Manufacturing Solutions Northern Ireland – GTMA

Event Description

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

DAVID ASKEW – Manufacturing Engineer, Rolls-Royce

PRESENTATION – Bridging the Chasm – Delivering Tooling Automation from Innovation to Implementation

David Askew is the Skill Owner for Manufacturing Tooling at Rolls-Royce plc, working with academia and industry to develop and adopt best in class tooling technology to innovate manufacture and assembly of Civil Aerospace gas turbines.

Bob Barton, Process Innovations Manager at Bespak

PRESENTATION – Supply Chain Toolmaking requirements for medical device moulding

​Bob Barton is Process Innovations Manager for mould tooling at Bespak. Bob has spent over 20 years at Bespak, heading up the tooling innovations team specialising in DfM (Design for Manufacture).

This work is all ISO13485 compliant for the medical device sector; clinical and commercial-scale drug product fill-finish, to device and component manufacturing.

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Joint Presentation from Christopher Tierney, Technical Lead for Data Integration(Queens University & AMIC (Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre) & Michael Canavan, CAD & Tooling Design Theme Lead at NMIS (National Manufacturing Institute Scotland)

PRESENTATION TITLE – Exploring Model Based Definition: Discover the future beyond 2D drawings

Christopher Tierney – AMIC Technical Lead for Data Integration

Dr Chris Tierney has multiple years’ experience in the use, deployment and development of digital manufacturing tools and methodologies, resulting in a career as a digital manufacturing engineer working alongside both local manufacturing industry and aerospace OEMs in European research consortiums.

His current work is focused on Smart Design methods, model-based approaches for digital information flows between design and manufacturing domains, and digital threads for automated workflows that incorporate detailed analysis and manufacturing capabilities up-front in product lifecycles.

Other activities include robotic simulations for cell design and offline programming, discrete-event simulation, real-time cost modelling and digital twin solution development.

Michael Canavan – CAD & Tooling Design Theme Lead at NMIS

Michael Canavan has over 30 years of experience in tool design & manufacture and NPI. Michael started off a toolmaker, progressed to a design engineer and is now CAD & tooling design theme lead at NMIS.

The first 23 years of his career has been spent working for OEMs and SMEs in consumer & industrial electronics, ceramics for metal flow, marine, defence, and aerospace. For the past 10 years, Michael has been working at NMIS focusing on tooling solutions and the adoption of model-based workflows to enable a digital thread of data between design, manufacturing, and metrology.

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