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ELECTROPLATING, ANODISING & GALVANIZING
WE ARE AT SURFACE WORLD LIVE 2020
Surface Treatment’s answer to VAR
Plating Line Advice – Will Green FIMF
I am proud to be celebrating
50 years of work in
Manufacturing Engineering
during 2020, the vast
majority of which time has
been involved with major
capital projects associated
with Surface Treatment.
It is also four years this
spring since we launched
our independent technical
advice service. Our
judgement from a working
life in the industry that
such a service was needed
has proven to be correct.
Consequently since 2016,
we have been continuously
involved in a number of
high profi le and technically
demanding capital projects
for blue chip clients, to
the value of several million
pounds, all with very
successful outcomes. much more important than that."
The introduction of Video Assistant Referees
(VAR) to the Premier League this season
seems to be creating headlines and
discussion every week. VAR is intended to
help ensure the correct sporting decisions are
made but would your business benefit by
having an independent technical assistant to
help with equally difficult decisions? Three main incidents (plus one
administrative) have been identified by FIFA
as game-changing. Do these have direct
parallels in the business world?
As the legendary Bill Shankly famously said
"Some people believe football is a matter of
life and death. I am very disappointed with
that attitude. I can assure you it is much,
Presumably the millions of football fans
around the world along with FIFA agree
with Bill’s sentiments, hence the massive
commitment in VAR technology.
Similarly, from a business perspective making
a major capital investment which doesn’t turn
out to perform as expected can be equally
threatening to the future well-being or even
continued existence of your enterprise.
When is VAR used?
GOALS
“The role of the VAR is to assist the referee to
determine whether there was an infringement
that means a goal should not be awarded.”
This clearly has a direct parallel in Business,
has the “goal” been correctly achieved? In
this case we utilise rigorous Installed Article
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