The Manufacturer recently sat down with Trevor Stacey, supply chain operations director at Coca-Cola European Partners Sidcup to discuss product and business-wide innovation.
Industry surveys have reported as much as 65% of manufacturers globally will be using a service-based selling model as opposed to product-based by 2020.
Coca-Cola European Partners’ Sidcup site has already achieved many of the archetypal automation ‘quick wins’, so what’s next for the rapidly expanding facility?
Smart technologies are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our day to day lives. From smartphones to smart homes, the dramatic increase in power and sophistication of technology is opening up new technological frontiers and promising endless possibilities for the development of many different industries, particularly manufacturing.
Coca-Cola European Partners is one of many organisations undergoing a digital transformation, but could a lack of skilled data engineers stall further progress and that of UK manufacturing as a whole?
Epicor Software tipped a glass to celebrate its successful 10-year collaboration with innovative Scottish whisky distiller, Bruichladdich at an exclusive tasting event in London.
Bruichladdich has radically reshaped the whisky manufacturing process by combining its 19th century distilling heritage with advanced technology to distribute spirits to more than 60 countries.
