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NAA Event Review: Networking Meeting, Ginetta Cars, Leeds, 10 March 2016
The NAA offers its members ‘money can’t buy’ opportunities, including events such as a fascinating recent visit to Ginetta in Yorkshire, a company that is making big progress in helping more people into motorsport… NAA visitors were treated to a tour of Ginetta’s factory and a presentation by Technical Director Ewan Baldry (see this month’s […]
Event Review: Niche Vehicle Network Symposium 2016
The Niche Vehicle Network Symposium 2016 showed that smaller automotive manufacturers and suppliers can deliver innovative research and development projects with impressive results in short timescales and with comparatively small budgets… The UK automotive industry has been transformed over recent years by government and industry working together and by collaborative funding projects, however typically the […]
Event Review: Future Powertrain Conference 2016
The Future Powertrain Conference 2016 had one main theme: emissions – showing that all supply chain companies also need to have this focus… In summary: Volkswagen emissions scandal mentioned in many presentations Keynote speech delivered by Michael Hurwitz from the Department for Transport: “We need to engineer for the future world.” Prof Neville Jackson from […]
Event Review: Manufacturers and supply chain companies be aware – CO2 and air quality emissions from transport have now been joined up
The automotive industry is likely to see future implications from the joining up of the UK carbon emissions and air quality agendas by a new initiative from the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) and the Clean Air Alliance (CAA), which was launched in Westminster on 1 March 2016… Over recent years diesel-engined cars have been […]
Event Review: The Future Of Motorsport – MIA Energy Efficient Motorsport Conference 2016
The Motorsport Industry Association’s (MIA) Energy Efficient Motorsport Conference 2016 focused on one main issue: what will the ‘Grid of the Future’ look like? A number of industry experts were on hand to give their views on this issue during the day… THE FUTURE OF MOTORSPORT As with many predictions for the future, the conference […]
NAA Event Review: Networking meeting at Kawasaki Robotics, also with presentations from Servispart Consulting and Autodesk
The NAA offers members exclusive opportunities to visit companies involved in the automotive industry, with the most recent event allowing attendees to ‘meet the robots’ at Kawasaki in Warrington… NAA members recently had the opportunity to ‘meet the robots’ at Kawasaki in Warrington. Before seeing the robots in action in the factory, a presentation enlightened […]
Event Review: My Electric Avenue Finale Event reveals how local electricity networks can cope with charging clusters of electric vehicles
NAA member EA Technology hosted a ‘Finale’ event for its three-year My Electric Avenue project at the IMechE in London on 3 December 2015, revealing its final results, including that across Britain 32% of local electricity networks (312,000 circuits) will require intervention when 40% – 70% of customers have EVs, and that new technology could […]
Event Review: NAA at the Advanced Engineering Show 2015
The NAA had a stand at the Advanced Engineering Show 2015 showcasing five NAA companies, as well as the NAA and its STRIVE and TWISTER projects… The NAA stand at AES 2015 on 4-5 November 2015 at the NEC showcased the following NAA companies: Brainboxes Culimeta-Saveguard Movetech UK Pendle Polymers Performance Springs STRIVE (Simulation Tools […]
NAA Member Company News: CSA Group Opens a Comprehensive Transportation Laboratory in Leyland
CSA Group, a global provider of testing and certification services and leading standards development organisation, has opened an updated laboratory for testing and certification of equipment used in transportation. Utilising the latest technology, the laboratory is one of the most comprehensive transportation testing facilities in Europe… The Leyland facility offers structural, NVH, whole vehicle, powertrain, […]
NAA Event Review: Jaguar Land Rover, Halewood, 14 October 2015
The recent NAA tour of Jaguar Land Rover’s production facility at Halewood was fully subscribed within just a few hours of the email going out; here’s a summary of what NAA members experienced… NAA visitors looked at the layout of the 3.5-mile trim and final line and discussed how JLR uses a barcode system to […]
