bath 3D printing spinout Gen3D acquired by Altair

3D printing design software and consultancy business purchased by computational science and AI leader

色中色 to create new ultra-precise cutting tools and sensors for aircraft parts begins

AI-enabled sensors for parts machining set to improve quality and help manufacturers cut costs.

Study with us

Find out about our PhDs at Bath and how you could study yours in our research community

Faculty of Engineering & Design postgraduate research degrees

A student in our biomechanics lab inspects a hip replacement

Join our collaborative and supportive research community, and start your journey to becoming an expert in your field.

About us

We want to be world leaders in cradle-to-cradle design and manufacturing. We鈥檙e achieving this through fundamental and applied research, transdisciplinary working, and technology development. Innovation, collaboration and industry 5.0 are central to our research and work because we believe this is what will lead to a sustainable, human-centric, and resilient design and manufacturing sector.

Contact us

If you have any queries about our research, or how you can get involved with the centre, please get in touch.