Operations supervisor and line worker reviewing production notes during a shift handover on a UK factory floor

UK Manufacturing in 2026: What the First Half Actually Told Us

Takeaways H1 2026 didn’t hand manufacturing a new problem. It handed us reports that finally measured an old one and wouldn’t let it stay anecdotal. The real question for H2 isn’t whether the gap exists. It’s what you’ll find once you check your own patch. Six months ago you likely believed your ops team had …

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Cyber resilience in manufacturing is an uptime KPI: how to design a safe restart operators can run

Cyber resilience in manufacturing has become an uptime KPI. When systems fail, the question is not what policy do we have. It is how fast can we recover, and can we restart safely on a live line. Many firms invest heavily in prevention. Yet they still struggle when reality hits. The gap is not technical. …