Articles by Malcolm Wheatley

Global Steel Industry - UK Manufacturing Steel Foundry Factory Metal Stock Rolling Rail - image courtesy of Pixabay.

Leadership & Strategy

The future of steel in Britain

UK Patents Creativity Design Thinking Innovation Industrial Strategy - image courtesy of Pixabay.

Innovation

Manufacturing innovative start ups

Production at the McLaren Technology Centre - image courtesy of McLaren Automotive.

Finance

UK Automotive: global success story beset by challenges

Being overly- focused on time-consuming minutiae can be a problem for those manufacturers which have eschewed mainstream ERP systems.

Digital Transformation

Stop drowning in the detail, suggests Exact

Business Intelligence Big Data Cloud Graphic - May 2016

Does business intelligence = intelligent business?

UK Manufacturing ERP Article Stock Image - June 2016

ERP: the importance of choosing wisely

The cyber security graduates are to join the Applied Intelligence business based at sites in London, Guildford and Leeds - image courtesy of BAE Systems.

Faster, better, cheaper business intelligence

Cloud Computing CRM Digital Customer

B2B CRM for manufacturers

Additive manufacturing: breaking into the mainstream

From two-way radios to smartphones, laptops to landlines, tablets to rugged handhelds no one is beyond reach in today's smart factory - image courtesy of DFC.

ERP: working smarter, working faster

Preactor has been one of a very small number of software companies to offer a cutting-edge, mathematically-based finite capacity scheduling and optimisation capability.

Advanced Planning and Scheduling: finite wisdom