Multinational microscopy manufacturer Carl Zeiss provides the perfect example of the low volume, high value, advanced manufacturing which the UK is looking to base its future economic prosperity upon. Glen Jamieson takes a closer look at some recent initiatives at the company’s site in Cambridge.
In 1964, Cambridge Instruments (now Zeiss) introduced the first Scanning Electron Microscope to the commercial market. Operations manager Daren Sheward started at the company some twenty years ago as an apprentice and has seen the business and its products evolve. Unchanged by recession, the division has introduced new cost saving, quality and service improvement strategies…
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