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17-08-2008, 11:11 PM

The Demise of another UK manufacturer

How then do we then explain why a small UK independent went from being stiff enough international competition, to the point Big Brother USA bought it, to the apparent joke big brother now see it as and push for its closure.

Helpless children in need of all the possible assistance from big brother, I think not!

Try instead, the enforced immediate removal of nearly half the essential workforce, asset stripping vital equipment and product line prematurely and finally taking the original and proven working model that made the company so profitable in the first place, screwing it up, throwing it out of the window and enforcing a grossly top heavy management and IT system that only shows why big brother could not turn the kind of profits the little independent made in the first place.

Throw into the mix constant disruption through errors in timing and planning, additional constraints on spending, development and management techniques, all allied to an alleged re-structuring of the plants ultimate output structure.

Add to this a style of production that is so controlled errors cannot be stopped until it is well past the point of no return, a decision making system run by email that ultimately looks like a chain letter, a process system that does not allow for any kind of individuality, lateral thinking or simple direct input into production of any kind and;

Hey-Presto:-

Train wreck!!

Never mind eh,

Half the working production line in transit at any given time, a perfectly good UK work team so disillusioned it's struggling to be bothered to try, despite the best actions of some to make it succeed and keep morale up, whilst having the intelligence to know it is ultimately to prove a fruitless task, add a corporate financial structure that seems oblivious to the overall cost of sales but concentrates more on the direct labour cost in any given country at the expense of all else and there you go.

Combine then, big brothers complete historically proven disregard for its employees at any cost, unless of coarse it affects the bottom line, a leadership group unable to make individual decisions to react with any kind of immediacy and how could it have turned out any other way!

A sad end to another piece of UK industry, when will the government stop this destruction of both our engineering and manufacturing base let alone our farming and agricultural system. It's about time we became self sufficient again.
Not be forced to see Gordon Brown begging China for work.
We won't have a country for the next generation soon, when will it become classed as a third world nation I wonder?????

17-08-2008, 11:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
Unregistered Guest Posts: n/a	Precision Antennas loss The Demise of another UK manufacturer How then do we then explain why a small UK independent went from being stiff enough international competition, to the point Big Brother USA bought it, to the apparent joke big brother now see it as and push for its closure. Helpless children in need of all the possible assistance from big brother, I think not! Try instead, the enforced immediate removal of nearly half the essential workforce, asset stripping vital equipment and product line prematurely and finally taking the original and proven working model that made the company so profitable in the first place, screwing it up, throwing it out of the window and enforcing a grossly top heavy management and IT system that only shows why big brother could not turn the kind of profits the little independent made in the first place. Throw into the mix constant disruption through errors in timing and planning, additional constraints on spending, development and management techniques, all allied to an alleged re-structuring of the plants ultimate output structure. Add to this a style of production that is so controlled errors cannot be stopped until it is well past the point of no return, a decision making system run by email that ultimately looks like a chain letter, a process system that does not allow for any kind of individuality, lateral thinking or simple direct input into production of any kind and; Hey-Presto:- Train wreck!! Never mind eh, Half the working production line in transit at any given time, a perfectly good UK work team so disillusioned it's struggling to be bothered to try, despite the best actions of some to make it succeed and keep morale up, whilst having the intelligence to know it is ultimately to prove a fruitless task, add a corporate financial structure that seems oblivious to the overall cost of sales but concentrates more on the direct labour cost in any given country at the expense of all else and there you go. Combine then, big brothers complete historically proven disregard for its employees at any cost, unless of coarse it affects the bottom line, a leadership group unable to make individual decisions to react with any kind of immediacy and how could it have turned out any other way! A sad end to another piece of UK industry, when will the government stop this destruction of both our engineering and manufacturing base let alone our farming and agricultural system. It's about time we became self sufficient again. Not be forced to see Gordon Brown begging China for work. We won't have a country for the next generation soon, when will it become classed as a third world nation I wonder?????