The Institute of Automotive & Manufacturing Advanced Practice (AMAP) is to hold a seminar dedicated to
digital manufacturing in partnership with DELMIA on 29th November, 9 a.m. until noon, at the Ramside Hall Hotel and Golf Club, Durham. The event will demonstrate the business benefits of digital manufacturing and how it can be applied to a wide range of manufacturing organisations.
Over recent months, AMAP - an industrial “reach-out” department at the University of Sunderland that delivers regional, national, and international projects - has been working alongside Nissan and its Tier One suppliers, providing DELMIA consultancy and training. "Our collaboration with AMAP has allowed us to expand our use of DELMIA Digital Factory within our Body Engineering Group quickly. When modifying our process this powerful study tool allows us to find and fix problems earlier, saving cost, and time," comments Richard Barras, senior engineer, Bodyshop, Nissan Manufacturing UK.
“We are an entirely stakeholder driven, not-for-profit organisation, which puts us in a great position to assist regional companies in an impartial way. We would like to thank DELMIA for the support it has offered in
delivering this event and we hope attendees will go away not only with a better understanding of what is possible, but just how achievable it is,” explains Alan Stafford, AMAP project manager for the NEPA/Digital Factory project. The £4m NEPA/Digital Factory is an AMAP project, funded by the regional development agency, One NorthEast. The Digital Factory project delivers training, assistance, and technology transfer to any manufacturing company in the North East, irrespective of size.
“AMAP is helping us to demonstrate the efficiencies digital manufacturing can make and, consequently, the money that can be saved by the successful implementation of DELMIA software. Nissan is already reaping the benefits of seamlessly linking its internal CAD software to a DELMIA environment. We are delighted that AMAP will be able to guide companies in the North East of England on the benefits of digital manufacturing and we hope that this seminar will just be the start,” says Simon Allsop, General Manager for
DELMIA in the UK.