Digital Manufacturing 101 for SMEs

Event Information

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies and methodologies are a growing area of interest amongst manufacturing businesses of all sizes. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) typically have less finance and expertise amongst their existing workforce, than larger organisations, to introduce digital manufacturing technologies into their businesses and subsequently miss out on innovation and productivity opportunities.

These interactive webinars will provide an introduction to everything Digital Manufacturing and attendees will come away with a better understanding of the technologies, the opportunities they present, and how they can be implemented into businesses today.

The webinar is split over two days from 10am to 4pm each day on the following dates:

Friday 5th March 2021
Friday 12th March 2021
Please see a provisional agenda for the two days below:

Day 1

10:00am Welcome & Introduction

10:05am Introduction to the Aerospace UP Project

10:15am Introduction to Industry 4.0

11:00am Towards an Intelligent and Connected Industry

11:45am Break

12:00pm Manufacturing Systems Strategies in the Industry 4.0 Age

1:00pm Lunch Break

2:00pm Sensing and Data Collection

3:00pm Data Storage and Cloud Technologies

3:55pm Closing Remarks & Preview of Day 2

4:00pm Close

Day 2

10:00am Welcome & Itinerary for Day 2

10:05am Manufacturing Data Analysis and Decision Making

11:00am Data Visualisation and Actioning Analysis Results

11:30am Break

11:45am Data Driven Metrology

1:00pm Lunch Break

2:00pm Industrial and Collaborative Robots

3:00pm Question and Answer Session with our Presenters

4:00pm Close

Attendees who attend both days will receive a free e-book which details in-depth information on all the material presented as part of these webinars.

These webinars are delivered as part of the Aerospace UP project, which is supporting SMEs within the aerospace supply chain and is limited to SMEs within Local Enterprise Partnership areas of:

Black Country
Coventry and Warwickshire
Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Greater Birmingham and Solihull
Greater Lincolnshire
Leicester and Leicestershire
South East Midlands
Stoke and Staffordshire

This event is part-funded via the European Regional Development Fund, therefore we are required to evidence if you are a small to medium enterprise. There will be a form that will need to be completed prior to the first webinar and one after the final webinar. The form is to ensure you are a small to medium enterprise and capture any business support you have received over the last 3 years to ensure you haven’t exceeded the €200,000 State Aid limit.