Minister launches regional training centre to help manufacturing sector stay competitive
The Minister for the South East, Jonathan Shaw MP, has opened the Renishaw Centre for Manufacturing Productivity at the University of Greenwich at Medway.
The centre, a partnership between the university and engineering manufacturer Renishaw, will offer courses to businesses and develop teaching and research on manufacturing productivity, as well as giving local firms access to the latest technology.
Jonathon Shaw says: “Partnerships between universities and business are critical to give the manufacturing sector the skills and knowledge to compete in a challenging market.
“The Renishaw Centre is an excellent example of collaboration to meet this challenge. It exemplifies the best of what the talent and facilities in our universities, working in partnership with a world class British company, has to offer the wider community.”
One of the initiatives is a two-day course, developed by Renishaw to help manufacturing companies increase automation and improve quality.
Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich, Professor Tom Barnes says: “The benefits of the Renishaw Centre will be seen across the region through better skills, increased high-technology manufacturing capacity, enhanced productivity and faster innovation, giving more competitive edge.”
Renishaw’s UK General Manager Marc Saunders says: “Renishaw has proven that it is possible to thrive as a UK-based manufacturer through exceptional levels of automation and process control. We have distilled our years of accumulated manufacturing knowledge into training material that will help companies to develop their own robust, automated processes to compete globally.”
Caption: (l to r) Marc Saunders, Renishaw’s UK General Manager, with Jonathon Shaw MP, Minister for the South East and Professor Tom Barnes, Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich.
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Editors’ notes
· High-res pics of Jonathon Shaw MP, Tom Barnes and Marc Saunders at the launch are available from Hester Brown – details below.
· To contact the Renishaw Centre for Manufacturing Productivity, phone Ian Cakebread, Support Services Manager on 01634 883858 or email: renishaw-enquiries@gre.ac.uk
· For more information about services for businesses at the University of Greenwich, please contact Greenwich Research & Enterprise (GRE) on 0208 331 7867 or email: first-stop@gre.ac.uk
· The Renishaw Centre has a wide range of state-of-the-art equipment including various Renishaw machine tool probe systems, Haas VF-2DTR 5 axis machining centre, Haas TM-1 CNC tool room milling m/c, Haas TL-1 CNC tool room lathe,Harrison Alpha CNC tool room lathe, 3D systems wax printer, Stratasys dimension fusion deposition system and CAD-CAM software.
University of Greenwich media contact:
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Renishaw media contact:
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