It’s November, which can only mean one thing – Digital Manufacturing Week!
Smart Factory Expo, Manufacturing Leaders’ Summit, the Top 100, and the Manufacturing Excellence (MX) Awards are all events and celebrations aimed at assisting manufacturers to chart a positive course towards a more productive and profitable future.
This issue, we have a sneak preview of new tech on display at Smart Factory Expo; we highlight the compelling argument for reversing offshore production; we explore how additive manufacturing is helping to create a Paralympic champion; and we reveal how Blockchain can deliver significant benefits across supply chains.
It is poignant that in this issue, we should be wishing happy retirement to Juergen Maier, who has worked tirelessly for the past 10 years to place digitalisation at the top of UK manufacturing’s agenda. As Juergen makes clear in his interview, he is only retiring from Siemens, not from the campaign to transform UK industrial productivity.
