Advanced Engineering, the United Kingdom's largest annual gathering for the advanced manufacturing and engineering supply chain, returns to the NEC Birmingham on the fourth and fifth of November this year, occupying Halls 3 and 3a.
The show is run by Easyfairs Group and brings together design, production and supply chain buyers from aerospace, automotive, motorsport, medical devices, composites and connected manufacturing. It is structured as a free to attend exhibition with a parallel conference programme, and it functions in practice as the principal domestic meeting point for engineering procurement in Britain, drawing both prime contractors and the smaller specialist suppliers that sit beneath them.
For executives, the value of the event is less the exhibition floor than the concentration of counterparties. Advanced Engineering co-locates several sector forums, so a company supplying composites into aerospace and medical devices can cover both customer bases in two days without travelling to separate trade shows. That matters more than usual at present, with British manufacturers managing the cost of energy, a tight engineering labour market and the continuing rework of supply chains that followed departure from the European Union.
The NEC is adjacent to Birmingham International station and Birmingham Airport, which makes it one of the more accessible major venues in the country for visitors arriving from outside the Midlands.
