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A WORLD FIRST IN TACIT KNOWLEDGE FOR MANUFACTURERS
The Irish Centre for Manufacturing Research has delivered a world first in terms of tacit knowledge within manufacturing organisations, according to centre director Barry Kennedy.
The centre is made up of large multinationals, as well as SMEs from a number of sectors including pharma, food and drink, and heavy engineering, collectively working together to drive significant productivity improvements.
“One of our key projects completed to date focused on understanding how ‘tacit ready’ an organisation is – in other words is there sufficient sharing between employees, engineers and operators. In partnership with researchers from the University of Limerick, we developed a survey capability that offers significant benefits to companies and has the potential to be a spin-out business and be sold across the world,” says Kennedy.
“Another project in the area of tacit knowledge was to deliver a Facebook/Youtube/Amazon experience for the manufacturing sector.
“This is a capability that allows engineers to simply record tasks on day job, upload them to a system with advanced search capability and features; then another operator can search for the knowledge nugget they need and learn how to do tasks instead of having to read a complex manual. Companies involved in this pilot have recorded a 50pc performance improvement.”
Above: Barry Kennedy and Niall Aughney, both from i2e2 Below: Cliona Howley and Fergus Quilligan, both from ICMR
‘Because the programme is co- designed and executed by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, we can bring the best international companies and the best Irish companies and start-ups into one room to work with each other and get to know each other’
Issue 7 Autumn/Winter 2013 INNOVATION IRELAND REVIEW 17
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