A mid-winter’s country hike
“Let’s see how far we can walk before it gets dark today” I said to Richard Colston when, on one Sunday in early January 1960, we two Boy Scout patrol leaders went out into the Essex countryside for an exploratory...Read More →
New Lives for an Old Rod
“You need a new fly rod!” Sandy told me bluntly. I lived in Thurso in northern Scotland, fifty years ago, and used an old fly rod, inherited from my grandfather to fish for salmon on the River Thurso. The Thurso...Read More →
Scottish Opera
Scottish Opera delivers excellent productions locally in North East Scotland throughout the year, as well as throughout Scotland, broadly. Some of these are open-air, “pop-up” productions, delivered from a mobile, truck-mounted trailer stage, complete with musicians, in local parks and...Read More →
Newsletter from Pitmedden
I’m slowly but surely organising my new home in Pitrmedden, unpacking all the cardboard boxes still piled high in the garage and ordering things I need from Ebay only to find that I already have what I need as I...Read More →
Permanent jobs in automation engineering available now at Silchester Control Systems Ltd (SCS)
Silchester Control Systems Ltd (SCS) near Alton, Hampshire is a well- established & growing automation & controls engineering systems integrator & registered partner for Rockwell/Allen Bradley’s controls products and systems, those from Siemens, Schneider Electric UK & other major systems...Read More →
Silchester Control Systems – Pandemic Newsletter
As a society, we are all learning lessons from this terrible pandemic. However, as a business, Silchester Controls feels it has handled the situation well and has responded in a flexible, positive manner to the challenges. David Jones and his...Read More →
Why can’t people who interface with customers learn how to listen and not just talk at you?
Listening skills are critical for all people in customer interface roles. When did the last conversation you had with such a person – be it a doctor’s or dentist’s receptionist, an enquiry to a shop or business, even a query...Read More →
Consultancy and Business Coaching
All knowledge is incomplete. A confident manner implies knowledge but self-confidence is not necessarily related to knowledge. An overly self-confident leader can lead in the wrong direction without having sufficient specific knowledge. Over time, all mistakes improve conditions in the...Read More →
The Historical Landscape of Process Controls Engineering
For most of recorded world history, hand-made products defined industrial production. They were fashioned in homes and small workshops, such as village blacksmiths, millers and bakers. Over the last three centuries, those cottage industries have made a gradual but accelerating...Read More →
Upsurge in international investment in Automation Engineering
A new article in the “Business” section of the Economist magazine of January 16th, 2021 focuses on the increased levels of international investment in control systems and automation. This is spurred on by Covid-19 and its effects on industrial manpower...Read More →