Editorial Guide

Approaching its 10th year, The Manufacturer is an essential tool that influences senior management in UK manufacturing.

The Manufacturer is a magazine for manufacturers about manufacturers. Its role is to stimulate and inform, and it provides readers with the knowledge and practical help they need to succeed.

These days, the people who run manufacturing businesses are busy, with little time for wide-scale reading. They need high quality, reliable and independent information and they need it delivered consistently and in a format that's vibrant, exciting, and quick to read. That's what the Manufacturer does. We make sure we are at the leading edge of manufacturing, staying in touch with manufacturers; innovating and driving change, not just reporting on what's happening.

The magazine contains a full front section of news and lively comment from our award-winning journalists which bring the month in manufacturing into sharp focus and there are topical interviews with manufacturing's leading figures. This is followed by practical advice and expert comment. We report in depth on all the main issues manufacturers face, within the framework of seven pillars of manufacturing wisdom. We talk to manufacturers about their pressing issues, speak to informed experts in the field, and showcase best practice in operation. Finally, our manufacturing in action section brings together the best manufacturing stories - how real manufacturers are succeeding in their businesses through the implementation of improved systems and processes, and forward thinking strategies against tough competition and in a difficult economic environment.

Gay Sutton - Editor

Editorial Coverage

Leadership and strategy From the fundamental requirement of government to provide macroeconomic stability to manufacturing industry's readiness and ability to exploit it.	World class manufacturing The processes and techniques that transport manufacturing to the very highest levels of efficiency and excellence.
Skills and Productivity From recruitment, retention, training and personnel management systems to changing the way manufacturing and factories are perceived and the management of change itself.	Logistics & supply chain The all-pervasive nature of logistics and supply chain management in the manufacturing firmament rightly dictates that the subject is always on the executive agenda.
Design and innovation In the past and for the future, research & development, design and innovation - the 'front end' of the process of making things - are the activities that best mark out Britain's place in world manufacturing.	IT in manufacturing The facilities and services that are needed across an entire enterprise - dominated in the modern manufacturing world by information management and the technology to drive it.
Operations and Maintenance Manufacturing operations - what happens on the shop floor and the machines that make it happen.	Energy Business Manufacturing operations - what happens on the shop floor and the machines that make it happen.

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