Over the two days more than 3,500 visitors attended the recent Aero Engineering 2010 Supply Chain Fair and Business Briefing, held at the NEC Birmingham on September 29-30.
“The event represented the first full-scale aerospace engineering show for the UK,” commented event director, Ian Stone. “For both delegates to the Business Briefing sessions and visitors to the show floor exhibits and programmes, Aero Engineering 2010 focused on the critical information needs of engineering and business teams up and down the UK aerospace supply chain.”
Bringing Aero Engineering 2010 to a central, national venue allowed the show's organisers to build on the success of the 2009 regional show, held in Manchester. The significant increase in the technical content on the show floor provided supply chain business intelligence and core technology presentations was reflected by an increase in the volume of key visitors from the UK's prime aerospace companies and their tiered supply chain.
Comprehensive support for the show was given by the principal UK industry associations and key technology suppliers, which as fuelled the growth of an even bigger event, planned for November 2011.
The 2010 Aero Engineering was co-locating with the first Composites Engineering Show 2010 event to provide a combination of effective features. These included a showcase of some 170 specialist exhibitors on the show floor, demonstrating the latest technology and service capabilities feeding into aerospace engineering programmes.
The two-day free to attend Open Technology Forum of ‘free to attend' technology presentations, in the two purpose-built auditoriums – with specialist sessions covering quality management, titanium machining, composites machining, entry-level NADCAP, NDT, near net shape manufacturing, modelling and simulation, composite materials.
A much expanded integrated B2B meetings portal facilitated hundreds of pre-planned onsite meetings between exhibitors and attendee groups. Combined with the networking areas and facilities this maximised the business development and procurement objectives for many visitors and exhibitors alike.
“The show is 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,” concluded Stone. “On the 9-10 November 2011, in Hall 20 at the NEC, additional industry sectors with shared technology demands and highly transferrable knowledge-pools will be added to the event – making it even more essential to attend.”
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