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Setting the standard

MANUFACTURING industry has many problems.

Firstly, it is having to adapt to a global environment in which competition has become fiercer and timescales shorter.

Manufacturing firms originally configured themselves as substantially free-standing and independent entities - but most came to recognise that this was a very inefficient structure: it required a vast range of skills and knowledge, it produced a cumbersome management structure, and it meant that substantially the same components were designed, built, stored and delivered from many similar plants worldwide.

It was obviously a much better idea to devolve some of this work to suppliers who could afford to develop specialist skills and to buy specialist production equipment, because they were supplying a range of similar customers with similar component requirements.

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