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.
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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