Who Visits?
Core Visitor numbers
Purchasing and supply chain professionals, production managers and design teams from blue-chip OEM’s and major industrial groups converge on Subcon in order to investigate new manufacturing techniques and subcontracting solutions, keep up to date with technology and find new suppliers.
Visitor Quality
| Ultimate Decision Maker |
50% |
| Influencer |
36% |
| Outsourcing more than £5million |
9% |
| Outsourcing more than £3million |
14% |
| Outsourcing more than £1million |
26% |
| Outsourcing £100K to £1million |
30% |
75% of visitors rated Subcon good or excellent in terms of meeting their objectives in attending
64% of respondents said they would be following up with suppliers they met at Subcon 2011.
63% said they expect the volume of work they subcontract will increase in the next 12 months (29% said they expected volumes to stay the same)
Job Titles
Reasons given for attending
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What sectors did Subcon 2010 visitors come from?
| Aerospace |
23.2%
|
Agriculture
|
4.8%
|
Automotive
|
24.4%
|
Civil engineering
|
3.4%
|
Computers & software
|
3.0%
|
Defence
|
13.7%
|
Electronics /electrical
|
13.5%
|
| F1/motor sport |
5.5%
|
Food & beverage
|
3.7%
|
Instrumentation
|
3.5%
|
Logistics
|
1.7%
|
Machinery & equipment
|
19.8%
|
Marine
|
6.2%
|
Mechanical engineering
|
29.6%
|
Medical
|
6.9%
|
Office equipment
|
1.4%
|
Mould & die manufacture
|
4.9%
|
Optics/photonics
|
1.2%
|
Petrochemical/ oil & gas
|
9.5%
|
Power/energy/utilities
|
7.0%
|
Process/production equipment
|
6.8%
|
Rail
|
5.3%
|
Telecoms
|
1.9%
|
Textile
|
1.1%
|
Transportation
|
2.9%
|
Other
|
12.9%
|
What are they sourcing?
|
Boring
|
10/8%
|
|
Casting/Forging
|
26.3%
|
|
Consultancy Services
|
12.3%
|
|
Cutting Services
|
15.5%
|
|
Deep Hole Drilling
|
7.7%
|
|
Design Services/ Development/ Prototyping
|
17.3%
|
|
Electrical/Electronic
|
17.0%
|
|
Environmental Services
|
6.2%
|
|
Fabrication & Sheetmetal Work
|
34.6%
|
|
Fasteners
|
26.8%
|
|
Finishing/Heat Treatment/Deburring
|
22.2%
|
|
Fluid Power (Hydraulics & Pneumatics
|
8.2%
|
|
Gears
|
11.7%
|
|
Grinding
|
15.5%
|
|
Turning/Milling/Machining
|
40.8%
|
|
Maintenance
|
12.7%
|
|
Materials
|
36.0%
|
|
Measurement & Calibration Technology
|
14.5%
|
|
Mechanical Components
|
24.4%
|
|
Metal Forming/ Presswork
|
24.6%
|
|
Metal Joining
|
15.9%
|
|
Plastic & Rubber
|
20.2%
|
|
Process Equipment
|
12.3%
|
|
Production Equipment/Technology
|
20.2%
|
|
Software Solutions
|
16.3%
|
|
Springs
|
17.2%
|
|
Surface Engineering
|
14.1%
|
|
Testing & Certification
|
18.0%
|
|
Tooling
|
27.0%
|
|
Tube Services
|
9.5%
|
| Other |
6.3%
|