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Bridge the gap between data and information
IN its much publicised report last year on the state of British Industry, the British Institute of Management stated that industry was, in general, seriously mismanaged in that it…
THE PRICE OF SCOTCH AND THE COST OF LIVING
A TOP sales executive working in Austria can expect to earn up to £25,000 a year before tax. But the cost of living in Austria is high; a bottle of Scotch can cost anything up to…
Penetration, Blown and Hard: No it's not something kinky but that wonder material…
Alan KellandWHEN oil refiners have refined about as far as they can, they are left with a residue — bitumen. Its properties and character vary with the crude oil being refined. The bitumen…
SNUG AS A BUG IN A RUG
It takes little research to prove that the type of building boards widely used in the construction of industrial buildings 20 years ago were often not up to the task. Examination…
SPOTLIGHT ON SKETCHLEY, GUARDIAN OF HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK Keep it clean!
“WHAT shall I wear to work today?” It's hardly the sort of question you'd expect to be uppermost in the mind of Britain's workforce. It's much more likely, you might think, to be…
Focus on the art of cutting the high cost of insurance RISKY BUSINESS
JAMES TYEHOW many British firms are simply lining the pockets of the insurance industry whilst lacking the expertise to recognise the real risks which threaten them? In my experience of…
Muffle that machine!
“SILENCE is golden” is an old Swiss saying which, in today's industrial conditions, can be literally true. The manager who takes the trouble to see that his employees work in…
THE FLEXIBLE HOTEL THAT S‐T‐R‐E‐T‐C‐H‐E‐S AND SHRINKS TO FIT ALL YOUR REQUIREMENTS
ALEC SNOBELYOU may see them sneaking out of the hotel early in the morning, a straggle of self‐conscious corpulent middle‐aged executives heading determinedly for the horizon as fast as a…
BOOKS
COMPUTER BASICS FOR MANAGEMENT by Ralph Morris. (Business Books, £12.50) THE installation of any computer system depends on one fundamental equation. Does the cost of installation…
THINK ZINC!
AROUND one million tonnes of zinc are used each year throughout the world in making zinc die castings. The range of uses for these castings is enormous — from zip fasteners to car…
Institute of Factory Management
TRAINING has a key role to play in helping to solve the country's economic and social problems in the 1980s, and Britain's training effort must be geared to make an effective…
DESIGN AND TEST WITH YOUR COMPUTER
For almost thirty years Holset Engineering Company of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, has supplied equipment to the automotive industry. The company is now embarking on a plan of…
SELF CONTROL IN CROWN DEPOTS
‘Distributed’ or ‘dispersed’ computing is one of those jargon phrases which can cover all kinds of situation. Crown Wallcoverings have installed a network of minicomputers which…
PASS THE PARCEL
Spending on innovative computer technology and mechanised parcel handling has established Lex's Wilkinson Transport Ltd as trendsetter in the express parcels business.
CAN CONSULTANTS HELP CONTROL?
Almost anywhere that one reads about business or the economy today, the word “PROFITABILITY” appears. Speeches, articles in newspapers and journals, books and conferences, are…
BOOKS
In these two new books the authors discuss the computer as a tool and how it is used as the basis of an information system
ISSN:
0263-5577Renamed from:
Industrial ManagementOnline date, start – end:
1980Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Alain Yee Loong Chong
- Prof Hing Kai Chan