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Nick Leeder talks to SME Focus Programme

Our very own Nick Leeder talks to SME Focus Programme last Saturday about things ranging from condition based monitoring, data and the spiralling cost of energy for UK manufacturers. SMEFocus is the new programme showcasing our brilliant SMEs. For manufacturers, by manufacturers. The weekly show is hosted by Chris Greenough, Chief Commercial Officer of Shrewsbury-based SDE …

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Manufacturing Predictions for 2023

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 …

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 …

Can manufacturing harness available tech talent?

November was a tough month for the tech industry with many lay-offs. Can manufacturing harness available tech talent now in the market? Amazon shed a reported 11,000 jobs, Meta dropped 13% of its workforce—or another 11,000 jobs—and Twitter’s new owner is talking about a loyalty oath even as he looks to cut costs and slash …

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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 …