Manufacturing supply chains are at a pivot point. Optimisation is moving from node to network, planning and decision frequency is changing from periodic to real-time and the supply chain itself is ...

Manufacturing businesses are being invited to benefit from a share of £5m funding, to help improve power electronics machines and drives (PEMD) manufacturing supply chains throughout the UK. The ‘PEMD ...

For decades, engineers relied on a “design–build–test–fix” loop to bring new products to market. Engineers would create drawings or CAD models, send them to manufacturing, and wait for physical ...

Businesses face a daunting combination of risk factors in supply chains – and many existing supply chain risk management (SCRM) systems are not up to the task. Software company ACL believes firms ...

Oracle is offering new capabilities in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) to help organizations manage the unique requirements of process manufacturing. According to Oracle, the ...

Although some aspects of process validation for continuous processes are the same as those for traditional batch processes, there are some unique considerations. Although some aspects of process ...

Design for manufacturing (DfM) is evolving from traditional engineering practices into a data-intensive discipline that requires real-time integration of manufacturing capabilities, supplier ...

In part 4 of our 5-part interview series on the current CDMO landscape, Dave Miller, PhD, chief scientific officer at AustinPx, discusses the growing centrality of sustainability in pharmaceutical ...

Efficient supply chain management is essential to maintain a robust defence force. Major General Simon Hutchings underscored this importance in the UK’s Defence Supply Chain Strategy, emphasising the ...

In January 2024, the UK Government released the ‘UK critical imports and supply chains strategy’ developed with the input of a number of business stakeholders. The fact that this is the UK’s first ...

Lance Owide, General Manager of B2B at BigCommerce, recently spoke with The Manufacturer about the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing and B2B ecommerce. In this first instalment of ...