{"id":5851,"date":"2020-07-23T07:44:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T07:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2020-07-23T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T11:33:56","slug":"week-30-in-manufacturing-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/week-30-in-manufacturing-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 30 in Manufacturing News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medical Device Manufacturing Opportunities Born from COVID-19 Disruption; Manufacturers warn of UK \u2018jobs bloodbath\u2019; Australian manufacturing has been in terminal decline but coronavirus might revive it;  Managing distress in the manufacturing sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Week-30-in-manufacturing-news-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Week-30-in-manufacturing-news-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Week-30-in-manufacturing-news-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Week-30-in-manufacturing-news-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Week-30-in-manufacturing-news.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Medical Device Manufacturing Opportunities Born from COVID-19 Disruption<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A new 2020 State of Manufacturing Report reveals industry leaders grappling with fallout from the pandemic while eyeing new opportunities created by the disruption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> COVID-19 has been brutal to the global manufacturing and supply chain ecosystems, medical device manufacturing included. But the manufacturing companies that survive COVID-19 will be the ones that recognized the innovation opportunities in the mix&nbsp;\u2014 not just the problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"MDDIonline (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mddionline.com\/manufacturing-processes\/medical-device-manufacturing-opportunities-born-covid-19-disruption\" target=\"_blank\">MDDIonline<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Manufacturers Warn of UK \u2018Jobs Bloodbath\u2019\u00a0 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>More than half of UK manufacturers expect to make job cuts over the next six months as large employers across automotive, aerospace and other core industries brace themselves for a sustained downturn in demand during the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK will lose high value skills in what is being called a \u201cjobs bloodbath\u201d by manufacturing trade group Make UK, whose members reported that their redundancy plans were ramping up as the prospects for a return to normal trading faded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/afa20d03-480a-4e56-a23e-4c522d96089c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Financial Times (opens in a new tab)\">Financial Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Australian Manufacturing has Been in Terminal Decline but Coronavirus Might Revive it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The widespread shutdown of global supply chains caused by COVID-19 has been good news for Adelaide metal printing company AML3D. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen quite a reasonable increase, probably two-fold from what we would normally get,&#8221; founder and managing director Andy Sales said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"ABC News (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-07-23\/coronavirus-pandemic-leads-to-australian-manufacturing-revival\/12481568\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Managing Distress in the Manufacturing Sector<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Business leaders in the manufacturing sector will need to take a brave, critical look at future business models or explore some form of restructuring process to protect their companies against the economic challenges arising from the coronavirus crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Pinset Mansions (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinsentmasons.com\/out-law\/guides\/managing-distress-manufacturing\" target=\"_blank\">Pinset Masons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Device Manufacturing Opportunities Born from COVID-19 Disruption; Manufacturers warn of UK \u2018jobs bloodbath\u2019; Australian manufacturing has been in terminal decline but coronavirus might revive it; Managing distress in the manufacturing sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Week 30 in Manufacturing News - MRPeasy Manufacturing Software Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manufacturing news week 30. 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