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Keynote: Ceramics Industry 4.0 Showcase: New Products & Services from the Midlands

Friday, 24 April 2026

Ceramics manufacturers face growing pressure to improve yield, reduce risk, digitise processes and scale faster. Midlands Advanced Ceramics for Industry 4.0 was designed to meet these challenges head on, focusing on practical, industry ready solutions. This presentation showcases what the programme has delivered: new products, smarter manufacturing processes, and capabilities and skills services to support the Advanced Ceramics Sector. Developed collaboratively across industry and academia, these outputs are available now—giving ceramics businesses faster, lower risk routes from innovation to production, supported by skills, training and a connected Midlands ecosystem.

Discussion Points:
• Demonstrate that Industry 4.0 for ceramics is real, practical, and available now
• Showcase what has been delivered for industry
• Enable industry engagement and action

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