Join a series of workshops with bespoke support to equip your business with the knowledge and skills required to embed measurement principles and practices into your business and reduce the carbon footprint of your products through efficiencies in design and manufacturing.

The support will be delivered by experts from Coventry University’s Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Institute and is fully funded to SMEs through the Coventry and Warwickshire Green Business Programme.

This programme will include the basic principles and processes to embed metrology principles and practices into your manufacturing processes to drive confidence in data and decision making for customer and suppliers alike. It will support you to be able to evaluate and demonstrate your measurement capabilities and align them for compliance to supplier requirements.

This programme will also provide access to a series of CPD modules which have been developed working with some OEMs with advanced manufacturing processes.

Agenda - Workshop 1:

10:00am: Opening – Introduction to the session

10:10am: Introductions – Round the table who you are where you work and the nature of what you do

10:30am: Significance of Measurement in Manufacturing Industry

Be able to evaluate and demonstrate your measurement capability through the value-chain

11:30am: Standards, GD&T

Align capability to requirements for compliance to supplier requirements

12:00 (45 mins) – Lunch

12:45pm - Standards, GD&T - Continued

13:15pm: Introducing CPDs, Bespoke, customized training and workshops – Case studies

Access to a series of CPD modules

14:15pm: Break

14:30pm: Tour of AME : Metrology Laboratory

14:45pm: Discuss funding support opportunities and development plans

Funding Unit in CGFM, Potential visits to companies

15:15pm: Close

SMEs attending will have the opportunity to join a collaboration programme ending in March 2023, comprised of several workshops and 121 bespoke support.

The workshop is funded by ERDF Green Business Programme, delivered by Coventry University and Coventry University Enterprises Ltd and as such only SMEs based in Coventry and Warwickshire are able to attend. Eligibility will be verified when completing registration details.