Made Smarter is asking for UK producers to open their factories to colleges, schools and native communities for Nationwide Manufacturing Day on September 26.
The federal government-funded, industry-backed programme, which helps producers join with expertise and expertise, is concerned in occasions throughout the North West, North East, and Yorkshire and Humber.
Run by commerce physique Make UK, and now in its third 12 months, Nationwide Manufacturing Day (NMD24) has grow to be a nationwide celebration of UK manufacturing and an opportunity to lift the sector’s profile. Companies are inspired to join a UK-wide ‘open home’, permitting members of the general public to expertise first-hand what producers do, how they make a few of our most cherished family manufacturers, and the way they use probably the most cutting-edge expertise.
With manufacturing vacancies excessive, the labour pool shrinking and makers needing assist discovering recruits with the proper expertise, NMD24 is a golden alternative to exhibit potential careers and jobs on supply, from engineering and robotics to knowledge evaluation and innovation.
Donna Edwards, Director for Made Smarter North West, commented: “I’m delighted that Made Smarter and producers concerned in our adoption programme are demonstrating help for Make UK’s marketing campaign. NMD24 aligns completely with the programme’s ambitions to assist SME producers obtain their digital transformation with a people-led strategy and utilizing expertise as a software. It’s a unbelievable alternative to have a good time UK manufacturing and emphasise the function of Science, Expertise, Engineering, and Arithmetic (STEM) to encourage extra college students to pursue these topics, one thing Made Smarter is obsessed with.
“By opening their factories, that are usually closed to the general public, it’s the excellent alternative for producers to showcase the large progress that has been created from the standard oily rag picture in the direction of the good fashionable manufacturing unit. I might encourage extra producers to affix the marketing campaign.”
Stephen Phipson, CEO of Make UK, added: “Nationwide Manufacturing Day is a extremely thrilling day the place the entire manufacturing sector will come collectively to have a good time the superb issues that Britain designs and makes. Britain’s manufacturing firms are on the forefront of worldwide renewable expertise improvement and a number of the most modern engineering developments seen wherever world wide. It is a sector with superb alternatives and we hope this third Nationwide Manufacturing Day will give individuals who have by no means had the prospect to see inside their native companies simply what’s going on and the alternatives obtainable to them.”
Elsewhere within the nation, Made Smarter Yorkshire and Humber are internet hosting workshops demonstrating the advantages of higher knowledge seize and administration, in addition to how producers can unlock innovation via new expertise. Made Smarter can also be holding a particular LinkedIn Reside to have a good time the programme’s affect nationwide. The bite-sized broadcast will happen on Thursday, September 26 at 12pm.
To study extra about methods to get entangled go to nationalmanufacturingday.org or go to madesmarter.uk/assets/blog-how-made-smarter-is-celebrating-national-manufacturing-day-2024/
