Manufacturing Solutions N.Ireland 2025
GTMA in association with Queens University/Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC) will be holding a prestigious & free to attend Manufacturing Solutions N.Ireland event on 4th September 2025
The Venue for the 2025 event is the highly acclaimed La Mon Hotel & Country Club, Gransha Road Castlereagh, Belfast BT23 5RF, Northern Ireland
Bringing all the leading technology suppliers together the event provides an ideal conduit for the transfer of technology from the specialist suppliers to the practical industrial landscape, where its take-up and practical application can be used to learn more about the very latest in manufacturing processes, new technology/equipment, materials as well as key measurement and inspection technologies and service providers.
There will be free parking and free refreshments on offer to all exhibitors and visitors.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Bob Barton, Process Innovations Manager at Bespak
PRESENTATION - Supply Chain Toolmaking requirements for medical device moulding
Bob Barton is Process Innovations Manager for mould tooling at Bespak. Bob has spent over 20 years at Bespak, heading up the tooling innovations team specialising in DfM (Design for Manufacture).
This work is all ISO13485 compliant for the medical device sector; clinical and commercial-scale drug product fill-finish, to device and component manufacturing.
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Joint Presentation from Christopher Tierney, Technical Lead for Data Integration(Queens University & AMIC (Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre) & Michael Canavan, CAD & Tooling Design Theme Lead at NMIS (National Manufacturing Institute Scotland)
PRESENTATION TITLE - Exploring Model Based Definition: Discover the future beyond 2D drawings
Christopher Tierney - Technical Lead for Data Integration
Dr Chris Tierney has multiple years’ experience in the use, deployment and development of digital manufacturing tools and methodologies, resulting in a career as a digital manufacturing engineer working alongside both local manufacturing industry and aerospace OEMs in European research consortiums.
His current work is focused on Smart Design methods, model-based approaches for digital information flows between design and manufacturing domains, and digital threads for automated workflows that incorporate detailed analysis and manufacturing capabilities up-front in product lifecycles.
Other activities include robotic simulations for cell design and offline programming, discrete-event simulation, real-time cost modelling and digital twin solution development.
Michael Canavan - CAD & Tooling Design Theme Lead at NMIS
Michael Canavan has over 30 years of experience in tool design & manufacture and NPI. Michael started off a toolmaker, progressed to a design engineer and is now CAD & tooling design theme lead at NMIS.
The first 23 years of his career has been spent working for OEMs and SMEs in consumer & industrial electronics, ceramics for metal flow, marine, defence, and aerospace. For the past 10 years, Michael has been working at NMIS focusing on tooling solutions and the adoption of model-based workflows to enable a digital thread of data between design, manufacturing, and metrology.