This month, our employment law specialist takes a look at hiring a member of staff – based on gender – to 'get the numbers up', temperature issues within the factory and a company worried that its reputation could be ...

Lean manufacturing (and lean business processes in general) are all about one thing: eliminating waste.

By George Hand, sales manager for cleaning, hygiene and catering, Office Depot UK & Ireland

Robot tax? A tax on robotics is as absurd an idea as a tax on pencils. As Britain’s political parties discuss a potential tax on automation and robotics, Nigel Smith, managing director of Toshiba Machine partner, TM ...

At Pladis’ 50,000-square metre factory in Harlesden, West London, over 80 million biscuits are made each day. Keeping the lines running, then, is a major challenge.

Angela Southall, co-founder of health and safety consultancy Southalls, on UK manufacturers' ultimate guide to safety crisis management.

This year should be the year that 3D printing becomes mainstream, says Philip Hudson, managing director of Materialise

It’s a shocking statistic that fewer than 10% of the manufacturing workforce are female. What’s putting them off considering a career in the industry, and what can be done to help bring the numbers up?

Small companies make up the backbone of the UK’s manufacturing sector. So why is there so little acknowledgement of their value to the economy?

An open, collaborative manufacturing environment will be more successful in the long-term than one where every department works in an individual silo, says Richard Watkins, managing director of Delos Partnership