About this Event
Thursday 30th May 2024
SMDH Digital Manufacturing, an Insight into the Future
at Photocentric Ltd, Titan House, 20 Titan Dr, Peterborough PE1 5XN
SMDH attendees:
Cara Roberts SMDH Business Development Manager
Photocentric attendees:
Sally Tipping New Business Director
Paul Holt Managing Director
Peter Butler IT systems Manager and Website Developer
Hanifeh Zarezadeh 3D Product Manager
Ed Barlow Lead Engineer
Kevin Martin Technical Sales Engineer
Dr Rob Young Lead Chemist & Lead Battery Scientist
Explore the reality of the Photocentric digital journey, straight from the coal face.
Uncover the untapped potential of your manufacturing data and explore funding.
Dive headfirst into the Photocentric Lighthouse Project for a hands-on experience of cutting-edge 3D printing tech.
Organisations:
Photocentric is the inventor of LCD 3D printing and manufacturer of 3D printers, 3D polymers and 3D printed parts, with unique abilities to make large format LCD printers. Currently developing autonomous digital manufacturing processes, Jeni.
SMDH is focussed on enabling SME’s access digital manufacturing tools. The UK Government is giving manufacturing SMEs a boost to their “productivity and competitiveness” through the Smart Manufacturing Data Hub (SMDH). The new hub and testbed is led by Ulster University and backed by £50m of government funds and business co-investment. The funding is part of the £300m Made Smarter Innovation Challenge, designed to support the development and increased use of new and existing industrial digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
10.00 Arrival
Arrival and greeting from the teams.
10.15 Introduction and Welcome - Sally Tipping
Housekeeping and introduction to Photocentric.
10.25 Introduction to SMDH - Hub Director Simon Coward
10.55 Photocentric’s Journey to Digital manufacturing- Paul Holt
Why we needed to be a digital manufacturer.
How we installed Oracle, but then failed to implement MRP.
11.15 How we made digital happen- Peter Butler
How we went about MRP implementation.
What were the struggles and how we overcame them.
What are the benefits of being a digital manufacturer.
11.25 Tour of the facilities split into four groups visiting four stations in turn
A. Batteries & Space- why 3D print batteries and why print in space
B. Printer assembly How we make the Opus, Magna and Titan 3D printers
C. Making and filling photopolymer
D. Titan, Magna and Opus 3D print farms
12.15 Lunch
Served on mezzanine with Photocentric staff and exhibits to discuss
12.40 Lighthouse launch-
What does digital manufacturing mean-
Digital Factory standards-
How to develop digital skills-
14.15 Why 3D print- Hanifeh Zarezadeh
What are the advantages over tooling? Which industries and applications can benefit the most? How do you design for additive?
14.35 Jeni, autonomous digital manufacturing- Ed Barlow
Jeni was developed as part of £3m of Innovate projects. The low carbon, autonomous, manufacturing process uses arrays of LCD SLA printers to make thousands of parts a day without human intervention, delivering parts every 30 seconds. It is the alternative to injection moulding.
14.50 Questions
15.00 Depart
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
20 Titan Dr, 20 Titan Drive, Peterborough, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
