Disrupt or die? Let's start with the fundamentals 17th July 2018
Your digital strategy must be driven by a clear understanding of the customer’s needs and the way your products relate to them. Digital transformation doesn’t require a radical rethink of a business model that previously brought success – it simply means leveraging better, more efficient technologies to meet and exceed customer expectations and allow data to shape strategic priorities. Thomas Honoré, CEO of Columbus explains how vital peer insight from early adopters can help manufacturers embrace disruption and stay ahead of the competition.
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The pressure engineers face to produce new product features -
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Around the Industry
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Navigating Brexit: The migration minefieldThe manufacturers’ organisation, EEF, has warned that nearly half of the UK’s manufacturers remain concerned about their ability to access skills post-Brexit, according to a report launched in May.
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WACKER signs up Intertronics for silicone distributionMunich based chemical company WACKER and Intertronics are pleased to announce the signing of a distribution contract under which Intertronics will sell WACKER’s range of RTV silicone encapsulants and potting compounds, adhesive sealants, and thermally conductive compounds to customers in the UK and Ireland.
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BOFA listed in the Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200It has been announced that BOFA International, the Poole-based company in fume and dust extraction technology, has been named among Britain’s top 200 fastest growing mid-sized businesses for export sales. The company enters the list at 163 and is one of only 11 headquartered in the South West of England to feature in The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200.
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Disrupt or die? Let's start with the fundamentalsYour digital strategy must be driven by a clear understanding of the customer’s needs and the way your products relate to them. Digital transformation doesn’t require a radical rethink of a business model that previously brought success – it simply means leveraging better, more efficient technologies to meet and exceed customer expectations and allow data to shape strategic priorities. Thomas Honoré, CEO of Columbus explains how vital peer insight from early adopters can help manufacturers embrace disruption and stay ahead of the competition.
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The pressure engineers face to produce new product featuresNew research from Plastic Logic suggests that display innovation in product design is being stifled by habitual process and a lack of experimentation. Despite 83% of the engineers surveyed ranking ‘innovating new product features’ as an important priority - and 66% agreeing that the choice of display has a major impact on the end design of their product - only 20% are actually conducting a rigorous assessment of display technologies as part of design projects.
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Analytical advantage: peering into the future of manufacturingToo many manufacturers find themselves stuck in the past, prisoners of their own highly complex systems and supply chains. They sit on treasure troves of data generated by machinery, employees and customers, but lack the ability to turn it into actionable insight. Business intelligence (BI) has long been a manufacturing mainstay.
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A nuanced approach to manufacturing with bolts and fixingsThe manufacturing sourcing and supply process today is more than ever concerned with supporting robust procedures to ensure reliable quality and performance at highly competitive prices. But the greatest concern is probably that of getting it wrong as this is often the greatest cost of all. Challenge Europe can help even with apparently simple threaded fasteners like flange bolts – used for speed and where people don’t want the inconvenience of a separate washer for load spreading or anti-vibration purposes.
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Future Engineering Ireland sees manufacturing technologies debutThe size and value of Ireland’s manufacturing sector has grown hugely over the last few decades and that growth continued at record levels last year. With over 4,000 firms operating in range of hi-tech sectors, from medical to aerospace, the market for manufacturing technology is huge. The biggest event in the country’s manufacturing calendar is the National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition a one-day event which attracts over 4,000 people to the Citywest venue outside Dublin.
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