Wheelabrator’s journey to Columbus
Posted on 25 Apr 2014 by Malcolm Wheatley
Malcolm Wheatley profiles how shot blasting equipment manufacturer Wheelabrator sought out Columbus to cater for its ERP needs.
Features
The coalition of the willing
Posted on 24 Apr 2014 by The Manufacturer
Jane Gray talks to Professor John Perkins about putting his highly acclaimed review of engineering skills in the UK into practice.
Here comes the fizz
Posted on 22 Apr 2014 by The Manufacturer
James Pozzi tours Coca-Cola Enterprises’ Wakefield facility, the largest of its kind in Europe, and strolls through the evidence of heavy UK investment from the global drinks giant.
Marussia looks to gather pace in F1
Posted on 15 Apr 2014 by The Manufacturer
James Pozzi recently toured Marussia F1's Banbury facility, the nerve centre of the team's plans to climb the fiercely competitive grid.
A productive debate
Posted on 5 Apr 2014 by Callum Bentley
A guru to many adherents of lean manufacturing, Peter Drucker once said “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
Employee of the Month: Rob Shaw, Allied Bakeries
Posted on 4 Apr 2014 by The Manufacturer
TM profiles Rob Shaw, plant engineering technician at Allied Bakeries.
WOMANufacturing
Posted on 4 Apr 2014 by Victoria Fitzgerald
Coming off the back of International Women’s Day last month, Victoria Fitzgerald takes a look at some of the young women looking to make waves in the UK manufacturing world.
The small serving big
Posted on 4 Apr 2014 by Callum Bentley
Professor Tim Baines from the Aston Centre for Servitization Research and Practice shows that you don’t have to be the biggest fish in the pond to offer the best service and create new relationships with your customers.
Digby dives in to troubleshoot Hereford cabinet maker
Posted on 3 Apr 2014 by
Its Diggers to the rescue as Lord Jones parachutes in to help troubled Hereford Furniture in the first of a new three part BBC2 series starting April 10.
Entrepreneur George Edwards: Bright young thing
Posted on 3 Apr 2014 by The Manufacturer
George Edwards, 18 years old and a recent sensation in manufacturing and industrial policy circles talks to Jane Gray about his ambitions and how to bridge the skills gaps by increasing empathy with his generation.