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The Secret Engineer

Our anonymous blogger casts his (or her) eye over the day-to-day issues that face engineers in the office and on the shop floor, where she (or he) plies his (or her) trade

Here at Amalgamated Products Limited we take our work very seriously and, as such, constantly look for ways to improve ourselves and our products. The latest voyage into the realms of greater efficiency is through the adoption of a methodology which, for the sake of this column, I shall call ‘The Seven Pillars of Wisdom’.

While engineering seems to be the natural home for this, and is taking the lead in its implementation, the ethos could be rolled out across the company, making the overall potential benefits quite significant. Whether this happens remains to be seen but for now we are buoyed by the fresh enthusiasm of a new and optimistic future.