For this year’s MWP Summit the focus is ‘energy’: the supply chain opportunities in the power generation (nuclear, oil & gas, renewables etc) sectors; the technology and management systems needed to work within these supply chains; and energy efficiency in the manufacturing processes employed.

This event is being staged jointly with the AMRC and with their full support. Here's the speaker line up:

Phil Harpham - Group Manager, Siemens Energy Sector
Be prepared: The growth of oil and gas industrial power requirements; is UK Manufacturing prepared?

Phil is currently Group Manager at Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery, based in Lincoln, where he responsible for core production of Industrial Gas Turbines. He started his career at Rolls-Royce as a graduate trainee where he spent 7 years before moving on to Cosworth, the successful Midlands racing engine manufacturer, where spent the next 18 years to eventually become Head of Manufacturing.

The recent upturn in the global oil and gas market has seen an increased demand for power. High energy prices are driving more exploration and higher production levels. Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery is now seeing the benefits of its continuing 3 year cost reduction programme along with increased productivity levels to now be able to pitch and win lucrative engine contracts worldwide. The presentation gives some background into the company, plus an insight into some of the techniques and methods used to make these dramatic improvements.

Rhys Thomas - Supply Chain Policy Officer, RenewableUK
Winds of change: Opportunities in the wind energy supply chain -?the technologies, expertise and processes required.
Rhys Thomas will talk on the outlook for the UK offshore wind power industry. Where are the opportunities and who can get involved? What are the relevant technologies, expertise and processes required? Although many supply chain relationships are already in place, he suggests there will be ample opportunity to break into doing business with the offshore wind industry, and that the scale of the challenge will mean that new supply chain relationships will need to be created.

Renewable UK is the trade and professional body for wind, wave and tidal energy. Formed in 1978, and with 704 corporate members, it is the leading renewable energy trade association in the UK. Wind has been the world's fastest growing renewable energy source for the last seven years, and this trend is expected to continue with falling costs of wind energy and the urgent international need to tackle CO2 emissions to prevent climate change. In 2004, RenewableUK expanded its mission to champion wave and tidal energy and use the Association's experience to guide these technologies along the same path to commercialisation.
Its primary purpose is to promote the use of wind, wave and tidal power in and around the UK; it acts as a central point for information for its membership and as a lobbying group to promote wind energy and marine renewables to government, industry, the media and the public; and sees its as  a catalyst for policy change to support the maximum deployment of wind, wave and tidal energy in the shortest possible time.

Stuart Dawson - Head of Machining Group, Nuclear AMRC
Going Nuclear: Machining large components for the nuclear power industry.
After completing an  apprenticeship Stuart Dawson studied Mechanical Engineering at The University of Sheffield. He then worked with Professor Keith Ridgway as a Teaching Company Associate whilst studying part time for an MSc in Manufacturing Technology and Management. Subsequently he has worked in cutting tool and machining R&D roles at Technicut  and the Unimerco Group before joining the Nuclear AMRC as Machining Group Manager in 2010.

Many of the workpieces in the energy sector are very large, such as components for PWR steam generators and pressurisers, wind turbine blades and towers. The presentation will look at how to achieve lower cost machining of very large workpieces via minimisation of part movements, lower capital equipment costs and the elimination of dedicated fixturing; how to achieve part accuracy in very large working volumes; and how machining can  be successfully achieved on comparatively low rigidity platforms on robots, as opposed to classical machine tools.

Rowan Crozier - Sales & Marketing Director, Brandauer ?
Working together: Renewables supply chain collaboration in West Midlands lands contracts worth over £5m in the sector.
Rowan Crozier was formerly Technical and Sales Director at Gills Cables. He has extensive experience working within the automotive industry at first and second tier; and as well as a good technical grounding he has managed sales teams to deliver cost effective technical solutions to customers around the world.
Brandauer is one of the largest contract presswork and stampings companies in Europe, manufacturing precision metal components for customers around the world. It is a member of MAN, a unique manufacturing collaboration which is setting its sights on new opportunities in renewable energy after landing more than £5m of contracts in the sector. MAN, which is a group of nine manufacturing firms from across the West Midlands, has seen demand for its technical expertise and innovation reach new levels from companies involved in LED lighting, wind and solar power and alternative fuels. More than 50 local jobs have already been created as a result of this new drive and this figure could be trebled over the next year if the pipeline is translated into firm orders.

Michael Charalambous - Head of sales and marketing, Carbon Trust Implementation
Elaine Fox - Account Development Manager, Siemens Financial Services

Energy Efficient Financing: Flexible scheme for UK businesses delivers green equipment finance worth up to £550 million over the next 3 years.

Michael is head of sales and marketing for Carbon Trust Implementation. He was formerly head of emerging technologies marketing at the Carbon Trust, where he was responsible for marketing and branding of the Carbon Trust emerging low carbon technologies, investments and enterprises unit helping to launch a number of offshore wind, biomass, industrial efficiency and low carbon buildings programmes. Prior to joining the Carbon Trust he held a number of senior product marketing and field marketing roles for Siebel Systems and Oracle Corp's small and mid-size business, manufacturing, services and construction sectors in the UK and western Europe. Michael earned a BENG in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University. Prior to transferring to Siemens in April 2011, Elaine Fox worked as a Loan Account Manager for the Carbon Trust and continues to assist companies with funding for energy efficient projects.?
In March 2011, the Carbon Trust and Siemens Financial Services announced a joint partnership to provide UK businesses with green equipment finance worth up to £550 million over the next 3 years. The new affordable and flexible scheme boosts green growth, focuses on unlocking business investment in the low carbon economy and ultimately enables UK businesses to invest in cost effective energy efficiency equipment. Energy Efficiency Financing is available to all types of organisations seeking to reduce their energy costs, and with financing payments calculated so that they are offset by anticipated energy savings the financing option is designed to pay for itself.  

Phil Reeves - Managing Director, Econolyst
Calculating Carbon: Supply chain drivers and software tools for the rapid assessment of carbon footprint across the supply chain.
Dr Phil Reeves is the managing director of Econolyst Ltd and has worked in the field of Advanced Manufacturing for nearly 20-years. Phil gained a PhD from Nottingham University in the late 1990's focused on improving the Stereolithography process. Since this time, Phil has worked in a number of roles including R&D, business development and corporate strategy, before establishing Econolyst in 2003.

Econolyst advises both additive manufacturing systems vendors on future business & technology strategy, and technology users on the business benefits of AM adoption. Phil's clients include companies such as Husky, Nike, Danfoss, Objet, Bentley, SAP and Stratasys amongst many others. Econolyst is also engaged in a number of UK and EU research projects to develop new additive manufacturing software and business tools, with partners such as Loughborough University, Boeing, Virgin Atlantic, AIMME, Delphi and MTT.
In this talk Phil will discuss the development of a software toolkit for design engineers and procurement professionals to quickly and efficiency establish the carbon footprint of component parts within the supply chain. The tool kit enables users to analyze a product design at the CAD file stage and then build a virtual global supply chain for part production. This can be based on making the part by CNC machining, casting, additive manufacturing or any number of processes. By dragging and dropping the supply chain on screen and assigning different activity locations, the software instantly calculates the energy, fuel, waste and carbon footprint of the supply chain. By changing raw materials, part geometry, manufacturing process and supply chain location - users can both establish and optimize the carbon footprint of their components. Users can also look at the life-cycle implications of the part, such as the impact of the part on efficiency (if the part is used on a vehicle for instance).  Carbon footprinting is becoming a prerequisite requirement in many automotive and aerospace supply chains (Jaguar & Boeing for example), where OEM's are now charging suppliers with the task of footprinting the components that they supply and identifying areas for improvement.

Jane Paxman - Policy and Communications Director, 2Co Energy
Capturing Carbon:  The Don Valley Power Project - progress on Carbon Capture and Storage with Yorkshire's leading power project.
Jane's role at 2Co Energy is focused on securing the government incentives necessary for the company's Carbon Capture and Storage Project in South Yorkshire to proceed.  Most recently she led the CCS programme at the UK based NGO, The Climate Group, with a particular focus on private sector investment in CCS.  Prior to that she spent four years as policy and communications manager for BP's CCS business, and latterly for the Hydrogen Energy joint venture it formed with Rio Tinto. She managed the advocacy work for the government policy needed to both provide incentives, and the regulatory environment, for CCS; as well as the communications activities for projects in the UK, Australia, USA, Abu Dhabi and Canada.
She spent most of the previous decade in a number of overseas political affairs posts - on secondment from BP to the UK Foreign Office as the Environmental Attache at the British Embassy in Washington D.C., with BP in both New York and in Brussels working at the oil industry's refining and marketing association. Earlier in her career Jane worked in a number roles for BP's exploration and production business in the UK (London and Aberdeen) and USA (Cleveland, Ohio) as a business and government and public affairs analyst focusing on competitor analysis and environmental and fiscal issues.

2Co Energy acquired the Don Valley Power Project in May 2011 and will provide some details of its plans for the project which is currently the only CCS project in the UK to have secured a major EU grant.  It is projected to be producing 650MW of low-carbon power by 2016 and expects to capture and store up to 5 million tonnes per annum of CO2.  Subject to winning further funding from the EU, and also from the UK, it is hoped to make the final investment decision on the project in mid-2013.