Premier Automotive Group Named Partner In New Research And Development Facility At Warwick University
Published: 6th April 2003
This collaboration between the Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University and the Premier Automotive Group, focused around Land Rover and its West Midlands supply base, has developed and put forward proposals for the establishment of a centre of excellence to the region’s development agency, Advantage West Midlands. Today, Advantage West Midlands announced its backing of the proposals and committed development and financial support to the centre over the next four years.
Based in an existing University campus facility that is to be completely refurbished, the Warwick Manufacturing Group will provide a centre of excellence for training, research, development and supply chain development for the UK’s premium automotive vehicle sector. To achieve this, project-specific learning and technology transfer programmes will be developed and made available to the industry’s leading engineers, keeping the premium automotive sector supply chain abreast of the latest manufacturing techniques and best practice implementation.
Chairman and Chief Executive of Jaguar and Land Rover, Bob
Dover, said: "Warwick Manufacturing Group is one
of the invaluable partners delivering not just a centre of
excellence for technology transfer, but also the right people
– a stream of first rate, outstanding engineers whose
skills help keep the industry at the forefront of technology."
