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Ricardo Driveline & Transmission Systems
Leamington Spa

Ricardo is a leading provider of innovative technology, engineering services and strategic consulting to the worlds automotive industries. At the Radford Semele Design and Manufacturing Centre students can see the complete process from original customer specification through to the final complete Assembled system. The design process is explained and students will see the design environment with real time simulation of component stress patterns. The manufacturing process will show high precision gear cutting and Gear Box Casing machining on the most modern CNC machining Centres to a very high quality surface finish and accuracy. Depending on the visit arrangement the students may see the complete assembly process or the development test area where systems are load tested over the full design speed range using a very modern test rig with sophisticated energy recovery capability.


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Warwickshire Education Business Partnership

Typical Itinery
Introduction and H&S Breifing20 mins
Design20 mins
Production40 mins
Plenary15 mins
Total Time1hr 35 mins
Curriculum Focus
VisitFocusCurriculum FocusAge GroupDays & Times
1Design, Drawing, CAD CAM Development & TestingGCSE D & T Resistant MaterialsY10/11NOT Mondays a.m. or Fridays,

Stout Shoes (NO Trainers), Max 12 students 

Warwickshire Education Business Partnership

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Warwickshire Education Business Partnership
PO Box 43
Shire Hall
Warwick
Warwickshire
CV34 4SX
Tel: 01926 738977
Fax: 01926 738973
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