This month in British manufacturing has seen steady progress despite continued political turmoil. We look at some of the key news stories and topics that surrounded industry in April, alongside exclusive factory visits and interviews we reported.
The government is being urged to scrap the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc) and rebrand Design & Technology currently taught in schools as part of a massive effort to boost vocational education take-up and develop more young people with the skills and knowledge required to fill STEM skills gaps.
The NASA InSight lander has detected seismic activity on Mars via its British-built sensors, this could enable scientists to understand the internal structure of the planet in more detail.
The decision of whether to be the first to adopt a new technology is a gamble, one that can reap significant rewards should it pay off. We explore whether manufacturers should embrace potentially game-changing technologies prior to their mainstream adoption.
British manufacturing is a hallmark of quality around the world, but underpinning these high standards is a committed workforce that hail not only from the UK but also from many countries in the EU. Immigration Minister, Caroline Nokes, explains how manufacturers can support their EU employees.
The nation's car industry must become more educated on intellectual property in order to help it succeed in a tough economic climate – or if Britain leaves the EU, according to a recent House of Commons summit.
NASA engineers are using 3D printing techniques to insulate delicate parts of its new deep space rocket that plans to take astronauts to the moon for the first time in almost half a century.
Blockchain has grown rapidly in the last few years, we often hear of it saving companies ‘billions of pounds’, but what does a blockchain rollout look like in manufacturing?
How do you innovate products and processes in a sector that has, at its core, remained unchanged for centuries? One cheesemaker provides the perfect recipe to follow.
The term 'blockchain' is little more than a decade old; related tech businesses are less than half that. Should manufacturers be embracing such a new, unfounded technology?
