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Carmakers ''setting UK an economic example''

18 January 2012
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Carmakers ''setting UK an economic example''The UK's carmakers are providing an example of how manufacturing can recover from the economic downturn and are embracing operations management techniques.

This is according to an article by the Guardian's industrial editor Dan Milmo, in which he suggested the success of companies such as Nissan and Bentley is expanding their sales overseas and this holds the key to bouncing back from the recession.

Mr Milmo explained that Japanese continuous improvements techniques and terms such as kaizen are being employed by established British companies like Bentley in order to boost its profit margins and reduce costs.

Nissan is employing strategies developed by the company in Japan at its Sunderland plant in the UK to assemble vehicles every 60 seconds.

Trevor Mann, the firm's senior vice-president for manufacturing in Europe, explained: "The UK is a competitive manufacturing country at the moment. We are a small island, we are close to the sea – and the cheapest way to ship things around Europe is by sea."

Bentley recently unveiled a new twin turbo, four litre V8 engine for its Continental GT and GTC that has been designed in the UK at its Crewe headquarters.ADNFCR-3058-ID-801267640-ADNFCR
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