What is machinery downtime costing your business?

As a manufacturing business, machine malfunction can have far reaching consequences – not being able to deliver services and losing valuable time and money are just a few of the ways machinery failure can impact the smooth running of a production line. At Swift-Cut, we’ve spent a lot of our time thinking about ways to […]

On the job qualifications set to soar

A recent study carried out by EEF (The Manufacturers Organisation) has shown a massive shift in the UK manufacturing industry’s approach to employing young people.  Evidence gathered indicates a growing rise in prioritising apprenticeship programmes over graduate schemes to fill the growing skills gap. According to EEF, almost three quarters of companies (72%) intend to […]

Swift-Cut apprenticeship scheme

Back in 2014, Swift-Cut took on two young college students from Burton and South Derbyshire College as part of an apprenticeship scheme.  Studying on a two year course in electro-mechanical engineering (NVQ Level 2),  Mason and Jordan spent four days a week at our headquarters in Burton on Trent, with hands on learning under the […]