The launch of the Made Smarter Commission’s £20m North West Pilot last year is now bearing fruit. The project, which is designed to encourage, inform and assist smaller manufacturers into the process of adopting digital manufacturing technologies, has now appointed a chair of the Pilot steering board, whose job it will be to monitor progress of this vital initiative. Vital, because on its success hangs the fate of the entire manufacturing element of the government’s Industrial Strategy.
The new chair is Andrea Thompson, managing director for Europe & International Programmes at BAE Systems, which includes the F-35 Lightning fighter programme. She spoke about her role to Nick Peters.
