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Right Tools for the Job – Time to Invest in Quality
I must confess to being one of those MAMIL’s! Middle Aged Man in Lycra! Every Sunday morning come rain, sleet, wind or sunshine (yeah right) I am there donning my lycra, setting up my garmin computer and strava profiles, and hitting the hills for a few hours of...
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Cycling to a better future! Marginal Gains
Yes I was at it again! 5.30am on a 4 degree Celsius dark and windy morning- I was donning the lycra, extra thermal base layers and preparing for a long cycle to my holiday destination for the next 5 days. The end goal was to meet the family 102 miles north at...
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Supplier Quality Engineering – the Biggest Opportunity you didn’t know you had
Delivery of goods, products and services, on time in full, and to the right standards of quality are the result of significant investment into getting it Right First Time. Quality is important for any business, albeit there will be different expectations on this...
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Discussion : Gender diversity, early engagement and how I believe that children are the future and that we should treat them well
I sat with my little girl at the weekend as she watched her favourite show on TV, being 4 years old she is full of energy and questions so I was thankful of the break. As the adverts started and the never ending procession of new toys, games and little plastic...
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White Trainer Vacancies – The curse of effective recruitment
A couple of weeks ago in a team meeting I presented a great opportunity to earn some additional cash. I set a challenge. A challenge that mirrored the recruitment process, albeit tenuously, so in essence a challenge that on the face of it the team should have been...
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Recruitment Spend V’s Cost of Recruitment : Value is King
Recruitment spend; the figure invoiced for services rendered for recruitment (tangible) Cost of recruitment; the invoiced figure (tangible) plus the cost of the time of internal stakeholders (tangible) plus the cost of dislocation for recruiting (intangible) I recall...
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Are engineers born or are they made?
One of the questions I always ask people in engineering is how they got into the industry in the first place. I ask this to engineering graduates, to those that took an apprenticeship routeand to those that got into engineering late in life. This is really a...
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Lean Manufacturing- How to assess whether your company is really LEAN or not?
Over the last decade British manufacturing and engineering companies have often identified that being LEAN is the way forward in becoming more efficient and intern improves bottom line. However LEAN is not merely a 5’s exercise on a Friday afternoon, or a Kaizen...
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What’s holding back Lean?
Lean is the term used to describe the production system developed by the Toyota company in the post World War II years. "Lean" comes from the ability to achieve more with less resource, by the continuous elimination of waste. Lean manufacturing principles/ tools...
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Leadership- The driving force behind a LEAN organisation.
It has become evident that many companies who have implemented LEAN manufacturing principles across the board are failing, and failing miserably at that. Organisations are too quick out of the blocks and concentrate on implementing the lean tools without first...
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