Southern Manufacturing &
Electronics 2016
Southern Manufacturing and Electronics returns to FIVE, Farnborough, from February 9th to 11th 2016. Among the UK’s most
successful and enduring engineering shows - it’s been running for nearly twenty years - Southern Manufacturing 2016 continues
to draw in a huge number of exhibitors from the UK and an increasing number from abroad.
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increasing multi-discipline responsibilities
Visitors will once again have the
and Electronics is without
can address several issues in one visit.
opportunity to hook-up with a
question the top industrial
Around every corner there is something
tremendous variety of manufacturers,
show in the South, and it is
new for visitors. The surprise discovery of
vendors and services providers, from major
increasingly attracting the eye of European
new solutions, applications or processes
machinery suppliers to all forms of OEM
firms looking to meet up with the UK's
that were not our visitor’s original intended
parts, components, production hardware,
manufacturing sector. At around 18,000
reason for visiting form the cornerstone of
consumables and engineering services.
square metres, and showcasing more than
what makes the show so appealing.”
There are simply too many solutions and
800 exhibitors, Southern 2016 is a major
tradeshow by any standard, providing
the earliest, and for many visitors the
most effective, annual opportunity to
see the hottest products and innovations
in processing, engineering and
manufacturing.
And appeal it does; to an ever-increasing
number of visitors. Southern 2015
introduced an innovative new threeday format, which proved very popular,
boosting visitor numbers significantly
towards the magic 10,000 landmark. The
three-day format is retained for 2016, and
companies on show to name individually
– but thankfully the show’s website at
www.industrysouth.co.uk has a full listing,
searchable by name and product or service
to help plan a visit. Pre-registered visitors
also get a comprehensive Show Guide to
help them find their way around the show.
The exceptional variety of suppliers that
this extended occupancy not only makes
But to whet the appetite, here are just a
this generates makes the event a very
it easier to plan a visit to the show, but also
few examples of what awaits at Southern
worthwhile and often fascinating day-out
helps make the event far more attractive
Manufacturing 2016: From the automation
for anyone involved in engineering and
to exhibitors from a wider geographic
and motion control sector, we have
design, as Show Director Phil Valentine
area, including continental Europe. For
Fanuc, HepcoMotion, RNA Automation
explains:
visitors, this offers a outstanding chance to
and others. Drives and motor suppliers
meet more companies and discover more
include Italy’s Delta Line. Sensor suppliers
products they wouldn’t normally expect to
include Bernstein, Manutech Europe,
see at a domestic event.
Variohm Eurosensor alongside a great
“What we have tried to do with both
Southern and Northern Manufacturing
is to create an event that offers as wide
a range of products and services as
possible. Consequently visitors from all
manufacturing departments with ever
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deal of component suppliers including big
names such as RS Components, Gateway
Electronic Components, Easby Electronics
and Finder.