Engineering Futures

Build your expertise in advanced manufacturing

Additive manufacturing, 5G networks, augmented reality and more – a wide range of novel technologies are finally maturing and finding vital applications in the most cutting-edge and productive factories. As manufacturers navigate challenges including chip shortages and supply-chain disruption, engineers need expert knowledge of new approaches to efficiency and innovation.

Engineering Futures: Advanced Manufacturing brought together manufacturing industry experts for three days of online talks and events, and you can watch them on-demand now.

93% of attendees would recommend the event to a colleague.
96% of attendees to Advanced Manufacturing now feel more confident talking about the techniques of advanced manufacturing.

The event covered topics such as:

  • Robotics – Streamlining production lines with new capabilities
  • Automation – Speeding up factory processes
  • Simulation and modelling – Opening up new possibilities in product design
  • 3D printing – Going from prototypes to production
  • Additive manufacturing – Using trusted materials in new ways, and improved possibilities by using new materials
  • Energy and sustainability – Keeping net zero on track and facing increased costs for energy
  • Digital transformation – Making companies fit for the future   
  • Software – Enabling new ways of doing business
  • Skills and training – Closing the skills gap to tackle tomorrow’s challenges
  • Modular manufacturing – Fabricating components for small modular reactors
  • Gigafactories – Tackling challenges in EV production

Find out more and watch on-demand here:

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