Engineering

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

People & Skills

It’s time to end the snobbery surrounding vocational courses, urges Education Secretary

European Springs & Pressings turned over £19 million last year. It claims it can produce 3 million components per hour.

Diversification key to survival, says European Springs & Pressings MD

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Digital Transformation

Edwin James Group hits “milestone” £140m turnover

(From left to right): Jennifer Jach of Lear, Paul Lockwood of Gateshead College, apprentice Natalia Walas and apprentice Jordan Barrowman - image courtesy of Gateshead College.

People & Skills

Automotive supplier partners with college to roll-out national apprenticeship scheme

Gauging the mood of UK Manufacturing: The Manufacturer’s Annual Manufacturing Report 2019

autonomous vehicles - The 1965 Ford Mustang converted to autonomous driving - image courtesy of Matt Woods.

Digital Transformation

Autonomous vehicles, so near and yet so far

Consultants Clinic - Smart Factory Expo 2018 - Digital Manufacturing Week

Consultants’ Clinic helps UK manufacturers become better and brighter

The Coalbrookdale Company once ran the largest ironworks in the world, employing over 3000 men and boys. Here, company workers are pictured on pay day.

Campaign to conserve the ‘Symbol of the Industrial Revolution’

The MTC is aiming to recruit nearly 100 apprentices to start work in September 2019.

People & Skills

Coventry’s Manufacturing Technology Centre aims to attract 100 future engineers

Smiths knows no boundaries – its products are in space on the ISS (International Space Station) and are even on Mars.

Smiths Group: A history of innovation

Paul Everitt, CEO of ADS Group: "The Future Flight challenge will ensure the UK takes a lead in delivering cleaner, quieter and more innovative aircraft" - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

Aerospace sector shows the way forward for UK productivity