Just 3 weeks to go and the workshop and panel line-up for FoodManufacturing.Live and MachineBuilding.Live is confirmed

SKF opens proceedings on the food and drink side with "How much production are you losing to friction without even knowing it?", presented by John Casey, Regional Sales Manager. It's a session built specifically around food and beverage manufacturing: the complete bearing life cycle, the most common causes of premature failure, and how the right maintenance and lubrication practices reduce contamination risk and unplanned downtime without compromising food safety standards.

Alongside it, 5 further confirmed technical workshops from Pilz Automation Technology, Lenze, B&R Industrial Automation, Beckhoff Automation and SolutionsPT run on the stage, covering everything from the incoming Machinery Regulation and Cyber Resilience Act to smarter motion selection, machine-centric robotics and cabinet-free automation.

New this year, they're joined by the Big Industry Debates: three live, open panel discussions tackling questions the industry keeps asking but rarely resolves in the open:

Making the Case for Robotics brings together Matthew Aldridge (igus UK), Ross Lacy (RARUK Automation) and Paul Rivers (Guidance Automation) to debate why the UK still lags behind on robot adoption, and what's actually stopping the rest of us from catching up.

Alternative Customer Outcome Metrics puts Leighton Chatfield (SICK), Grant Coffin (Rockwell Automation), Marc Vissers (Lenze) and Barry Weller (Wittenstein) in the room to challenge how machine performance actually gets measured.

And Machine-as-a-Service sees Tony Coghlan (Turck Banner), Daniel Johnson (HEIDENHAIN GB) and Andy Parker-Bates (Festo) explore what servitisation looks like in practice, not just in theory.

That's eleven additional experts joining the programme, alongside hands-on IO-Link training from PI UK and TGN Project Services.

With three weeks left and the workshop programme filling up, if you haven't registered yet, now really is the time.

FoodManufacturing.Live and MachineBuilding.Live take place on Wednesday, 14th October 2026, 09:00 - 15:00, at the NAEC, Stoneleigh Park.

Free to attend for machine builders, systems integrators and manufacturing professionals across food, drink and industrial automation.

Register your free visitor pass now