09:00 - 17:30, Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry and Visualisation Centre, Telford
9:00 - 17:30, Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry
and Visualisation Centre, Telford
At this workshop you will be able to:
- find out about aerospace manufacturing best practices in net shape forming processes -- from your customers and peers;
- take a tour of the new Manufacturing Technology Centre or the Visualisation Centre in Telford;
- interact with other MAA members, customers and peers to hear their experience of using similar manufacturing technologies to you.
The workshop takes place at two venues. Attendees at both venues will hear speakers either at their own venue or remotely via video link.
What is Net Shape Manufacturing?
Simply it is forming a part or product with only one process. The aim is to produce less or no waste which may be the most efficient way to produce the part. However since it is not always practical, the term Near Net Shape Manufacturing is often used to show an improvement towards the ideal. This name implies that the initial production of the item is very close to the final (net) shape, reducing the need for surface finishing -- which can eliminate more than two-thirds of the production costs in some industries. Here are some examples:
Ceramics
- gel casting, ceramic injection moulding, structural ceramic production
Composites
- lanxide process
Plastics
- Injection moulding, rapid prototyping
Metals
- casting
- powder metallurgy
- linear friction welding
- metal injection moulding
- rapid prototyping
- spray forming
- superplastic forming
- additive manufacture
- laminate manufacture
- diffusion bonding
What’s in it for you?
- compare your current manufacturing practices with customers and peers
- understand where your customers are going
- align your manufacturing capabilities with your customers
- talk the same language as your customers
- promote your capabilities throughout the day with free-of-charge literature display tables
- promote your capabilities to a wider audience by being included in future MAA and University of Wolverhampton publications and promotion literature
- take a tour of the prestigious new Manufacturing Technology Centre or the Visualisation Centre on the Telford Business Park
- promote and share capabilities in an interactive environment described as a 'sandpit' where ideas can rub off on other ideas.
Draft agenda
09:00 Registration, refreshments and networking
09:30 Introduction to MTC - First overview of some of the net shape forming and process technologies at the MTC
11:00 Coffee and networking
11:15 Presentations by local companies involved in processes involved in recent advances in technology in this field, hearing from specialists and users
12:00 Lunch and networking
13:00 Keynote speaker: Jonathan Meyer, EADS - speaking about radical new approaches to forming techniques, hear about new possibilities and how your company could be involved - Presentations by other specialists and users.
15:00 Tour of MTC facilities and of Telford Visualisation centre
16:30 Coffee and networking
17:30 Close
About these workshops
This is the first in a series of workshops organised jointly by the Midlands Aerospace Alliance and The University of Wolverhampton. It is partly funded by a programme called Innovation 1st, to help companies hear about technologies that may help them to grow their business. Holding the workshop at two venues is innovative and is now being used as a tool to help companies to access and try out new technology, particularly at the nationally funded Catapult centres, of which the West Midlands has the Manufacturing Technology Centre.
Key MTC partners such as EADS, Rolls-Royce, Aero Engine Controls and others will outline technology advances from the position of a prime or tier 1 company. We also have speakers from several Midlands manufacturing companies who will discuss their manufacturing capabilities and where they see manufacturing technologies going in the future.
 |
 |
