In the life of a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) nothing counts more than its people: Indeed an SME company is many times more likely to be aware of this fact and to be actively engaged in making sure that the right people are deployed on the right tasks.
At Ceramicx we have great opportunity to fast track our people development and to give our talent the opportunity to become true practitioners in all aspects, namely research & product development; engineering; production; quality control; sales and marketing.
We are therefore delighted to be ringing the changes on a couple such moves this month: We know that it will serve the individuals and, ultimately, we know it will serve the net wealth of the company and the service given to the customer.
Padraig Courtney
Padraig Courtney has made a success of his day-to-day role as production manager – overseeing the entire process – from clay to complete and finished parts. There are very few situations on the Ceramicx production line that Padraig has not been party to. He is therefore ideally placed to join our new Infrared Innovation Partnership team; now working alongside other researchers from the University of Limerick in our new two-year innovation partnership project funded by Enterprise Ireland and Ceramicx. As part of this Pádraig will earn a Master Engineering Degree that will be focused on “Novel manufacturing engineering and cost analysis modeling for process optimization in an SME setting”. At Ceramicx we are creating an explicit and scientific matrix involving all chemical, mechanical and electrical inputs and outputs of our process. There can be none better than Padraig to help the Partnership team with all the empirical facts of the matter.
Patrick Wilson
Meanwhile Padraig’s role has been taken up by new recruit Patrick Wilson. A graduate of Business Studies from Trinity with a Diploma in Management earned as part of a graduate management program with Kerry Group with several languages at his disposal, including Spanish, Portuguese and French, Patrick has spent the last number of years working for Kerry Group first leaving the company as a production Manager to join us Ceramicx Infrared Heat Consultants last month. Patrick might have seemed destined straightaway for our international sales effort. We believe, however, that his Ceramicx apprenticeship is best served from the start by bringing the skills and experience that he has gained in his role as a production manager for Kerry Group to bear on the Ceramicx production processes. This will allow him to gain an intimate knowledge of the product and the production process and allow any Sales in the future to be carried out from position of production understanding.
We raise a glass to our new practitioners and to their new horizons and to new successes at Ceramicx.
Slainte!
thanks largely to information technology the world has become much smaller – and much faster. Customer expectations for viewing initial results have been raised. As an innovator and supplier, we stand in need of a package that can provide a ‘fast and dirty’ product modelling system with most dimensional and engineering features settled, but with room for quick changes and adaptations. We need the design to be open – not just to the CAD department – but to input from all corners of the business. Many engineers are calling this the establishment of the Release to CAD milestone. For project managers it makes a lot of sense.
Please contact me direct at Ceramicx for further details and an opportunity for interview.
At Ceramicx we make a variety of infrared heating solutions for a great number of markets and applications; industrial and consumer. We turn over some 2 million Euros a year; provide employment for some 38 people directly – and rising – and we export 98% of our infrared heating systems and components to over 68 countries.