Aero Engineering: A meeting of minds

Held at its new NEC Birmingham venue from 29-30 September, Aero Engineering will provide an intensive two-day ‘engineering-centric' focal point for business development within the supply chain, together with a showcase of industry partners and suppliers supporting the UK aerospace engineering industry.

“For both delegates to the Business Briefing sessions and visitors to the show floor exhibits and programmes, Aero Engineering 2010 will concentrate on the critical information needs of engineering and business teams up and down the UK aerospace supply chain,” explains Leading Edge's event director, Ian Stone.

Building on last year's inaugural Manchester-based event, Aero Engineering 2010 provides a combination of specialist features, showcasing some 150 specialist exhibitors on the show floor that provide the latest technology and service capabilities feeding into aerospace programmes. Key areas include design and development engineering technologies, advanced machining, tooling, production, quality and subcontract engineering services.

The two-day Open Forum of ‘free to attend' technology presentations in two purpose-built auditoriums will offer specialist sessions planned for the areas of quality management, titanium machining, composites machining, entry-level NADCAP, NDT, near net shape manufacturing, modelling & simulation and composite materials.

The show's centrepiece is its Strategic Delegate business briefing programme, hosted in the 400 seat auditorium which covers upstream programme opportunities, technology and skills requirements. Scheduled speakers include: BAE Systems, Airbus CIMPA, BIS, UKTI, Midlands Aerospace Alliance, North West Aerospace Alliance, Rolls-Royce, Marshall Aerospace, PRI, National Composites Centre, ThyssenKrupp and GKN Aerospace among others.
The event also provides an integrated B2B meetings portal which enables hundreds of pre-planned onsite meetings between attendee groups via a bespoke online system.

“The 2010 event provides a diversity of content for attendee groups – from the ‘must attend' industry business briefings, technology and service exhibits on the show floor, and feature ‘open' presentations combined with the expanded B2B networking portal, facilitating meetings throughout the event,” explains Stone. “If your business is part of the aerospace engineering supply chain then quite simply you have to be at the show. It's the only 100% engineering-centric business development, networking and intelligence event of its kind, servicing the needs of the UK high value aerospace engineering sector.”

Delegate business briefing programme

The two–day Aero Engineering supply chain business briefing package provides the UK aerospace industry supply chain with an extensive programme of presentations addressing core business opportunities, related technology and skills requirements. Supported by the UK's leading aerospace industry bodies, the programme provides essential insight and business, technical and skills intelligence - assisting businesses at all points in the supply chain to make informed strategic planning decisions.

Chaired by Dr Ruth Mallors, director of the Aerospace and Defence Knowledge Transfer Network, the briefing schedule is set to include:

Future Aircraft Programme Updates: Gain access to perspectives from aerospace primes and tier one organisations; hear updates from programme managers in leading European and international civil and military programmes; business briefings on the state of aircraft programmes on the horizon and impacting the supply chain within the next two years; business briefings from tier one suppliers centred on what they are going to expect from their supply chain in the near future in terms of technology and business capability.

Future Global Sector Developments: Understand the emerging and developing markets in BRIC countries, the Middle East, and others; hear sector specialists briefing on landscapes and specific opportunities in foreign markets.
Future Skills Requirements: Understand the linkage between emerging opportunities and changing business and the requirement on the industrial skills base; hear examples of success in matching quantity and quality requirements with output.

Sector-Wide Technology Development Programmes: Understand the current portfolio of large, sector-wide collaborative technology development actions in: design and manufacturing, avionics component and systems, aerostructures - next generation composite and metallic structures, electrical and mechanical systems and propulsion – next generation challenges and opportunities

Composites Business Trends and Support: Get the top view of the UK composites sector and understand how to shape your business for best advantage or to enter the value chain as a supplier or smart customer; understand the business and technical support mechanisms already in place assisting the rapidly developing UK value chain.

Aero Engineering is co-located with the new Composites Engineering Show, bringing together the UK composites design and manufacturing value chain.

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