Redefining the Industry: Are You Ready for the Future Manufacturing Strategies Revolution?

Redefining the Industry: Are You Ready for the Future Manufacturing Strategies Revolution?

Keeping it brief: The Future Manufacturing Strategies is Transforming Challenges into Opportunities In an era defined by rapid technological evolution, environmental urgency, and global interconnectedness, the manufacturing sector stands at a critical juncture. The decisions made today will shape the future of individual companies and determine their roles in a sustainable, resilient, and technologically advanced …

Manufacturing Technology Adoption: Are You Ignoring Your Most Valuable Asset?

Manufacturing Technology Adoption: Are You Ignoring Your Most Valuable Asset?

If you only have a minute: Putting People at the Heart of Manufacturing Technology Adoption As the manufacturing world speeds up, manufacturing technology adoption is at every turn, a standout report instigated by Nick Leeder and Sharan Burrow from the International Trade Union Confederation shines a light on what really matters. This report, a joint …

The New Era of Industrial Strategies

We are excited to share that Nick Leeder & Co. has contributed to the new report The New Era of Industrial Strategies: Tackling Grand Challenges through Public-Private Collaboration in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, UNIDO and Cambridge Industrial Innovation Policy. The background of the report looks at the impact on industrial strategies as the …

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Our predictions for 2024 priorities for manufactures…

Our predictions for 2024 priorities for manufactures is always tricky, but based on current trends and expert insights, here are 5 key trends likely to shape the manufacturing landscape in 2024: These are just a few of the trends that are likely to shape the future of manufacturing in 2024. As these trends continue to …

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Measure how MES can improve operations performance

In our final instalment of the our mini series on “Monday MES“, lets explore how you can measure how MES can improve operations performance?. In our previous posts we simplified the definition of MES (to Gordon Ramsay!) and looked at why MES should be part of your digital strategy. In this final post we go …

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Can Profitability and Sustainability go hand in hand?

Our interest was tweaked in a recent article called “The Directors Dilemma“, which looks at the complexity of financial reporting, the need for profitability and the seemingly competing need to continuing make progress with sustainability goals. So can profitability and sustainability go hand-in-hand? In the past, many people believed that businesses had to choose between …

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Is MES a key part of a digital strategy for a manufacturer?

Welcome to the second instalment of our “Monday MES” series of posts. In this post we explore whether why MES is a key part of a digital strategy for a manufacturer. Why should MES be a key part of any digital manufacturing strategy? MES is a key part of a digital strategy for a manufacture …

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What is a MES for a manufacture and how does it benefit them?

What is a MES for a manufacture and how does it benefit them? A simple question which can be confusing to answer. We are going to try and demystify some of the confusion around MES in the first of our “Monday MES” series which we will publish over the next few weeks. We hear a …

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Slow Down to Speed Up Your Digital Transformation

Rockwell recently published their 8th Annual State of Smart Manufacturing Report which is an awesome read if you have a few minutes to spare. It states that “we’ve experienced 20 years of evolution in 2 years” according to Blake Morret, with the recent advancements in technology. Yet, if we walk the lines in the plant …

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Circularity and Reuse…. It’s not all about Recycling

This is some Friday inspiration which we have seen doing the arounds from the Environmental Paper Network… Circularity and Reuse…. It’s not all about Recycling! How do we drive more reuse and remanufacture and build the systems to support this? When it comes to circularity of products and design, our minds spring immediately to recycling. …