About Manufacturing IQ
Strategic & Operational Advisory and Board-Level Support for Manufacturing Businesses
Manufacturing IQ supports manufacturing businesses and industrial enterprises in enhancing performance, bolstering competitiveness, executing strategy, and leading change and transformation. We accelerate profitable growth through our operational leadership and strategic operational advisory, along with tailored board-level support.
Founded by Halil Bedevi, Manufacturing IQ offers seasoned, practical, and commercially focused advice to business leaders, boards, and investors both in the UK and on an international scale.
With over 30 years of experience in engineering, manufacturing operations, business strategy, transformation, international trade, and industrial growth, Halil has worked across a diverse range of companies from start-ups and SMEs to FTSE 350 and FTSE 100 multinationals in engineering, manufacturing operations, consulting, and senior management roles. He adeptly combines hands-on operational leadership with strategic insight and maintains an extensive network across industry, academia, government, and finance.
Manufacturing IQ collaborates with SMEs, scale-ups, and larger industrial organizations, assisting leadership teams in enhancing performance, executing transformation, navigating growth, and strengthening governance amidst periods of change and increasing operational complexity.
Our Approach
We start with your situation, your ambitions, and what success looks like for you. We listen, challenge, analyze, and provide clear options—avoiding generic answers or PowerPoint for PowerPoint's sake. Our board-level support ensures that we work alongside you as part of your team, turning insight into practical action and measurable results for your manufacturing business.
We recognize that no one is an expert in everything. Therefore, we only take on work that we can deliver to the highest standard, leveraging our trusted ecosystem of manufacturing leaders, industry bodies, academia, government, and innovation networks when specialist expertise or connections can enhance the outcome of our strategic operational advisory.
Our focus is simple: understand what matters, bring the right expertise and relationships together, and help you achieve tangible results—not just produce a report.
Understand: We listen to grasp your situation, challenges, ambitions, and constraints.
Analyze: We assess the issues, opportunities, and options, distinguishing symptoms from underlying causes.
Decide: We assist you in determining what matters most and what steps should follow.
Deliver: We collaborate closely with your team to convert decisions into action and measurable results.
Connect: When additional expertise is needed, we engage the right people and organizations from our ecosystem.
Why Manufacturing IQ ?
Practical manufacturing experience with a focus on strategic operational advisory provides board-level support for manufacturing businesses. Our trusted ecosystem relationships foster independent and flexible support, ensuring proven results.
Our Team
Halil Bedevi MSc, FMM, CEng, FIET
ABOUT HALIL BEDEVI
Halil Bedevi MSc, FMM, CEng, FIET is a Chartered Engineer and manufacturing executive with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing, engineering, operations, consulting, and industrial growth. He is a leader in industrial strategy, providing board-level support to various organisations.
Throughout his career, Halil has held senior leadership and board-level roles in prominent manufacturing and industrial organisations, including Airbus Defence & Space and Santander UK plc, where he was the UK Head of Advanced Manufacturing.
Currently, Halil supports manufacturing businesses as a consultant, board advisor, fractional executive, and interim leader through Manufacturing IQ, focusing on delivering strategic operational advisory services.
In addition to his work with Manufacturing IQ, Halil holds several significant roles:
- Senior Strategic Advisor at 3HORIZONS Strategy Consulting
- Industrial Associate at the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing (IfM Engage)
- Visiting Fellow & Advisory Board Member at Cranfield University
- Senior Advisor & Executive Board Member at Global Trading Agency (GTA)
- Innovate UK Funding Assessor
- Advisory Board Member at Easyfairs, Southern Manufacturing & Electronics
- Advisory Board Member at Manufacturing Today, Manufacturing Data Summit
Halil is regarded as a thought leader and a trusted voice within UK manufacturing. He frequently shares his insights at industry events, actively participates in manufacturing policy discussions, and contributes to industrial strategy initiatives.
He was shortlisted for the ‘Outstanding Contribution to UK Manufacturing Industry’ award in 2025 and 2026.
Our Ecosystem Partners
Industry | Academia | Government | Finance | Innovation | International markets
No one is an expert at everything. Manufacturing IQ collaborates with a trusted ecosystem of specialists, institutions, and industry organisations, offering board-level support to manufacturing businesses by bringing the right expertise, relationships, and resources to each challenge.
We leverage this global ecosystem, which encompasses trade bodies, innovation centres, specialist advisers, financial institutions, industry clusters, and academia, including the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and Cranfield University, to provide strategic operational advisory tailored to each client’s unique needs.
Our goal is to unite the right expertise, insight, and capabilities, helping clients navigate their challenges efficiently.