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first meeting of the Made Smarter Commission
includes senior members from Airbus, EEF, BAE Systems
and the TUC
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the commission will drive the boosting of
productivity, create more highly-skilled jobs in the
manufacturing industry
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the meeting co-chaired by Business Secretary
and Siemens CEOProfessor Juergen
Maier follows the Made Smarter Review in November
2017
The commission has been established to drive forward
digital developments in British manufacturing to boost
productivity, create more highly-skilled jobs and enable
more efficient, cleaner production systems, as part of the
government’s modern Industrial
Strategy.
Mr Clark and Juergen Maier will be joined by 8 women and 9
men from the some of the world’s leading businesses, and
trade bodies and academic institutions.
Key priorities for the first meeting include discussing the
North West pilot for adoption of digital technology by
manufacturers in the North West and the Industrial Strategy
Challenge Fund bid for digital manufacturing in development
which aims to bring together the UK’s world-leading
research with business to meet the major industrial and
societal challenges of our time.
The commission will also discuss the how the manufacturing
industry can be transformed by new techniques such as 3D
printing and other innovative uses of digital technologies
as well as the need for stronger and more ambitious
leadership.
Business Secretary said:
Britain has a long and proud manufacturing heritage
currently supporting 2.7 million jobs across the country,
and through our modern Industrial Strategy we are
creating opportunities for UK manufacturing to continue
to grow. The increased adoption of digital technologies
will bring enormous benefits potentially generating £455
billion over the next 10 years - boosting productivity,
creating thousands of new highly skilled jobs and
enabling more efficient, cleaner production systems.
We need strong partnership between government and
industry which is exactly why we have established the
Made Smarter Commission. I am proud that leading men and
women from industry, business and academia are working
with us to turn the ambition into a reality and enable
everyone to reap the rewards.
The commission was formed following the launch of
the Made Smarter
Review that brought together input and
recommendations from over 200 stakeholders, including
companies such as Rolls Royce, GKN, IBM, and Accenture. The
review had substantive input from SME’s as
well as academic institutions including the University of
Newcastle and the University of Cambridge.
The Made Smarter Commission is designed to oversee and take
forward a plan for the sector, including how manufacturing
will help realise the Grand Challenges, putting the
industry at the heart of the government’s modern Industrial
Strategy.
Stephen Phipson CBE,
EEF CEO said:
As a society we face huge challenges and manufacturing is
going to play an ever more key role in how we tackle
them. The establishment of the commission is a bold step
in harnessing the expertise right across our sector and
companies right across the spectrum should applaud the
government for setting it up. We look forward to helping
it play a key role in helping unleash the potential of
manufacturing as part of the fourth industrial revolution
and a modern industrial strategy.
Juergen Maier, CEO of Siemens said:
The Made Smarter Commission promises to deliver our core
recommendation of driving digitalisation across UK and
invigorating industrial strategy. We need now more than
ever to unite business, employees and government behind a
strategy that boosts industrial productivity and improves
living standards We will build on our North West Pilot,
and look at how we can scale our efforts up across the
country. If we get this right I believe we can kick start
a new industrial revolution, that puts digital tech at
the centre of economic policy making.
The UK sits in top 10 largest global manufacturing
economies and is the fourth largest in the EU. In 2017,
manufacturing GVA totalled £186 billion,
supporting 2.7 million jobs (with estimates of 5 million
across the whole manufacturing value chain) and still
accounts for 48% of the UK total exports of goods and
services.
Commission members
Chairs
- Co-Chair: Rt Hon MP, Secretary of State,
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
(BEIS)
- Co-Chair: Prof Juergen Maier, CEO Siemens UK
Members
- EEF: Dame Judith Hackitt, Chair
- GSK: Regis Simard, President Pharma Supply Chain
- GE Digital: Deborah Sherry, Chief Commercial Officer
- Renishaw Plc: William Lee OBE, CEO
- Royal Academy of Engineering: Dr Hayaatun
Sillem, CEO
- ICW: Margaret Wood MBE,
Chair
- Lambert Engineering: Mike Lewis, Associate Sales
Director
- Confederation of British Industry (CBI): Carolyn
Fairbairn, CEO
- ABB limited: Ian Funnell, CEO
- Nestle UK and Ireland: Dame Fiona Kendrick, Chair
and CEO
- Rolls Royce Plc: Hamid Mughal OBE,
Director for Global Manufacturing
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TUC: Frances
O’Grady, General Secretary
- Accenture: Oliver Benzecry, Managing Director
- Airbus UK: Katherine Bennett OBE,
Senior Vice President
- BAE Systems Plc: Nigel Whitehead CBE,
Chief Technology Officer
- AT Engine Controls: Andrea Hough OBE,
Managing Director
- Jaguar Land Rover Ltd: Grant McPherson, Executive
Director (Deputy attending, , Advanced
Manufacturing Engineering Director)
