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▶ Graham Thurlow, Group Director of Operations
expansion of Evopipes’ Latvian manufacturing operation over the past four years has developed substantial pipe production, fabrication, and molding capability to support growth in its regional markets.
Digitalization is playing an increasingly important role in achieving those objectives. Across the group’ s manufacturing operations, digital tools are being embedded into quality control, traceability, and process monitoring.“ Some of our more advanced production environments utilize sophisticated in-line monitoring, machine vision, and automated quality systems to improve process consistency and product performance. Our specialist manufacturing operations also leverage precision process monitoring and testing technologies to maintain high-quality standards.
“ As our data capabilities expand, there are growing opportunities to apply analytics, machine vision, and AI to identify variation earlier, deepen process understanding, and enhance operational performance in ways that were not previously possible. The overarching objective is to use technology to achieve greater control, quality, efficiency, and reliability across manufacturing processes,” Graham informs.
Nonetheless, people remain just as important as the technology that supports them, and retaining experienced talent in a challenging labor market is something the group takes seriously. Graham talks us through Radius Group’ s approach to recruitment, development, and employee engagement.“ The longevity of our staff reflects the fact that we invest a lot into the development of our people. That means training and development at every level, whether that is legislative compliance or preparing someone to take the next step into management or senior positions. Most of our vacancies and new opportunities will be advertised internally and externally, but we generally look internally first to see if we
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