National Manufacturing Institute Scotland

Smarter manufacturing: an introduction to BitzList

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Join our webinar to find out how you can easily maximise the potential of all of your resources by taking the first steps towards making your factory 'smart'.

Our specialist technology centre, the Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) is working in partnership with BitzList to develop a platform for the creation and development of 'smart' factories.

In this webinar you will find out about the philosophy of the BitzList system, its key features and the development of its architecture.  You will hear how the system was deployed at the AFRC and how particular manufacturing problems were addressed and overcome.

You will also have the opportunity to hear how your company can get involved in the all-new NMIS Industry 4.0 testbed RESuME (Resource Efficient Supply and Manufacturing Environment).  RESuME is a suite of intelligent and connected systems which will test, illustrate and maximize the potentials of a streamlined supply chain network and provide the foundations for a digital factory at NMIS.

Speakers

Jaffar is the ERP Lead in the Digital Manufacturing team at NMIS.  He is responsible for ensuring the effective implementation and testing of a bespoke ERP system with a view to further enhance the system to fulfil various manufacturing requirements.

Having graduated with a bachelors in Mechanical and Electronic Systems Engineering, Jaffar pursued a Master’s degree in international operations and supply chain management providing him with a better understanding of how businesses operate and differentiate themselves from their competitors. Following a graduate program in operations management that was mostly spent on improving shop floor activities, Jaffar was also involved in implementing an ERP system in his previous role and his experience has been most useful in implementing BitzList at NMIS.

Tim Bittleston has always had a passion for engineering. On leaving school he took a position at a local sub contract machining firm Crew & Saunders Engineering Ltd. He worked there developing skills he had primarily taught himself in his well-equipped home workshop while still at school. With a background in manual machining learned over the 8 years of working from his home and employment at Crew and Saunders.

Tim was keen to start out on his own believing that CNC was the way forward despite his employer’s lack of interest in the technology. He purchased a CNC lathe in 2002 and formed Bittleston Ltd. Soon after, the first incarnation of BitzList was born as EMU engineering management utility. A system was required to help organise this growing sub-contract outfit.

Bittleston Ltd went on to acquire the order book of Crew and Saunders Engineering Ltd and bought over Boxmoor Precision Engineering a company involved mainly in the production of medical implants.  All manner of new CNC machine tools where acquired and experienced gained through both the running of the company and the setting of machine tools from Star, Miyano, Mazak, Bridgeport, DMG, XYZ, Doosan, Jones and Shipman, Studer and so on.  In 2009 Bittleston Ltd was sold to the PCT Group (manufacturer of Cranes and Hoists Based in Glasgow) for a consideration in shares as the directors saw an opportunity to gain first-hand experience running the machine shop of an OEM.

Tim has spent 11 years working on product design, design for manufacture, machining and manufacturing control for PCT and on the development of BitzList as their core manufacturing program.

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Dates & Venues

DateThursday, October 1, 2020
LocationWebinar
Duration11.30 - 12.30