Activities and events

Please look out for upcoming academia/industry collaboration-building activities in Biomanufacturing.

We will also be organising a series of seminars in 2020 focusing on some of the Industry 4.0-propelled themes such as:

• Built environment supply chains
• Industry 4.0 and public policy
• Smart, sustainable manufacturing.

Keep and eye on this page and on the Events section of the MACE website.

Past events

April 2019: The University of Manchester was the Strategic Academic Partner in the Industry 4.0 Summit & Expo held in Manchester on 10 and 11 April 2019. Highlights from our involvement in the Summit include:

• Prof Paulo Bartolo taking part in the panel of the opening session titled ‘Delivering Britain’s 4th Industrial Revolution’ alongside senior representatives from GAMBICA, Siemens, EEF, The Growth Company and ABB (pictured in banner image) above. You can watch a video of the session.
• A round-table discussion about future Made Smarter opportunities in the Greater Manchester region, with MIDAS and representatives from the NW Pilot

We also organised and hosted the Industry 4.0 Academia Summit – Smart Sustainable Manufacturing (pictured below, 9–11 April), during which around 100 papers were presented in areas such as The Future of Manufacturing; Towards a Circular Economy; Design, Sustainability and Innovation; and Sustainable Healthcare for Ageing. The conference proceedings are due to be published in a book entitled ‘Industry 4.0 – Shaping the Future of the Digital World’.