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FactoryTalk Ep 21: Education and innovation. Why training your workforce matters more than ever.

As British industries continue to innovate in an increasingly competitive world, ensuring your workforce is trained throughout their working life has never been more important.   The value of continued training is highlighted in the recently published In-Comm Annual Barometer which assesses trends, and looks at the strengths and weaknesses in a wide variety of businesses across the economy.   In this edition of Factory Talk, In-Comm Managing Director Gareth Jones talks to Richard Jordan about how a fully trained and updated staff member can bring help businesses grow as the recovery from the pandemic gathers pace.

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FactoryTalk Ep 20 Part 2: Technology in Cornwall – Could Cornwall become the UK’s answer to Silicon Valley?

In this edition of Factory Talk, Richard talks with Gail Estaugh, Programme Director at Aerospace Cornwall, and Caitlin Gould, Director of Bluefruit Software to continue their discussion of Cornwall, including Cornwall’s heritage and moving forward with broader technologies while retaining that heritage. In a post-pandemic world, Gail and Caitlin discuss the positive impact of technology that the pandemic has provided Cornwall and how moving forward can inspire young students to stay local and develop Cornwall’s technology sector. Gail and Caitlin also discuss what’s next for Cornwall and having a larger voice within the UK government.

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FactoryTalk Ep 20 Part 1: Technology in Cornwall – Could Cornwall become the UK’s answer to Silicon Valley?

It’s a county with a proud history in mining and maritime, but now is attracting an increasing number of high-tech companies In this edition of Factory Talk, Richard talks to Gail Estaugh, Programme Director at Aerospace Cornwall, and Caitlin Gould, Director of Bluefruit Software in the first of two programmes focussing on how Cornwall is reinventing itself, whilst maintaining its lure as one of the UK’s favourite holiday destinations. In a post-pandemic world, Gail and Caitlin look at the new companies choosing to base themselves in the southwest, and the benefits to the local and national economy.

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FactoryTalk Ep 19: Norton – on the road to becoming the ‘world’s best’ motorcycle brand

On this week’s FactoryTALK, we are joined by John Russell, CEO of the iconic British motorcycle brand Norton. TVS Motor Company, Norton’s new owners, have invested millions of pounds into a new manufacturing facility in Solihull fortifying Norton’s future in a quest to become the world’s best motorcycle brand. John and Richard discuss how the historic marque aims to be a ‘brand of the future’ and not get lost in its past as some famous British manufacturers. Also discussed is Norton’s plans to manufacture electric motorcycles by 2035 and the measures to be taken to ensure its discerning customers enjoy

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FactoryTalk Episode 18: Siemens Mobility on the right track for future growth

Siemens is a truly global company, employing thousands of people and a turnover running into the billions. The organisation has a proud history of innovation and excellence. In this special edition of  Factory Talk, Richard talks Will Wilson, the CEO of Siemens Mobility, about the company’s £200 million train factory and rail village development in Goole and how his firm is helping to shape future transport solutions in the UK, and the wider world, in the coming decades. In addition to manufacturing the next generation of trains, Siemens has divisions supplying the energy and healthcare sectors. Will looks at the

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FactoryTALK Episode 17: Grand Designs! – Legendary Formula 1 visionary Gordon Murray on building better in the UK.

On Factory Talk this week Richard gets to meet Gordon Murray whose career stretches back fifty years. From arriving in the UK from South Africa, through Formula One, to designing his own brand new state of the art factory to continue his work. Now in his seventies, Murray shows no signs of slowing down, with his company Gordon Murray Automotive having recently unveiled its T.50 supercar in full for the first time, showing the finished exterior and interior design and confirming its ground-breaking technical specifications. The T.50 has been engineered to be the purest, lightest, most driver-centric supercar ever. The man that’s inspired

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FactoryTALK Episode 16: Dancing to digital’s tune

In this week’s Factory Talk, Richard speaks to Ben Morgan from the AMRC and Jamie Hinton from Razor about how they’ve worked together across various platforms. They look at how industry has ridden the Covid wave and the successes that have emerged from the pandemic. They also assess the future, with Industry 4, and the raft of new technologies which have come on stream over the past twelve months. Ben is Research Director at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Sheffield, and Jamie is a co-founder and CEO of Razor. The two look back at how a chance meeting has led to

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FactoryTALK Episode 15: Where is technology and digitisation headed in 2021?

With the embrace of digital technologies, businesses are becoming more complex in recent times, none more so than manufacturing companies. With the huge acceleration of technology in the past 5 years and more recently with Covid-19, POPcomms, a sales communication business, are helping companies and their sales teams to explain exactly what they do by focusing on the valuable information through powerful and interactive virtual platforms. The company has seen dramatic growth in recent times and predicts that next year will be a turning point for the industry. Tune in to the last FactoryTALK episode of 2020 and let us

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FactoryTALK Episode 14: Helping manufacturing to grow and prosper through investment and innovation.

Ben Morgan, Research Director at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC), part of the University of Sheffield and High-Value Manufacturing Catapult. AMRC is a not for profit organisation and has 4 sites; Sheffield with BOEING, Broughton with AIRBUS, Preston with BAE Systems and they have a facility in Korea which has been launched to build on the technological successes of joint projects involving the AMRC in the UK. AMRC cover everything from high-value design through to component manufacture, factories in a bid to make the UK competitive in supply chains of major OEMs and “make the industry better” through innovation.

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FactoryTALK Episode 13: Special edition featuring Make UK’s Chief Executive Stephen Phipson CBE

Make UK, champions and supports UK manufacturing across the country. CEO Stephen Phipson joins Richard to look at the state of play as it publishes ‘UK Manufacturing Facts, 2020/21‘ an annual report looking at the health of the UK’s vital manufacturing and engineering sector. Despite the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of Brexit, Stephen says the sector continues to punch above its weight, with exports showing continued strength. But with companies facing political, medical and economic challenges on a scale never seen before, how can your company survive and prosper moving forward? Stephen offers a unique insight

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FactoryTALK Episode 12: Storage technology… the next generation!

What does the future hold for industrial storage, and what new technologies are being devised to guarantee it provides both security and ease of access? In the latest episode of FactoryTALK, Richard meets up with Adam Lucas Lucas, CEO of Polstore. The company which has been trading for almost sixty years designs, manufactures and installs storage and retrieval systems. From display cases in museums to secure facilities in manufacturing, Adam explains the new technologies his company is employing. But for a company with strong links to European manufacturing, what are the key factors in prospering during the Brexit uncertainty? And having

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FactoryTALK Episode 11: Digitisation – Evolution or Revolution?

In the latest edition of FactoryTALK, Richard talks to Dolores Sanders, Strategic Director at Northampton-based Total Control Pro Ltd. The company provides production tracking systems to industry, to help with the planning and productivity processes. Dolores explains that despite languishing behind other nations in the take-up and implementation of digitisation, the future should be built around evolution rather than revolution. She explains how the processes can aid companies large and small, how to overcome bad experiences where software has proven not to be fit for purpose, and how the investment can be justified. With working practises changing in the post

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