As Dr Tony Bannan OBE, Honorary President of the Advanced Machinery & Productivity Institute (AMPI) explains, machinery manufacturing in the UK is powered mainly by smaller companies leveraging innovation and emerging technologies from within their own supply chains.
As such, there is a considerable opportunity to provide SMEs with additional routes of innovation and access to emerging technologies to grow the machinery sector of the UK. Establishing capability in manufacturing technologies and processes, such as additive manufacturing and precision engineering, enhances national security, productivity, economic resilience and strategic independence. These are all vital…
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