Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Exhibition Preview
13 February 2012
Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Exhibition returns to FIVE, Farnborough, on 15-16 February 2012.
Attracting 500 exhibitors and over 6,500 visitors in 2011, the show continues to draw manufacturing professionals in increasing numbers. Over 450 exhibitors are already confirmed for 2012, setting the show on course for another record-breaking year. The exhibition space sold has now exceeded the entire area for 2011 and the organisers are predicting to add another 900 square metres of exhibiting companies by the time the show opens.
Southern Electronics is an event for all fields of electronics, engineering and manufacturing. The 2011 show appealed to a global market, attracting visitors from all over Europe, and exhibitors from as far away as China.
A key factor to the show’s popularity is the wide range of companies taking part, enabling visitors to meet a wide range of suppliers in a single visit. Exhibitors are organised into specific areas, which makes it easy for visitors to find what they are looking for quickly and easily.
The show also hosts an extremely popular free seminar programme over both days of the event. The programme is delivered by acknowledged experts in their fields, addressing both business and technical issues in manufacturing and electronics and designed to be of practical benefit to anyone involved in manufacturing and industry.
The seminar programme is split into two streams, one for electronics and one for more general engineering lectures. The electronics stream covers many subjects including innovation, regulation, efficient production and targeting new vertical markets. The engineering stream covers supply chain, materials and quality among other subjects.
New for 2012 is an Electronics Production, Automation and Machinery area, which is taking up most of Hall 2. This area will concentrate all the suppliers of production equipment and hardware such as motion control, sensors etc. In total, around 20% of the exhibitors this year will be new companies.
A theme that is emerging this year is the importance of medical technologies; there are an increasing number of companies involved taking part in the show. Visitor figures from last year reveal 18% were involved with medical device technology in one form or another. As a result a new session has been added to specifically address this area and highlight the opportunities within this sector.
Entrance to the exhibition and parking is free. The conference programme is also free, but places need to be reserved in advance. You can book at the event’s website: www.industrysouth.co.uk.
Electronics programme
SESSION 13 - 9.45am
How to Succeed at New Product Development - Got a great idea? How do you bring it to market and ensure its success? With an estimated 96% of new products failing, it is a business imperative that you sort “winners” from “losers” at an early stage.
Grant Baker, Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) South East
SESSION 14 - 10.50am
Lean Systems Thinking - How I Tripled Output and Saved Money! - Owen will explain, in his no-nonsense approach, how he managed transformation by going back to the basics of lean, as shown by the teachings of Edwards Deming and Tauchi Ohno. Capacity has increased by 265%, achieved with no increase in staff numbers.
Owen Buckwell, head of Portsmouth Housing
SESSION 15 - 11.55am
How to Innovate and make it work for your company - Identifying major facilitators and inhibitors of innovative solutions using the CLEAR IDEA approach to maximize the benefits for your organisation and enhance value for money. Case studies from multinational
manufacturers to SMEs.
Dr Kamal Birdi, Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield
SESSION 16 - 1.00pm
CE Marking for Electrical/Electronic Products - Using the “Harmonics and Flicker Generator” as a case study. This will particularly focus on meeting the EMC Directive and the LVD. The contents of technical files/documentation will be illustrated, an example DoC and user information discussed.
Chris Marshman, York EMC Services Ltd
SESSION 17 - 2.05pm
Best Practice and World Class Manufacturing - How aiming towards best practice consolidates improvement activities bringing significant cost savings and productivity efficiencies. Case studies of 10 manufacturers who demonstrate excellence in design, performance, quality and customer satisfaction.
Ailsa Kaye, Manufacturing Insights
SESSION 18 - 3.10pm
Where Are All Those Customers?! - The world we live in may be competitive, but it is full of opportunities. Finding and retaining customers is key to the success of manufacturing businesses. Joining in this interactive session will give you insight into developing your customer base.
Elaine Hickmott, Business Alchemist, EH Enterprises
SESSION 19 - 9.45am
Where Are All Those Customers? - The world we live in may be competitive, but it is full of opportunities. Finding and retaining customers is key to the success of manufacturing businesses. Joining in this interactive session will give you insight into developing your customer base.
Elaine Hickmott, Business Alchemist, EH Enterprises
SESSION 20 - 10.50am
Selling to the Energy Sector - How to become a commissioned supplier. Insight into future new build projects, identifying tender and supply chain opportunities and an introduction to funding available through collaborative partnerships.
Dr. Stephen Court,Operations Director, Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre & EDF Energyspeaker
SESSION 21 - 11.55am
Six Sigma - An innovative approach for both large and small companies - Why Six Sigma is the next generation approach for process improvement across your company. Can it be adopted by SMEs? How does it differ from other techniques?
Sylvain Briand, Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) South East
SESSION 22 - 1.00pm
Working Towards an Efficient Factory - Despite Lean Manufacturing and other techniques, very few companies are truly efficient in their use of equipment and resources. This paper sets out to explore some ways of becoming more efficient.
Peter Grundy, The SMART Group
SESSION 23 – 2.05pm
CE Marking for Electrical/Electronic Products - Using the “Harmonics and Flicker Generator” as a case study. This will particularly focus on meeting the EMC Directive and the LVD. The contents of technical iles/documentation will be illustrated, an example DoC and user information discussed.
Chris Marshman, York EMC Services Ltd
SESSION 24 – 3.10pm
The Healthcare Market - Applications of advanced engineering (including Additive Layer) - Medical case studies and demonstrations of implants and maxio facial manufacture. A look at the opportunities in this booming sector, partnerships and funding available. Including How to Supply to the “Assisted living and Tele-health technologies market”.
Karen Booth, University of Sheffield Health Gateway
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