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Smart Factory Expo 2018: Is manufacturing fully embracing digital yet?

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  • Wednesday, 14 November 2018
  • 09:14 - 09:14
  • Duration: 2 mins
  • Publication date: 10 Dec 2018
  • Location: conference, Smart Factory Expo – Exhibition Centre Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Digital Manufacturing Week 2018

About the session

The IET joined manufacturers, engineers and industry leaders for a series of events held at Liverpool Exhibition Centre from 13 - 16 November 2018 to mark Digital Manufacturing Week, including a Smart Factory Expo exhibition.

Billed as ‘a national festival of advanced manufacturing’, the week-long event organised by The Manufacturer brought together around 6,000 proprietors, practitioners and industry players from across the country.

For the Manufacturers' Leaders Summit, there were plenary sessions on a range of far-reaching topics from the planned Government-backed North West pilot for the Made Smarter review and getting real ROI from a digital factory to the art of the possible when digitising an operation.

This year's Smart Factory Expo featured six distinct Visitor Zones that enabled visitors to engage with world-class exhibitors and innovative start-ups while also taking part in experience-sharing sessions with some of the most exciting names in UK manufacturing.

In this video, we spoke to exhibitors and attendees about the opportunities and benefits that digitalisation can bring to manufacturing.

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Keywords:
  • Industry 4.0
  • digital technology
  • digital transformation
  • digitalisation
  • digitisation
  • hardware
  • manufacturing
  • productivity
  • software

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  • Adam Savage

    Adam Savage

    The IET, Content Producer - Governance and External Engagement

  • SJ

    Susan Jones

    Tata Steel

  • MB

    Madina Barker

    CNC Robotics

  • SM

    Simon Masters

    Innovate UK

  • SK

    Sean Kilgallen

    Bosch Rexroth

  • GH

    Dr Graham Herries

    Laing O'Rourke

  • TM

    Professor Tim Minshall

    IFM Cambridge

  • SJ

    Susan Jones

    Tata Steel

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