Features - Manufacturing News



Your guide to.... The Skills Olympics 05/09/2012

Engineering's finest will go head to head in a series of events at the Skills Show to crown outstanding apprentice talent. Tickets are hotter than London 2012 and they are guaranteed to boost your career prospects. Max Gosney finds out more:

2012: year of the underdog 13/12/2011

The high street's in crisis, the eurozone in meltdown and the global economy fraught – so why do so many manufacturers have a spring in their step? Max Gosney reports on the surprising results of WM's Manufacturing Outlook research

Improvement taken for granted 13/12/2011

Grant McPherson learned to manufacture the Japanese way after two decades at Honda. Now the new Jaguar Land Rover boss tells Max Gosney about the CI secrets driving up standards at JLR's Castle Bromwich site

First Aid: your need to know guide 16/08/2011

Nearly a fifth of all reported workplace injuries are in the manufacturing industry. Isobel Kearl from St John Ambulance explains the first aid skills that every manufacturer should know.

Playground tactics 20/07/2011

Manufacturing has to muscle in on the school curriculum to end the shortage of skilled workers that has long haunted the sector, rules WM's new industry think tank, the Leaders Forum in association with Bourton Group

Great expectations 19/01/2011

As 2011 dawns, WM unites industry leaders and grassroots site managers to debate the big issues facing the sector, as revealed in our Manufacturing Outlook survey last month. From securing credit to solving the skills crisis, the panel uncovers what manufacturers plan to do to drive success in the year ahead

Beating the axe 17/11/2010

The axe has fallen as the government unveiled its comprehensive spending review. Max Gosney finds out whether manufacturing avoided the chopping block in £83bn worth of cuts