3rd EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference

CMAC recently hosted the nation's 3rd EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference at Glasgow Science Centre, chaired by Professor Alastair Florence, Academic Director of CMAC. The conference was a huge success with almost 400 delegates and has received outstanding feedback from all who attended. 

The annual conference provides a national forum for UK manufacturing research community to share experience, progress and challenges in progressing UK manufacturing. The event also provided a platform for early career researchers to showcase their excellent contributions to the manufacturing research community and contribute to debate on how to move forward.

Mr Atti Emecz, Director of EPSRC, opened the conference. CMAC featured highly in the programme, with CMAC Chair Prof Paul Sharratt, ICES; CMAC Co-Investigator Prof Sir Mike Gregory, University of Cambridge and CMAC Board member Dr Mark Buswell, Head of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, GSK giving Plenary Lectures. Other Plenary speakers were Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Adviser and Archie MacPherson, AFRC.

The Conference dinner was held at Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. University of Strathclyde Principal Sir Jim McDonald, Mark Claydon-Smith, EPSRC and Alastair Florence, Academic Director of CMAC closed the conference.

The Conference was a great success, with over 370 delegates in attendance at the event over the course of two days, which featured parallel sessions around the four Manufacturing the Future themes (Innovative Production Processes, Manufacturing Informatics, Frontier Manufacturing, and Sustainable Industrial Systems).

There were over 120 posters and 26 exhibitors, including all of the EPSRC Centres for Innovative Manufacturing, EPSRC, Mettler Toledo, Alconbury Weston Ltd, and the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating/Swansea University to name a few.

The 3rd EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference was held on 23-24 September 2014 at the Glasgow Science Centre. The 4th EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference will take place in Cambridge on 17-18 September 2015.