EuroWire March 2024

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Employing technology to seize growth opportunities

The MTA, which organises the MACH event on behalf of the engineering based manufacturing industry, has been campaigning for greater adoption of new technology for some time. It will expand upon this at MACH 2024, which opens at the NEC in Birmingham, UK, on 15 April. A series of new Knowledge Hubs will focus on educating manufacturers in when and how to adopt new technologies. The hubs, which will have dedicated stands within the various exhibition zones, will each focus on a particular type of technology: automation and robotics; data and artificial intelligence; energy efficiency; additive manufacturing; and tooling. Each hub is being managed by one of the specialist centres from the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, such as the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) and the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC). The Catapult network collaborates with thousands of businesses across a wide range of

Reversing UK manufacturing’s poor record for adopting new technology will be tackled at MACH 2024. The Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) aims to promote growth by using the event to launch its new Knowledge Hubs initiative. The programme will showcase the latest technology to exhibitors, helping manufacturers learn more about the potential offered by such technology, as well as when to adopt it and how to implement it to best effect. The initiative has been given a major boost with the announcement by UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt of £4.5bn of funding to support advanced manufacturing. This funding will directly benefit several of the exhibition’s key themes, especially energy efficiency, where £960mn has been earmarked for clean energy manufacturing through a Green Industries Growth Accelerator.

Attendees at MACH in 2022

sectors, including manufacturing, space, health, digital, energy, transport and telecoms. The MTC at Ansty Park, Coventry, UK, is one of the largest public-sector investments in UK manufacturing, with facilities to prove innovative manufacturing processes and tech- nologies. The AMRC, across several sites in Yorkshire, UK, works with companies of all sizes, to help them improve productivity. The Factory 2050 facility in Sheffield, UK, combines a range of technologies including advanced robotics and automation. Manufacturing Technologies Association www.machexhibition.com

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