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NAA Event Review: MTC – Electrifying the NAA
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) hosted our first webinar in February, giving a presentation of its work to date in supporting SMEs and OEMs in their electrification journey and highlighting the available funding opportunities… The webinar also covered: UK Grand Challenges MTC Electrification Journey Digital Manufacturing Accelerator (DMA) in Liverpool Region MTC SME Support Programme […]
NAA Event Review: Webinar – NMCL Automotive
Steve Collins from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) outlined the opportunities available within the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Levels (NMCL) automotive programme… Using £16m of government funding, matched by industry, and with the backing of 25 of the UK’s largest manufacturers, NMCL Automotive has been designed to raise workforce capability and increase productivity […]
NAA Event Review: The Power of the Digital Twin for the Automotive Supply Chain
With the automotive industry speeding towards electrification, Siemens demonstrated how the supply chain can adopt digitalisation to drive their transformation and be ready for the future of transportation… In this webinar we learned about the technologies that are enabling the automotive transformation from product through to operation and saw where manufacturing can benefit from applied […]
NAA Event Review: Webinar – The Future is Exporting
The Department for International Trade (DIT) kicked off our series of webinars for 2021… The webinar gave a comprehensive overview of export support from the Department for International Trade (DIT) and the Northern Automotive Alliance in the automotive sector DIT Auto Sector team shared the Covid-19 Impact on the global and UK car industry, DIT […]
NAA Event Review: Webinar – Opportunities in the Automotive Sector from Alternative Propulsion Vehicles
Grant Thornton’s Automotive Team gave an overview of the various alternative propulsion technologies currently available or under development, followed by a summary of the current product offerings and known developments from the key passenger car, light and heavy commercial vehicle and bus manufacturers… The key component differences compared to conventional petrol and diesel engine vehicles […]
