Welcome to NMIS at Scotland's Manufacturing and Supply Chain conference and exhibition
Driven by innovation and addressing the key challenges facing manufacturers and the wider world, the NMIS Group is supercharging productivity levels, turning ideas into reality, making businesses more competitive, and boosting the skills of our current and future workforce. One of seven centres within the UK’s High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult, we’re proudly part of the largest manufacturing innovation body in Europe.
Together we are revolutionising skills, productivity, and innovation to attract investment and make the UK a global leader in advanced manufacturing, ready to seize the opportunities of digital transformation in a net-zero focused world.
Our team is on hand, ready to talk to you about the work that we do, and how we may support you in your innovation journey.
Key themes
Net-zero
We’re helping the manufacturing industry secure a net-zero future.
By embracing digital technologies, manufacturing businesses can use data to reduce energy use and materials waste. Technologies, such as additive manufacturing, can open doors to a circular economy approach resulting in less landfill and greater longevity for parts.
Green skills can empower our current and future workforce to meet the challenges of a net-zero focused world.
Let’s work together to achieve Scotland’s goal of zero emissions by 2045.
Digitalisation
We’re helping manufacturers embrace the future, today.
The potential of digital technology has never been greater. It can help overcome roadblocks and inefficiencies, increase productivity, improve sustainability and push forward innovation.
Working with manufacturers of all sizes, the NMIS Digital Factory is demonstrating that Industry 4.0 is affordable, accessible and open to all.
Skills
We’re transforming the workforce of today and tomorrow.
Scotland’s iconic manufacturing industry is changing to meet the needs and opportunities of a modern world, meaning workforce skills must evolve too.
Our Manufacturing Skills Academy is helping grow a robust manufacturing talent pipeline by offering training and development opportunities for people at all stages of their career.
Supply chain
We’re helping grow more robust and agile supply chains.
Two years of significant disruption combined with the vast potential of Scotland’s new and emerging sectors have highlighted the importance of our manufacturing supply chains.
NMIS works with manufacturers, from large OEMs to small suppliers, to help them become more efficient and explore new technologies to access new markets.
We are also undertaking supply chain mapping to help homegrown manufacturers become more visible and rise to meet new market opportunities.
Meet our team
Visit our stand at location C19, and meet with our experts from across the NMIS Group, who will be happy to discuss anything from overcoming manufacturing problems to exploring innovative new technologies, membership, upskilling and CPD provision, and how to access funding for R&D projects.
Talk to us about:
- The latest and greatest developments in advanced manufacturing
- How to de-risk implementing cutting-edge technologies into your business
- Accessing funding and building consortiums for collaborative R&D projects
Join our sessions
The role additive manufacturing (3D Printing) has to play in Scotland’s sustainable manufacturing future
10.40 - 11.00 - Scotland 3D Printing stage
Speaker: Stephen Fitzpatrick, Additive Manufacturing and Machining Group Lead
Women in Manufacturing Panel: Bridging the Diversity Gap
11.00 - 11.40 - Bridging the diversity gap
Speaker: Jennifer MacDonald, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Project Manager
Case-studies from both sides of Supply Chains: mapping, analysis and interventions for manufacturing suppliers and OEMs
11.20 - 11.40 - Scotland Supply Chain, and Logistics
Speaker: Daniele Marini, Anchoring Innovation Manager; Supply Chain and Operational Transformation (SCOT) Lead
Emissions accounting & scope 3 emissions
13.00 - 13.20 - Scotland Sustainability Summit
Speaker: Paul Cantwell, Head of Net Zero Programmes
Resource efficiency through the optimisation of manufacturing and heating technologies
13.00 - 13.20 - High tech manufacturing and precision engineering summit
Speaker: Hosam Elrakayby, Cold Sheet Forming Theme Lead
Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: a practical approach to Industry 4.0
13.40 - 14.00 - Scotland IoT and Industry 4.0
Speaker: Anastasia Khatuntseva, Digital Connectivity Theme Lead
Advanced Forming Research Centre
The Advanced Forming Research Centre is a globally-recognised centre of excellence in innovative manufacturing technologies, R&D, and metal forming and forging research.
Digital Factory
The NMIS Digital Factory is a place to explore and develop the next generation of manufacturing technologies to help solve the engineering challenges of the future.
Lightweight Manufacturing Centre
The Lightweight Manufacturing Centre focuses on working with and developing novel lightweight solutions to help manufacturing businesses face and overcome the challenges of the modern-day world.
Manufacturing Skills Academy
The Manufacturing Skills Academy offers advanced manufacturing training and development opportunities for individuals at all levels of their careers.
Digital Process Manufacturing Centre
An NMIS specialist technology centre opening later this year at i3 in North Ayrshire. We're transforming the region’s industrial landscape and the future of the UK’s process industries.
An introduction to NMIS
Find out more about who we are, our ambitions, and how we support the manufacturing industry, across the UK and beyond.
Read our overview brochure
Intro to NMIS
Our capabilities
Ready to develop innovative solutions to industrial challenges, find out more about the capabilities that exist across the NMIS Group.
Read our capabilities PDF:
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