Automated Britain 2012 - Renaissance of UK Manufacturing

Partnership

Intellect and GAMBICA have partnered together for Automated Britain: The Renaissance of UK Manufacturing event.

The government has recognised the importance of automation as a key technology in enabling globally competitive manufacturing operations to invest and grow in the UK. Smart automated systems and processes are not only essential in attracting foreign direct investments (FDIs) but represent a key ingredient to grow and rebalance the British economy. A combination of world-class R&D (both corporate and academic) and early adoption of automated technologies by UK-based modern manufacturers can accelerate economic recovery and unleash growth to give Britain long-term prosperity.

Despite its undoubted value to industry, and some recent high profile success stories, more still needs to be done to encourage the UK manufacturing industry to invest fully in technology to improve the competitiveness of its factories and plants. This is already happening in other areas of the world, including some European countries, where the potentially transformational qualities of capital investment in automation are well recognised. Germany is probably the best example of how a vibrant manufacturing industry can be sustained in a high labour cost economy through investment in automation.

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Overview

What's being talked about?

In addition to rebalancing and growing the economy, automation has a similarly important role to play in improving energy efficiency in industry and can make a significant contribution to the carbon reduction agenda. Most of the highest profile energy efficiency improvements of the last few years, for example lean burn car engines and domestic boilers, have been largely due to the incorporation of modern automation (sensing and control) technology. Scaled up into major manufacturing industries these techniques can cut energy consumption, reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Importantly, automation technology continues to be a UK strength and a manufacturing industry in its own right, contributing over £5bn to the UK economy and directly employing around 100,000 people. If we include the electronics supply-chain and ecosystem around the sector, these figures are considerably higher. Automation in fact represents a strategic growth market for the UK advanced electronics value-chain as it requires a high mix low volume production of sophisticated products which are not viable to be made in low cost countries.

UK manufacturing industry can and will help itself to embrace these challenges, and already, many automation companies provide educational and consultancy programmes for end-users, supplementing and complementing the work funded by BIS as an output of the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Review. Some of the larger automation companies have even introduced their own financing schemes to make it easier for industry to invest in automation technology. However, in these uncertain times, it is important for manufacturing industry to have the message reinforced that the government understands the challenges it faces and is supportive.

What's being talked about?

What's being talked about?

The purpose of the Automated Britain conference is to alert manufacturing industry, government and the media to the opportunities that automation offers and to spread best practice by having senior executives from the Automation and Manufacturing industries jointly present case studies on successful uses of automation to improve competitiveness.

The conference will also explore whether there are any perceived obstacles that discourage industry from making more of this type of investment.

Agenda

Agenda

8.45am	Coffee & Registration; Exhibition and Networking		45 mins
9.30 am	Opening Address	Chairman: Dr. Mike Short, President of the IET	10 mins
9.40 am	Keynote Address – The view from government	Mark Prisk MP Minister for Business and Enterprise	20 mins
10.00am	Are we able to rebalance our economy?	Juergen Maier Managing Director, Siemens UK Industry Sector	20 mins
10.20am	An end user perspective	Bob Spooner, Chief Operating Officer, Premier Foods	20 mins
10.40am	A skills perspective	Lynn Tomkins, UK Operations Director, Semta	20 mins
11.00am	Coffee Break; Exhibition and Networking		20 mins
11.20am	Case Study – Convergence in Production – gaining competitive advantage	Geoff Friswell, Process Development, Kraft Foods UK Dominic Molloy, Marketing Director EMEA, Rockwell Automation	30 mins
11.50am	Case Study – Power and utilities – saves fuel and reduces emissions	Steve Seddon, Business Director, Emerson Process Management Sam Thiara, European Industrial Energy Sales & Marketing Manager, Emerson Process Management	30 mins
12.20pm	Panel Discussion – Does Automation really create growth and increase employment?	Chair: Peter Marsh, Manufacturing Editor, Financial Times Alan Courts, Finance Director, Rittal John Frieslaar, CTO – Western Europe, Huawei Technologies Atul Mehta, Partner and Industrial Sector Leader, IBM Global Business Services Mike Berridge, Director of Business Improvement, AWS Electronics Group Ian Schofield, Key Account Manager, ABB Robotics	30 mins
12.50pm	Lunch; Exhibition and Networking	Sponsored by: Omron Electronics	1 hour
1.50pm	Case Study - Automation systems integration to Product Lifecycle Management	Chris Biddle, Manufacturing Executive, Rolls Royce Brian Holliday, Division Director - Industry Automation, Siemens	30 mins
2.20pm	Case Study - £100,000 annual saving with plant-wide drive applications	Andy Smith, Specialist Maintenance Enginer, Ricoh Nigel Cook, Area Sales manager, ABB	30 mins
2.50pm	Case Study - Training improvement with simulation technology	Simon Culkin, Importation Terminal Manager, National Grid - Grain LNG Elgonda La Grange, Global Consulting Services Director, Honeywell Control Systems	30 mins
3.20pm	Coffee Break; Exhibition and Networking		20 mins
3.40pm	Case study – World-wide leverage from pragmatic UK regulations and values in emissions monitoring	Duncan Mounsor, Sales & Marketing Director, Enviro Technology Services William Averdieck, Managing Director, PCME	30 mins
4.10pm	Automating Manufacturing	Chris Buxton, Chief Executive, BARA	20 mins
4.30pm	Panel Discussion – Investment in Automation; What are the drivers to encourage uptake?	Chair: Keith Hodgkinson, Head of Electronics, Materials, Chemicals and Product Regulation, BIS Eric Le Corre, Managing Director, Michelin Tyre Myles McCarthy, MD Implementation Services, Carbon Trust Danny Wootton, Innovation Director, Logica Prof Mike Jackson, Director EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Intelligent Automation, Loughborough University	30 mins
5.00pm	Closing Address	Chairman: Name TBC	10 mins
5.10pm	Drinks reception; Exhibition and Networking

 

Who's speaking?

Who's speaking?

Companies presenting at the event will include automation majors such as ABB, Honeywell, Siemens, Emerson, Rockwell and Schneider Electric and manufacturers such as Rolls Royce, SKF, Tata Steel and Jaguar Land Rover. Electronics suppliers will also be invited including contract electronics manufacturers together with components manufacturers and distributors.

• Mark Prisk MP, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise (keynote)
• Juergen Maier, Managing Director, Siemens UK - Industry Sector (keynote)
• Bob Spooner, Chief Operating Officer, Premier Foods (keynote)
• Lynn Tompkins, UK Operations Director, Semta (keynote)
• Eric Le Corre, Managing Director, Michelin Tyre
• Atul Mehta, Partner and Industrial Sector Leader, IBM Global Business Services
• John Frieslaar, CTO - Western Europe, Huawei Technologies
• Danny Wootton, Innovation Director, Logica
• Nigel Cook, Area Sales Manager, ABB
• Brian Holliday, Division Director - Industry Automation, Siemens
• Dominic Molloy, Marketing Director, EMEA, Rockwell Automation
• Steve Seddon, Business Director, Emerson Process Management
• Elgonda La Grange, Global Consulting Services Director, Honeywell Control Systems
• Keith Hodgkinson, Head of Electronics, Materials, Chemicals and Product Regulation, BIS
• William Averdieck, Managing Director, PCME
• Andy Smith, Specialist Maintenance Engineer, Ricoh
• Simon Culkin, Importation Terminal Manager, National Grid - Grain LNG
• Duncan Mounser, ETS
• Geoff Friswell, Process Development, Kraft Foods UK
• Myles McCarthy, MD Implementation Services, Carbon Trust
• Chris Buxton, Chief Executive, BARA
• Prof Mike Jackson, Director EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufactuirng in Intelligent Automation, Loughborough University
• Chris Biddle, Manufacturing Executive, Rolls Royce

When and where is it?

When and where is it?

Date: Tuesday 06 March 2012

Time: 9:00 - 17:00

Venue: The Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5AP

Industry leaders in the UK manufacturing sector, senior strategists and decision-makers, investors, business consultants and government officials.