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 …
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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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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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. …
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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 …
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 …
Let’s stop making assumptions for sustainability goals… Sustainability, emissions, carbon reduction and net-zero are all hot topics for manufacturers right now…. And rightly so.
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 …
For the first time, wind and solar generated more than 10% of electricity globally in 2021, according to the Global Electricity Review 2022 by Ember, the energy think tank.
In the wake of landmark climate event, COP26, manufacturers are striving to align their activities with the global net zero targets. But the sector has a long way to go. It currently produces more than 16 gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) each year. Industry accounts for 39% of the world’s final energy use according to the IEA. …
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