Hi listener, We say farewell to our People & Skills Series, for now, with this season finale. During a string of factory visits in the Midlands, we visit the sites of TMMX Award Winners in the People & Skills category. Lisi Aerospace and Lander Tubular Products are the two previous winners of this award and both companies feature in this episode. We speak to a wellbeing coach and two young engineers. This episode was recorded at the UK HQ of FANUC, our podcast sponsors. We start the episode by talking to Oliver Selby of FANUC about the need to secure the future of automation through ed ..read more

Hey listener, keeping well? We have a special episode for you focussing on the topic of people and skills. Separate from our current series on this same topic, this episode is in promotion of Manufacturing and Engineering Week, taking place in Birmingham this year on 7-8 June. This episode features a fantastic interview with Natasha Lyth, Sustainability Manager at Gripple and Catriona Booth, System Engineering Manager at Thales. Natasha and Catriona are the two most recent winners of the The Manufacturer MX Awards' Young Manufacturer of the Year Award. Both women sit down with our reporter Lan ..read more

Hey listener, fancy another one? In the fifth episode of this People & Skills Series, we chat to some of the winning categories at The Engineering Trust Awards which took place in Oxford on Wednesday night. And our hosts; Tom, Joe and Lanna discuss whether apprenticeships are creating the right opportunities for women in manufacturing. Enjoy ..read more

Listener, welcome back. In this episode Rashitha Jayasekara of Rolls Royce discusses how the digital skills gap is impacting the ability to scale projects and unlock the next stages of digital transformation. After partnering with Multiverse, who are supplying training and apprenticeship programmes, Rolls Royce is upskilling it's staff with modern digital capabilities. As well as this, one of the first ever exemplars from our Top100 programme, Adrian Maxwell, Owner of coffee machine manufacturers Fracino, gives his take on the shortage of skills and the struggles of attracting and retaining yo ..read more

Our next episode features Elliot Bloor, an apprentice at Siemens, who speaks about his route from school into the world of manufacturing. This is taken from a recent episode of The Manufacturer Podcast’s People & Skills series, and was part of our extensive coverage of National Apprenticeship Week 2023 ..read more

This episode of The Manufacturer Archives is an interview taken from our 2023 People & Skills Series on The Manufacturer Podcast with Angela Lawlor. Angela set up Marvellous Manufacturing, an idea that came to her during the 2020 lockdown. This is part of her mission to link manufacturers to schools, colleges and universities.  Her interview is taken from an episode of The Manufacturer Podcast, aired during National Apprenticeship Week 2023, conducted by our International Reporter, James Devonshire ..read more

This episode features Anita Davenport, the Group HR Manager for Lander Tubular Products, who won our Manufacturer of the Year Award at The Manufacturer MX Awards of 2021 Anita is also the Regional Chair for the West Midlands Apprenticeship Ambassador Network. You may have heard her already in the People & Skills series of The Manufacturer Podcast, which aired during National Apprenticeship Week 2023. This is the full length version of that interview, with our reporter Lanna Deamer ..read more

Noorzaman Rashid features in this episode of The Manufacturer Archives, after we took a visit to The Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence. Or as it’s known, CEME Noorzaman featured in episode two of our people and skills series of 2023, this is his interview with Multimedia Editor, Tom St John, in full ..read more

In this episode of The Manufacturer Archives it's another interview taken from the show floor of Smart Factory Expo in 2022. Sumeet Ladsaongikar, Partner at Kearney, was a keynote speaker at Manufacturing Leaders Summit that same year. Here he is talking about the value chain trilemma of financial, resilience and sustainability performance ..read more

In this episode of The Manufacturer Archives we speak to Andrew Schofield, Chair of the Northwest Aerospace Alliance, an initiative which supports the county’s advanced manufacturing and engineering companies. This interview was taken from the show floor at Smart Factory Expo 2022 ..read more