Event Details
CPI is partnering with Royal Society of Chemistry and The Society of Chemical Industry to organise a scientific conference on automation for a sustainable future.
We will be bringing together industry and academic researchers, formulators and those interested in using automated experimentation, modelling and simulation to accelerate formulation development.
There will be broad themes covering:
- What is automation? A broad space to explore what automation means in formulation research and development. What is the scope? What are the incentives & challenges?
- Automation for sustainable materials covering energy applications, consumer products and pharma — what are the opportunities and challenges in these key formulation markets?
- Automation in the future — Looking ahead, what are the new and emerging areas of automation for the future? What are the future problems to be solved? A space to give insight into new ideas.
This two day (face-to-face) event will look to:
(i) Showcase CPI automation capabilities, with a focus on formulation;
(ii) show how we can use automation to address sustainability goals across the wide range of market sectors that CPI supports and
(iii) provide networking opportunities.
There will be keynote speakers present on the day, a poster session, a tour of CPI facilities and an evening dinner at Hardwick Hall on day 1.
This event is being sponsored by High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Agenda | |
Day 1 | Tuesday 25th April |
10:15 | Coach travel from Darlington train station to CPI — coach will leave promptly at 10:15am |
11:00 | Arrival, Registration & Refreshments |
11:30 | Welcome, Introduction & Housekeeping |
Session 1 | |
11:40 | INTRODUCTION — Automation at CPI |
Lynn Donlon, CPI | |
12:15 | People, Robots & Automation: Changing the way we discover new materials |
Dr Ben Alston, Gearu/Leverhulme Centre for Materials Discovery | |
12:45 | How automation and screening is allowing us to dial up performance in 3D printing |
Prof. Ricky Wildman, Nottingham University | |
13:15 | Lunch |
Session 2 | |
14:15 | Towards automating the process of disassembly, testing and sorting of EV batteries |
Alireza Rastegarapanah and Josie Gotz, MTC | |
14:45 | Sustainable formulation and battery development using machine learning |
Dr Tom Whitehead, Intelligens | |
15:15 | The opportunities behind identifying and applying automated solutions in industry |
Dr. Richard Fields, Cellerate | |
15:45 | Refreshment break |
16:15 | A people-led approach to automation for a sustainable future |
Julian Philpott, Domino Printing Sciences | |
16:45 | Travel to Hardwick Hall |
17:30 | Drinks & poster session |
18:30 | Three course dinner |
Day 2 | Wednesday 26th April |
08:30 | Coach travel from Hardwick Hall to CPI — coach will leave promptly at 8:30am |
09:00 | Welcome & Intro to Day 2 |
Session 3 | |
09:15 | Sustainable consumer goods and the role of automation |
Mike Groombridge, P&G | |
09:45 | Advancing formulation science in personal care |
Katy Helm, Croda Europe Ltd | |
10:15 | Automated solubility measurements for sustainable agrochemical products |
Ian Tovey, Syngenta | |
10:30 | Refreshment break |
11:00 | Lab tour of CPI facilities |
12:00 | Lunch |
Session 4 | |
13:00 | Innovation 4.0: Insights, funding and support |
Dr Matthew Reeves, Innovate UK KTN | |
13:30 | Automation of digital process and data |
Richie Ramsden, National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD) | |
14:00 | Make Every Run Count: DOE and Machine Learning for the Future of Formulation Experiments |
Phil Kay and Owen J. Jonathan, JMP | |
14:30 | Refreshment break |
15:00 | PLENARY - Technology trends in robotics |
Mike Wilson, High Value Manufacturing Catapult | |
15:30 | Concluding remarks & poster prizes |
15:45 | Close & coach travel to Darlington train station (coach will depart at 16:00) |
