Working with the IfM

Essex Manufacturing Innovation and Growth Programme

The Essex Manufacturing Innovation and Growth Programme (EMIG) offers practical, structured help for your business to achieve greater competitiveness and sustainable, long-term growth. The programme is carried out by an experienced manufacturing practitioner at your premises. It is designed to need as little time as possible from busy management and comprises three stages, typically requiring six days of practitioner involvement spread over several months.

Are you a manufacturer with 10-250 employees?

Are you worried about falling revenues, shrinking margins, rising competition?

Get free independent help from experienced practitioners to transform your business.

This fully funded programme provides an in-depth assessment of your business to identify significant issues:

• Prioritisation to focus efforts on the most critical areas
• An action plan to bring about sustainable improvements
• A structured approach to re-formulating business strategy
• Tools and consultancy to improve performance in key areas, such as quality, supply management, delivery performance and product innovation
• Expert facilitation by practitioners with many years of relevant experience

Stage 1: Initial online assessment

• Identifies key, near-term issues facing the business

Stage 2: Prioritisation exercise

• In-depth evaluation of the whole business
• Targets priority areas
• Action planning for sustainable improvement

Stage 3: Strategy and capability development

• Develops improvements in prioritised areas such as:
  • business strategy
  • new product development
  • delivery performance, quality, supply management and more

Who can take part?

A limited number of fully-funded places are available on the programme for companies with 10 to 250 employees.

Who runs the programme?

The Essex Manufacturing Innovation amp; Growth (EMIG) has been developed by the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) - part of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering. It is funded by Essex County Council (ECC) and delivered through IfM Education and Consultancy Services (IfM ECS), University of Cambridge.

The programme is delivered by IfM Education and Consultancy Services Limited, a company wholly-owned by the University and established for the purpose of disseminating the IfM’s research and education outputs to industry.

Case studies

Harlow Group [PDF file]

Swiftclean [PDF file]

Find out more from…

Alyson Lee
T: 01223 332 782
E: arl44@cam.ac.uk