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Accu is the new kind of component company.

By leveraging our industry-leading e-commerce platform, engineers, innovators, trailblazers and those driving change can take advantage of immediate online access to a vast inventory of over 500,000 precision-engineered components. With 85,000 active customers, including more than half of the world’s top manufacturing giants, we’re committed to serving progress. We’ve quickly become the go-to supply chain partner for essential components that drive technological innovations, in sectors ranging from medical to transportation and robotics; impacting billions of people worldwide.

What sets us apart from our competitors? It’s not just our expansive stock, with clear online stock availability, but our dedication to meeting unique, challenging engineering demands. Our custom manufacture service empowers customers with components tailor-made to their specifications, delivered with the same commitment to speed and precision as our standard components. From prototyping to large-scale production, our specialist team works closely with customers to develop bespoke solutions, ensuring that even the most complex components fit seamlessly into your designs.

We blend cutting-edge technology with passionate people to deliver an award-winning experience to customers all over the globe. Our agile approach means we’re ready to adapt to the evolving needs of our customers, offering services like same-day dispatch and fast, accurate delivery across the world, helping to keep pace with the rapid cycle of innovation.

Forget the old way of buying components. Save time, work smarter and start Building Tomorrow – one component at a time.

Bridging the gap between sectors for the entire engineering and manufacturing supply chain

What to Expect at Advanced Engineering 2025

On 29-30 October 2025, the NEC Birmingham will once again be the epicentre of engineering and manufacturing innovation. With unparalleled networking opportunities, immersive displays, and transformative product launches, Advanced Engineering 2025 promises to inspire and empower professionals like never before.

Attendees will experience the latest technologies in person, gaining valuable insights and hands-on interaction. For exhibitors, it is an unmatched opportunity to showcase their innovations, create immediate connections, and drive meaningful engagement.

The event will also feature an exceptional line-up of speakers, with prominent industry and government figures addressing key topics such as policy, sustainability, digitalisation, and Net Zero.

This year’s edition will play a vital role in advancing the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy, by showcasing cutting-edge innovations and fostering collaborations that enhance the nation’s engineering and manufacturing capabilities.

The event brings together the UK’s leading SMEs that drive innovation in the manufacturing and engineering sectors. It aims to support and engage apprentices and the future engineers while amplifying industry efforts to address the skills gap through the #MINDTHEskillsGAP campaign. This aligns with Make UK’s mission to promote sustainable and resilient industrial growth across the country.

At Alight, we’re on a mission to kick carbon off the grid by helping businesses switch to solar. We develop, own and operate onsite solar installations and sell the clean energy to energy-intensive companies at a low, fixed cost backed by a power purchase agreement (PPA).

Our onsite solar solution is the fastest and most cost-effective method to cut business’ energy costs while simultaneously achieving their sustainability goals. As a trusted onsite solar partner, we manage the heavy lifting every step of the way — from setting a multi-site strategy to overseeing optimal design, installation and operation. With our end-to-end solution, businesses can reap the benefits of lower energy bills and reduced emissions from day 1 without investing any of their own capital upfront.

Write high-quality, winning bids & proposals faster than ever. Harness the power of augmented intelligence to write high-quality bids, proposals, and tenders. Use AutogenAI to create exceptional bids in minutes, not days. Respond confidently with enterprise-grade security and privacy that prioritizes the protection of your sensitive information. With 100,000+ hours invested in perfecting the art of competitive proposals, we address the complexities, challenges, and nuances. In addition to customized training, you will also have ongoing access to your Account Manager and dedicated User Coach. Accelerate the capture and proposal process, increase your win rates, and empower your proposal team.

Aston Business School, part of Aston University in Birmingham, is a globally recognised leader in education, research, and industry collaboration. Accredited by AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS, it ranks among the world’s top business schools, renowned for its high-quality teaching and impactful, real-world research.

Aston Business School prioritises collaboration with businesses to tackle industry challenges and drive innovation. It is a sector leader in initiatives such as the Knowledge Transfer Partnership, supporting manufacturing and industrial enterprises in enhancing productivity, leadership, and competitiveness. By applying cutting-edge academic research to real-world challenges, Aston helps businesses advance in key areas such as digital transformation, cybersecurity management, sustainable operations, and business model innovation—critical for the future of UK manufacturing.

With a strong focus on industry engagement and applied research, Aston Business School equips business leaders with the skills and capabilities needed to adapt, innovate, and thrive. By fostering collaboration between academia and industry, it plays a pivotal role in shaping a more resilient, sustainable, and competitive future for UK manufacturing.

Since 1878, City & Guilds has been dedicated to advancing the skills that people, organisations and societies need to thrive, both now and in the future.

As the global skills partner, we empower organisations to grow by creating and delivering comprehensive end-to-end solutions. These include high-quality skills training and credentials designed to meet the evolving needs of industries and workforces. Through our trusted network of colleges and training provider partners, learners across the globe develop skills and competencies that lead to employment and career progression. 

City & Guilds has a long history and heritage within engineering and are proud of our breadth of offer across multiple Engineering sectors. We have excellent industry connections and work with world leading employers such as Honda, Jaguar Land Rover Ltd, the RAF, Royal Navy and MOD.

Find out more about our engineering qualifications and apprenticeships on our website: www.cityandguilds.com/engineering

  • Crowe UK is a leading audit, tax, advisory and risk firm with a national presence to complement our international reach.
  • We care about our clients and our people, building trusted and long-lasting relationships; creating opportunities to help clients to meet their goals and provide a rewarding experience for our people.
  • We provide advice and support to manufacturing and engineering businesses, our team has the expertise and capacity to take on all challenges, national and international. We take pride in building long-term relationships.

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

Whether you’re new to selling internationally or you’ve been doing it for years, DBT provides free support to help businesses understand global opportunities, find potential customers and enter new markets.

Epicor can help you get crystal-clear on where your business is right now and where it needs to go next. Our innovative solutions, powered by cognitive ERP, are designed to help you supercharge efficiency, turn your data into action, and stand out from the competition. Plus, with Epicor, you’ll work with experts in your specific industry or manufacturing mode.

Kinetic is a global cloud ERP solution designed for and with manufacturers, helping them maximize profitability with real-time business intelligence and built-in collaboration tools. Powered by the industry expertise of Epicor, Kinetic has the functionality to run a modern, future-ready business poised to capitalize on data, transform digitally, and innovate without limits.

Specialized for discrete, make-to-order manufacturing Cloud-focused solution with flexibility for on-premises and hybrid deployments End-to-end capabilities and security from a single platform and vendor.

Good Energy helps homes and businesses to become greener and more self-sufficient through renewable energy and green technology.

Founded 25 years ago as one of the first renewable energy companies in the UK, Good Energy is now a solar panel, battery storage, EV charger and heat pump installer too.

The company champions independent renewable generators of all sizes. From managing Feed in Tariff payments for thousands of homes and businesses, to innovative export tariffs for houses with solar panels, to the power purchase agreements they have in place with 2,500 wind, solar, hydro and AD generators across Britain.

As well as being a proud B Corp, Good Energy is recommended by Friends of the Earth, they’re a Which? Eco Provider and they’re one of the few Premium Tesla Powerwall installers.

Good Energy is also rated ‘Excellent’ by its customers on Trustpilot: showcasing their commitment to excellent customer service.

Find out how Good Energy can make your whole business greener at goodenergy.co.uk/business

HETA, a non-profit Group Training Association established in 1967, is a leading provider of engineering apprenticeships as well as both standard and bespoke upskilling training courses, filling the crucial gap between industry and education. Accredited and industry-recognised, our courses, spanning from beginner to advanced levels, are conducted by highly experienced staff. Notably, HETA also offers higher education at level 4 and 5, catering to individuals seeking advanced qualifications.

HETA’s extensive track record spans over 50 years, now serving over 400 companies of all sizes and industries most notably within the manufacturing sector, reflecting our commitment to excellence.

Infor is a global leader in business cloud software products for companies in industry specific markets. Infor builds complete industry suites in the cloud and efficiently deploys technology that puts the user experience first, leverages data science, and integrates easily into existing systems.

Over 65,000 organisations worldwide rely on Infor to help overcome market disruptions and achieve business-wide digital transformation.

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is the UK’s innovation agency. We help companies grow through the development and commercialisation of innovative new products, processes and services. We know how important the manufacturing sector is to the UK and our teams can help your manufacturing business scale up, connect with businesses in a different UK region or exploit international opportunities. The support we offer includes:

Support for scaling – Innovate UK Business Growth is a key part of our system, helping high potential SME innovation-driven companies.

Connecting places – We champion local innovation strengths and clusters critical to UK capability through investment and support in strategic infrastructure. We also connect local to national to deliver economic growth.

International – Creating global opportunities for UK companies is at the heart of initiatives such as Horizon Europe and Global Expert Missions. Talk to our team to see how we can help you find international opportunities and partners that could take your project to the next level.

Accelerating commercialisation – Innovate UK’s Catapult Network supports businesses in transforming great ideas into valuable products and services. A network of nine world-leading technology and innovation centres, including the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, the Catapults drive the commercialisation and adoption of innovation, accelerating business growth and maximising productivity.

Find out about how Innovate UK can support you to adopt innovation and become more sustainable and resilient.

Inspired PLC is a leading B2B technology-based service provider supporting corporate businesses to control energy costs and enable their journey to net-zero.

To enable our clients to respond to the climate emergency, we focus on solving their toughest sustainability challenges. By managing data comprehensively, offering expert insight and providing advisory services to reduce carbon efficiently, we enable our clients to control costs effectively, make authentic environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures and achieve their net zero targets.

Our solutions create clear and actionable long-term plans, making investment easier to obtain and carbon reductions quicker to realise.

We currently serve over 3,800 UK and Irish organisations across the public, private and third sectors and what sets us aside from other energy and sustainability advisory partners is our expertise in data management. Our solutions are evidence-based and enable us to provide our clients with practical steps to make a real difference.

In November 2020, we were delighted to receive the London Stock Exchange Green Economy Mark, recognising the Group’s environmental and strategic advice, service and support to clients and the impact the business has on the green economy.

Inspired Energy is Make UK’s Advantage Partner providing preferential rates and exclusive offers for Make UK Members.

Keepler is a leading AI and Data consultancy that transforms data strategies into tangible outcomes, turning artificial intelligence into a competitive advantage for its clients. It delivers scalable and innovative AI solutions, including Generative AI and intelligent agents, to optimize business processes and enhance decision-making.

Our proprietary methodology, Navigator, helps businesses develop strategic plans aligning IT and business goals, ensuring data readiness for advanced analytics and deployment on intelligent cloud platforms. Focused on mid-to-large companies in sectors like manufacturing, retail, telecom, hospitality, banking, insurance, energy, utilities, and pharmaceuticals, Keepler provides tailored solutions that deliver measurable and sustainable business value.

Make UK HR & Employment Law

At Make UK, we understand the ever-shifting complexity of HR and Employment Law and the pressures this can create for you and your business. With over 60 dedicated HR and Employment Law professionals at Make UK, we bring together the best expertise in HR Consultancy, Employment Law, and Training to support your business.

With a 95 % win-rate at Employment Tribunals, we’re rated as Excellent on Trustpilot and have a 95% retention rate.

Established since 1896, we have consistently supported our members to stay ahead of change. We will keep you informed and support you to make legally compliant and commercially sound decisions with confidence. Delivering the peace of mind, you and your business need.

Make UK Environment, Health & Safety

Designed by manufacturers for manufacturers, Make UK’s Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) team provide expert advice, training, and technology to help businesses reduce cost, mitigate risk, and increase productivity.

By partnering with Make UK you’ll benefit from our close relationships with the HSE, Government, and accreditation bodies, including NEBOSH, IOSH, and IEMA.

We work with a range of manufacturing businesses, from helping with culture change programmes, PUWER, and accreditation to ISO 45001, creating bespoke training, to rolling out company-wide eLearning. Our knowledge and experience will help increase business performance and improve the competency of EHS practitioners.

Make UK Defence is a national not-for-profit, member owned defence trade association, part of Make UK – the manufacturers’ organisation.

We champion and support the UK’s innovative and diverse defence manufacturers and the wider defence supply chain.

Guided by our member Advisory Board, our mission is simple:

  • to have a deep understanding of our members and their challenges, within the context of the domestic and global defence industry
  • to celebrate and amplify the success of the UK defence supply chain, whilst ensuring our members’ challenges and concerns are clearly heard and acted upon in Government and the Defence Primes
  • to help our members grow through networking and business opportunities
  • to help our members improve their business and operational performance through our Fit for Defence Programme

Our 2024 policy goals focus on the following:

• SME spend transparency from prime contractors

• A more accessible defence industry

• 30 day MAX Prompt Payment Code

• UK prosperity + Intellectual Property

With the focus across Government and specifically the MOD on UK Prosperity, including social values and levelling up and a renewed focus on winning overseas defence exports, there has never been a better time to join Make UK Defence and maximise your chances of success.

Together, we are helping to build an innovative, forward looking, internationally competitive UK defence supply chain.

Make Venues is a collection of 3 exclusive UK venues for hire with: award winning customer service, bags of personality, innovation, and inclusivity, all within a sustainable offer.

Our amazing venues in Bristol, London and Leamington Spa are designed to provide the best settings for productive business, have shared values, and are perfect for all you conference, meeting, training, and event requirements.

Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa, Midlands

A residential conference venue and hotel, set in 16 acres of beautiful gardens in the heart of the Midlands. It’s the ultimate venue to balance both work and relaxation.

Broadway House, Westminster, London

This impressive Edwardian building offers five floors of light, contemporary rooms for hire in Westminster. It’s the ideal place for meeting colleagues, clients, or delegates in London.

Engineers’ House, Clifton, Bristol

Engineers’ House is a high quality, high tech, prestigious venue in a prime location. It offers ample free parking, beautiful outside spaces and is open 7 days a week.

For almost 50 years, Manufacturing Management has been the lead source of information for factory managers tasked with improving manufacturing performance, productivity and profit in their sites. In these unprecedented times, having access to the right information at the right time has never been more important. Constantly evolving to meet our readers’ needs and reporting on manufacturing best practice, Manufacturing Management delivers high-quality content and unrivalled access to a difficult-to-reach and influential audience of manufacturing managers and their senior leadership teams.

We believe that every worker has the right to go home safe every day. We also believe that every employer should provide a duty of care in order for this to happen.

At Protex AI, we’re helping enterprise EHS teams to revolutionise how they make proactive safety decisions that help contribute to a safer work environment.

Our AI-powered technology is enabling businesses to gain greater visibility of unsafe behaviours in their facilities. The privacy-preserving platform plugs into existing CCTV infrastructure and uses its computer vision technologies to capture unsafe events autonomously in settings such as warehouses, manufacturing facilities and ports.

RS Group plc is a digitally enabled global distributor of product and service solutions for industrial customers. We help 1.1 million customers across the world satisfy their maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) needs, safely and sustainably. We stock more than 750,000 industrial and associated electronic products, sourced from over 2,500 leading suppliers, enhancing customer experience, driving operational excellence and simplifying the supply chain at every step. 

Operating sustainably through efficient, physical processes and digital infrastructure, the way we support our customers forms part of our ongoing purpose to make amazing happen for a better world. Find more at https://www.rsgroup.com/.

SF Recruitment is a leading UK wide recruitment business with deep expertise in engineering talent search. From aerospace and automotive to R&D, manufacturing, and logistics, our dedicated engineering recruiters match candidates with opportunities tailored to their skills and aspirations. Established in 1998, SF Recruitment operates across the UK from offices in Nottingham, Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester, and London. With over 70 consultants and two decades of experience, we’ve placed more than 50,000 candidates into roles they love. Our commitment to excellence ensures clients and candidates receive a premium service, driven by industry insight and long-standing partnerships.

Engineering Specialism page: https://www.sfrecruitment.com/engineering

Celebrating the best in UK manufacturing and engineering excellence and innovation.

Smart Manufacturing & Engineering Week returns in June 2025 and is designed to help support the sector in all stages of their smart manufacturing and engineering journeys.

Brimming with expert content, valuable peer to peer interaction and the best products and services available, it is the largest UK festival of advanced manufacturing and engineering of the year, showcasing cutting-edge innovations in hardware and software and solutions to the current industry challenges being faced.

Keep your finger on the pulse of developments in the sector, discover what our immersive tech-driven event will hold in 2025.

The show contains 4 dedicated exhibitions:

·   Design & Engineering Expo is for designers and engineering professionals looking to reduce costs, streamline and optimise future strategy

·  Smart Factory Expo showcases the latest digital innovations in manufacturing technology, processes and thinking behind Industry 4.0.

·  Maintec is the UK’s longest standing maintenance engineering, reliability and asset management event focused on the tools, technologies and people that support the industry.

·  Drives & Controls is a pivotal event in the realm of industrial automation, presenting cutting-edge solutions that empower the efficient and secure operation of machinery and processes

Smart Manufacturing & Engineering Week returns on 4-5 June 2025 and is designed to help support the sector in all stages of their smart manufacturing and engineering journeys. Encompassing 6 core events covering the entire engineering ecosystem, plus dinners, receptions and more.

www.smartmanufacturingweek.com

The Leading CRM for Manufacturers 

Manufacturers trust SugarCRM to automate complex workflows, thanks to its scalable, adaptable design that integrates seamlessly with ERP systems. By connecting back-office and finance data with our CRM, businesses can uncover new and existing sales opportunities, maximising revenue potential. With our latest advancements in AI and automation, you can streamline operations, predict trends, and accelerate growth in 2025. 

Flexible Solution 

Tired of complex, costly CRM solutions that don’t fit your business? SugarCRM offers flexibility and customisation that gives your sales team the tools they need, at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Salesforce and HubSpot. 

Key Benefits with SugarCRM  

Designed for Sales Teams 

SugarCRM puts sales teams first, with features that help them do their jobs faster and more effectively. You get built-in intelligence with transparent pricing. 

Industry-Specific Solutions 

SugarCRM enables unique workflows for B2B mid-market companies with repeat customers, with solutions for manufacturing, financial services, and software and IT services. 

Integrations with Legacy Systems 

Unlike a lot of vendors that mainly support modern systems, SugarCRM can also integrate with legacy systems and almost every ERP, removing data siloes. 

 

“SugarCRM’s commitment to providing its customers with flexibility, customisation, and comprehensive functionality has earned it a spot in the Leader’s Quadrant of the CRM Value Matrix.” Nucleus Research 

UK Export Finance (UKEF) is the UK government’s export credit agency. We support UK exporters, international project sponsors and buyers of UK goods and services; in the year 2023-24, we provided £8.8 billion in new, direct support for UK exports and helped build on the UK’s manufacturing capacity, supporting thousands of jobs by working alongside over 100 banks and lenders to provide flexible, innovative and competitive financing solutions. Last year, UKEF facilitated over £227 million of support across 125 manufacturers, of which 92% were SMEs. This included £580 million to facilitate the construction of the world’s largest wind monopile factory near Redcar, in the Tees Valley. This first use of our Invest-to-Export loan guarantee will create 750 jobs in Teesside.

UKEF can support manufacturers large and small all over the country with their exports. Last year, 88% of the companies directly supported with a UKEF product were SMEs, with 80% of those based outside of London.

At VEST, we empower businesses to cut costs, meet carbon goals, and ease grid pressure with tailored battery storage solutions. Since 2020, we’ve led the way in optimizing battery storage sites to maximise ROI while delivering affordable, green energy. With a focus on battery optimisation, our mission is to educate partners and customers on the financial benefits of battery storage, making it accessible for businesses worldwide.

At WTW, we understand the unique challenges and opportunities that manufacturers face. To help your manufacturing business thrive despite current and emerging risks, we offer a broad spectrum of risk and insurance solutions specifically tailored to meet your needs, delivered by our specialist risk team.

Manufacturers who are able to embrace change and manage risk within their operating landscape can position themselves for success. We are your trusted partner in this journey, providing the expertise and tools needed to manage and mitigate manufacturing risks effectively. Our solutions cover a wide range of risk areas, including supply chain disruption, managing risk and insurance costs, climate and environmental risks, and protecting your business from cyber threats.

Our goal is to help you identify and address your unique risks, turning them into actionable opportunities for growth and success. Leverage our local and global network of insurance and manufacturing risk specialists, along with our advanced analytics, to find a smarter way to manage your risks and capitalise on opportunities.