Inside A Factory 2: Cadbury’s
29 mins, 2005 This is the story of how Cadbury’s makes a chocolate bar. TV personality Alison Hammond takes us round their famous factory and explains the systems that underpin the process. QUALITY CONTROL: The process begins with the raw materials – beans brought from Ghana. Quality control and process control systems are vital to… Read more »
A Decent Factory?
32 mins, 2005 With the fastest growing economy in the history of the world, China is the workshop of globalisation. But are workers paying the price for a manufacturing revolution? This unique fly-on-the-wall documentary uncovers the hard realities of working conditions in a Chinese factory. The film focuses on a German-owned company in Shenzhen, China,… Read more »
Systems In A Factory
27 mins, 2004 This film looks at the key systems used in a factory. It focuses on two case studies: the Glaxo Smith Kline toothpaste factory and plastic injection moulding company, Time RPS. How do they compare? TYPES OF PRODUCTION: GSK is an example of continuous flow production: they make a million tubes of toothpaste… Read more »
How A Business Works
23 mins, 2004 What makes a company tick? This video explains basic business functions inside Cameron Balloons, the world’s largest maker of hot air balloons. Marketing: Like all firms, Cameron has to market its balloons. Specialist publications, “word of mouth” and the internet are vital parts of its “marketing mix”. Production: We show how a… Read more »
Inside A Factory 1: The New Mini
26 mins, 2003 How is a car manufactured? Alison Hammond, of “Big Brother” fame, goes inside BMW’s factory in Oxford to provide a lively guide to the production process for its New Mini. PRODUCTION PLANNING: First comes production planning. Customers’ orders are analysed by a program called “Kiss” – this is vital to meet buyers’… Read more »
How A Factory Works
30 mins, 2001 How does a factory work? This describes how Leisure Consumer Products makes its cookers. Production at LCP starts with the design for the product, in which appearance and healthy eating are the key considerations. Manufacturing begins with batch production as sheet metal is formed into batches of key components. In the assembly… Read more »
Designing For The Market
29 mins, 1994 This is the story of an attempt to design a new kind of wheelchair. It explores the issue of mass-manufacturing for the disabled and questions the capacity of private firms to cater for such needs. Physiotherapist Pauline Pope is working on SAM – a wheelchair to use with children with cerebral palsy…. Read more »
A Quality Revolution?
24 mins, 1992 What is “total quality management”? This film tells the story of Kemble Instruments, a manufacturing firm which set out to improve quality at all levels by transforming the culture of the company. The starting point is to involve the workforce and gain their commitment to change. At the same time the company… Read more »
Empowering The People
25 mins, 1992 Can Japanese-style working practices succeed in Britain? This video looks at a factory which claims to have empowered its workforce and achieved world class productivity. Oxford Automotives Components, part of the Unipart Group, makes fuel tanks for cars. Once upon a time it ran itself like traditional British manufacturers and had traditional… Read more »