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A new £20 million fund which will offer support to local businesses to purchase and install energy efficient equipment that will help to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions has been launched today.
The Northern Ireland Investment Summit took place in the International Conference Centre Belfast on Wednesday 13 September 2023. It was delivered by the Department for Business and Trade, in partnership with Invest NI and the Northern Ireland Office. The Summit explored what makes Northern Ireland one of the world’s most attractive investment destinations.
During the Summit, delegates heard about the unique advantages of doing business in the only UK region to share a land border with the EU and which now has dual market access and the benefits of tariff-free trade of goods with both the GB
At this event, industry experts shared insights on navigating current supply chain challenges and how to future proof supply chains.
Local businesses showcased industry learnings and knowledge around the themes of sustainability, digitisation and supply chain improvements.
This video will also provide key information on:
The benefits of exporting are well documented at both a company and overall economy level. Besides offering significant growth opportunities through increased sales and enhancing resilience from economic shocks, firms exporting to a wide range of markets contribute to improving productivity, driving innovation, and their export-fuelled growth can create and sustain high quality jobs. And importantly for Northern Ireland, the distribution of export activity right across the region means that trade and its associated benefits, can be a driver of regionally balanced and inclusive growth.
Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), is a simple but powerful Lean technique for reducing waste in a manufacturing process. It’s a systematic approach that enables organisations to dramatically reduce set-up time or change-over time. It provides a rapid and efficient way of changing the machine set-up in a manufacturing process from one product to another.
By the end of this short video, you’ll be able to:
Typically, 90% of the lead time between order receipt and delivery is not adding value for the customer.
This video will cover how to map your business processes from receipt of an order until you are paid for it which will help to identify what these non-value adding activities are which waste time, energy & resources.
The process map is also a useful tool which can be used to help with problem solving.
The cost of having poor quality performance can be up to 15% of your sales, but they’re so much more than rework and scrap levels as many of the costs are hidden.
It’s accepted that people, machines & systems can make errors, however some of these mistakes will result in defects which may end up as rejects with your customers or even lead to a safety incident.
This video shows how using effective Mistake-Proofing devices & systems in your process will detect mistakes that occur before they are passed to your customers & in some cases, prevent errors from being made in the first place
It’s not always easy to tell if your business has had a good day or if the daily targets have been met. Getting your people involved in daily problem solving and process improvement activity can also have huge benefits for the business.
In this video Catherine will cover some of the benefits of using visual management in your business by making the condition of your processes obvious at a glance.
She will describe how to get your people involved in daily problem solving & process improvement activities as well as improving 2-way communication of targets, expectations & issues using daily
There are activities within your processes, which consume energy, time, money & people resources in your business, but without adding any value for your customers. There are internal non-value adding activities, or wastes, within your business processes which increase the lead time from receipt of a customer order until you are paid for it, as well as external wastes which are experienced directly by your customers.
The intent of this webinar is to help you to identify and reduce or eliminate these non-value adding activities.
Gathering facts & data makes solving problems easier & considerably faster as it helps create clarity by removing ambiguity, thereby helping you to identify & address the root cause of the problem instead of repeatedly firefighting to treat the symptoms.
This webinar will take you through seven simple, visual, quality tools, which can be used for data collection & analysis, including how to use each of the tools, how to choose the best one, and how to interpret the trends & patterns you have observed.
During the COVID-19 crisis, social distancing requirements had a significant impact on workplace layout, exacerbating the existing problem of limited floor space in many businesses.
The intent of this webinar is to take you through the six stages involved in organising your workplace to improve the flow of orders, information & materials through your process.
The six stages are:
• Sort
• Set
• Shine
• Safety
• Standardise
• Sustain
People who are constantly learning are more equipped to deal with change and adapt for business survival. Starting Training Within Industry will help you to learn faster on the shop floor and is a good step on to the learning ladder and reconnecting ‘thinking with doing’ at the front line management and operator level.
Companies are facing unique problems and challenges and are often uncertain about what steps to take to ensure their business runs as efficiently as possible. This webinar is designed to help you solve problems better, create an action plan and hopefully prevent those problems from coming back.
The aim of this KATA webinar is to investigate an alternative way of thinking and managing that will change mind-sets and give you the confidence to navigate any challenge.
The intent of this webinar is to give you a high level understanding of some of the structures that can help your business increase visibility of performance, instil key behaviours and ultimately grow and improve.
This webinar looks at how short-term projects, taking 6 weeks – can offer sustainable progress, which is also rapid enough to keep pace with a fast-paced world.
Northern Ireland's maritime and offshore sectors are set to reach new heights with the launch of the Northern Ireland Maritime & Offshore network (NIMO).
Northern Ireland is a vibrant tourist destination offering breathtaking scenery and historical and multi-cultural attractions.
Global opportunities await your business.
The food and drink industry in Northern Ireland is valued at £7bn; it’s a progressive industry, focused on original products which are exported to over 70 countries.
Invest Northern Ireland and the Department for the Economy have announced a £16.3 million investment in a new state of the art Artificial Intelligence Collaboration Centre (AICC), to be based at Ulster University in partnership with Queen's University Belfast.
Invest Northern Ireland has announced an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) partnership with Young Enterprise NI which will support the next generation of entrepreneurial talent in Northern Ireland.
Economy Minister Conor Murphy today announced a new programme of support to help early-stage, technology-based, start-up businesses and entrepreneurs become global businesses of the future.
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If you’re not already exporting to Europe, 2024 is the year to set your sights on the over 500 million consumers in 27 countries that make up the European Union (EU) market, which is worth €14.5 trillion.