UK manufacturing is in a good place. Out of every pound the UK spends on business R&D, manufacturers spend 69 pence. Around one seventh of UK investment goes into the sector.
In addition, with 2.7 million employees, more people work in manufacturing than in local government.
The UK is the worldâ…
The long-awaited White House report on the state of the US industrial base finds that “all facets of the manufacturing and defense industrial base are currently under threat,” and warns that entire industries vital to national security are facing “domestic extinctio…
Digitalization is enabling a reinvention of manufacturing.
It’s a core component of a new Industry Renaissance—the merger of automation, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), business processes, big data and cloud computing.
It’s reshaping how manufacturers in…
Organisations today are looking for solutions that deliver benefits long after the implementation is complete.
As you explore the benefits of predictive maintenance solutions, it’s natural to look for the initial return on investment (RoI) and whether it justifies the cost.
While the most ev…
With new digital technologies and production models emerging to drive greater performance across the manufacturing and supply chain spectrum, organisations can increase earnings and customer value by unlocking the potential of the investments already made in the physical and digital value s…
In a recent study of services leaders at manufacturing and services businesses, almost a third of respondents (30%) strongly agreed that it was important to become a digital business.
Overall, 100% of service leaders agreed that it’s important to wade into the digital waters, but most are unsur…
Thanks to advances in technology and connectivity, organisations can achieve efficiency gains today that would have been unimaginable just a few short years ago.
For company leaders to keep their eyes on the prize of operational excellence, they will need to team with someone that has the experie…
There has been a paradigm shift in the maturity of the asset management techniques and the overall ability to capture machine data.
With this advancement, optimisation of assets to maximise usable life through traditional techniques such as time-based maintenance and total productive shop flo…
For decades tooling has been the leading method for quickly achieving accurate and repeatable, high quality parts in high volume.
Until recently, no other manufacturing process could compete, which has been problematic in cases where high volumes are not needed, or when tooling constraints res…
Today, more than two-thirds of UK manufacturing organisations recognise Industry 4.0 as an opportunity, with other industry experts expecting the trend to add $14.2 trillion to the global economy by 2030.
But for many, the Industry 4.0 they have worked to introduce into their organisations is on…
