Event Details

Industrial Digitalisation and Manufacturing 4.0 offers incredible opportunities, but also huge consequences. This EnginE event explores some of the opportunities offered by smart product development, with a keynote on how leaders need to address people and culture as much as technology.

Sean McIlveen, LUMS Honorary Teaching Fellow, Director of Infinite Perspective Consulting Ltd, and formerly HR director at both Rolls Royce Aerospace and Ford Britain, will explore how the implementation of change is deeply cultural, and requires great leadership as well as skills planning for the workforce. He will particularly focus on the challenges for SME’s, and the need to set direction and priorities in what are often unfamiliar territories.

Agenda:

6.00-6.30pm: Registration

6.30-6.45pm: The Future of Manufacturing 4.0 and the TechHub project

6.45-7.30pm: Keynote from Sean McIlveen

7.30-7.40pm: Offer from the EnginE project

7.40- 8.00pm: Q&A and close

8.00-8.30pm: Food and networking

EnginE is a new project aimed at Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing (AEM) SMEs to build their capacity for higher level skills provision and degree apprenticeships. EnginE has been co-designed by Higher Education, Further Education and industry representative partners, including Lancaster University, Blackpool & Fylde College, Blackburn College, Northwest Aerospace Alliance and Northern Automotive Alliance. The EnginE project is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF).