Market Intelligence for the UK aerospace

Attendees at the forthcoming Aero Engineering 2010 Supply Chain Fair and Business Briefing, being held at its new NEC Birmingham venue on September 29 and 30, can tap into essential supply chain business intelligence and core technology presentations from the sectors’ leading stakeholder groups.

Ian Stone, Event Director, comments: “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.”

Building on the success of last year’s inaugural Manchester-based event, the 2010 Aero Engineering (co-locating with The Composites Engineering Show 2010) event provides a combination of specialist features:

• Showcase of some 150 specialist exhibitors on the show floor – providing the latest technology and service capabilities feeding into aerospace engineering programmes. Key areas include design and development engineering technologies to advanced machining, tooling, production, quality, subcontract engineering services, parts & sub-assembly suppliers... and more.
   
• Two-day Open Forum of ‘free to attend’ technology presentations, in the two purpose-built auditoriums – with planned sessions in the areas of quality, SPC & manufacturing execution systems, titanium machining, composites machining, entry-level NADCAP, SC21, NDT, near net shape manufacturing, modelling and simulation, composite materials Plus presentations from leading suppliers talking in-depth about their latest offerings.
   
• Strategic Delegate* business briefing programme, hosted in the 400-seat briefings auditorium – covering 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, Thyssen Krupp, GKN...and others). Chaired by Dr Ruth Mallors, Director of The Aerospace & Defence Knowledge Transfer Network (A&D KTN), scheduled 2010 topics include:
   

- BAE Systems and GKN forthcoming aircraft programme requirements and the expected response from the supply chain

- What does the Product Lifecycle Management process mean for the supply chain?

- UK supply chain opportunities in Brazil, China, Russia and the Middle East

- NADCAP certification update and its impact on the supply chain

- Where the bar is set for entry into the UK aerospace supply chain

- The skills aspects of the Rolls-Royce Manufacturing Capability Readiness Level progression process

- How has the Marshall Aerospace AeroAcademy made a difference to their business capability?

- What the collaborative development projects within the National Aerospace Technology Strategy are delivering

- What the emerging UAV market will mean for the Aero Engineering value chain

*Upgrade to Delegate status is available via www.aeroconf.com from only £155 for one day or £275 for a two-day delegate pass.

• Integrated B2B meetings portal – facilitating hundreds of pre-planned onsite meetings between attendee groups.
   
• Co-location (with one integrated exhibits hall) with the new Composites Engineering Show – bringing together the UK composites design and manufacturing value chain.

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

Entry to the show floor exhibits and open ‘technology’ programmes carries no cost, however the organisers recommend attendees pre-register online at www.aeroconf.com to receive advanced badges for fast track entry and have the opportunity to make up to 10 individual advanced meeting requests through the B2B meetings portal.

Ian Stone explains: “From four weeks prior to the show attendees and exhibitors have the opportunity to pre-set meetings using our bespoke B2B meetings facility – which allows pre-selection of core targets through industry specialisation and key words...helping attendees to hit the ground running on arrival at the show.

The challenge this year is to ensure attendees prepare well, to extract the maximum from our diverse briefings, exhibits and networking combinations, it’s a great challenge to have. Pre-registration is already five-fold up on this time last year, so the show is set to be a knock-out success.”

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Note to Editors

The Composites Engineering Show 2010 reflects the enormous UK-wide demand in composites design and manufacturing, from high volume consumer applications to high performance advanced engineered products. This importance is reflected in the show’s support from key stakeholder organisations, including CompositesUK, NetComposites, Knowledge Transfer Network and others. www.compositesexhibition.com

Aero Engineering 2010 Exhibition & Congress builds on the success of the inaugural ‘Aero Engineering’ (2009) event in Manchester, where some 800-plus companies and organisations from across the UK aerospace engineering supply chain participated, Aero Engineering 2010, in its new ‘central UK’ location, expects to attract engineering teams from all sides of the UK aerospace industry. A unique attendance of primes/tier 1 to tiers 2 - 4 and supporting supply groups will offer a showcase environment for specialist technologies and service industry supply groups on the show floor. www.aeroconf.com

On behalf of/Issued by:

Contact:

Ian Stone
Leading Edge Events & Media
100A High Street
Hampton
Middlesex
TW12 2ST

E: Ian.stone@leadingegdeem.com
Tel: 0208 783 2399

Simon Simmons
Complete-PR Limited
14 Wickham Close
Newington
Sittingbourne
Kent ME9 7NT

E: simon@complete-pr.co.uk
Tel: 0203 289 7515
 

Aero Engineering – June 2010 – Show Briefings