National Workholding Symposium & Exhibition
Connect your members with international workholding expertise, practical machining knowledge and new approaches to productivity, automation and manufacturing challenges at Ireland's National Workholding Symposium & Exhibition.
Trade associations, manufacturing networks and industry clusters play an important role in connecting their members with knowledge, expertise and opportunities that support stronger businesses.
NWSE provides a focused technical environment where manufacturers can explore how better workholding can improve productivity, accuracy, flexibility, component access, changeover and automation.
Becoming an NWSE Association & Industry Network Partner gives you a valuable technical opportunity to share with relevant members — supported by international specialists and grounded in real manufacturing applications.
Workholding influences far more than how a component is secured.
It affects set-up time, rigidity, accessibility, repeatability, process stability, unattended production and the range of work that can be produced effectively on a machine tool.
These considerations connect directly with many of the priorities facing manufacturing companies:
NWSE brings these subjects together in one specialist event — giving your members access to knowledge they can apply within their own manufacturing operations
An Association & Industry Network Partnership enables you to introduce selected member companies to NWSE and encourage the people who will benefit most to attend.
That might include business owners, manufacturing leaders, production engineers, applications engineers, process-development teams and others responsible for improving machining performance.
Your organisation creates the connection
NWSE provides the technical environment, international expertise and opportunity for detailed application conversations.
The result is a meaningful member benefit that supports knowledge exchange, innovation and stronger manufacturing capability.
An NWSE partnership is designed to complement the work your organisation already does for its members.
There is no requirement to exhibit and no expectation that your organisation provides workholding advice.
Your role is to identify and introduce members who could benefit from the event.
NWSE brings together the specialist knowledge, technologies and application experience.
This isn't about asking your organisation to become a workholding authorityIt's about giving your members direct access to people who are
For your organisation
Approved Association & Industry Network Partners can nominate representatives from their own organisation to attend NWSE.
Up to 2 Partner Representative Passes
Use them for the people who will benefit most from experiencing the event alongside your members, developing new technical connections and identifying future opportunities for your membership.
For your manufacturing members
Invite selected manufacturing members whose current challenges, future plans or machining applications could benefit from specialist workholding knowledge.
Up to 10 Member Invitation Passes
Use them for the companies and individuals you believe will gain genuine value from attending.
Additional Member Invitation Passes may be requested, subject to overall event capacity.
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 objective: better manufacturing results
This breadth allows members to explore different approaches to real 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.
Where a member has proprietary components, production methods or commercially sensitive applications to discuss, private space will be available for confidential conversations.
We're inviting selected trade associations, manufacturing networks and industry clusters serving the Irish market to become NWSE Association & Industry Network Partners.
We want to work with organisations that understand their members and can help identify manufacturing companies and individuals who would benefit from direct access to specialist workholding knowledge.
Together, we can create valuable technical connections, support knowledge exchange and help manufacturers achieve more from their investment in machining technology.
Give your organisation a valuable technical opportunity to share with its members
Connect member companies with international workholding expertise
And help strengthen manufacturing knowledge across Ireland
DISCUSS BECOMING AN ASSOCIATION & INDUSTRY NETWORK PARTNERNATIONAL WORKHOLDING SYMPOSIUM & EXHIBITION
10 November 2026 · Future Mobility Campus Shannon
EDUCATION | APPLICATION | IMPACT