Mark Cichuta Operations Director Electrical Steels at Tata Steel Europe. Stephen Cousins Managing Director, Axon Automotive

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1 EARLY BOOKING OFFER: Book before Friday 13 th September 2013 and SAVE 100 per delegate (T&C s apply) Plus 3 for 2 on all delegates. See back page for details Supported by: INSPIRING INNOVATION IN MANUFACTURING How to turn that spark of inspiration into a reality 16 th October 2013, London Sponsored by: Supported by: Researched and delivered by: Hear from manufacturing experts including: Mark Cichuta Operations Director Electrical Steels at Tata Steel Europe Stephen Cousins Managing Director, Axon Automotive James Godman Head of R&T External Affairs and Funding, AgustaWestland Conference topics include: Removing the barriers to innovation Understanding the innovation life-cycle Nurturing innovation in the workplace Fostering collaboration between universities, government and business Accessing funding for research and innovation projects Innovation strategies #TMInnovation2013

2 INSPIRING INNOVATION IN MANUFACTURING Innovation is critical to the success, sustainability and growth of any organisation. The ability to create innovative products now while developing new products for the future is crucial to any organisation seeking growth and sustainability. This event will give you: An understanding of how to engage with your workforce to share ideas openly A framework on how to extend your R&D team to include external resources, such as universities An understanding of how to improve your processes to facilitate a more innovative environment BENEFITS OF ATTENDING: 1 Creating a forward facing innovative business: Ensuring your company continues to advance and create new or improved products so that they can hold and improve their marketing standing is critical. This event will allow you to bench mark your drive against other leading manufacturers whilst also providing the opportunity for you to gain new ideas about how best to drive innovation within your company. 2 Creating a culture of innovation: Ensuring your employees have adopted the mind set to continually drive innovation on all levels in order to harness the ingenuity of your entire workforce is crucial. Ensuring that your entire workforce is included will mean that you make the most of your human capital. 3 Innovation through collaboration: Partnerships can come from a variety of sources with the main being customers, business partners and educational establishments. For this to successfully work you must have an environment of mutual trust built on the foundations of collaborative working. This event will ensure you understand how best to approach and carry though such partnerships. 4 Interactive workshop sessions: Harnessing and developing the practical skills required to drive and innovate within a company is a challenging process, this workshop will help provide take away and actionable ideas that will drive innovation within your company, explore new techniques during our interactive workshop sessions. This event is aimed at anyone who is either directly involved in innovation or those responsible for creating and driving innovation within the workforce. DELEGATE JOB TITLES FROM 2012 INCLUDED: CEO Engineering Manager Factory Manager General Manager Industrial Business Manager Materials & Planning Manager Operations Director Production Manager R&D Project Engineer Vice President Manufacturing 3 for 2 on all tickets offer ends 4 th October 2013 To register simply call events@sayonemedia.com or visit

3 Registration & Coffee 09:00 Conference Starts 09:30 and Closes 17:30 Opening Remarks and Introduction CREATING A FORWARD FACING INNOVATIVE BUSINESS AgustaWestland Future Technologies Understanding the research and development practices employed by AW to create new products Creating a culture of innovation that remains even outside of R&D departments Ensuring you have suffi cient funding for your innovation projects James Godman, Head of R&T External Affairs and Funding, AgustaWestland Creating a World First within Automotive Engineering Understanding the business practices that lead to the initial conception of carbon fi bre beam technology, Axontex Creating a leading business at the forefront of design but still on budget Overcoming the barriers of creating a new product from conception to implementation Stephen Cousins, Managing Director, Axon Automotive Sustaining Innovation within an Establish Company to Ensure you Remain Competitive (Session details to be confi rmed) Coffee and Networking Break INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP SESSIONS Session 1: Creative thinking session based on observations Introduction into creative thinking and post it note brainstorming; Yoghurt observation and feedback Show a fi lm demonstrating bad manufacturing practice Brainstorm the problems using a post it note session Group the solutions and vote on best solutions Talk about innovation prompts Split into groups to develop creative solutions Session Feedback Gordon Macrae, Special Projects Manager, Gripple Session 2: Session details to be confi rmed Networking Lunch CREATING A CULTURE OF INNOVATION Fostering Innovation and Improvement: From Initial Market Research Through to Completion of the Manufacturing Process Harnessing the collective ingenuity and specialities of employees to drive product improvement The right development path is critical to ensure that every product is able to satisfy the demands of a national and international market and to meet the variable objectives of medical training A market must exist for the product if it is to be successful; it is for this reason that all projects must start with market research to quantify the problem before the solution is realised. The importance of adopting a strategy that can successfully draw on the creative thinking of the whole work force and commercialise innovation within the company Margot Cooper, Owner, Limbs and Things Foster Innovation Projects between Industry and Education Securing their long-term future by pioneering radical new production methods Engaging with local universities to undertake collaborative projects within innovation and understanding the benefi ts this can bring Understanding the commercial applications of university research and how this can be incorporated into the business Mark Cichuta, Operations Director Electrical Steels at Tata Steel Europe Coffee and Networking Break CREATIVE CENTRES: ENGAGING WITH YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY BOTH BUSINESS AND EDUCATION Creative Centres for the SME Understanding how to identify and access local resources How can the creative centres benefi t your business? Understanding the importance of collaboration and moving beyond the comfort zone to access new resources Paul Maropoulos, Professor in Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath and Editor, Journal of Engineering Manufacture High Value Manufacturing Catapult: Fostering New Levels of Collaboration HVM Catapult and the collaboration model Examples of cross industry collaboration Breaking down barriers Dick Elsy, Chief Executive, High Value Manufacturing Catapult Closing Remarks For full programme timings and to view speaker biographies, please visit: themanufacturer.com/innovation2013

4 CASE STUDIES AND PRESENTATIONS AGUSTAWESTLAND FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES James Godman, Head of R&T External Affairs and Funding, AgustaWestland James presentation will focus promoting an understanding of the research and development practices employed by AW to create new products and how the development of new products and ideas are pushing the company forward. In order to capitalize on the value of your entire workforce you must creating a culture of innovation. It is vital that having engaged with staff the innovative attitude remains both in and outside of R&D departments. Lastly James will discuss the importance of ensuring you have suffi cient funding for your innovation projects. CREATING A WORLD FIRST WITHIN AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Stephen Cousins, Managing Director, Axon Automotive Stephen s presentation will discuss how process that lead to the conception and development of the revolutionary technology that culminated in the production of Axontex. Having an understanding of key business practices and ensure that company remains innovative has not only lead to the initial conception of carbon fi bre beam technology, Axontex but will sustain stability and even growth for the company. Whilst it is highly important that you are creating and developing a business that is leading its fi eld and is at the forefront of design it is critical that this is implemented in a cost effective way. If not managed cost effectively then the business will suffer as a result. CREATIVE THINKING SESSION BASED ON OBSERVATIONS Gordon Macrae, Special Projects Manager, Gripple These interactive workshops provide an opportunity for delegates to engage and gain take away skills that can be implemented when returning to the business. Gordon s session will focus on creative thinking and identifying improvements in any manufacturing process, understanding the need to think creatively to solve problems. The session will include: Introduction into creative thinking and post it note brainstorming; Yoghurt observation and feedback Show a fi lm demonstrating bad manufacturing practice Brainstorm the problems using a post it note session Group the solutions and vote on best solutions Talk about innovation prompts Split into groups to develop creative solutions Session Feedback

5 FOSTERING INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT: FROM INITIAL MARKET RESEARCH THROUGH TO COMPLETION OF THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS Margot Cooper, Owner, Limbs and Things With innovation often driven by the need to problem solve, a company cannot rely on a single department to drive innovation. Margot will discuss how harnessing the collective ingenuity and specialities of every employee will drive product improvement. The right development path is critical to ensure that every product is able to satisfy the demands of an international market and meet all applicable medical standards. The presentation will also discuss the importance of adopting a strategy that can successfully commercialise innovation within the company, after all a market must exist for the product if it is to be successful. It is for this reason that most projects must start with market research to quantify the problem before the solution is realised. FOSTER INNOVATION PROJECTS BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION Mark Cichuta, General Manager at Cogent Power, Tata Steel Securing their long-term future by pioneering new production methods will be key to the success and sustainment of business. Completing this work is the identifi ed need to engage with local partners. Engaging with local universities to undertake collaborative projects has been a critical component of the research and innovation drive at Cogent Power. Ensure that you have a good working relationship with local universities has allowed a greater product development and innovation. An understanding of the benefi ts this can bring is critical. Whilst many can see the benefi ts of working with external partners, understanding the commercial applications of university research and how this can be incorporated into the business is critical in making any relationship successful and able to be sustained within education. CREATIVE CENTRES FOR THE SME Paul Maropoulos, Professor in Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath Whilst innovation is critical in any organisation the need to introduce external partners can often be overlooked. Often businesses are either unaware of their existence or do not know how to engage with local resources. Understanding how to identify and access their potential is key in taking any organisation to the next step. Understanding the importance of collaboration and moving beyond the comfort zone to access new resources will help increase innovation within your business. So... How can the creative centres benefi t your business? HIGH VALUE MANUFACTURING CATAPULT: FOSTERING NEW LEVELS OF COLLABORATION Dick Elsy, Chief Executive, High Value Manufacturing Catapult The role brings together 7 world class centres of industrial innovation in the UK which help accelerate new concepts to commercial reality and thereby create a sustainable high value manufacturing future for this country. He joined the Catapult from Torotrak plc, the global innovator in gearless traction drive technology which reduces CO2 emissions in vehicles. As Chief Executive, he led this technology and licensing business which is one of the few UK listed companies involved in innovative automotive engineering and one of the very few engineering companies in the UK making a success of the licensing business model. Prior to this Dick was Product Development Director at Jaguar Cars Limited where he led the introduction of several new car programmes. Dick s earlier roles were also in the automotive industry with a period of time spent with BMW in Munich and Land Rover.

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