We discuss - "“Product planning during the crisis - what manufacturing industries shall focus on”

Guest - Gianmarco Brunetti - Product Strategy Manager with Jaguar Landrover

Gianmarco is an experienced Strategy Senior Manager, with history of linking commercial opportunities to product offer and corporate strategy.

Within his 10 years in the industry at JLR, GM and Audi, he has introduced and leveraged innovation to launch new products to gain market shares.

He managed cross-functional teams to launch new Jaguar XEL and XFL in China, led commercial offering transformation project worth £ 100M.

Worked globally (UK, US, Germany, Italy), holds PhD, MBA and 6σ Black Belt, speaking 4 language at business level.

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We discuss - "Company collaboration to achieve company goals"

Guest - Ian Beckett - CEO, Eirtight

Ian has been responsible for profitable product globalisation in high tech US multinationals serving EMEA and APAC for almost 30 years.

He sees the same mistakes being repeated and has developed tools to help business avoid unnecessary costs and to drive bottom line profitability.

He is a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and has a Masters in Management specialising in Organisation Behaviour. He is married with 3 adult children.

Currently he consults is the areas of product lifecycle management and globalization, building product profitability, business reengineering and organization transformation execution, country and corporate ICT strategy development

Ian was previously the VP Global IT with Trilogy International Partners, and also Global Product Director with Gateway Computers

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We discuss - "Artificial intelligence in manufacturing”

Guest - Boris Cergol, Head of AI, Comtrade

Boris is Head of AI at Comtrade Digital Services, a provider of software engineering services and solutions.

He is responsible for overseeing the delivery of AI projects and the company’s AI-related R&D activities. He is also managing the AI Collective, Comtrade Digital Services’ partnership network of academic institutions and start-up companies.

Prior to joining Comtrade, he was the CEO and co-founder of Ektimo, an AI consulting and implementation company and held various research positions in both academia and industry.

He has extensive experience working with businesses who were early adopters of AI across various industries – including manufacturing, energy, finance, insurance, technology and retail.

Boris holds a bachelor’s degree in Theoretical Mathematics and a PhD in Mathematical Statistics.

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We discuss - "Developing internal CI change capability”

Guest - Lee Kemp, Change Consultant, LRK Consulting

Lee has helped companies deliver organisation design and improvement strategies.

His portfolio of work, predominantly lean transformation across 18 sectors and 12 countries, has been verified by the Chartered Management Institute, being awarded Certified Management Consultant in 2010 and Fellow of the Institute of Consulting.

Examples of Lees work include :

Led organisation design in a manufacturing company - circa 350 people.

Led multi-culture engineering team, problem solving the wire harness design process in a highly political environment to ensure the first A380 aircraft certificate to fly.

Delivered value stream kaizen workshops across the globe 100+ times. One example of what can be achieved. Reduced set times on plastic moulding machine from 4 hours 23 minutes to 20 minutes during 5 day event

Lees goal is to help UK businesses grow by developing collaborative and trusting relationships with other practices and providers, pooling expertise and resource with a reputation for quality and integrity.

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We discuss - "Why do so many large software projects exceed budget, take too long to Implement and fail to deliver the expected functionality and business”

Guest - Barry Curry - Director of Project Management, System E

Barry is an experienced Project Manager, managing projects for some of the world’s largest Life Sciences companies for over 20 years.

Barry has gained an outstanding reputation for project management and rescuing troubled projects internationally.

His approach to project management is creative, innovative and effective and has seen him become one of industry’s leading consultants.

He is a specialist in the design and implementation of Manufacturing Execution Systems and supports Life Science clients in the area of regulatory compliance.

In addition to running a successful consultancy practice, Barry is also an industry consultant to universities in Ireland, collaborating on course design and delivery

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We discuss - "Bottom-up approach to applying analytics within manufacturing"

Guest - Graham Townsend - Manufacturing Analytics Manager, Hexcel

Graham is an accomplished leader with extensive track record in successfully delivering business value through enterprise-scale IT projects within manufacturing organisations. Has a broad experience covering business and manufacturing processes and their enhancement through MES, ERP and analytic platforms.

Currently leading efforts to leverage data science within a diverse manufacturing environment and building the architecture for a company-wide manufacturing execution system.

Within Hexcel, Graham leads a team of data scientists and engineers, with the mission to integrate data science into our manufacturing and research operations.

A key area of focus is defining (and building) the data architecture for the manufacturing execution and material information management space. This ensures we will have access to appropriate data of sufficient quality that will allow us to answer questions and provide insights to our operational and material design needs.

Other areas include general evangelism for this space, helping bring data science and appropriate business problems together, and leading pilot projects to try out new techniques to solve them.

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We discuss - "Why do so many small and medium sized manufacturers struggle to adopt new technology?”

Guest - Alain Dilworth, Programme Manager, Made Smarter UK

Alain spent 25 years in private sector operational roles in large and small businesses in the oil exploration, defence engineering, packaging manufacture, home improvement and textiles sectors. In 2010 Alain started work for the NWDA to pursue his interest in economic development, delivering grant-funding for the past 5 years. Alain works at the Growth Company and is the programme manager for Made Smarter North West pilot.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alain-dilworth-61617a24/

https://www.madesmarter.uk

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We discuss - "Managing remotely - reimagined”

Guest - Capucine Loisance, Leadership Consultant, DDI

Capucine Loisance is a leadership specialist and occupational psychologist. She works at DDI, a global leadership consulting firm that specialises in promoting and developing exceptional leaders. Capucine spends her time facilitating interactive virtual training sessions and coaching managers on topics like impactful communication, leading remotely, and driving change.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/capucinel..

capucine.loisance@ddiworld.com

https://www.ddiworld.com/

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We discuss - "Autonomous Shipping with Simon Cuthbert"

This week I am joined by Simon Cuthbert who is the Senior Vice President for Rolls Royce Marine.

Simon has the executive responsibility for procurement, planning and control for a variety of products sold into the Global Commercial Marine market including hardware such as winches, rudders, electrical systems, bridge consoles and steering gear.

The reason why I am excited to have Simon on the show is that in addition to these somewhat traditional products he also provides the supply chain leadership for the Rolls-Royce Ship Intelligence program which is changing the Marine Industry with its thought leadership on Intelligent Asset Management and Remote & Autonomous vessels along with ground breaking products such as Auto-crossing and Intelligent Awareness

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We discuss - "How To Market Your Manufacturing Business In 2018"

Delighted to have Mark Amphlett who is the General Manager of Amtek Plastics on the show to discuss how his business has benefited from utilising modern day marketing.

Mark has been instrumental in growing and leading Amtek Plastics from a small local plastic injection moulding company to one of the fastest growing and most forward thinking manufacturing companies within our field.

He is also proud to have been included the coveted 'Manufacturer Top 100' in 2016/17 - the Top 100 most influential people in manufacturing, as voted for by independent leaders in the UK Manufacturing sector

Mark's contact details : www.linkedin.com/in/mark-amphlett-31719a1 www.amtekplastics.co.uk

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We discuss - "What Is The Best Way To Adopt Change Within Your Manufacturing Business"

Delighted to have Ben Salder of Leaning the Way on the show to discuss adopting change as a leader within your manufacturing company in the UK.

Ben Salder is an inspirational change management, Lean and organisational development Consultant, Executive Coach, Public Speaker and University Lecturer with over 20 years’ experience.

Ben comes from a Production Management background in Blue Chip organisations such as PepsiCo, Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK and BAE Systems

Ben's contact details : https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ben-salder-28931313 ben.leaningtheway@outlook.com

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We discuss - "What GDPR means for the manufacturing industry"

Delighted to have Tristan Bailey of Holding Bay on the show to discuss GDPR and what it really means for many of the manufacturing companies in the UK.

Tristan's contact details : https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristanbailey/ tristan@holdingbay.co.uk

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