Reduce manufacturing costs by in-process measurement

9:00 - 16:30, Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry

and Visualisation Centre,  Wolverhampton Science Park

At this workshop you will be able to:

• hear how you can get cost savings in your manufacturing by using in-process measurement.  Examples will be detailed relating to electronics manufacturing and other forming and assembly processes.  Metrology experts will suggest how you can use measurement to improve manufacturing outcomes and reduce defects
• take a tour of the new Manufacturing Technology Centre or the Visualisation Centre in Wolverhampton
• 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’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 brand new(open March 2013) Visualisation Centre on the Wolverhampton Science 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 best practices to reduce defects during the manufacturing process - examples from some of the advanced electronics manufacturing process technologies and advances in the use of metrology at the MTC

10:15 Keynote speaker - an OEM or Tier 1 speaker - hear how electronics components and electronics manufacturing processes will be procured in the future. Find out how your company could be involved.

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 Second MTC theme - Overview of the advances in metrology and how they have been applied to manufacuring, forming, joining and assembly at the MTC                                                                                                                          

14.00 Presentations by other specialists and users in the field of advanced metrology.

15:30 Coffee and networking

16:00 Tour of MTC facilities and of the new Wolverhampton Visualisation centre 

16:30 Close

About these workshops

This is the third 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 you to grow your 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.