Workforce and skills

Skills Gap - Pre-apprenticeships could help businesses to significantly reduce future recruitment costs by creating a steady and reliable pipeline of recruits, who are more likely to remain loyal to the company – image courtesy of adi Group.

Skills

Industry leader calls on local firms to help plug skills gap

Diversification - Catherine Bray (Manufacturing Growth Programme) and Julian Crossley (Thermex Ltd).

Skills

Diversification sees UK manufacturer reap £2m reward

IoT Internet of Things

Digital Transformation

Plugging the IoT skills gap before it’s too late

IoT

As an expanding business, it’s understandable that automation is taking on an increasing amount of the company’s production processes – image courtesy of John Guest.

Robotics & Automation

Automation helps world-leading UK firm meet global demand

Various types of manufacturing in action that utilise smart technologies. Microsoft email header image - image courtesy of APS

Smart Factory

The smart technologies set to change manufacturing

Full Supply Chain Optimization incorporates many interrelated facets - image courtesy of APS

Digital Transformation

Optimising your supply chain – what the most advanced companies are doing differently

Digital Transformation - The business is striving to become 100% paperless and allow its people to make use of portable electronic systems to perform their daily tasks – image courtesy of CCEP.

Digital Transformation

Lack of data engineers could stall UK’s digital transformation

The Duke of Kent with Simon Langley, managing director of Heartbeat UK.

Innovation

Duke of Kent opens manufacturing training academy

Mettis Aerospace - Plane - Aircraft - Aviation - Lancashire

Leadership & Strategy

Sharing in Growth CEO: can UK aerospace continue to fly high?

David Nieper Apprentices Apprenticeships Trailblazer Training

Skills

David Nieper becomes fashion industry’s apprenticeship trailblazer

PwC has helped Sunseeker International post £6m (EBITDA) for the year ending December 2016, an improvement of £36m – image courtesy of Sunseeker International.

Leadership & Strategy

How has luxury boat builder, Sunseeker, powered back to profit?