Leeds Manufacturing Festival  has announced it will host the launch of a pioneering new digital platform this week, showcasing the very best employers offering engineering apprenticeships across the UK, as part of the festival’s campaign to address the skills and recruitment crisis facing manufacturing and engineering firms.

Oxford-based electrical/mechanical contractor and Royal Warrant holder Lowe & Oliver has announced it is officially launching its new apprentice training facility, the ’centre for excellence’, to mark the beginning of National Apprenticeship Week.

Brooklands Innovation Academy brought together 400 students aged 12-14 for an action-packed day of hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths education. Led, in person, by Professor Brian Cox CBE OBE FRS, and a key partner in the national Science Summer School programme.

FANUC UK has announced it is is once again inviting the next generation of robotics engineers to enter the WorldSkills UK Industrial Robotics competition.

GRUNDFOS says of all the changes that have come about to our working lives in 2020, one of the biggest has given us a lot of new opportunities to learn. One key route for satisfying this thirst for knowledge, has been the development of a wide range of Grundfos webinars that have all been designed to appeal to any professional that has an interest in pump solutions.

ABB has announced it has won “Contribution to Skills and Training” at the annual Motion Control Industry awards and says the prize recognises its commitment to helping industries to tackle their biggest challenges – from cutting energy consumption and CO2 emissions to reducing the millions of litres of clean drinking water lost through leakage.

PULSAR INSTRUMENTS, noise expert for 50 years, says its customers can find out everything they need to know about measuring and managing workplace noise .

Industrial lubricant manufacturer HOUGHTON INTERNATIONAL has announced the launch of a new, dedicated consultation and training facility, named the Fluid Intelligence Academy.

As part of its latest series of free webinars, HBM, a market leader in the field of test and measurement, is inviting participants to help expand their skills and grow their knowledge. HBM says designed to fit in with challenging time constraints, which can often make attending relevant training courses difficult, its latest series of webinars, which will take place in November 2018, will provide advice and focus on a variety of topics.

March 31st 2018 marked a new standard for the global wind industry when members of the GWO announced that from that date they required technicians working on their wind turbines to have a valid GWO BTT certificate.

With a contribution to the Gross Domestic Product of £455.6 billion and an estimated 5.7 million jobs in the UK, it is undeniable that the engineering and manufacturing industry forms a solid career choice. It is one of the largest economic sectors in the UK, and students are picking up on this early.

PULSAR INSTRUMENTS has announced it is holding its 30th One Day Noise Awareness Training Course on 13 June 2018 at the National Space Centre, Leicester. The company says its one day noise awareness course offers comprehensive training on how and why to measure noise, what to measure and how often to measure it.

MCP CONSULTING GROUP says with both theoretical and practical modules its M to E accredited conversion programme (City & Guilds) offers real return on investment and is aimed at technicians who have no previous electrical background to enable them to multi-skill and work on specific electrical tasks, competently and safely. This progressive, 4-part programme includes both on- and off-site training and focuses on delegates using the knowledge gained and applying it in fault-finding activities. It also revises key safety and legislative components of the core course.

HBM – a market leader in the field of test and measurement – has announced the dates for its latest series of free webinars, which take place in April 2018. For those interested in the revolutionary eDrive system for testing electrical convertors and electrical machines from HBM, “Real Time Analysis of Electric Drives” takes place on Tuesday 17th April 2018. On Wednesday 18th April 2018, join Dr André Schäfer, Development Manager for High-Precision Measurement Chains at HBM, as he provides a general introduction to strain-gauge based “Precision Measurement Chains”.

SAFESTART, a leading safety training programme, invites companies to attend its latest discovery workshops. The events will take place in Windsor on Tuesday 13th March, Manchester on Wednesday 14th March and rounds off on the 15th of March in Dublin, Ireland.

ESAB has published its schedule of Gas Inspectors Training Courses for 2018. These will be held at ESAB's facilities in Waltham Cross and Chorley, and there are courses for both certification and re-certification. Following satisfactory completion of the course examination, successful candidates are presented with a City & Guilds Certificate, indicating that they are qualified to conduct full safety checks on individual oxy-fuel gas welding systems.

At its new training facility in Cheshire, ADVANCED VALVE SOLUTIONS says it has provided Valve Workshops that concentrate on concerns within the power industry, drawing on the expertise of its engineers as well attendees. The next ‘one-day’ workshop will be on the 8th November 2017. AVS says it has been instrumental in the provision of reliable and robust valves into Power Stations across Europe.

BALLUFF says it runs training courses throughout the year and the objective of its hands-on workshops is to teach the participants the optimal way to solve tasks related to industrial applications. Balluff says during the training, it will share its practical knowledge based on many years of experience as a manufacturer.