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 …

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Reducing the carbon footprint of the manufacturing industry through data sharing

A really interesting read about the need for data sharing needs to drive sustainability changes. Global manufacturing and production sectors are responsible for 20% of the world’s carbon emissions! While the need to reduce the industrial carbon footprint is high, the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) is a first step to successfully measure and determine the …

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Driving sustainability in industrial clusters

This is a really interesting white paper from Microsoft and Accenture driving sustainability in industrial clusters to help cut emissions and accelerate the drive to net-zero. Industrial clusters are geographic areas comprised of co-located companies that represent a single or multiple industries, such as refining, cement or steel. With industry responsible for 30 percent of …

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Augmented Workforce – digital transformation impact on people…

People know how passionate I am about the influence and opportunities that digital technologies have on the workforce. It’s great to be able to contribute to the World Economic Forum White Paper on “Augmented Workforce: Empowering People, Transforming Manufacturing”. Although technology is an important pillar of organisational strategy, people remain essential on shop floors and …

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Unlocking Business Model Innovation through Advanced Manufacturing

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical role that manufacturing and supply chain systems play in powering the global economy. To navigate current and future market and climate change disruptions and stay competitive, the leaders must go beyond the transformation of manufacturing operations and leverage investments in technology to reinvent their business models. Aggregating the …