The Global Manufacturing Festival is for businesses operating in the high technology, high quality, export led manufacturing supply chains. The UK is a trading nation that needs to meet the future challenges of an international world. Manufacturing is about making things across many sectors like engineering, food, digital, software, aerospace, power generators and medical. The UK must compete on all those sectors on technology, not cost. It must also build more trade with less traditional areas of the world like Asia, South America, Europe, China, India and Russia. The Global Manufacturing Festival and Trade Show focuses on those critical areas in order that businesses can compete and thrive into the future.
Festival 2012
Convention & Trade Show Speaker Presentations
Lee Hopley Click Here
Chris Squires Click Here
Andrew Peters Click Here
Sir Chris O'Donnel Click Here
Keith Ridgeway Click Here
Ric Parker Click Here
Alan Mclelland Click Here
Harry Hutchinson Click Here
Dr Edward Draper Click Here
Global Manufacturing Festival – Sheffield 2011 was a tremendous success. It registered nearly 2000 attendees across 8 major events and featured world class speakers from Boeing, Siemens, the city of Chengdu, Westinghouse, EDF, the Government and many others. The focus was very much on defining what UK manufacturing is and needs to be and the issues confronting it. Our vision is for the Global Maufacturing Festival to be the premier national high technology, high quality and high added value manufacturing festival that sells UK manufacturing to the world.
In a modern world demanding high quality product performance, whether that be consumer or legislation led, materials are subjected to increased pressures, increased corrosion attack, increased stress and increased temperatures. Design engineers need new materials and come to Sheffield City Region for their requirements. Technology and quality lie at the roots of the answers and its university expertise, skills supply chain and manufacturing capabilities can deliver those answers.
The UK remains the sixth biggest economy in the world and it intends to stay there and grow. It depends on high levels of investment in research and development and equipment. It needs a long term view of the future and a relentless pursuit of that. The Global Manufacturing Festival – Sheffield is unique in that it leads that message. It poses the issues in front of us but also provides the answers that should be used by government and businesses alike to influence their agenda.
