The media loves a good innovation story that offers us a glimpse of a bright new shiny future. The recent electric cars story is a case in point. The BBC, and to be fair all the major media organisations, went full tilt at a government announcement about setting a target to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040 and force everyone to buy electric vehicles.
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The British are a curious breed: torn between tradition and modernity, we welcome the new while embracing the old. This has led to some interesting 21st-Century revamps of British institutions, from the slick re-design of the London red bus, to the introduction of free wi-fi in telephone boxes.
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The trend towards reshoring has been growing for some time. It was initially prompted by Brexit, combined with a decline in the value of the pound, tariff disputes, geopolitical uncertainty and climate change. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, which has caused major disruption to global supply chains, has forced many manufacturing companies to take a long hard look at how and where they produce products and systems.
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There's an area where fracking is really going off the seismic scale - and it can be witnessed whenever the opposing forces of its anti and pro lobbies clash.
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Have you wondered how Brexit trade talks are going to be conducted? Are we, for example, going to take a sectoral approach or a broad-brush one-size-fits-all?
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Whether you’re after a critical component to get production back up and running, a regular consumables delivery, or expert technical advice, ERIKS deliver. And the figures show that ERIKS deliver on time, no less than 99.6% of the time.
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‘What happens if I train my staff and they leave?” is a question often asked by business owners and managers. It’s usually met with the response of “What if I don’t train them and they stay?”
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Responding to changing demand, seasonal trends and even the legislative landscape, can present a herculean task for businesses but what can the food & beverage industry and the pharmaceutical sectors learn from each other, if anything?
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5 people were killed in the waste and recycling industry in 2016, and 37 from 2010-15. Add in the 6,000+ workplace injuries in the industry over the same period, and it starts to look like a very dangerous place to work. But could it be your focus on the wrong KPIs that’s a potentially fatal error?
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It was Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook who encapsulated his business philosophy as “Move fast and break things.” While the same way of operating wouldn’t get you far in manufacturing, the underlying principle of being disruptive to open up new opportunities and new revenue streams still applies.
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