14th January 2021 9:31 am A project launched at the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM) aims to enable the use of additive manufacturing in highly regulated industries. Funded by UK Research and Innovation through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, the ‘Daedalus’ NCAM project based at the Manufacturing Technology Centre will be led by Bristol-based HiETA Technologies. Joined by Coventry-based Arrowsmith Engineering and global enterprise software business ValueChain Enterprises, the project hopes to make the UK ‘the go-to place for forward-thinking manufacturing’. David Brackett, NCAM group technology manager and senior engineer on the Daedalus project, told The Engineer: “Additive manufacturing unlocks greater design freedom by reducing dependence on a tool, such as a cutting tool in the case of machining which limits physical access to the material you want to remove, or a mould tool which requires provision of removability from this tool and amortisation of the cost across lots of identical parts.