The Future Manufacturing Applied Research Centre

The Future Manufacturing Applied Research Centre (FMARC) is the interface between industry and manufacturing applied research and education at Coventry University.

Recognising the changing nature of UK participation in manufacturing industry, the Centre aspires to lead understanding of new, potential and actual manufacturing business models as high volume and low technology manufacturing is progressively exported to low-wage economies.

The FMARC contributes to UK economic success by assisting industry to adapt to participate in, and co-ordinate, supply chains based on overseas manufacture, to lead product and manufacturing system innovation from the UK, and to specialise in low-volume, customised and high technology manufacturing.

This supports UK manufacturing to maintain its level of economic activity in these sectors whilst sharing in a substantial but ethical proportion of the wealth generated by overseas volume manufacture.

 FMARC includes 6 primary centres of expertise

As well as having access to expertise in a wide range of related areas, FMARC also has connections with a broad range of UK and European funding agencies and support clients applying for funding to develop their products and businesses.

Contact us
Future Manufacturing Applied Research Centre
Coventry University,
Priory Street,
Coventry,
CV1 5FB
Tel: 024 7688 7697
e-mail: fmarc@coventry.ac.uk