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Breakfast briefing focuses on quality assurance

A Technology Innovation Centre product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jan 26, 2007

First in a series of free monthly breakfast briefings for SMEs will focus on how smaller manufacturers can gain free access to TIC's knowledge and expertise in the field of quality.

Despite manufacturing's 2006 recovery, Midlands suppliers are under increasing pressure to attain international quality standards demanded across competitive global markets.

Recent business advantages won by local SMEs can only be retained if ongoing improvements in quality, cost and delivery continue to meet customer expectations.

This has led UCE Birmingham's Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) to launch a series of free monthly breakfast briefings for SMEs.

The first event, on Tuesday 30th January, will focus on how smaller manufacturers can gain free access to TIC's knowledge and expertise in the field of quality.

As a top Institute of Quality Assurance academic centre, TIC has transferred new technologies and world-class quality standards into hundreds of Midlands manufacturing and service businesses.

TIC seminar leader, Business Operations Manager, Tom McDermott, says: "We've led technology-transfer for the West Midlands Manufacturing Advisory Service and implemented several Accelerate programmes".

"TIC plays a major role in the West Midlands Technology Network (WMTN) has run several significant government-funded SME-support initiatives".

"We are able to help SMEs achieve world-class manufacturing quality standards".

The TIC's quality-themed breakfast programme features Richard McCulloch, Financial Director of Tipton-based SME, Cab Automotive, which successfully combined the assets of three businesses that suffered from MG-Rover's demise.

It is now a tier-one supplier of car interiors to Jaguar, Land Rover, Toyota and Honda.

McCulloch will describe how TIC helped it achieve the automotive industry TS16949 standard.

McCulloch says: "TIC's quality knowledge has proved invaluable".

"Their team not only brought in the expertise, tools and techniques we needed, but also filled the resource-gap with mature postgraduate students".

"This gave us the personnel who have helped establish a sustainable quality culture in the business".

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