OCTOBER 2020
MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT Incorporating Works Management
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Nice to know you’re listening
6 Round-Up
This month’s biggest stories
10 Opinion
A green embrace
11 60 Seconds With...
Mike John, MD, Sempre Group
12 Employment Law
Legal experts from Ellis Whittam
look at poor compliance with
mask-wearing on the shopfl oor,
rows over changed redundancy
terms and restarting at work after
recovering from COVID-19
Cover Story
14 Making connections
As the world gets to grips with the
new way of working, fast and
reliable connectivity has never been
more important – something that
too many manufacturers neglect to
consider, as Chris Beck discovers
Brexit
18 Currency conundrums
Lee McDarby, MD and head
of corporate industrial payments at
moneycorp, explains how to ensure
you get the best rates when looking
to do business in new markets
3D Printing
20 3D supply chains
While the COVID-19 pandemic
has shone a spotlight on 3D
printing, many companies had
already embedded the technology
within their business models,
explains Stratasys president,
Andreas Langfeld
Steel
24 Through the mill
A new digital procurement service
is hoping to revolutionise and
rejuvenate the UK’s steel industry
and bring the entire value chain into
the 21st century
Digital Manufacturing
26 Future thinking
The impact of technology on
our world today would have been
unthinkable 20 years ago – and the
technology of tomorrow will be
even more important
Management
28 Prioritising happiness
Rebecca Butterfi eld of Air Products
tells us why lockdown saw her
double-down on ensuring the
welfare of her sta
Warehousing
30 Superior scanning
The pandemic has seen warehouse
managers take novel steps to
integrate new technologies
Health & Safety
32 Cautious collaboration
While cobots o er signifi cant
advantages to manufacturers
looking to embrace Industry 4.0,
they also bring signifi cant safety
risks that must be acknowledged
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