Breaking Through the Digital Transformation Bottleneck: Reflections from the Digital Manufacturing Summit UK 2024

Last week, I had the honour of delivering the keynote at the Digital Manufacturing Summit UK 2024 from Transform Industry. I was invited by Ryan —a company dedicated to helping businesses unlock funding for innovation—and it was a whirlwind of insights, debates, and, let’s be honest, more than a few buzzwords. While the summit showcased …

Reflections from Digital Manufacturing Week

November has historically been an important month in the UK for the manufacturing industry with Digital Manufacturing Week and the Manufacturing Leaders Summit. Nick spend the week in Liverpool with a number of our clients and had the opportunity to be on stage with the team from Konektio. Click on the link below to read …

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One Step at a Time and SIRI – MWorX 2022

It was awesome to be part of the MWorx 2022 event in Berlin this year. So much great content from some amazing speakers. We have assembled some useful links and content that our Nick Leeder shared in his presentation “One step at a time…” about how the route to profitable and sustainable transformation in manufacturing …

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Where does art end and manufacturing begin?

The Atos Manufacturing Art Exhibition explores the relationship between art, design, imagination and industry. It delivers an exciting and engaging display that promises to be an empowering playground designed to motivate manufacturers, engineers, and business leaders. So where does art end and manufacturing begin? The Atos Manufacturing Art Exhibition ‘22 brings together 16 renowned multi-discipline …

Enhance human ability with AI and not replace – World Manufacturing Forum Reflection

It was an honour to contribute to the World Manufacturing Forum today and have an opportunity to talk about the impact and the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a modern manufacturing environment. In our discussion I raised two important points companies need to consider on their journey using AI: Anchor the use if AI …

Excited to be part of Manufacturing Leaders Summit next week…

The annual UK Manufacturing Leaders Summit is running from the 9th to the 12th of November. I’m really excited about the opportunity to participate in this great event again this year. I’ll be participating in the discussion room for Smart Connected Operations and Factory Automation with Suresh Daniel of Coats PLC and will be covering …

World Manufacturing Forum 2020

I am honoured to be taking part in a round table discussion at the World Manufacturing Forum 2020 about PREPAREDNESS & PRODUCTIVITY: Transform Traditional Businesses in High Tech Companies. This promises to be a lively discussion with other luminaries in the industry. Why not join me by clicking on the register button below. A quick …

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My thoughts from the UK Manufacturers Leaders Conference…

I was trying to think of one word that can summarise what I saw and heard at the #LeadersConference and #SmartFactoryExpo the past days in #Liverpool.  The word is #POTENTIAL The #UK #manufacturing sector has amazing companies and talent which have the ability for us to compete against the best in the world. The 4th Industrial Revolution …