
Five ways manufacturers use analytics to drive up labour productivity
We asked some of our key customers to tell us how they use the data and analysis, that our solutions give them to drive their continuous productivity improvement programs….
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We asked some of our key customers to tell us how they use the data and analysis, that our solutions give them to drive their continuous productivity improvement programs….
Whether you voted to leave or remain, like it or not, the UK is destined to leave the European Union within the next two to three years. Brexit may…
Poor labour productivity rates are a growing concern for policymakers and manufacturers alike. Output per hour in manufacturing fell by 2% during the final quarter of 2015 but rose…
UK Labour Productivity According to the Office for National Statisticsā (ONS) most recent Labour Productivity statistical bulletin [1], the weakness of manufacturing productivity has been a ādefining featureā of…
Jeremy Harford, Managing Director of MESTEC, explains the five reasons why your manufacturing KPIs fail to improve factory performance. By all accounts, times are tough for UK manufacturers. The…
If manufacturers want advice on making small change for big wins, MESTECās Jeremy Harford believes they could do a lot worse than looking to Great Britainās Olympic cycling team,…
Most manufacturing businesses have a strong handle on overall company profitability, but some ā especially those making multiple products with high labour content ā struggle to set product pricing…
Productivity growth in the UK today is at its worst since World War II[1]. In fact, the Financial Times states that Britain has ālost the abilityā to improve productivity[2] since…
Your people are your most important assets; change the way you manage your manufacturing workforceās performance and youāll start to notice your operational key performance indicators (KPIs) falling into…
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is a suite of applications that a business can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities, including: product planning;…
āIf you canāt measure it, you canāt manage it,ā so said Management Consultant Peter Drucker, and this certainly holds true for the manufacturing environment. Depending on the systems and…
According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), UK workers produced less during 2014 than they did in 2007. The actual output per worker fell by 0.2 per cent….