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A new piece of industry research - jointly conducted by The Engineer and manufacturing software supplier aPriori - offers some fascinating insights into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UK engineering and manufacturing

There can be no doubt, 2020 threw us a curveball. And whilst the ability to adapt may be hardcoded in an engineer’s DNA, the impact of the global pandemic has pushed us all harder and faster towards a radically different future.

The Engineer teamed up with leading digital manufacturing simulation software provider, aPriori, to conduct a readership survey on the effects of COVID-19 in the UK industrial engineering sector. The response was unprecedented, offering fascinating insights into the state of our industrial nation, and our shared industrial future.

Five months after its initial landfall in the West, COVID-19 has reconfigured the future of industrial engineering. Analysts have been quick to turn a spotlight on the pain, but what of the opportunity? Will we look back in a decade’s time and find we arrived at our desired destination faster than we had initially anticipated? Did COVID-19 push a button for industry that was long overdue?

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