EMEX seminars

Seminars

Seminar session | TUES 27TH MAY 10.00AM

3D Printers: The MUST HAVE tool for innovation in modern manufacturing.

While 3D Printers were once considered simply a tool for improved product design, Dermid McKinley explains how they are being used across entire organizations to achieve not only better designed product and increased innovation, but increased sales, innovative marketing approaches, streamlined manufacturing, and reduced costs. 3D Printers are a tool every company involved in manufacturing must have to move forward in the 21st Century. Speaker Dermid McKinley has been involved in the manufacturing industry in NZ and Australia for over 20 years. Since 2009 Dermid has lead the introduction of 3D Printing and additive manufacturing into the manufacturing sector across New Zealand & Australia. Dermid views the use of 3D Printers as critical to companies keeping ahead of the curve, right across their organisation, from initial product design, through to the end manufacturing process. Dermid McKinley, Director | Tasman Machinery New Zealand & Australia.

Seminar session | TUES 27TH MAY 11.00AM

Skill Development to Lift Manufacturing.

Bill Newson is the national secretary of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, which represents over 30,000 workers in industries across New Zealand. Speaker

Bill Newson, National Secretary | EPMU

Bill Newson will speak on building a high value, manufacturing economy through the development of workplace skills. Our union, the EPMU has a vision for a New Zealand where all workers and their families are empowered to participate in industry and society through a high skilled, high value manufacturing economy.

Seminar session | TUES 27TH MAY 12.00PM What are the regulatory requirements for export to Europe? What is the CE marking regime, and how do you go about complying with it?

Speaker Matt Bishop, Canterbury Branch Vice Chair | IPENZ

Matt began his career working in Dunedin for the Transport Industry, a great place to learn the importance of practical solutions. Matt left NZ in his mid twenties for the ubiquitous kiwi O.E., and subsequently worked in an R&D department in Ireland and a whiteware manufacturer in China. Returning to Christchurch in 2009, Matt founded an engineering consultancy just in time for the 2010/2011 earthquakes, and is currently heading a team of engineers, focused on Plant, Equipment and Machinery and Industrial Safety.

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