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SMART Hub Lanarkshire - Launch event

Smart Hub Lanarkshire will be home to a robotics and automation training facility and a dedicated space for SMEs to meet, learn, and access business support and academic expertise.
April 30th, 2021 10:00 AM   through   11:30 AM

The Smart Hub Lanarkshire is one of the 12 Advancing Manufacturing projects within the Advancing Manufacturing Cluster Builder programme, with a focus on Robotics and Automation.

Join live on Friday 30th April from 10am and be the first to:

  • Meet the team behind the new £900k Hub facility
  • Preview our Robotics demonstration space
  • Learn about upcoming industry specific events and 1-2-1 support available
  • Hear from a leading Scottish automation industry specialist providing robotics solutions to businesses of all sizes
  • Access insights from a SME on the investment and automation journey

Why attend?

  • Be part of a new forward-looking initiative that aims to connect and support local manufacturing SMEs
  • Gain industry insights and learn about new manufacturing technologies, tools and techniques
  • Access industry events designed to stimulate and enable SME sector focused growth, investment and ambition
  • Strengthen your business support network through local access to wider national industry agencies, initiatives and academic expertise
  • Because Productivity, Digitisation, Operating Efficiencies, Innovation, Investment, Supply Chain Development, R&D and new Products, Services are Markets are areas of focus for your business in 2021 and 2022.

Guest Speakers

  • Professor Christopher Moore, Principal at New College Lanarkshire
  • Sheena MacKenzie, Senior Faculty Officer - Industry Engagement at University of Strathclyde
  • Robert Steenson, Executive Director of Enterprise and Communities at North Lanarkshire Council.
  • Braden Henderson, Cobot Applications Engineer at SP Elements
  • Barry Skea, Head of Faculty for Engineering and Automotive at New College Lanarkshire

Find out more and REGISTER here. (Please note. This link will take you to an external Eventbrite page.)

This event is part of the Advancing Manufacturing Cluster Builder programme which helps Scottish SMEs access the Advancing Manufacturing Challenge Fund (AMCF) projects whose aim is to have a significant impact on advancing the manufacturing capabilities of SMEs within Scotland, leading to long-term transformational change. 

The Advancing Manufacturing Cluster Builder is part-funded by the 2014–2020 European Structural and Investment Fund.