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NAA Member News: Senseye launches industry-first ROI Guarantee
Uncertainty is feared by businesses everywhere, yet we’re operating at a time when the economic outlook is as unpredictable as it’s ever been… Against this backdrop, a ‘play it safe’ mentality is understandable, but the irony is that it could be holding manufacturers back from investing in the sort of smart systems that would actually […]
NAA Partner News: Make UK Mid-Year Policy Wins 2020 Backing You To Engineer The Future
The first half of 2020 has proved to be a year of challenges and changes for UK manufacturing. Despite Covid-19 hitting our sector hard, manufacturers have risen to the challenge and responded… With your support our 2020 Mid-Year Policy Wins report shows the impact Make UK has had in influencing Government policy and winning real […]
Industry News: Find out how innovative leadership is helping SME manufacturers take on their toughest test
The Made Smarter Leadership Programme allows manufacturing businesses to develop strategic thinking to support the adoption of hi-tech and digitally-based manufacturing techniques into their own production processes, and learn how to successfully bring employees and other stakeholders along on their digital transformation journey… Register for the new Made Smarter Leadership Programme starting October 2020, delivered […]
NAA Member News – Warwick Acoustics and University of Warwick are awarded a £370,000 grant from InnovateUK
Warwick Acoustics Ltd, a manufacturer of next generation audio systems for the automotive sector and personal use, is delighted to announce the award of a grant from *Innovate UK to support development of a lower cost version of its patented ElectroAcoustics Audio Panels for next generation vehicles. The £370,000 grant awarded to Warwick Acoustics and […]
NAA Member News – Businesswise Solutions Identify Over £1.5m Worth of Annual Energy Savings
NAA Member and Energy management tech company, Businesswise Solutions, has achieved a significant landmark with its Energy Management as a Service™ (EMaaS) solution, by identifying over £1.5million worth of annual energy savings for its energy intensive clients. To put that number into context, that’s a staggering 20,000,000 kwh. To put this into perspective that’s enough […]
How innovative leadership is helping SME manufacturers take on their toughest test
SME manufacturers, supported by Lancaster University Management School through the Made Smarter project, have embraced a new approach to leadership during the coronavirus crisis. Forced to close or reduce operations in factories and offices, owners and senior managers involved in the North West digital technology adoption pilot faced their toughest test as they figured out […]
NAA Member News: Axiom Engineering takes delivery of a state-of-the-art Mazak 5 Axis Machining Centre
As we now find ourselves in unchartered waters due to the recent pandemic it would be easy to batten down the hatches and consolidate our existing customer base and look to reduce costs where possible. We decided to take an alternative approach, if you’re not building for future success, you’re building for future failure. Due […]
NAA Member News – 3DGBIRE & BAC Partnership
3D printing enables supercar design and production 3DGBIRE and Briggs Automotive Company (BAC), who are both NAA Members, have announced a new partnership to enable the continued adoption of 3D Printing. BAC began its additive manufacturing journey with the launch of the Mono R – a higher-performance, lighter and more advanced new generation of the […]
Redundancy Support Service for Apprentices – Update from Department for Education
Sent to levy paying employers on Monday, 3rd August. The new and comprehensive service to support redundant apprentices is now live. The service consists of 3 pivotal elements: advice and guidance signposting to additional support vacancy sharing service The active involvement and participation of employers is key to making the vacancy sharing service become an […]
NAA Update: How our industry is adapting to the latest challenges
Welcome to this month’s newsletter and I hope that you are all still keeping safe and well… As always, I will just re-iterate that as an automotive cluster organisation, we are still here to support you; as a reminder, please see our information regarding Covid-19 business support using this link. Last month we facilitated the […]
