An AET Seminar will be held online at 14:00-15:00 (Irish time) on September 24th 2020. Barry Kennedy is invited to deliver a talk "Transformation to Sustainable Manufacturing - a Global Imperative". Please make registration from the link below.
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Abstract: As a global community of manufacturers and with the growing climate crisis and COVID-19 Pandemic, there was never more a need for global manufacturers to rethink manufacturing, the supply chain, ensuring the products we make will, last, be re used and if not, will be easily recycled. The energy required to manufacture and the Carbon footprint to manufacture needs to be significantly reduced. This means relooking at business models, supply chain and how and where we manufacture. If these transformations are to happen it will need a very strong partnership between manufacturers, their supply chains and the academic research community to drive this research, development and innovation.

Biography: Barry has over 35 years of industrial and research experience. He is currently CEO of Irish Manufacturing Research, Irelands leading edge industrially focused research centre for advanced manufacturing, a post he has held for the last 6 years. Prior to this, over a 19 year tenure, he held many positions including Engineering Director roles with Intel in New Business & Strategic Programs and Manufacturing Quality covering areas of Failure Analysis, Process Integration, Device, Process Control and Statistics, Yield Analysis, Quality and Reliability, Yield Q&R. His early career was with the University of Dublin where he worked for 10 years. He holds an MSc from the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin.

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