JULY/AUGUST 2020
MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT Incorporating Works Management
CONTENTS
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Where’s the incentive?
6 Round-Up
This month’s biggest stories
10 Opinion
A brave new world
11 60 Seconds With...
Martin Frederiksen, MD, Recab UK
Cover Story
12 The race for a vaccine
MM speaks to the boss of a new
state-of-the-art biomedical
manufacturing centre about the
challenges of developing and
producing a viable COVID-19 cure
Brexit
16 Future friction
MTA chief executive, James Selka,
warns that, after months of being
distracted by the pandemic, the
UK risks wandering blind into Brexit
Ventilator Challenge UK
18 Captains of industry
The Ventilator Challenge UK
consortium has been a shining
example of how industry has
stepped up to meet the challenges
of the past few months. To fi nd out
more, MM spoke to the group’s
leader, Dick Elsy
Welfare
22 Looking after the
medicine makers
Sandra Lee, MD of Accord
Healthcare, explains how her
company focused on sta
wellbeing during the height of
the lockdown
Legal
24 Track & Trace: your duties
Kim Walker and Jon Huevel of
Shakespeare Martineau discuss
the responsibilities of employers
to comply with the government’s
Track & Trace system
Business Improvement
26 Boxing clever
Family-run packaging manufacturer,
Glossop Cartons, was rapidly
expanding, but its shopfl oor
processes were struggling to catch
up. Cue a complete re-think of the
way the factory operates
Communications
28 Keeping connected
The events of the past six
months have meant reliable
communications technology is
now more important than ever,
argues Siemens’ Ian Poulett
Digital Transformation
30 Return, restart, repurpose
Digital transformation should sit at
the heart of the industry’s post-
COVID recovery, says VEC
executive director, Dr Andy Levers
Servitisation
34 The EaaS way to survival
Technology is the key to a post-
pandemic recovery, with those who
have embraced the change already
best-placed to reap the rewards
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