Workforce and skills

UK manufacturing - Automation Robot Robotics Digital Smart Factory Smart Factories

What new job roles has automation created?

HMS Queen Elizabeth - More than 200 cameras allow monitoring of engine and machinery spaces - image courtesy of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance

HMS Queen Elizabeth represents ‘best of UK engineering’

Elliott Hawkins, chief designer, RDM Group.

Employee of the Month June 2017: Elliott Hawkins, RDM Group

Health and Safety Signs

EEF launches new Health, Safety & Environment guidance

The company fabricates roll cages, bumpers, footplates, tubular side rails, engine shields and guards for cars such as Land Rover Defenders – image courtesy of K2 Design & Fabrication.

Social media drives SME’s global order book

Airbus Helicopters ‘Racer’ (Rapid and Cost-Effective Rotorcraft) was unveiled at this week’s Paris Air Show - image courtesy of University of Nottingham.

Nottingham Uni develops revolutionary new aircraft wing

UK Manufacturers World Trade Export Europe Supply Chain - image courtesy of Pixabay.

Comment: why UK manufacturers should go West to recruit the best

The project follows on from Jaguar Land Rover STEM initiative with Gorillaz in 2016, where founder member and female guitarist, Noodle, became Jaguar’s Formula E Racing Ambassador – image courtesy of JLR.

Jaguar Land Rover to recruit 5,000 new engineers this year

The opportunities from digital technologies are sheer limitless - image courtesy of The Manufacturing Technology Centre.

Digital Transformation

MTC’s Digitalising Manufacturing 2017 – register now

apprenticeship - Marches Centre of Manufacturing and Technology (MCMT

People & Skills

Dozens of apprenticeship places now available at £3m training hub

Aerospace Technology Institute unveiled in Bedfordshire

Aerospace manufacturer reveals £53m transformation