Opportunity Knocks

Having spent a couple of weeks in California and Texas surveying the needs and wants of high-tech OEMs, I wanted to share how Ireland and Europe are ideally positioned to service global shortfalls.

The knock-on effects from covid and the more recent war, have and are causing so much delay with raw material and subsequently finished product supplies. There is a massive shift to source regionally or locally, which is helping the situation, however, if local companies do not have the ability to scale due to whatever reason, they will miss out on this golden opportunity to expand.

The cost of not getting equipment on time has so much more impact than trying to source from lower-cost countries. It’s all about speed of execution in this fast paced world we live in. People need and want products regardless of global turbulence and they will pay more to get them, versus cheaper sourcing but longer to get.

Ireland and Europe are ideally positioned to capitalise on increasing their market share so long as they have the resources to man up with the right skilled personnel and technology to take on new customers and projects.

During my stay in California and Texas, OEMs and those in manufacturing have provided valuable insight during surveys I’ve done with them. These conversations have revealed a great deal as to how Ireland is poised to service USA and the East with advanced manufacturing and engineering services.

Contact me if you want deeper insight.

Kieron Swords

CEO and Business development Director

+353 (87) 137 7434

kieron@dynamicinnovations.ie

WHY IRELAND: Turn your manufacturing constraints over to us.
…and open your gateway into Europe and beyond.

Ireland’s brand pillars are the lifeblood to our manufacturing DNA. We take your needs seriously and invest heavily in customer satisfaction.

  • DEPENDABILITY: Always executing on time
  • QUALITY: Consistent reliability
  • COMMUNICATION: Seamless systems
  • COMPETITIVE: For total cost of ownership
  • PARTNERSHIPS: Real, trusted and transparent
  • SCALE: Agility to scale at speed
  • ENVIRONMENT: A sustainable culture

If you would like to enquire about your project, feel free to contact us.

+353 (87) 137 7434

kieron@dynamicinnovations.ie

 

Irish Engineering Executive Brilliance

So last week I had an amazing learning experience around true professionalism on how to administer a highly regulated large manufacturing company. They constantly beat their global competition hands down, year on year.

I wanted to understand more about best lean optimisation in the manufacturing of low to medium volume equipment from a commercial viewpoint. As a precision manufacturing engineer with vast international experience across several sectors, I have observed and worked with all sorts of philosophies, attitudes and systems. I really admired the likes of many OEM multi-nationals for strategy, communication and execution but I could also see weaknesses in personalisation, real inclusive team culture for long-term, stimulated retention despite their wonderful HR packages.

I clearly witnesses top-class leadership that empowers their entire workforce while nailing their customers consistent on-time delivery schedules, leveraging off closed loop technology with quality management systems. It solidified my confidence in Irish state-of-the-art engineering competence across the entire value chain.

We hear so much about digital manufacturing these days, especially after covid, and observing this company in action really inspired me no end, and hard for me to share in a simple blog.

However, my knowledge for total ownership with fully integrated engineering support is the way forward so we stay relevant in this ever-changing world.

If you need your complex equipment manufactured in small to medium volumes, contact me and I will integrate you with the right total cost of ownership supply partner.

Kieron Swords | CEO

+353 (87) 137 7434

Why Ireland: Knowledge is Power

One of the major factors of Ireland’s thriving economy is undoubtedly the educated workforce. The Irish economy is the fastest growing workforce in the Eurozone. Despite Covid, Brexit, inflation, conflict – Ireland is a stable, competitive, secure and pro-business country. The solid foundation of this lies in the highly educated and diverse workforce. We have access to a labour pool of 250 million from across Europe.

The standards of Irish education ranks in the top 10 globally. Almost 30% of students enrol in Science, Engineering and technology of the future subjects. This is driven by our high-tech industry led clusters.

The government initiated a host of comprehensive and forward-looking National Skills Strategy and Action Plans for Education, which aims to make Irish education and training the best in Europe by 2026.

The presence of the top multi-nationals presence based in Ireland has helped shape our SME’s position themselves to service global markets. We have gained a reputation in advanced manufacturing such as complex equipment manufacturing, automation, software, precision engineering and now digital manufacturing with government backed sustainable initiates to play our parts in reducing emissions.

Ireland is a place to invest in for your manufacturing needs in part or in full. The potential for long-term stable expansion is here to be explored. The dynamic companies are eager to embrace customers projects to deliver excellence.

If you need any more detailed information on companies, education or skills please do not hesitate to connect up.

Kieron Swords

Why Ireland: Ireland’s Circular Manufacturing Economy – One Man’s Rubbish is another Man’s Treasure

For many years we have all been aware of recycling to reduce waste and your waste may be another’s treasure. I, like many others, did my bit as I went about my business thinking I was green. I have a life-long toolmaker friend who for the past 10 years and successfully been promoting industrial symbiosis.

“Symbiosis” is usually associated with nature, where two or more species co-depend by  using the other species’ waste, materials or energy in a mutually beneficial manner. Like bees and flowers, remoras – the fish that feed off of parasites on the shark’s skin and in its mouth.

Industrial symbiosis is a form of brokering to bring companies together in innovative collaborations, finding ways to use the waste from one as raw materials for another.

Now, there are real determined goals driven by policies stemming from the realisation that earth is a finite system. In essence, out of shear necessity and respect for our planet, we are shifting from a linear to a circular economy which will have positive impacts for us all personally and in business.

So the circular economy is an economic model that is restorative and regenerative by design. Ultimately in nature the concept of waste does not exist – everything is transformed into a resource that can be utilised.

The circular economy aims to keep materials, components, and products in-use in the economy for as long as possible. In circularity, the key objective is to design consumption and production systems to create and retain value.

Circularity seeks to optimise every aspect of a product’s lifecycle from raw material extraction to manufacturing and first use, and multiple use-lives thereafter, through product re-design, new business models and novel technologies and processes.

It is now widely recognised that the circular economy agenda is fundamentally intertwined with the zero-carbon agenda. Europe has committed to accelerating the transition to a circular economy – with circular principles central to the EU’s Industrial Strategy and EU Green Deal. In this context, as Ireland navigates the path to COVID-19 recovery, now is the opportunity to embed circularity in the Irish economy – creating substantial socio-economic, environmental, and business benefits.

Dynamic Innovations are involved in helping companies with design for Additive manufacturing which will contribute to a more sustainable production model of parts across every sector. Kieron is currently up-skilling by doing a Leadership course in digital manufacturing for the future.

Green Ireland is on a long term sustainable journey so plug in with Dynamic Innovations for some of the action that you can benefit from.

Kieron

 

 

 

Image credit: Repak.ie

 

Why Ireland: Factories of the Future

As we all know manufacturing industries are faced with significant paradigm shifts with the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution known as Industry 4.0 or Factory 4.0 with the introduction of game-changing ways to design and manufacture products such as Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing.

Advanced Manufacturing Ireland is at the cutting edge of these inflection points working with industry leaders to help integrate customers in parallel to the technology.

Under Factory 4.0, the introduction of next generation technologies is allowing for very complex connection of everything on the manufacturing floors with IoT* in conjunction will all sorts of measurement devices, automation and data analysis communications.

This technology as well as supply chain reliability (due to logistical costs, regulation etc.) are causing customers to re-evaluate their supply strategies. Last week, one large multinational customer stated that reliability was their #1 driver, as the cost of being late to their customer is significantly greater than trying to save some money from lower-cost countries.

How times have changed since covid and on advancement of technology. I feel privileged living in a thriving safe economy in Ireland with confidence we will continue to stay sovereign, free from war with an ever increasing educated workforce.

If you are want to explore alternative sourcing options, why not reach out to Dynamic Innovations who will connect you to sound vendors that are fit for your purposes.

Best Regards,

Kieron

 

* The Internet of Things describes physical objects with sensors, processing ability, software, and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks

 

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