Plant & Asset Management 2014 – maintaining the standard for industry
07/03/2014
Plant & Asset Management 2014, taking place at the NEC (Hall 3/3A), Birmingham, from 8-10 April 2014, is the UK’s must-attend exhibition for plant, works and maintenance engineers. The free-to-attend show covers the very latest in condition monitoring, health & safety, training, CMMS, energy efficiency, handling and storage, plus much more.Event organiser DFA Media is optimistic that this year’s show will exceed both the exhibitor and visitor numbers of the 2012 event, which itself attracted the highest visitor numbers yet, totalling 11,146 for the three-day co-located event. This represented an increase of 29% from the 8,624 attendance figure of the 2010 shows, highlighting a significant return of confidence to the UK manufacturing sector.
The event is supported by the IPlantE, the plant engineering professional sector of SOE (the Society of Operations Engineers), Cranfield University, The Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, UKTA, BCAS and the Institute of Asset Management.
The co-location of DFA Media exhibitions – Fluid Power & Systems, Air-Tech, Drives & Controls and Plant & Asset Management, together with the newly-launched European Offshore & Energy Exhibition – are currently up on contracted exhibitors by 57% compared with the 2012 shows, while contracted floor space is up 102%.
Ian Atkinson, Managing Director of event organiser, DFA Media, commented: “For 2014 we will build on the success of our 2012 shows by further improving the look and layout of each exhibition within our co-location of events, as well as making it as easy as possible for visitors to navigate their way around each separate event. We will also further enhance the format of our valued seminar programme. The combination of leading manufacturing events, with a highly focused seminar programme, will give visitors a unique opportunity to keep abreast of the latest industry developments by visiting a single co-located event.”
The forthcoming Plant & Asset Management event will feature the following products and services:
- Asset management systems, bearings, lubrication, boilers and burners, buildings and property maintenance, CMMS, condition monitoring and contract maintenance;
- Energy management, handling & storage and health & safety;
- Facilities management, generators, industrial cooling and industrial rental equipment;
- Security and fire prevention, sensors, probes and tools, and leak detection equipment;
- Training and thermal imaging; and
- Water/waste management.
It is advised that you register early for your preferred choices as many seminars are already sold out.
It was recently confirmed that UKTI will also feature prominently in the conference and seminar programmes to be staged at all the co-located shows. During its seminar presentations, UKTI will highlight many of the areas it is currently working in and the levels of success it is achieving for UK businesses.
Jim Feeney, Head of UKTI’s Advanced Manufacturing Events, commented on the Government Department’s decision to exhibit and speak at the event: “When event organiser DFA Media approached me to consider whether I should add this event to the portfolio of events in the UK and internationally, where UKTI seeks to provide a platform for international business to be done and export contracts to be won, I was immediately interested.
“The initial approach was based on UKTI’s role in the oil & gas sector; a sector where we have a significant profile – and a successful role – in supporting British business, from the major oil companies such as Shell and BP down through each tier of the supply chain to SMEs. However, my colleagues and I saw this wide-ranging engineering event as offering an opportunity broader than just oil & gas, where we already have a very strong and responsive customer base.”
Feeney continued: “We felt this event offered the opportunity to reach businesses that were not yet exporting and introduce them to UKTI and engage with existing exporters and introduce them to new markets. We plan to do both at the event. We will seek to highlight the work UKTI does locally, nationally and internationally, and to introduce and explain the product range of support available through government networks and the business partners with whom we regularly operate.
“We will put together a strong presence at the show with the intention of assisting more companies to explore exporting for the first time, or to consider new markets, or to identify potential new customers in existing export markets with our team on site during the event. We will be able to provide details of our programme of activities across all sectors through 2014-15 and beyond, and will be able to explain how and where UKTI support can fit the needs of individual companies. I am looking forward to it.”
Ryan Fuller, Commercial Director of show organiser DFA Media, commented: “This is an exciting opportunity for the UK maintenance sector to promote and share its wide knowledge base and diverse range of systems. Combined with the co-location and specialist seminar programme, Plant & Asset Management is a truly unique event not to be missed by anyone with a vested interest in maintenance.”
Darrell Moffatt, part of the sales team at Conference Communication, added: “UK manufacturing/engineering is currently enjoying a very positive resurgence in activity. Only companies that have ensured that their physical assets – the plant and machinery on which their businesses depend – are fit for purpose will benefit from this market upturn. Plant & Asset Management Exhibition 2014 will deliver maintenance and asset management solutions that will enable UK industry to take advantage of the opportunities offered by both established and emerging economies throughout the world.”
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