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Food Safety Update

The BRC (British Retail Consortium) Global Food Safety Standard has been the benchmark for many food manufacturing companies over the past ten years. This standard, though difficult to achieve, was a blessing in disguise for food business operators (FBO). For the first time UK re...

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Cleanroom Technology Network Group: September Meeting

We had our second successful gathering of the Cleanroom Technology Network Group on Sept 17th in the Radisson Hotel, Athlone with over 55 attendees from companies all over Ireland. The idea behind the network is to create an informal forum where people working within cleanroom ...

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Lean Six Sigma: ‘Voice of the Customer’

Times are changed and it’s certainly considered a buyers market out there at the moment. While this is true of those buying houses or second-hand cars, it’s also true across all goods and services. Early 2009 saw the mass exodus to customers migrate to the north to purchase g...

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Six Sigma Cost Savings

Photo owned by Eric Caballero (cc) To date, 133 people have completed their HETAC accredited Lean Six Sigma training. (Our Lean Six Sigma programmes became HETAC accredited last year.) A look at the cost savings achieved from the Lean Six Sigma projects shows the average cost s...

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250 years

Today is ‘Arthur’s day’, celebrating 250 years of manufacturing the black stuff at St James’ Gate in Dublin. 250 years … a long time. As well as being a big employer in Dublin, from all accounts Guinness seem to have been a good employer, at a time ...

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