09:00 - 17:00, Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry and Visualisation Centre, Telford
9:00 - 17:00, Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry
and Visualisation Centre, Telford
At this workshop you will be able to:
- find out about aerospace manufacturing best practices in manufacturing simulation 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 Manufacturing Simulation?
Manufacturing Simulation includes computerised engineering used to model or simulate a product design or process.
Simulation can be used for Design and Manufacturing - widely used to improve and validate the designs of products and also manufacturing systems. Models can predict system performance or compare two or more system designs or scenarios. This could include equipment selection/layout, control strategies (push/pull logic), material handling design, buffer sizing, despatching/scheduling strategies, material management. Or alternatively a process itself can be modelled, e.g. casting process – the process parameters can then be adjusted to find optimum solutions.
Why Simulation?
Benefits include the following:
1. Extremely fast execution. A simulation model can typically generate a possible solution in a few seconds or minutes. This is critical in responding to unplanned events such as material shortages or machine breakdowns.
2. Flexible decision logic. Simulation can incorporate a wide range of decision rules to focus on any type of objective or represent any type of complex decision-making.
3. Simple implementation. Simulation-based finitecapacity scheduling is relatively simple to implement. This lowers the cost and reduces the implementation time.
4. High quality schedules.
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 manufacturing simulation and process technologies at the MTC
11:00 Coffee and networking
11:15 Keynote speaker in Telford - Leon Day, Tata Technologies. 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 - Virgil Lund, HoloVis will speak about how they design virtual reality and display systems and use their own virtual reality facilities to prove and test their solutions and demonstrate them in the client’s environment virtually before anything has been cut, built or installed physically.
Find out how your company could be involved - Presentations by other specialists and users.
15:00 Tour of MTC facilities and of Telford Visualisation centre
16:00 Coffee and networking
17:00 Close
About these workshops
This is the second 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.
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