Tickets are now available for
Advanced Engineering UK, the UK’s largest annual gathering of engineering and manufacturing professionals. Now in its 13th year, the show is expected to attract thousands of visitors from all engineering disciplines and markets to the NEC, Birmingham on 2 and 3 November, 2022. Those wishing to attend can secure tickets for this year’s event, which is set to be the biggest and best yet, via the
Advanced Engineering website here.
This year, the show will introduce a new show zone dedicated to product testing and quality control. It will span across
Advanced Engineering and
Lab Innovations, which will once again be co-located, giving visitors and exhibitors access to an even wider range of professionals, products and solutions. After a welcoming reception in 2021, the Space and Satellite zone will also return, bringing together the likes of the Midlands Aerospace Alliance, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence and the Satellite Applications Catapult, who will showcase a range of satellites in its pavilion.
The show will also gather together many different areas of engineering — aerospace, marine, automotive, defense, advanced metals, connected manufacturing and more. There will also be four forums, which will each house two days of innovative and ground-breaking talks from industry experts — in 2021, this included representatives from the Aerospace Technology Institute, Rolls-Royce, Airbus, ADS, the UK Space Agency, Jaguar Land Rover, Composites UK, BAE Systems and Make UK.
This year’s speaker programme is already filling up and is set to trump that of its previous edition with a star-studded line up of industry experts confirmed to speak already. David Morgan, director of flight operations at EasyJet, will take to the stage on the aerospace forum to discuss how the company is developing new technologies to help decarbonise aviation.
There will also be other speakers at the event to highlight the vast range of specialities that
Advanced Engineering offers, including Andrew Blows, JLR technical specialist strength and durability CAE; Alan Banks, Ford Motor Company lightweighting innovation manager; and Craig Carr, GKN Aerospace technology director (integrated composites structures).
Sustainability trailTo further complement this year’s over-arching theme of sustainability,
Advanced Engineering is introducing a sustainability trail, where exhibitors showcasing an environmentally-friendly product or service will be highlighted in show material and with physical branding on their stand. Alongside this, the innovation trail will showcase the most innovative and pioneering exhibitors for 2022.
Advanced Engineering welcomes back its valued sponsors once again, with Silverstone Technology, GRP Solutions, University of Strathclyde, HP, and PRF Composite Materials headlining the event this year. In the composites networking area, PRF will showcase a museum of ground-breaking composite products for visitors to see. Associate forum sponsors, Cristex Composite Materials, Aerospace Manufacturing and Ripley Solutions will support over 200hr of CPD-accredited learning, which is free for all visitors and exhibitors.
Meanwhile, the Enabling Innovation zone will return once again, giving the UK’s most innovative start-ups the chance to present their business to a panel of industry leading figures. Attendees will have access to representatives from some of the world’s top automotive and aerospace original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), courtesy of the show’s co-located Meet the Buyer events.
The Meet the Buyer events will be hosted by ADS and the Society of Motor Manufacturers (SMMT) to help association members and
Advanced Engineering exhibitors hold valuable conversations with buyers that are looking for specific solutions and components to fulfil their active projects.
Alison Willis, director at Easyfairs, the organiser of
Advanced Engineering, said: “The show’s supporters are one of the main reasons that we are able to have such a huge impact on the UK’s engineering and manufacturing sectors.
“Some of the world’s key industry associations, such as ADS Group, SMMT, Composites UK, Make UK, UKRI, UK Space Agency, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, GAMBICA, and ALFED among others, have chosen to support Advanced Engineering for years and, because of this, we can ensure that the show addresses the issues that our industry is facing.”
Rosa Wilkinson, policy director at the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, said: “Events like
Advanced Engineering are hugely important in stimulating action that will take us towards ‘net zero’.”
As a speaker at last year’s event, she added: “One of the things that really strikes me as I walk around the halls is that there are all sorts of ideas and products that companies can harness within their own ‘net zero’ journey. I’ll bet that some of them came here looking for a particular supplier and they’ll leave with 101 good ideas. There are also people here that they can make contact with that can help them take that idea and make it a reality — I think it’s brilliant.”
When interviewed at
Advanced Engineering 2021, Ben Fletcher, Make UK chief operating officer said, “I think
Advanced Engineering is absolutely fantastic — the mood around the stands, the atmosphere, the skills, the technology that is on show today is all world class. You walk around and you see companies providing cutting edge solutions, companies that have some of the best innovation in the world and the way that people are feeding off that really demonstrates that Britain is back after Covid-19 and the sector is back and performing very strongly.”