Events

AMHSA provides a wide range of training and workshop sessions covering a range of topics including:

  • Technical training (e.g. Carbon Footprint Workshop, Training Workshop, Fire Protection Workshop)
  • Legal e.g., MF/1 training
  • Sales e.g. Exhibition staff training, Twitter for Business Training

AMHSA’s training sessions are generally open to both members and non-members with reduced rates for AMHSA members. Some of our training courses carry CPD accreditation and will earn training credits / hours. Please check each individual course on our website as they are published.

AMHSA events are generally booked online through the AMHSA Event Booking site.

Please note that events are subject to change at short notice. We reserve the right to refuse admission to applicants where there may be conflicts of interest between hosts and delegate member companies. No correspondence will be entered into in relation to these decisions.

Upcoming Events

AMHSA Mezzanine Masterclass Training in association with MiTek Industries – Tuesday 24th April 2024

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 10am – 3:30pm
The MiTek Innovation and Training Hub, Unit 13, Nepicar Park, London Road, Wrotham, TN15 7AF

Discover the key criteria for a successful mezzanine installation in AMHSA’s Mezzanine Masterclass, presented in association with MiTek

What is a mezzanine? The word mezzanine originates from the Italian language – “mezzano” or “mezza” which means middle or half respectively. Commonly, many definitions suggest “a mezzanine floor is an intermediate level or additional floor between the floor and ceiling of any story in an existing building or structure”, usually erected in accordance with appropriate international building codes or UK building acts and regulations.

Mezzanine floors may appear to be relatively simple constructions, yet their design and build is an increasingly complex and demanding business. In particular, automation and robotic technologies, in both distribution and production environments, bring special demands for mezzanine structures.

As part of AMHSA’s training development and introduction of our Masterclass Training Events, in this session we examine more closely the requirements for these specialised structures designed to enhance and expand existing automated systems and deliver cost effective expansion without the need for expensive or difficult business relocation or building development plans or the construction of new buildings and premises.

As well as hearing insights from MiTek’s technical and design teams, delegates will have the opportunity to experience mezzanine systems and ancillary products at first hand in MiTek’s Innovation and Training Hub.

This masterclass will help you to understand:

  • The benefits of a mezzanine solution
  • How to identify the requirements of your mezzanine structure
  • Other considerations including ground slab, load capacity and deflection
  • When to choose a hybrid mezzanine and when to opt for a cold-formed design
  • How early involvement with a mezzanine supplier can benefit your project

You should attend this training session if you are tasked with the responsibility of considering business expansion, but especially if you are in a Business Development Manager, Solutions Designer, Senior Business Decision Making Unit, Project Management role or are considering purchasing automated material handling systems for your facility or business.

Tickets and registration is available by using the link the below. We look forward to receiving you at MiTek’s Innovation and Training Hub. Please note that tickets are limited for this event and there are only 16 places available. There is a limit of two tickets per company.

Please note that we are unable to accept registrations from employees of other mezzanine structure supplier companies. AMHSA and MiTek reserve the right to refuse admission to the event. No correspondence will be entered into in relation to decisions made by the organisers or hosts of this event.

TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT WILL BE AVAILABLE ON EVENTBRITE ON THURSDAY 14th MARCH FROM 08:00 HOURS

AMHSA Mezzanine Masterclass in association with MiTek Industries Tickets, Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 10:00 | Eventbrite

AMHSA MEMBERS SOCIAL EVENT – Tuesday 16th April 2024

Come along to the AMHSA AGM & Members’ Meeting Social Event and enjoy the opportunities that this networking event has to offer AMHSA members. Meeting at The Waterfront Restaurant, Union Wharf, Market Harbroough, LE16 7UW from 18:30 for pre-dinner drinks and a chance to catch up with old faces and some not so old and also new acquaintances before we sit down for dinner.
An activity organised by the Secretariat Team will offer the usual hilarity and enjoyable fun, designed to entertain and offer talking points, and there may also be a prize for the individual demonstrating the ability and skill to rise to the top of the class.
The evening concludes with a short prize giving before leaving the restaurant and returning, via a short stroll, into the town centre and its nightlife or your hotels.

Please note that guests will pay for their own meals and drinks – entertainment is included but we shall not be liable for any disappointment. This event is open to AMHSA Members only. Guests by approval only. Please discuss with the AMHSA Secretariat Team if you wish to bring any guests.
Please register for the event indicating all of your details as requested and be sure to notify the organisers of any special dietary needs that you have.
We look forward to welcoming you to Market Harborough and in particular this historical landmark set in the Grand Union Canal’s Market Harborough Branch Canal Basin.

Future Events

AMHSA AGM & MEMBERS MEETING – Wednesday 17th April 2024

KEEP THE DATE – Meeting t be hosted at the Harborough Innovation Centre.

Details to be posted here week commencing 18th March 2024.

AMHSA Site Visit Patterson & Rothwell – Wednesday 1st May 2024

Newest member Patterson & Rothwell shall be opening their doors to AMHSA members on 1st May 2024 allowing us a peek into the world of plastic injection moulding.

A tour of their site and an explanation of how they design, tooling production, aspirations and manufacturing processes will be on offer.

More details will appear here soon. KEEP THE DATE!!

Previous Events

13th March 2024  – Model Form of Contract MF/1 Training Day

AMHSA were delighted to once again be able to offer a Legal Training – Model Form of Contract MF/1 event with a full update in relation to Revision 7 on Wednesday 13th March 2024.

Tony Ventrella, Principal Adviser at Ventrella Associates, who has an LL.B (Hons) in Law and MA in Business Law was on hand to guide delegates through the principals and practices of contract design applicable to contracts relevant to the Automated Material Handling Systems sector. Particular emphasis was placed on how the model contract is used for the logistics automation industry.

Tony is a key member of the MF/1 Model Contract Drafting Committee and is an expert in both the legal and practical application of this contract in our industry. He is also able to support the application of the MF/1 contracts internationally.

The training course was delivered to a very senior level of delegates from around the AMHSA member companies and suitably tailored to all those responsible for the negotiation and execution of commercial supply and installation contracts in the materials handling industry.

The course was delivered to a small group allowing focus and concentration for each individual and their training expectations. The training provided excellent learning for for both Commercial teams and also provided superb overviews of MF/1 for Sales, Projects and Engineering teams involved in commercial discussions with customers and suppliers.

Tony shared his commercial and legal expertise in relation to automated handling projects using MF/1 and other forms of contract demonstrating his knowledge and being able to quote statue, case and legal studies. The course introduced updated considerations of some typical amendments commonly made by customers.

Thursday 7th March 2024

Model Form Of Contract MF/1 – Revision 7 Update

In January (2024), The Institution of Engineering and Technology updated the Model Form of Contract, commonly known as MF/1. This trusted document has been perfect for projects for the design, supply and installation of electrical, electronic and mechanical plant and is recognised throughout the Automated Material Handling industry.

Tony Ventrella recently provided clarity and helped attendees understand the specific details of the recent amendments made as part of Revision 7.

This online session for AMHSA Members was provided free of charge. Members who attended this session, were given the latest information about the material, practical and technical changes and the updates to the language used in the form. Attendees were given succinct online description within two hours. Attendees responded favourably to the session.

Wednesday 24th January 2024

Digital Marketing Strategies – It’s not about budget, it’s about relevance.

This was our first event of 2024

Digital Marketing has been around for some time and whilst most medium to large scale businesses are able to employ large scale Social Media Campaigns to promote their businesses, it might be the envy of many smaller companies with limited resources and budgets to be able to replicate the sizable efforts made by larger competitors, their use and cost does not have to hamper aspiration.
AMHSA member Interroll, provided a 90 minute online session to help AMHSA members identify marketing, traditional and digital, strategies including social media platforms, including “X” and LinkedIn, that could be used to great effect boosting awareness and giving businesses a wider exposure to audiences using techniques to help the development of strategies for success.
The session was broken into two 30 minute sessions with question and answers sessions and a generous break in between. Irina Schatorjé, Marketing Director – Interroll and her colleague Christopher Grassow – Marketing Manager EMEA shared their experiences, tips, advice and the do’s and dont’s of digital marketing and social media campaigns. They explained their own use of traditional and digital approaches to develop strategies that had worked for Interroll, and wow they were very financially varied but very successful.

8th November – AMHSA Autumn Conference 2023

The AMHSA Autumn Conference Meeting was held at the Harborough Innovation Centre on Wednesday 8th November 2023.

AMHSA members attended this meeting and heard the latest updates about the direction of the association and membership structure as well as the programme of events for the coming year. Information about continuing representations and efforts made by the secretariat team with the DBT and the successes made agreeing, on behalf of our industry, reciprocal arrangements in order to maintain operational relations with the EU were also featured.

Other speakers included exhibition organisers, IMHX and IWLEX, and we also heard from Rueben Scriven, Interact Analysis, about the current market trends and forecasts and successes.

We would like to thanks everybody for their continued support again this year and hope to develop this event for 2024 with new features and opportunities. Watch this space!!

 

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