Composites UK is working jointly alongside the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) on its next Automotive Sector Showcase event.
The automotive industry has two very distinct parts: the large-volume sector and the specialist area producing modified or complete vehicles in small numbers. The challenges of each are different and this is reflected in the way car manufacturers approach the use of composites.
In the large-volume sector, a large percentage of the cost is in the capital plant needed for manufacture and so once the required equipment has been procured and commissioned it is very costly to change the design of a component. This naturally makes the industry very conservative, and encourages extensive prototype testing in both real and simulated environments of any new system before the investment is made.
In small-volume production, however, the manufacturing operations are much less capital intensive and so the resistance to change in material is somewhat less.
Speakers
08:30 Registration
09:15 Welcome to WMG - Tony McNally, WMG
09:25 Overview of Composites UK - Sue Halliwell, Operations Manager, Composites UK
09:30 Supporting the UK’s Automotive Composites Supply Chain - Henry Sarel-Cooke, Composites Leadership Forum / GKN Wheels & Structures
09:40 Composites in Large Scale Projects - Hannah Tew, Partnership Lead, AMRC
09:50 GKN and Large Scale Projects - Henry Sarel-Cooke, Business Development Manager, GKN Wheels & Structures
10:00 Pyramid V Web - Scaling up to High-Volume Automotive - Nuno Lourenço, Senior Manager Body Engineering, Jaguar Land Rover
10:20 Composite Lightweight Automotive Suspension System (CLASS) - Alan Banks, Suspension Manager, Ford Motor Company
10:40 Panel Session
11:00 BREAK
11:45 The EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub - Current Projects - Nick Warrior, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nottingham
12:05 Thermoplastic Overmoulding for Automotive Applications – A Case Study - Alasdair Ryder, Special Projects Engineer, Surface Generation
12:25 Moving the boundaries to Compression Moulding - John Lutton, Sales and Marketing Manager, Creative Composites
12:45 Panel Session
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 Automated Composite Assembly - Andrew Bools, R&D Programme Manager, Expert Tooling and Automation
14:20 Aston Martin’s Role in the InterCOMP Project - Roland Snell, Senior Manager for Body Structures Innovation and Technology, Aston Martin Lagonda
14:40 WMG’s Role in the InterCOMP Project - Rachel Weare, Lead Engineer - Structural Composite Manufacturing, Warwick Manufacturing Group
15:00 Panel Session
15:15 Conference Close
15:30 Optional Tour of the Materials Engineering Centre and demo (pre-booked delegates only)
Exhibition Space
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Sponsorship
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Registration
Composites UK Members: £135.00 + VAT
Non-members: £270.00 + VAT
Students: £75 + VAT (Strictly limited places, contact us from your university email address for the coupon code)
Note that only one place can be booked at a time. Please repeat the process to book multiple places.
Tour
There will also be an opportunity to take a tour of the composites research and development facilities available at WMG at the end of the event. If interested please select the 'Conference + WMG Tour' option when booking below.
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Prices exclude VAT which will be added at checkout.
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