2023 FEMM Hub Conference a Success!
On the 28th of November, the FEMM Hub held its annual conference at IET's Austin Court in Birmingham which was attended by 88 delegates. After an introductory presentation from Hub Director, Professor Geraint Jewell, conference delegates were delighted to hear from Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Fleischer the Director of Machines, Equipment and Process Automation at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. His keynote titled "Facing the Challenges in Electric Motor Production" covered Challenges and Trends in Development and Manufacturing; Flexible and Scalable Manufacturing Processes and Sustainability in Electric Motor Production.
Following the keynote, Dr Xiao Chen, Senior Lecturer at The University of Sheffield kicked off the first session of the conference on Electrical Machines Manufacture featuring presentations from Liz Scoffins from the Manufacturing Technology Centre and Lloyd Tinkler and Alexei Winter from AMRC.
The poster session followed which featured a poster from each of the FEMM Hub Projects as well as our PhD Students before we broke for lunch. Providing ample time for networking.
Professor Michael Ward opened the afternoon session with a presentation on the current progress of the FEMM Hub Roadmap and the planned next steps. The presentation provoked some interesting questions from the audience and we look forward to getting input from conference delegates in the upcoming months as the roadmap is developed.
Dr Jill Miscandlon welcomed presenters during her session on the Sustainable Manufacture of Electrical Machines. Both presenters, Wiktor Dotter from ZeBeyond and Stuart Bradley - Principal Engineer, WMG gave interesting perspectives on this topic.
The FEMM Hub recently closed its 3rd Feasibility Call and hub Director Professor Geraint Jewell was delighted to announce the successful applicants before the final session of the day on Emerging Technologies. Dr Michael Farnsworth chaired the session which featured presentations from Alex Goodall - Materials Engineer, University of Edinburgh; Vicente Climente-Alarcon -Cryogenic Electrical Machines Engineer, GKN Aerospace before the final speaker of the day Lindsay Lee - Technical Fellow for Data Science, AMRC who presented on data-centric manufacturing.
If you have any questions about the FEMM Hub Conference please get in touch with FEMM Hub Manager Dr Laura O'Keefe - L.OKeefe@sheffield.ac.uk