Consultants Profile
Derek Collings has 25 years experience as an engineer. Whilst the past 15 years have been spent operating as a specialist consultant, his previous roles included senior appointments working directly with world renown blue chip companies such us Ford Motor Company, General Motors and many others both large and small. He has held profit responsible management roles and has held technical, sales and senior management positions.
During his 15 years as a consultant he has set-up and run his own comapnies and is a director of a UK partner to a Dutch organisation also dealing with many blue chip companies. His roles has led to an understanding of how all parties can profit from a collaboration and an ability to get things done in an efficient and cost effective way.
He has played a major role in many successful projects including new product development, process technology, maufacturing efficiency, motor industry quality awards worldwide and has a substantial background in other disciplins such as:
[ Purchasing profit improvement ]
[Total Quality Management Systems ]
[ New business feasibility ]
[ New technology development ]
[ Leadership of project teams ]
[ Procurement planning systems ]
[ New business development ]
Consultancy projects includes the development advice for precision turned parts companies looking to diversify and expand and includes:
~ Market development
~ Process improvement
~ Technology development
~ Efficiency systems development
~ Plant refurbishment programme
~ Management consultancy
~ Product sourcing for precision turned parts
~ Re-Organisation of production facilities and systems and human resource planning
~ Product market analysis
~ Organisational structure review
Recent Consultancy Projects Include:
~ Invention of a process to solve a long standing agricultural wear problem for a European company
~ Research and development of that process to bring to market
~ Preparation of business plans including a sales and marketing analysis for the new product
~ Organisation of production processes for the new products and facilitating the manufacturing supply
~ Implementation of the supply of the finished product and the analysis of field trials prior to full use