Review – Top Exhibitors
Manufacturing & Engineering Week is industrial sector’s biggest event
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anufacturing & Engineering Week, produced in association with The Manufacturer, has become the biggest industrial sector event in the UK in just its second year, according to statistics released by event organisers The Nineteen Group. Over the course of the live shows back in June, 10,355 manufacturers, designers, engineers and maintenance professionals attended at the NEC and 342 exhibitors showcased their products and services. The week began with digital sessions produced by The Manufacturer, a BBC radio broadcast followed by four live events featuring high profile speakers including Nusrat Ghani, Minister of State at the Department for Business & Trade who gave the welcome address in the Keynote Theatre. The six solution theatres covering Automation & Robotics, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Industrial Data & AI, IIOT & Connectivity and Maintenance were also packed on both days. Senior manufacturing leaders attended the Manufacturing Digitalisation Summit and the SME Growth Summit while also finding time to visit the Google Leaders’ Lounge and The Manufacturer Top 100 Award ceremony, which celebrates the heroes of UK manufacturing and recognises their contribution to the sector. As part of the STEM programme, more than 450 students attended the exhibition on the final afternoon finding much to inspire them in the Made Smarter Innovation Alley, the Innovation Village and beyond.
Manufacturing & Engineering Week has the support of most of the high-profile organisations, institutions and trade bodies representing the UK’s industrial and manufacturing sector, none more so than Make UK. Stephen Phipson CBE, CEO of MAKE UK and chair of Manufacturing & Engineering Week said of this year’s event, “Manufacturing and Engineering Week has gone from strength to strength with key challenges high on the agenda with skills, supply chain and sustainability discussed in detail. It was great to see the show also offset their carbon emissions once again by planting thousands more trees in the M&E Week forest.” Peter Jones, CEO of Nineteen Group commented on the success of the event saying, “We gave our team the licence to disrupt the accepted norms of what an industrial sector trade show looked like, from the Nexa3D guitar players’ competition to the festival-like stilt walkers and branding to the sheer sense of excitement generated on the
Celebrating 120 years of delivering technical excellence! P
armley Graham was founded in 1903 serving the North East’s shipbuilding, coal, and steel industries through the supply of industrial engineering products. The company has continued to adapt and evolve to ensure it is always at the forefront of technology, establishing itself as the UK’s premier independent supplier of Factory Automation.
Indeed, alongside state-of-the-art products supplied by all leading manufacturers, Parmley Graham remains committed to providing a
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This is our second pick of the best exhibitors from this year’s event, listed here in alphabetical order: Chronos Technology Solutions, Control Station, EA Technology, FC Laboratories, Flags Software, Gruetzner, Interface Force, Laser Prototypes, Mac Solutions, Parmley Graham, PCE Instruments & Santon Circuit Breaker Services. Further details can be found on this page and the next 3 pages. M&E Week 2024: 5th-6th June – Smart Factory Expo, Design & Engineering Expo, Maintec (2 days, Hall 4) 4th-6th June – Drives & Controls, Air-Tech, Fluid Power & Systems (3 Days, Hall 5). For more information, please visit: www.mandeweek.co.uk +44 (0)20 8947 917 enquiries@mandeweek.co.uk
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Today, as it celebrates 120 years, Parmley Graham is the UK’s largest Value Added Reseller of Siemens; an official recognition of quality at every stage – from consultation and engineering, through to the supply, service, and technical support.
exhibition floor it’s been superb, and it will only get better next year as we add Drives & Controls, Air-Tech and Fluid Power & Systems alongside the established Smart Factory Expo, Maintec and Design & Engineering Expo.”
Helping customers embrace new technology and develop new skills to improve their productivity, raise quality, and drive down costs has become synonymous with Parmley Graham’s offering.
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