Bringing Big Company Technology to SMEs

It is with regret that the ‘Bringing Big Company Technology to SMEs’ event on Thursday 12 February at the PEMC has been cancelled - however, we will be having an exhibition stand at the WEAF Annual Conference 2015 at the Winter Gardens in Weston-super-Mare on Wednesday 25 February, so if you're thinking of attending, do pay us a visit.:

The 12 hours of free support that is available for SMEs in Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire currently ends in March 2015, so if you haven't yet used your time fully, please contact Claire to explore what can be done:

- Tel: 01752 588908

- Mob: 07738 858494

- Email: emc@plymouth.ac.uk

New speaker announced - Centrax Industries Ltd

We are pleased to confirm that Richard Bartlett, Materials Engineer at Centrax Industries Ltd, will be joining our panel of speakers on Thursday 12 February, for our joint event with WEAF at the Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre.

The day's programme is shaping up as follows:

11.30 - Arrival and networking
12.00 - Welcome - Simon Young, Chief Executive, WEAF
12.10 - PEMC - practical examples of how we support business -and FREE support until 31 March 2015 - Claire Pearce, Project Manager, PEMC
12.20 - Using the technique of EBSD to make a difference to  your company - Kim Larsen, Oxford Instruments
12.40 - Precision micro-electronics for the aerospace and defence sctors - how we use electron microscopy for quality control - Victor Arghyrou, UTC Aerospace Systems
13.00 - What else we can do for you (funding, KTP) - Catherine Parnall, Plymouth University
13.10 - Lunch
14.10 - Turbine engineering for aerospace - how we use electron microscopy to analyse our materials - Richard Bartlett, Centrax Industries Ltd
14.30 - Aircraft material and accident investigations - Professor Neil James, Plymouth University
15.00 - Tour of the University technical facilities (PEMC, Materials Characterisation Lab) - Dr Roy Moate, Plymouth University
16.00 - Event close

To book your please, place to go the WEAF website.

Industrial Solutions Breakfasts update

We held our first 2014 Industrial Solutions breakfast last week, aimed at demonstrating the relevance of electron microscopy to the engineering and manufacturing sector - thank you to all those who attended and contributed to our first event; it went extremely well.

Delegates enjoyed a hearty breakfast of breakfast-rolls, danishes and fruit in our Rolle Conference Suite, followed by our two key-note presentations from Dr Cameron Pleydell-Pearce (Tata Steel) and Richard Bartlett (Centrax) who focussed on how they have used electron microscopy in business to increase quality and reduce waste, amongst other benefits (for a copy of the presentations, please contact Claire Pearce - claire.pearce@plymouth.ac.uk) .

Delegates then took a tour of the Materials Characterisation Lab and the Electron Microscopy Centre, which has seen £1.3 million of investment over the last two years, supported by Plymouth University, JEOL and the ERDF Competitiveness programme, with networking continuing throughout.
  

Two companies brought samples for analysis on the day and others signed up for our ERDF-supported use of the Electron Microscopy Centre for 12 hours over the next year.

Our next Industrial Solutions breakfast will take place at Plymouth University on Tuesday 18 February, starting at 08.00;  the focus will be electron microscopy in MINING, RECYCLING AND GEOLOGY.  Watch this space for more details ...,