Editors comment

How the manufacturing industry is future proofing against pandemics

The manufacturing industry, like all sectors, was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, from supply chains to the factory floor. Tim Parkinson, Airedale Springs’ Chairman, believes that something has to change now, so that manufacturers can prevent a similar situation from happening again.

The real reason female engineers are still a rarity

There’s no denying that there is a gender imbalance when it comes to engineering. In the UK, only 12% of engineers are female.

What COVID-19 has shown us about industrial adaptability and pivoting

Since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the global COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic in March 2020, the world’s response has changed the face of industry. Industrial businesses reacted in numerous ways, and there are lessons to be learned by looking at these responses. Here, George Walker, Managing Director of Novotek UK and Ireland, asks: what has industry done to change for the better in light of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Coal and COVID: The road to recovery

For my first editorial column, I thought I’d investigate the impact of the pandemic on the environment.

More Editors comment

Time for more women to forge careers in engineering, says expert panel(26/06/2020)

A Formula 1 track-side Fuel Engineer, the Chief Programme Engineer at Ford, the Head of Environmental Science at HS2 and a Project Manager behind the London 2012 Olympics. What do they all have in common?
Disruption in manufacturing due to Brexit will have negative impact on UK economy(24/06/2020)

Brexit will have adverse effects on a UK manufacturing sector highly integrated with the EU single market, and that disruption will have a negative impact on the wider UK economy, a new report by UK in a Changing Europe finds.
Could the move to electric cars rescue the UK economy?(23/06/2020)

In the next five years, the move to electric cars could benefit the UK economy by £24 billion, according to new research from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC).
Career considerations: a day in the life of a Project Manager(22/06/2020)

Today, we’re catching up with Abi Thompson. Abi has worked her way up from a junior role all the way to Project Manager at SMD, a large independent designer and manufacturer of subsea remotely operated vehicles.
The impact of COVID-19 on the electric vehicle market(17/06/2020)

DPA speaks with Doron Myersdorf, CEO of lithium-ion battery company StoreDot, to find out the long- and short-term impact of COVID-19 on the electric vehicle (EV) market.