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Leadership & Strategy

Winning: UK manufacturers thriving in a time of crisis

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Leadership & Strategy

Coronavirus: Apprenticeships near collapse

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Leadership & Strategy

LIVE UPDATES: Coronavirus information for UK manufacturers

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Leadership & Strategy

Call to make ventilators: manufacturers put on war footing to help combat Coronavirus pandemic

Top Stories

Design Thinking: Sparking an electric MINI revolution!

Annual Manufacturing Report 2020 – What are manufacturers saying about their future?

Space hub in Scottish Highlands is ‘first of its kind’ in Europe

Events

The future of manufacturing is digital, but how should manufacturers harness the power of Big data in their operations? Industrial Data Summit brings together Data Scientists, Enterprise Architects, CIOs, and other data-minded manufacturers to answer this key question underpinning ‘Indu…

Industrial Data Summit UK 2020 (Online)

manufacturing innovation

Manufacturing Innovation Summit brings together manufacturing leaders for a day of keynotes and interactive hosted discussions that give you guidance on putting in place the people, process and technology building blocks to enable transformational innovation within your enterprise and acr…

Manufacturing Innovation Summit UK 2020 (Online)

Can you decouple growth from resource use? What impact can industrial design have on waste? How can you profit from the circular economy? The war on plastic, rising energy costs, the need to streamline processes – manufacturers are grappling profound, disruptive change. Sustainable Manufactur…

Sustainable Manufacturing Summit UK 2020 (Online)

The people and companies shaping manufacturing in Europe will be there. Smart Factory Expo is organised by The Manufacturer magazine – setting the agenda for British industry for more than 20 years. With 158k readers in print and online, we draw on their insights to crea…

Smart Factory Expo 2020

Digital Transformation

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Digital Transformation

What is the future for Industry 4.0 in the post Covid-19 paradigm?

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Digital Transformation

Is Frankenstein’s monster disrupting your Production Planning?

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Digital Transformation

How HP 3D printing is helping to combat Coronavirus

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Digital Transformation

The key to lean manufacturing in the digital age

Industrial Data

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Industrial Data

Harnessing data: Closing the shop-floor to top-floor gap

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Industrial Data

Four challenges for implementing data strategy in manufacturing

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Industrial Data

Coronavirus: Lessons learnt from a multinational operating in China

Industrial Data

E-book: How Industrial Data is Transforming Manufacturing

Leadership & Strategy

Leadership & Strategy

The Manufacturer Podcast: Rising to the challenge

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Leadership & Strategy

Winning: UK manufacturers thriving in a time of crisis

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Leadership & Strategy

Tesla to halt operations at two US factories due to Coronavirus

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Leadership & Strategy

Call to make ventilators: manufacturers put on war footing to help combat Coronavirus pandemic

Robotics & Automation

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Robotics & Automation

Can the thriving robotics industry ride out the Coronavirus storm?

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Robotics & Automation

Prepare for lift-off: Four ways drones are transforming manufacturing

Drones

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Robotics & Automation

Overcoming the common challenges when implementing industrial automation

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Robotics & Automation

Reconditioned robots could offer value and opportunities

Innovation

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Innovation

UK manufacturers respond to crisis ventilator call

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Innovation

New-found method could simplify aerospace-grade composite manufacturing

Design

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Innovation

Honda and Isuzu to test fuel cell-powered heavy-duty trucks

Innovation

Meet The Manufacturer Top 100 2019 Exemplars – 2: Michael Higgins

Smart Factory

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Smart Factory

Want to be at the forefront of supply chain collaboration? Then now’s the time to embrace blockchain

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Smart Factory

Design Thinking: Sparking an electric MINI revolution!

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Smart Factory

Remanufacturing: Is this the key to the circular economy?

Smart Factory

Coronavirus: Hannover Messe postponed