Cliff Notes Podcast: Lead manufacturing

Mick Tilley is Owner at Tried&True in North Yorkshire, a distributed agency. He's a failed comedian, a failed lawyer and a failed MMA fighter but when it comes to marketing, he is it. Founded in 2019, often disruptive and always innovative, but our philosophy is simple: marketing isn't a one-size fits all discipline. We bring tried and true strategies and tactics together to build bespoke solutions that fit you like a metaphorical glove. Get the show notes https://cliffnotespodcast.com/podcasts/43/

Matt Lacey is Sales & Marketing Manager at H V Wooding a precision component, motor lamination and busbar manufacturer. With over 20 years in companies across the industry Matt talks about busbars, wire erosion, laser cutting, electric vehicles and british manufacturing. Show Notes : https://cliffnotespodcast.com/podcasts/42/ For H V Wooding: https://www.hvwooding.co.uk/ebrochure/ Learn with the Cliff Notes on precision components * H V Wooding for busbars, motor laminations, bespoke precision components, as a subcon manufacturer we don't have our own products. * We love to see new prototype projects come in, we have seen a lot from electric manufacturers at the moment As the electric vehicle industry is still young we are able to offer advice and guidance * Reshoring has been very big for us. With Covid19 and Brexit a window of opportunity opened up with clients worried about supply chain * Reshoring cost driven at first, then not needing to order in quantity, goods in transit risks, carbon footprint and also it is much easier to talk to a local in same country on the phone * The feedback we have seen has been amazing and the cost that were perceived to be there were not really there * We have not experienced teething problems with new brexit export rule, we mainly export on single loads without problem, mixed loads with other companies have had more paperwork problems. * We use a lot of copper that is imported but not on other lines * Most of our work is single load and also a safety-net * People are realising the impact of Reshoring and how positive it can be to them

Looking a deep dive into process and improvement in health product production, Kevin and Tristan have a lively conversation.

Kevin Snook is the author of "Make It Right", CEO Saxagon and LUCIDi4. Kevin helps manufacturing leaders take control of the operations, with their current people, to deliver breakthrough results and have the time to work on strategic growth.

For 17 years a leader in P&G, with hands-on experience of producing billion dollar brands such as Pampers, Always and Gillette.

Taking experience in industrial process at P&G in 2015 Kevin and his technology partner Vincent Casagrande founded LUCIDi4 to build and implement the platform that would allow production machines to speak directly to frontline employees through Real Time Data Analytics.

Show Notes:

https://cliffnotespodcast.com/podcasts/41/

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Sharing the passion for board games with Ellie Dix, owner of The Dark Imp. The education quality and passion to innovate on product releases through a pandemic. Having used crowd funding successfully before she is also spearheading the latest big box family game Uranus on Kickstarter.

Using her education expertise in production and partners to manufacturing the different parts of the game in the UK and China. The strong branding visuals and keeping the challenging game mechanics creative in play but inclusive to all the family Dark Imp targets. As a drive to get children (and parents) away from screens and all around the same table for some fun and learning.

Show Notes: https://cliffnotespodcast.com/podcasts/40/

Contact Ellie at The Dark Imp for great games : https://www.thedarkimp.com/kickstarter/

Sara Duff, Sales and Marketing Director at Smart Manufacture and Smart Quality, is passionate about helping SMEs achieve their business goals through implementing effective business growth strategies. Supported by best of breed cloud based business and industry specific software. Full show notes: https://cliffnotespodcast.com/podcasts/39/ Smart Manufacture https://smartmanufacture.co.uk

Workwear companies are the barometers of growth, and James should know, opening back up to support orders after lock down.

MyWorkwear support manufacturing growth in large and small companies during pandemic. MD, James Worthington even invested time to re-brand

Show Notes:

https://cliffnotespodcast.com/podcasts/38/

"Almost doubled the work force to cope with demand"

https://www.myworkwear.co.uk

Gather sensor data in the field at the edge and use the cheap could power to gain more learning from your own systems on The Cliff Notes Podcast: Lead Manufacturing.

Ed is the founder and CTO of Software Design Solutions. He has been creating embedded software solutions for nearly 30 years. In this episode Ed Kuzemchak gets into IoT and embedded systems at the edge to benefit manufacturing industry to lead manufacturing with the Cliff Notes Podcast audience.

Show Notes:

https://cliffnotespodcast.com/podcasts/37/

https://softwaredesignsolutions.com/

Actionable data in your operators hands, simplified process monitoring improves production and reports to Excel spreadsheets.

Dennis Cocco CEO of 10in6 inc. and industry veteran helps us understand why monitoring processes with data is not to berate the operators with but to give them the tools to grow on this Cliff Notes Manufacturing with host Tristan Bailey.

At 10in6 his mission for the last 12 years has been "To provide simple and cost effective ways of improving manufacturing productivity by leveraging plant floor information". Having left behind the heavy expensive monitoring of past company to put the tools in hands of everyone.

This episode Giles Johnston consultant and published author shares advice on what your business can get from working with Smartspeed Consulting with Cliff Notes: Lead manufacturing host Tristan Bailey.

His interest began when about 14 years old. He visited a forging plant on an open day and was allowed to have a play with the controls of some very large hammers. Roll on a few years and was running a business unit with 35 operators running a 24/5 shift pattern. Not one to sit still he eventually moved into business for himself and helping other companies.

Optimising systems and re-engineering business processes. He tells some great stories from working with sections and people that were under valued, until they were buffed Lean and lead the group.

Learn from the Cliff Notes on 8 Wastes. * 8th Waste AKA Untapped Human Potential

Show Notes https://cliffnotespodcast.com/podcasts/35/

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This episode Susan Walsh - The Classification Guru gives us a whirlwind tour of what money is going missing in bad data

She can clean it up quickly and affordably, saving your team hours of messing around in Excel and with product code mix ups.

Show Notes https://cliffnotespodcast.com/podcasts/34/

Susan Walsh https://www.theclassificationguru.com/introducing-the-classification-guru