Welcome to the UK Automation Forum
Join us and share your thoughts at a range of events and round table forums throughout the year. Use our Event Finder below to filter your results by category and date. Then simply click on the links to find out more and book your places.
Past events
Learnings from last year and how 2025 will play out.
03/02/2025Livestream OnlineThis first event of 2025 will review the host of topics covered by the UK Automation Forum in its inaugural year asking has the environment for automation adoption in the UK changed. And with current economic pressures mounting on manufacturers, will this impact the rate of automation adoption across the UK this year
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How can you attract young people into UK manufacturing?
13/11/2024The FANUC UK Open House event, Ansty Park, CoventryThe panel put together for the FANUC Open Days in November was the seventh event run in this, the first year of the UK Automation Forum. This final event for 2024 was completed with a discussion based around: How industry can attract more young people into UK manufacturing?
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What would make UK food businesses adopt more robots?
25/09/2024The PPMA Show, Hall 5, the NEC, BirminghamOn stage at the PPMA Show 2024, representatives from across the food industry joined the panel to discuss the positive impact that adopting automation can have on the sector, while also sharing top tips and learnings that help to ensure successful outcomes. Real life projects were discussed as well as ways to overcome the reluctance that UK manufacturers seem to have to adopting robots and automation.
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How do you open doors to investment in manufacturing?
16/09/2024The UK Automation Forum’s fifth event was live streamed and featured a panel of industry experts from Automate UK, the MTC, Make UK, BAMUK, FANUC and NatWest. The panel discussed how manufacturers could access finance more easily to allow a higher adoption of robotics and automation. As well as setting the scene as to the current state of UK manufacturing, the discussion included findings from a report from Make UK called Finance: Opening Doors to Investment in Manufacturing that was published in partnership with NatWest and Lombard earlier this year.
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How do we bridge the skills gap in UK manufacturing?
18/06/2024Automation UK exhibition at the CBS Arena, CoventryOn stage at Automation UK, participants at this live event discussed the impact that skills shortages are having on business, including their ability to adopt new technologies, robotics and automation. The panel also discussed how automating repetitive and more laborious tasks allows workers to focus on the more skilled tasks that are harder to fill.
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Why a change in culture will benefit productivity in this country
14/05/2024This roundtable took place on stage during the Robotics and Automation: For a Sustainable Future 2024 event at the MTC. It discussed how changing company culture can benefit the bottom line in modern manufacturing. The make do and mend attitudes of the past can still be found at many UK manufacturers, whereas many global competitors are prouder of brand-new automation options. The panel discussed how changing these attitudes can help deliver buy in to new technology.
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What the Government must do to drive manufacturing growth in UK PLC
18/04/2024MACH exhibition at the NEC, BirminghamOn stage at MACH, this live event outlined several trade association’s demands for current and future Governments to ensure the delivery of a coherent industrial strategy going forward.
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Automation – how will greater adoption benefit UK PLC?
06/03/2024Streamed from the Manufacturing Technology Centre, Ansty Park CoventryThis inaugural event aimed to set the scene of where UK PLC is now, compared to its global competitors, and why and how it needs to change to advance our country’s manufacturing sector. Barriers to adoption were explored, common myths around automation were busted and a real-life experience of automation from an SME was shared.
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