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Digital Manufacturing Landscape and Challenges

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  • Wednesday, 26 June 2019
  • 16:26 - 16:26
  • Duration: 15 mins
  • Publication date: 12 Jul 2019
  • Location: Rosalind Franklin, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Cambridge Wireless 2019

About the session

Manufacturing - Chair: Andy Rhodes, Operations Director, 42 Technology.

The presentation will start by showing an overview of the opportunity of Digital Manufacturing for the UK. The presentation will also cover a landscape of the drivers of digital manufacturing, the specific industrial challenges and some of the technological areas that have the potential to solve these challenges and realise the opportunity for the sector

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  • EDF
  • climate change
  • customer
  • decarbonisation
  • decentralisation
  • electric vehicles
  • energy
  • ev
  • manufacturing
  • renewables
  • solar
  • supply chain
  • technology
  • utilities
  • wind power

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  • Dr Lina Huertas

    Dr Lina Huertas

    Manufacturing Technology Centre

    In her current role, Dr. Lina Huertas focuses on driving the creation of value in the UK through the digitalisation of UK industry. This includes shaping the UK national strategy and policy, chairing the High Value Manufacturing Catapult strategy team and running the MTC corporate strategy on Digital Manufacturing. In recent years she has formed and led different engineering and technology teams that offer unique capabilities to develop and mature technological solutions for the UK manufacturing sector. Her experience includes a PhD in the application of simulation and informatics solutions to support manufacturing, and 12 years’ experience delivering industrial projects that generated business benefits on the back of digital technologies. Lina is a Fellow of the IMechE and has a first class honours degree and a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • Andy Rhodes

    Andy Rhodes

    Andy has over 30 years of international experience in the development of wireless communications and tracking products and systems. He has sector experience in industrial and consumer electronics, commercial telecoms, high reliability satellite systems and security & defence. At 42 Technology, a technology and product development consultancy, he has recent first-hand experience of delivering an Industrial IoT system deployment with 1000's of devices across UK and Europe, operating in harsh and hazardous environments, to provide quality data that can change the operating business model for the industry.
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