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 →
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 →
The landscape of manufacturing and the impact of new technology on industrial control systems
The Covid-19 pandemic is occurring at a time when the global landscape of manufacturing is being impacted significantly by new technology, particularly in industrial control systems. The arrival of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT – a system of interrelated,...Read More →
Covid-19 and Industrial Automation
This blog is a carefully-researched view on a potential advantage to industry of the ravages wreaked by the Covid-19 virus. All researched views quoted here are referenced and support the main thrust of the argument that the process automation industry...Read More →
Blog on marketing in the service industries
Industrial product manufacturers create added-value in their production cycles by converting materials into finished products. Examples are in the pharmaceutical, heavy engineering, food and beverage, oil and gas industries, farming and agriculture and extend into power and water utilities. Their...Read More →
Marketing to the Service Industries
Manufacturers of industrial products create added-value in the production cycle by converting materials into finished products. Some examples are in the pharmaceutical, heavy engineering, food and beverage or oil and gas industries, in farming and agriculture, and extending into power...Read More →