The Manufacturer Podcast

We're back! Tom St John, Joe Bush and Lanna Deamer (James Devonshire was too full of gin) catch up after a few weeks of radio silence. Find out about Lanna's horrific house move and why it's all a man called Paul's fault. Hear how the start of a stag do turned into a story about biofuel in commercial planes. And see why a recent sustainable headline on The Manufacturer website lead...

Hi there listener, After a short break, the podcast returns with this special episode on sustainability - which we're also making episode one of our Sustainability Series. This is a taste of some of the discussions you might hear at Manufacturing & Engineering Week in June. We have Andrew Frankland from Forest Nation, one of our partners of the event. He talks about some of the communities...

Hi listener, We say farewell to our People & Skills Series, for now, with this season finale. During a string of factory visits in the Midlands, we visit the sites of TMMX Award Winners in the People & Skills category. Lisi Aerospace and Lander Tubular Products are the two previous winners of this award and both companies feature in this episode. We speak to a wellbeing coach and two young...

Hey listener, keeping well? We have a special episode for you focussing on the topic of people and skills. Separate from our current series on this same topic, this episode is in promotion of Manufacturing and Engineering Week, taking place in Birmingham this year on 7-8 June. This episode features a fantastic interview with Natasha Lyth, Sustainability Manager at Gripple and Catriona Booth, Syste...

Hey listener, fancy another one? In the fifth episode of this People & Skills Series, we chat to some of the winning categories at The Engineering Trust Awards which took place in Oxford on Wednesday night. And our hosts; Tom, Joe and Lanna discuss whether apprenticeships are creating the right opportunities for women in manufacturing. Enjoy!

Listener, welcome back. In this episode Rashitha Jayasekara of Rolls Royce discusses how the digital skills gap is impacting the ability to scale projects and unlock the next stages of digital transformation. After partnering with Multiverse, who are supplying training and apprenticeship programmes, Rolls Royce is upskilling it's staff with modern digital capabilities. As well as this, one of the...

Our next episode features Elliot Bloor, an apprentice at Siemens, who speaks about his route from school into the world of manufacturing. This is taken from a recent episode of The Manufacturer Podcast’s People & Skills series, and was part of our extensive coverage of National Apprenticeship Week 2023.

This episode of The Manufacturer Archives is an interview taken from our 2023 People & Skills Series on The Manufacturer Podcast with Angela Lawlor. Angela set up Marvellous Manufacturing, an idea that came to her during the 2020 lockdown. This is part of her mission to link manufacturers to schools, colleges and universities.  Her interview is taken from an episode of The Manufacturer Po...

This episode features Anita Davenport, the Group HR Manager for Lander Tubular Products, who won our Manufacturer of the Year Award at The Manufacturer MX Awards of 2021 Anita is also the Regional Chair for the West Midlands Apprenticeship Ambassador Network. You may have heard her already in the People & Skills series of The Manufacturer Podcast, which aired during National Apprenticeship Wee...

Noorzaman Rashid features in this episode of The Manufacturer Archives, after we took a visit to The Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence. Or as it’s known, CEME Noorzaman featured in episode two of our people and skills series of 2023, this is his interview with Multimedia Editor, Tom St John, in full.

In this episode of The Manufacturer Archives it's another interview taken from the show floor of Smart Factory Expo in 2022. Sumeet Ladsaongikar, Partner at Kearney, was a keynote speaker at Manufacturing Leaders Summit that same year. Here he is talking about the value chain trilemma of financial, resilience and sustainability performance.

Hey there, listener! The third episode of our People & Skills Series coincides with National Apprenticeship Week 2023. Our coverage of the week has been extensive, to say the least. In keeping with that, we've got a packed-out-pod, featuring Anita Davenport-Brooks from Lander Automotive and Angela Lawlor who set up Marvellous Manufacturing in 2020. Both discuss the importance of promoting appr...

In this episode of The Manufacturer Archives we speak to Andrew Schofield, Chair of the Northwest Aerospace Alliance, an initiative which supports the county’s advanced manufacturing and engineering companies. This interview was taken from the show floor at Smart Factory Expo 2022.

In this episode, we hear from Susan Brench, CEO of Starbons - manufacturers of mesoporous carbons from bio-renewable biomass. We spoke with Susan following her involvement in SME Growth Summit 2022, to find out more about the company and its journey so far.

In episode 2 of our People & Skills series, sponsored by FANUC: Learn more about the support that Lloyds Banking Group is providing the AMTC. (Advanced Manufacturing Technology Centre) A sponsorship package worth £15m will support AMTC apprenticeship programmes and the wider UK manufacturing sector. As well as that, CEME (Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence) is geared towards i...

Hey listener.  Episode 1 of our series on People & Skills kicks off with a look at the Team Tempest project. The development of new technologies that will be integral to the next generation of combat aircraft will also centre very much around people. We look at that and more in this episode.

You're listening to The Manufacturer Archives. In these episodes you'll get to hear interviews, in full and largely unedited, with some of the best manufacturers, leaders, industry analysts, young pioneers, innovators and solution providers. In this episode of The Manufacturer Archives, we have the full interview with Mark Hughes of Epicor from The Manufacturer Studio at Smart Factory Expo.

You're listening to The Manufacturer Archives. In these episodes you'll get to hear interviews, in full and largely unedited, with some of the best manufacturers, leaders, industry analysts, young pioneers, innovators and solution providers. In this episode, we have the full interview with Nick Davis of Deloitte from The Manufacturer Studio at Smart Factory Expo.

You're listening to The Manufacturer Archives. In these episodes you'll get to hear interviews, in full and largely unedited, with some of the best manufacturers, leaders, industry analysts, young pioneers, innovators and solution providers. This episode features the CEO of Make UK, Stephen Phipson, speaking to us from the manufacturer studio at Smart Factory Expo 2022. We caught him just before h...

You're listening to The Manufacturer Archives. In these episodes you'll get to hear interviews, in full and largely unedited, with some of the best manufacturers, leaders, industry analysts, young pioneers, innovators and solution providers. In this episode of The Manufacturer Archives, Sebastian Elmgren, Head of Business Development & Product Marketing at Ericsson, speaks to us at The Manufac...

You're listening to The Manufacturer Archives. In these episodes you'll get to hear interviews, in full and largely unedited, with some of the the best manufacturers, leaders, industry analysts, young pioneers, innovators and solution providers. In this episode of The Manufacturer Archives, it's an interview from Gordon Macrae, Special Projects Manager at Gripple, our TMMX Manufacturer of the Year...

Welcome back, listener - and happy new year!  In this first episode of 2023, we're talking you through the packed events calendar for this year as well as some of the stuff you can expect to see popping up across all of The Manufacturer's content platforms.  Re-join the fun with Tom St John, Joe Bush and Lanna Deamer.  Also hear reaction following the UK's first orbital space launch...

Hi there listener,  In this bumper episode of The Manufacturer Podcast, we say goodbye to 2022 with an end of year special.  Our most excellent podcast sponsors Accenture join us to review the trends in manufacturing and technology innovations. Stephanie Lindan and George Long join us to discuss common misconceptions, the areas where manufacturers are making progress and abundant rewards...

‘Sup listener? In this final episode of our miniseries on sustainability, we hear how this topic is viewed in The Philippines, a country where the average monthly wage is just £250 and severe weather concerns are frequent. Our International Reporter James Devonshire loves this country that he calls home but says that sustainability just isn’t a high priority. We also feature Jim McConalogue, CEO o...

Hi listener.  In this episode, we have Graham Malley of Accenture, our podcast sponsors, and Brian Holliday of Siemens. A line up that would leave even Gareth Southgate spoilt for choice!  We explore the various manufacturing trends when it comes to green practices and evaluate how well the UK is doing as a whole, what more it could do and how sustainability is increasingly making its wa...