Articles by The Manufacturer

The Rolls-Royce Trent-xWB engine. Rolls-Royce has recently been embroiled in bribery claim brought by the Serious Fraud Office relating to bribery and corruption involving intermediaries in a number of overseas markets - image courtesy of Rolls-Royce.

Young manufacturer of the year

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People & Skills

Helping manufacturers win the fight for talent

Industrial Data Summit Big Data Digital - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

Digital Transformation

Don’t risk your profitability by ignoring advanced analytics

Core skills in engineering technology are highly likely to serve you well in a workplace where automation and digitisation are playing increasingly important roles.

Creating a modern manufacturing workplace

More than 80% of hard-to-fill positions in the tech industry are difficult to recruit for because of skills shortage - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

People & Skills

Growing young talent in ways that suit them makes excellent business sense

Muzakkir ‘Muz’ Hussain, a press shop production operative Level 2 apprentice, who started his employment with Unipres in September 2017. Shown here with tutor/assessor Steve Simm, a press shop specialist. The equipment they are using is a simulator for a transfer press finger jig. Muz is learning how to set the position of the fingers, an essential skill for processing panels of steel within the various production presses.

People & Skills

Staring at a skills gap? Fill it!

UK skills shortage UK skills shortage

People & Skills

Attracting, retaining & retraining engineering talent

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People & Skills

The importance of getting children aged 4-11 to ‘tinker’

Innovations showcasing Industrial IoT, AI, cobotics, digital twins and mixed reality were on display at Microsoft's booth at the annual Hannover Messe industrial fair.

Digital Transformation

Industrial customers & partners bet on Microsoft, from cloud to edge devices

An apprenticeship is neither cheap labour, nor a stop-gap while you find out what you want to do as a career.

Is the Apprenticeship Levy resulting in a sinking (apprentice)ship?

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Women in manufacturing: Leaders & role models