Foundations for Agile, Sustainable manufacturing

The current manufacturing infrastructure makes it difficult to offer the lead times and minimum order quantities that are required from the industry, ultimately leading to: investment at risk / or new product programme delay, high levels of inventory, low utilisation of manufacturing assets and potentially even stock-out or lost product sales opportunities.

We will look to understand what a factory would look like when the following themes are brought together, and to understand some of the common challenges that needs to be overcome to bring this vision to life

Key Themes that will be looked at include

• Modularity
• Modelling
• Equipment Characterisation
• Flexible Equipment Assets / Re-Tooling existing assets
• Decision Making Tools / Business Case
• Innovative SHE Assessment Tools
• Innovative Validation / Qualification Tools
• Digitalisation of human interactions