Ricardo was a winner at The Manufacturer MX Awards 2022, and is once again up for accolades this year. The Manufacturer’s James Devonshire sat down with Ian Morris, the company’s Head of Procurement for its Performance Products business unit, to learn more. Ricardo saw off some stiff competition to win the Supply Chain Excellence category
Posted on 24 Nov 2023 by The Manufacturer Over a third of SMEs have operated a machinery asset for longer than planned due to supply chain issues impacting the availability of new variants, Paragon Bank research has revealed. The survey of over 500 SMEs by Opinium showed that 36% of firms are operating a machinery
Posted on 26 Oct 2023 by The Manufacturer One of the West Midlands’ fastest growing manufacturers has invested more than £200,000 into a new Headquarters in Four Ashes.Spillard Safety Systems, which supplies safety equipment for the commercial vehicle, construction, HS2, plant and quarry sectors, has moved into the 28,500 sq ft facility – treble the
Posted on 26 Sep 2023 by The Manufacturer There are several ways to boost productivity, enhance shop floor flexibility and preserve data security… all on the market today for manufacturers of many sizes.As manufacturers seek to find its way into the digital world, the entire process chain necessitates the integration of suppliers who can respond
Posted on 25 Aug 2023 by The Manufacturer Each day The Manufacturer compiles the top manufacturing news stories from around the web. To make your life a little easier, we trawl through all the major trade publications, broadsheets and business magazines to find you the most important manufacturing news each morning. Don’t forget to bookmark
Posted on 28 Jul 2023 by James Devonshire Each day The Manufacturer compiles the top manufacturing news stories from around the web. To make your life a little easier, we trawl through all the major trade publications, broadsheets and business magazines to find you the most important manufacturing news each morning. Don’t forget to bookmark
Posted on 28 Jun 2023 by The Manufacturer Across a multitude of industries, connected workers have become the cornerstone of digital transformation initiatives. Unfortunately, the onboarding and learning programmes in many organisations are just not set up to support workers in the best way possible. Knowledge is power and the bedrock of successful employee experiences.In
Posted on 26 May 2023 by The Manufacturer Each day The Manufacturer compiles the top manufacturing news stories from around the web. To make your life a little easier, we trawl through all the major trade publications, broadsheets and business magazines to find you the most important manufacturing news each morning. Don’t forget to bookmark
Hyde Engineering is the model SME – the company readily adopts new technology, strongly believes in collaboration, embraces change and is rapidly expanding. The manufacturing landscape is full of such companies and greater recognition and support would help unlock their true potential. Jonny Williamson reports.Mark and Sam Hyde could not have chosen a more challenging
Posted on 30 Mar 2023 by The Manufacturer Each day The Manufacturer compiles the top manufacturing news stories from around the web. To make your life a little easier, we trawl through all the major trade publications, broadsheets and business magazines to find you the most important manufacturing news each morning. Don’t forget to bookmark
Posted on 28 Feb 2023 by The Manufacturer UK manufacturing is in desperate need of current and future skills to remain globally competitive. Key to this is ensuring that automation and robotics are built in to education programmes, allowing for a digitally competent future workforce, according to Oliver Selby, Head of Sales at FANUC UK
When it comes to implementing new operational technology and information technology systems, I know the automotive industry has been a bit more conservative despite the complexity of processes required to meet customer demands. Any change can have end-to-end effects, and it may require involvement from partners both upstream and downstream – at least to be