Process Engineering magazine relaunches in new ‘agile’ format
20 Jun 2023
Process Engineering magazine has relaunched this week in a new and more modern digital-friendly format.
In place of its traditional sections, the new style publication will be organised around key areas that impact process firms’ business strategy. These include Industry 4.0, supply chain, health and safety, asset management, control & automation, sustainability, data analytics and process optimisation.
News stories and case studies, which were a key element of the magazine, will now feature exclusively on the website.
“The sectors we cover are increasingly quickly being transformed by the consequences of industrial transformation, Brexit, pandemic, sustainable practice, regulatory demands and the skills gap. Like them, we need to respond more quickly to events as they happen,” said editor Brian Attwood.
“Our intention is that this relaunch will enable us to adopt a more agile response to issues of particular interest to our audience as they arise, rather than forcing them to comply with a fixed format or determining our priorities at the start of each year.”
Publisher and head of the publication’s parent company Synthesis Media Sean Marshall, who provided the remit for the redesign, was keen to modernise the look and feel of Process Engineering’s digital magazine, that had previously duplicated the more rigid style of the original print publication.
The new format, created by art editor Steven Lillywhite and implemented by production editor Lisa Martland, also has benefits for advertisers because it allows the addition of single pages at a later stage in the production process; print publications can increase only in ‘webs’ of four pages, making any additions more costly and time consuming and so tend to operate on a predetermined pagination.
Business Development Manager Andrew Long, responsible too for advertising on Synthesis Media’s Laboratory News and Laboratory Talk titles, is also looking to offer more opportunities for advertisers on Process Engineering’s newsletter and its 33,000-strong social media following.
TO VIEW the new Process Engineering magazine click here. Features within the current edition include articles on: how Industry 4.0 innovations like ‘certification by analysis’ are supplanting traditional ‘make and test’ approaches; how apps could help tackle workplace mental health; why exporters to the EU face a compliance challenge; tipping the balance against supply chain fraudsters; and a review of the CHEMUK trade show.
