The talent to take on the world
The plethora of young talent at the Manufacturing Champions Awards 2015 has put a spring in the step of Dirk Villé General Manager of Atlas Copco Compressors UK
View ArticleKeeping the alligators at bay on all sides
Put your lean know-how to the test in our continuous improvement dilemma column
View ArticleMan in the mirror
Do you see yourself as adding to the skills gap, or are you helping narrow it? Ashley Maile, MD of PEME, believes we really need to do more of the latter
View ArticleThe power of the pen in a digital age
Put your lean know-how to the test in our continuous improvement dilemma column
View ArticleIf you strike us down, Darth Osborne...
It’s no surpise to see politicans piggy backing on the back of popular culture. But, top marks to the government for taking things up a notch. In the midst of Star Wars fever, Cameron et al have pulled...
View ArticleA cost-effective plug for the skills gap
An initiaitive involving lean and continuous improvement infrastructure training is being aggresively driven by the UK government. Adam Hayes, director of training provider JTJ Workplace Solutions,...
View ArticleCI dilemma: Seconds out....Shopfloor vs back office
This month all hell breaks loose when a Six Sigma exercise turns sour. How would you react?
View ArticleA steel-plated sucker punch
Writing this column is increasingly like being ringside at a heavyweight boxing world title fight. UK manufacturing was caught by an unexpected right cross last month with George Osborne’s decision to...
View ArticleFactory of the future: What will 2050 look like?
Faced by challenges around price and availability of resources, the food and drink manufacturing industry needs to undertake a further stage of transformation.
View ArticleMAS had lost its way and had to go
Jeremy Old, consultant and author of Reinventing Management Thinking
View ArticleCI Dilemma: The king is dead...
Old loyalties die hard when a much loved manufacturing director departs
View ArticleIt's crucial that we remain in the EU
James Selka, chief executive of the Manufacturing Technologies Association
View ArticleCI Dilemma: The lion and the lamb
A team leader is a 5S fanatic win front of management, but it’s a very different story when he’s with his shopfloor pals
View ArticleDriving Scotland’s productivity
Nick Shields, director of the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS) at Scottish Enterprise
View ArticleBig Al causes big problems
A strong approach is needed to rein in a change-resistant factory bulldog
View ArticleBut that should be a job for the CI guy
Employing a dedicated CI specialist doesn't have the desired effect on a company's workforce
View ArticleAll work and no play? How manufacturing can benefit from gamification
Robert Dagge, Managing Director, Dynistics
View ArticleLet the games begin...
An intra-factory competition ends up causing severe rifts between the teams
View ArticleWhy productivity matters
Dr Pietro Micheli, associate professor of organisational performance at University of Warwick Business School
View ArticleThe 5S fanatic who’s gone too far
Bill will do anything to keep his work area spic and span, even ignoring stricken colleagues
View ArticleBattling the workplace winter blues
Neil Pickering, marketing & industry insights manager at Kronos
View ArticleCI Dilemma: The post-consultant crash
It doesn’t take long for anarchy to ensue after a CI guru leaves his disciples to it…
View ArticleCI Dilemma: Not meeting with expectations
A lean-style morning debrief distorts into an excuse to down tools in this month’s dilemma
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