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How Well Do You Know Your Supply Chain?
01 Jul 2005
The recent removal of products from supermarket shelves due to the use of banned, carcinogenic food dyes prompted the largest recall of food products in UK history. It highlighted the importance of building strong communication lines with your supply chain. All manufacturers, regardless of whether they are in food, electrics or mechanical manufacturing, must have traceability systems in place to identify the origins of raw material and standards of suppliers, says Arthur Richardson of the South West MAS.
Summit Required to Tackle Chinese Challenge
01 Jul 2005
The TUC has called on the Government to host a special manufacturing summit to examine how British industry can prepare itself to tackle the threat to companies and jobs posed by the rapidly expanding Chinese economy.
Aerospace Metal Finishers Struggle with NADCAP Burden
01 Jul 2005
According to a statement issued last month by the Surface Engineering Association (SEA) Standards Committee it would appear that the Nadcap (National Aerospace Defence Contractors'Accreditation Programme) has promised much but delivered very little except increased costs. Many companies cannot absorb these costs and thus will have to pass them back up the supply base to the subscribing primes who seem relatively unconcerned about the additional pressures they are placing upon an already struggling sector of industry.
European Industry Urged to Stop Wasting Potential Young Leadership Talent
01 Jul 2005
The former CEO of ICI Polyurethanes and president of Huntsman Performance Chemicals, has told European industry it is wasting valuable talent. In a speech to the European Institute for Industrial Leadership (EIIL), Patrick Thomas, called on corporations and institutions throughout Europe to examine the potential of engineers, scientists and technologists in their organizations and develop the most talented to create the industrial leaders of tomorrow.
