National Workholding Symposium & Exhibition
Give educators, instructors, apprentices and selected engineering students direct access to international workholding expertise, practical applications and the technologies shaping modern manufacturing.
Machining education naturally covers machine tools, cutting tools, programming, materials and process planning.
How the component is held is equally important to whether a machining process performs successfully.
Workholding influences set-up time, rigidity, component access, repeatability, accuracy, process stability, automation and the range of work that can be produced effectively on a machine.
NWSE gives educators and selected learners an opportunity to explore this essential part of the manufacturing process through specialist knowledge, practical applications and direct industry contact.
Modern workholding provides valuable connections between engineering principles and real manufacturing outcomes.
Component geometry, cutting forces, accessibility, datum control, deformation, changeover and process repeatability all influence how a workpiece should be held.
Bringing educators and selected learners to NWSE provides access to technologies and application experience that can strengthen understanding across subjects including:
This is practical knowledge that educators can take back into their teaching and learners can connect with their developing engineering skills
For an apprentice or engineering student, seeing how experienced specialists approach real manufacturing challenges can add valuable context to formal learning.
NWSE brings together different workholding technologies, practical application knowledge and people who solve component-clamping problems every day.
Selected learners can ask questions, explore alternative approaches and better understand how decisions made before machining begins can influence the quality and productivity of the entire process.
The objective is not simply to show products
It is to help learners understand the thinking behind better manufacturing solutions
Lecturers, instructors, workshop technicians and programme leaders help learners connect engineering theory with industrial practice.
NWSE gives education professionals direct access to international workholding specialists and current application knowledge across a broad range of machining processes.
That knowledge can support future teaching, workshop discussions, project development and conversations with industry partners.
You remain in control of how the knowledge is interpreted and applied within your learning environment
For your teaching and training team
Approved Education & Learning Partners can nominate lecturers, instructors, workshop technicians or programme leaders to attend NWSE.
Up to 2 Educator Passes
Use them for the people who will benefit most from direct access to specialist workholding knowledge and current manufacturing applications.
For selected apprentices or engineering students
Invite carefully selected learners who are sufficiently advanced in their training to benefit from a specialist industrial event.
Up to 2 Learner Passes
Use them for individuals with a genuine interest in machining, manufacturing engineering and the practical application of workholding technology.
Partner allocations are available until 31 October 2026, subject to overall event capacity
NWSE brings together specialist technologies covering a broad range of workholding challenges and machining applications.
Together they bring expertise spanning adhesive workholding, conventional and specialist clamping, rotary positioning, high-performance vices, centres and drivers, vacuum workholding, magnetic workholding and zero-point systems.
Different technologiesDifferent applicationsOne learning opportunity: a broader understanding of workholding
This breadth allows educators and learners to explore different approaches to manufacturing challenges rather than viewing workholding through the lens of a single technology.
NWSE is intentionally focused.
Attendance is limited, creating an environment where meaningful technical conversations can take place.
The programme combines specialist presentations, workholding technology sessions, application cases, demonstrations, an expert panel, questions and networking.
It is a professional industry event designed to encourage focused learning, informed questions and valuable interaction with manufacturing specialists.
We're inviting selected universities, technological universities, further-education and training providers, apprenticeship programmes and relevant engineering-learning organisations to become NWSE Education & Learning Partners.
There is no requirement to exhibit and no expectation that your organisation provides specialist workholding instruction.
We want educators involved in the conversation — and, if desired, we want you to carefully select a number of learners to experience the technologies, applications and expertise available at NWSE.
Together, we can connect engineering education with current manufacturing practice and help develop a deeper understanding of the complete machining process.
Give educators access to specialist workholding knowledge
Give selected learners an opportunity to connect learning with industrial practice
And help strengthen the relationship between engineering education and modern manufacturing
DISCUSS BECOMING AN EDUCATION & LEARNING PARTNERNATIONAL WORKHOLDING SYMPOSIUM & EXHIBITION
10 November 2026 · Future Mobility Campus Shannon
EDUCATION | APPLICATION | IMPACT