PECM Issue 29 2017 | Page 36

Boeing, ALFED and Nissan speakers for the UK's largest advanced engineering show Advanced Engineering 2017 today announced a raft of speakers and conference topics, including talks from Boeing, Nissan, ALFED and Composites UK. Topics will include how specific engineering problems have been overcome, as well as more strategic issues such as the fourth industrial revolution, Brexit, additive manufacturing and advances in aluminium engineering. The five co-locating zones within the show will have various discussions and keynote speakers during the two-day conference; below is a brief insight into the issues that visitors can expect to be covered by each specialism. A EROSPACE E NGINEERING t Denzil J. Lawrence, Boeing Commercial Airplanes - Innovation and technology effectiveness in the supply chain; t Professor Meiling Zhu, Exeter University - Self powered wireless sensing in Aerospace - piezoelectric and miniature turbine; t Simon Young, West of England Aerospace Forum (WEAF) - Want the Best? Look to the South West!; t Alex Martin, Vapormatt - The Science of Control: Wetblasting redefined. C OMPOSITES E NGINEERING t Faye Smith, Composites UK - Supporting growth and demand in the industry; t Chris Hare, NetComposites – Making Bad Composites for Good Reasons; t Ben Morgan, AMRC - Automation and industry 4.0 for SMEs; t Clive Chitiz, Plataine - Your Digital Assistant: AI and IIOT in the Service of Advanced Manufacturing Optimisation. P ERFORMANCE M ETALS E NGINEERING t Jan Lukaszewski and Ian Oliver, ALFED - The Future's Light - Advances in Aluminium Engineering; t Dr Uday Phadke, Cartezia - The chasm II funding challenge; t Hywel Jarman, EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation - UK Manufacturing and Brexit - an overview of latest insight and intelligence; t Dr Steven Moseley, Hilti AG, European Hard Materials Group and European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) - Developments in Hard Materials - Introducing the world of modern hard materials. A UTOMOTIVE E NGINEERING C ONNECTED M ANUFACTURING t Dr Uday Phadke, Cartezia - The scale-up challenge for innovative engineering companies; t Mike Wilson, BARA - Industry 4.0, smart factories and Autonomous (Mobile) Robots; t Far Composites - City car carbon fibre structures; t t Andy Reilly, Granta Design - Materials information management for automotive product design and development; Martin Strutt, EEF - Leading factories of the future. How the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is shaping a new leadership and skills dimension; t t Tony Dye, Epicam - Phase-change in Air - A New Source of Zero Carbon Energy For A New Generation Of All- purpose Engines; Jon Fenton, Fetu - Roticulation - A new mechanical paradigm enables new possibilities. 36 PECM Issue 29 t Paul Hingley, SIEMENS - Digitisation Keynote; t Grant Coffin, Rockwell Automation - Time To Value: implementing I4.0 solutions in the real world. The show is newly ‘Continuing Professional Development (CPD)’ - accredited for this year, by the CPD Certification Service. Recognised