JUNE 2019
MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT Incorporating Works Management
CONTENTS
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A (Grey)bull in a china shop
6 Round-Up
This month’s biggest stories
10 CI Dilemma
Ticking the right boxes
11 Opinion
Operating at full capacity
12 Employment Law
Sharon Broughton of Make UK
explores a complicated
compassionate leave request,
disciplining senior management
and how to deal when heated
disagreements break out on
the shopfl oor
15 60 Seconds With...
Lee Ball, general manager, Protolabs
Cover Story
16 Getting the green light
Manufacturers are coming under
increasing pressure to improve
their sustainability, with the topic
now fi nding itself front and centre
in factory boardrooms
British Steel
22 Tarnished steel
Refl ections on the closure of
British Steel, and its impact on
UK manufacturing
Automation
24 When technology
meets tradition
Traditional, skilled manufacturing
and high-tech automation often
appear strange bedfellows.
However, smart manufacturers
should look to marry the two
Leadership
29 Leading in uncertainty
With signifi cant business challenges
on the horizon, successful leaders
can look to the world of sport for
inspiration on how to get the most
out of their teams
Recruitment
30 Generation misunderstood
With millennials set to make up
the majority of those in work by
2020, do employers need to do
more to accommodate them?
Risk Management
34 Survival of the fi ttest
The results the latest DuPont
Sustainable Solutions Operations
Risk Management Survey
demonstrate the importance
of managing risks
Health & Safety
36 Making manufacturing safer
More than two years since the new
sentencing guidelines for health
& safety o ences, is industry
keeping up with the changes?
Certifi cation
40 Route 45001
Fujitsu’s journey to the new
ISO45001 standard
43 Great British Factories
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