Distributed Manufacturing: Contributors

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MTC

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) was established in 2010 as an independent Research & Technology Organisation (RTO) with the objective of bridging the gap between academia and industry – often referred to as ‘the valley of death’.

We provide integrated manufacturing system solutions for customers large and small, across sectors as diverse as automotive, aerospace, rail, informatics, food & drink, construction/civil engineering, electronics, oil & gas and defence.

We can help companies manufacture faster, at a consistently higher quality and lower cost, in an agile environment in partnership with industry and academia.

We continually encourage young people into exciting careers in engineering, to develop and embed technologies that will impact UK industry for years to come.

Our facilities provide a fantastic environment for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale, offering flexibility to our growing membership, clients and research partners.

WMG

The diversity of our partners means we have impact across sectors including agrochemicals, automotive, defence, consumer packaged goods, retail, and pharmaceuticals. Current research areas include the circular economy, customer responsive supply chains, right-shoring, data driven decision making, and offsets and economic engagement.

Our innovative research and the industrial expertise of our teaching staff, helps to inform our postgraduate education, including both full and part-time MSc programmes. We also support PhD and EngD candidates within our expert research teams.

Our Supply Chains in Practice networking events and industrial collaborator forum engage practitioners across sectors and disciplines. Through quarterly meetings, we embed and develop customer responsive supply chain theory into practical solutions to turn rhetoric into reality. Our collaborator forum is an invited group of forward thinking companies, whilst our networking events are open to the wider supply chain community to attend.

Practice

This unique and authoritative survey draws on the experience of Supply Chain Professionals.