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Capital ideas
Now that industry's fortunes appear to be picking up, will manufacturers be able to square the circle of maintaining cost controls, while reinvigorating their capital investment programmes? Ken Hurst finds out |
20/07/2010
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Make or break
The pressure is on to innovate. Annie Gregory asks what really makes the difference between success and failure |
24/05/2010
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Home or away
In building a sourcing strategy, how should manufacturers weigh the pros and cons of extending their supply chains into foreign climes in pursuit of low-cost manufacturing, or staying at home and swallowing higher production costs in the interests of quality, speed of delivery and lower logistics bills? Ken Hurst seeks out some answers |
17/03/2010
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A sporting chance
With UK manufacturing capital investment running at more than £1 billion below pre-recession levels, Colin Chinery asks how far this – along with tight credit and funding availability – could hobble a resurgent British manufacturing |
20/01/2010
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The dark ages
What happened to financial security at the end of working life? Annie Gregory finds out how industry is coping with the pensions black hole |
17/11/2009
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An inspector calls
You can have the safest workplace in the world, but that won't turn a profit or make you successful. To tick some of the other boxes you may need professional help, as John Dwyer explains |
22/10/2009
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Safe in the knowledge
Risk management can be a complex business – but next month's Health & Safety 09 event promises to help manufacturers cut a path through this complexity with a host of useful seminars, a conference, and an exhibition featuring many leading product and service suppliers |
22/09/2009
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What's the point of origin?
Manufacturing's coming home, so they say, but is it true that UK manufacturers have fallen out of love with sourcing from low-cost countries? Ken Hurst finds out |
22/07/2009
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Business without boundaries
They used to say export or die. They still do. Ken Hurst looks across the manufacturing spectrum to illustrate the growing importance of international trading |
17/06/2009
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At your service
If manufacturing isn’t what it used to be, what might it become? Ken Hurst finds out that the answer could be a blue and white collar hybrid |
20/05/2009
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A problem shared
Virtual teams, working together across engineering, manufacturing and supply chains, are trendy in concept, but what do you really need to make them work? Brian Tinham reports |
15/04/2009
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Staying alive!
We are where we are. Industry didn’t create the credit crunch, but we still have to find ways of surviving it. Annie Gregory finds out where the lifebelts are lurking |
17/03/2009
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Cross dresser
Employers must take care when seeking to implement and enforce dress codes so as not to expose themselves to claims of religious discrimination. Ruth Nodder reports |
17/03/2009
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Wholly matrimony
Are manufacturers rushing to the altar to share their worldly goods or did the cost of a wedding just get too high? Ken Hurst courts some newly-weds and some marriage guidance counsellors to find out |
18/02/2009
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First in, last out?
How objective are your selection criteria for redundancy? it's a question of some significance in the current climate, says Louise Burn |
18/02/2009
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A sporting chance
They’re magnificent men and women, but who’s behind the machines that make them fly? Ken Hurst looks at some of the leading edge design, innovation and product development that’s helping sportsmen and women towards their goals and golds |
21/01/2009
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Picking their brains
Academic institutions are powerhouses of scientific and technological
knowledge. Annie Gregory finds out how manufacturers can work with them
to transform their prospects |
18/11/2008
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Surviving the financial hurricane
There have been worse times to be in manufacturing than now. John Dwyer peers through the doom and gloom and finds plenty of reasons for optimism |
21/10/2008
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Dare you play R&D roulette?
Innovation needn’t be a gamble. There are ways of telling whether ideas will hit the jackpot and steps you can take to make sure you don’t back a loser. John Dwyer reports |
26/09/2008
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Entry-level knowledge
New immigration rules will impact migrant workers and their employers.
Vanessa Nicholls reports |
26/09/2008
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The inside view
What have consultants ever done for you? That’s the question Ken Hurst puts to a number of manufacturers |
14/07/2008
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Crisis, what crisis?
Where do you go when your business needs an injection of funds?
Annie Gregory investigates the options in today’s turbulent economic climate |
15/04/2008
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Planning makes perfect
How can a project of grand designs be achieved without disrupting production or service levels? Chris Rowlands finds out |
27/03/2008
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Law in your own hands
Vanessa Nicholls describes some of the forthcoming legislation that could affect manufacturing
employers across the country |
20/03/2008
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Personal choice
Consultants can be invaluable to manufacturers, helping them to drive through significant business change, or perhaps encouraging new thinking and new approaches. But how do you choose them – and then manage them? Is it common sense, or do you need a crib sheet? |
17/12/2007
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