Articles by Jonny Williamson

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Skills Gap - Pre-apprenticeships could help businesses to significantly reduce future recruitment costs by creating a steady and reliable pipeline of recruits, who are more likely to remain loyal to the company – image courtesy of adi Group.

People & Skills

Industry leader calls on local firms to help plug skills gap

Diversification - Catherine Bray (Manufacturing Growth Programme) and Julian Crossley (Thermex Ltd).

People & Skills

Diversification sees UK manufacturer reap £2m reward

The robotics market, due to the increase in demand for artificially intelligent robots, is estimated to grow by almost 14% annually from 2016 to 2025

Robotics helps UK firm boost production & quality

Automation - Sidcup has a fill-rate of 5,000 bottles and cans every minute – that’s over 80 every second – image courtesy of CCEP.

The benefits of a proactive approach to automation

As an expanding business, it’s understandable that automation is taking on an increasing amount of the company’s production processes – image courtesy of John Guest.

Automation helps world-leading UK firm meet global demand

Massachusetts-based 3D printer manufacturer, Formlabs Fuse 1 Form Cell – image courtesy of Formlabs

Digital Transformation

New platform slashes cost of 3D printing

Data Collection - With output now measured in the millions, the company has turned to automation to help meet growing demand - image courtesy of John Guest.

Digital Transformation

Data collection offers manufacturing clarity for UK firm

Digital Transformation - The business is striving to become 100% paperless and allow its people to make use of portable electronic systems to perform their daily tasks – image courtesy of CCEP.

Digital Transformation

Lack of data engineers could stall UK’s digital transformation

The Duke of Kent with Simon Langley, managing director of Heartbeat UK.

Duke of Kent opens manufacturing training academy

Data Digitalisation Digital Transformation IT - Stock

Digital Transformation

Epicor distils the secrets to digital success

Mettis Aerospace - Plane - Aircraft - Aviation - Lancashire

Sharing in Growth CEO: can UK aerospace continue to fly high?