If you only have a minute to uncover manufacturing’s diversity crisis Recent observations have heightened our awareness regarding the subtle yet persistent gender biases in the manufacturing sector. In our ongoing efforts to create compelling blog content for the recent HiveMind webinar, we leverage AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to generate both the …
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In Summary: The Dawn of Resilience in Manufacturing 🌅 In a world where manufacturing dynamics are constantly shifting, the “Manufacturing PMI 2024” report emerges as a vital beacon for industry leaders. This executive summary delves into the crucial insights revealed by the Institute for Supply Management, highlighting the resilience and potential for growth in the manufacturing …
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The image below caught my eye in the latest Make UK UK MANUFACTURING THE FACTS: 2023 report. It made me look deeper to understand if UK manufacturing was a national industry and the demographic spread across the UK. Lets start with some key facts ➡️ 🇬🇧 The UK Powerhouse of Manufacturing is still the North …
Another quarter and another excellent report from IoT Analytics on what CEO’s talked about in Q3 2023. So what’s my take from this quarters report? Industry 4.0: From buzzword to necessity In recent years, Industry 4.0 was seen as a buzzword or a futuristic concept. But not anymore. Today, it’s clear that Industry 4.0 is …
The latest Make UK/BDO UK Manufacturing Outlook Survey this quarter outlines that “the positive picture of the first half of the year has now gone sharply into reverse” according to The Manufacturer. Not a good start to a Monday. Manufacturers are entering the final quarter on an increasingly unsteady footing. In the absence of an …
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In the last article in the series we explore “predictive maintenance”. Why predictive maintenance you ask? In the earlier posts we looked at Industry 4.0, digital twins and the power of data. Predictive maintenance is a great use case where all of the three topics above come together in a practical and valuable example. What …
If 2023 goes the same way as 2022 it looks like another turbulent year for UK manufacturers. We all know the making manufacturing predictions for 2023 is likely to go horribly wrong, but here goes anyway! Make UK/BDO made a forecast in their Q4 Manufacturing Outlook survey which shows manufacturing contracting by -3.2% in 2023. This comes …
Make UK’s annual analysis of the UK Manufacturing sector shows it is the 9th largest manufacturing nation in the world, with £183B of annual output.
Advisory firm BDO has found that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions involving UK manufacturers jumped by almost a third in 2021. This is more surprising that dealmaking surpasses pre-pandemic levels.
Our founder, Nick Leeder’s grandfather-in-law was the General Secretary of the Nation Union of Blastfurancemen (NUB) in the UK in the 1970’s. He was a Welshman through and through and proud of the steel making industry in the country. At the start of the 1980’s he led the Union workers in industrial action against the then Conservative …