As the largest annual engineering show in the UK manufacturing calendar, Southern Manufacturing & Electronics will return to the Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre in Hampshire from 7th to 9th February. The event is a showcase for industry and engineering from across the UK, Ireland, continental Europe, the Americas and Asia, attracting thousands of visitors.
With more than 600 companies in attendance from the production, mechanical, electrical and electronics engineering sectors, there will be plenty to see for everyone involved in the manufacturing arena. This will include suppliers of machine tools and tooling, workholding systems, metrology equipment for both tactile and non-contact measurement and inspection, test and inspection systems, finishing machines, laser cutting and marking equipment, additive manufacturing machines and consumables, industrial hardware, production and planning aids, and engineering and business software on show. Also exhibiting will be mechanical, electromechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical and electronic components and assemblies alongside sensors, drives, rotary encoders and linear scales. Prevalent will also be Industry 4.0 solutions, controls, displays, HMIs, data acquisition systems, augmented and virtual reality, robot and cobot machine tending, subcontract services and automation solutions.
AutoAero will co-locate with Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2023 and there will be a specialist theme within the exhibition devoted to aerospace and automotive engineering. A technical seminar programme will run every day to give visitors and exhibitors alike valuable learning opportunities. Attendance by suppliers of machine tools and accessories will be especially strong this year. Ajax Machine Tools will show its CNC Atom lathes with Fagor and Siemens control options and Proton milling machines in 3, 4, and 5-axis versions with Siemens controls. Tube and pipe bending machines will be on the AMOB stand. Laser cutting, profiling and marking equipment company Boxford will display an integrated, floor-standing, CO2 laser capable of cutting and engraving materials from Perspex to wood. It will also exhibit a bench-top fibre laser capable of marking and engraving almost any metal.
Bruderer UK will promote its high-speed, spotting and try-out presses, coil and wire handling equipment, servo feeds, gas springs, roller and spray lubrication systems and tooling. Laser cutting capability integrated into a sliding-head lathe will be the highlight of the Citizen Machinery stand. Haas Automation will underscore its position as one of the world’s largest machine tool manufacturers at the show.
Chinese manufacturer Jinan Bodor CNC Machine Co will emphasise that its 30,000m2 super factory in Jinan is the world’s largest producing fibre laser cutting machines. It employs 2,100 staff including some 350 in R&D. Okuma and Makino agent NCMT will present a machining centre, turning centre and EDM platforms for extremely high accuracy part production, from stand-alone machines to complete production lines involving a high degree of automation. It will exhibit an Okuma M460V-5AX 5-axis VMC. Finally, YMT Technologies will promote its extensive range of machining centres, turning centres and integrated automation as well as Tuscan toolholders, machine vices, rotary tables and heat shrink machines.
Visitors will also be able to see workholding and automation solutions from 1st Machine Tool Accessories, Lang Technik and Thame, rotary tables from Lehmann, Roehm chucks, cutting tools from Guhring and ITC, Mate CNC punch press and press brake tooling and laser consumables, Oemeta coolants, cutting fluids, lubricants, greases and oils, Heidenhain controls, encoders, DROs, touch probes and length gauges, Servo Components & Systems’ linear electric actuators and motors, servo drives, brushless motors and gearheads, plus a vast array of washing, surface finishing and additive manufacturing machinery.
