FINNbiz Consultants' Services

16/02/2022

FINNbiz Consultants have just completed their last consulting assignment - a fascinating project in Dresden. FINNbiz Consultants will shortly morph into FINNbiz Writers, a platform for writers, bloggers and those interested in joining our membership for a "shop window" to attract contracts and publication.

26/11/2020

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, internet-connected objects collecting and transferring data over a wireless network without human intervention and with limitless potential) in manufacturing industry has been largely obscured by the organisational chaos in all countries…...

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, internet-connected objects col...

19/04/2019

We are researching the opportunities for our clients in the headline news in industrial automation, that of the future impact of Industrial IoT on current PLC and SCADA-based automation systems. Read the Blog of our client Silchester Control Systems and make comments to help us to see the way ahead?

13/03/2019

The latest skills survey by the UK’s Institute of Engineering and Technology (E&T) shows that the majority of UK-based E&T companies believe that digital technologies and automation will advance rapidly over the next five to ten years (from Spotlight magazine by the NewStatesman) - Alan Finn, IEng MBA is a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control.

13/03/2019

What makes a reliable process controls systems integrator?
Issues faced by industrial manufacturers today include….
• cost control, to compete in world markets;
• refining and developing their own processes;
• retention of critical skills.
Many UK manufacturers rely on manual process controls. Investment in automation improves processes, cuts costs, increases profits and shareholder value, increasing productivity.
Automation needs flexible, highly skilled industrial organisations to design and fit systems into existing and new process plant. They buy in system components, integrating them into the final control systems to meet the customers’ needs. They are Systems Integrators (SIs).
Theirs is not an easy task. Manufacturers need automation to be risk free.
Their selection of SIs will be based on capability proven over many years in complex automation projects. To do otherwise would be commercial madness.
Professionally-recognised SIs can be found in the list of the Institute of Measurement and Control’s Companion Company Scheme – see: https://www.instmc.org/Membership/Companion-Company-List…

Written on behalf of my client Silchester Control Systems Ltd, see: http://www.silchester.co.uk/ by Alan Finn IEng, FIM&C, MBA

06/10/2018

I am finding that my professional training in marketing, particularly in segmentation, is of no real use for Silchester Controls Systems. Their markets and applications for their services are so wide and diffuse, from all manufacturing plant, pharmaceutical industries, railways, process and nuclear industries through to defence projects and food and drink industres......just about anything everywhere!

27/08/2018

Alan Finn is now working also in UK sales and business development for Silchester Control Systems Limited, Four Marks, near Alton, Hampshire, UK.

28/05/2018

FINNbiz Consultants begin working on new business in process control industries from June, 2018

05/03/2017

FINNbiz Consultants are working now with Lee Candy, Director at Profit 2 Gain, Senior Lean Consultant at TXM Lean Solutions, to help law firms in the South East and Greater London areas to reduced their costs and increase their profits. Watch this space!

12/12/2016

Degree and higher degree courses in marketing teach marketing management which includes the management of agencies and sub-contracted experts in the different forms of marketing communcations. And yet a revolution has swept in to that scene by the advent of social media on the back of the Internet. Now SME's have very targetable and measurable means of marketing communuications on their own desk tops and smart phones - who needs advertising and PR agencies now? This has led to a redefinition of marketing as only marketing communications - forget research, strategy and planning - and that as an activity that can be done by quite raw recruits to the marketing discipline. So long as they have an innate knowledge and understanding of of social media - that's good enough! Wow - where are we going???