FEMM Hub Conference 2022
Registration and a networking breakfast began at 9am before FEMM Hub Director Professor Geraint Jewell officially opened the conference at 10am. The event featured keynote speeches, poster sessions, research presentations, a tour of Factory 2050 as well as plenty of opportunities to network. If you are interested in attending the next conference, please get in touch with Hub Manager Laura O’Keefe.
We recorded the event to allow those who were not able to attend in person to view the presentations. Videos can be found below.
FEMM Hub Conference 2022
13 September
Factory 2050
Agenda
9am-10am
Conference registration and networking breakfast
10am-10.30am
Welcome and highlights from the FEMM Hub
Geraint Jewell, FEMM Hub Director
10.30am-11am
Destination Zero - The technology journey to 2050
Kiran Harish, ATI
11am-12.30pm
Innovations in electrical machine manufacturing
Chair: Rafal Wrobel, Newcastle University
Additive manufacturing for next generation electrical machines - Harry Felton, University of Bristol
Coil winding innovation - David Simkin, WMG
Electrical machines in the third dimension - Glynn Atkinson, Newcastle University
Digital process monitoring and inspection for terminations and connections in electrical machine manufacture - Divya Tiwari, University of Sheffield
12.30pm-1.15pm
FEMM Hub tour of Factory 2050
1.15pm-1.45pm
Networking lunch
1.45pm-2.30pm
Poster session
2.30pm-4pm
Sustainable manufacture and circular economy of electrical machines
Chair: Leigh Paterson, National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
FEMM Hub roadmapping: Approach and progress - Michael Ward, Strathclyde University
A critical evaluation of large scale direct drive wind turbine electrical machines manufacturing techniques sustainability aspects and recyclability issues - Magnus Bichan, Edinburgh Napier University
Sustainable servo motors: Some considerations and design challenges - David Moule, Servo Drivers Centre of Competence, ZF Group, UK
Sustainable manufacturing drivers and opportunities for future electrical machines - Jill Miscandlon, Advanced Forming Research Centre, NMIS
4pm-4:10pm
Concluding remarks and close of conference
Geraint Jewell, FEMM Hub Director
For those of you unable to attend the conference, recordings of the presentations can be found below.