best practice visits
throughout the UK

Study Tours

Study Tours offer you a unique opportunity to meet with innovators in your field and learn how they address the same challenges that you face every day. See the tools and resources that they use to drive their business forward. Find out first hand how they remain competitive in an ever-developing marketplace.

Benefiting from our links with some world class manufacturing sites across Europe, the Americas and the Far East we are able to create a tour to suit your needs.

Engine Parts

Where do we go?

In recent years we have take groups to Germany, Italy Canada and Scandinavia.

What can you see?

We will show you excellence in action. We offer in-depth presentations from key staff and behind the scenes facility tours at a wide variety of manufacturing environments. From all sectors of industry including Aerospace, Automotive, Food & Beverage and Construction, you will have access to the latest techniques including:

5S TPM
Kaizen Lasers
Kanban Logistics
Six Sigma Robotics
Lean Manufacturing Visual Management
Value Stream Mapping Supply Chain Management

How many days?

A standard programme in Europe is four nights away with three full days of tours. Longer haul destinations are usually a minimum of five nights, four days to make the trip worthwhile and to include some free time.

We also offer a bespoke service where we can tailor the tour to your exact needs.

How will it benefit you?

Study Tours have demonstrable success in encouraging the exchange and implementation of best practice. They provide ideas to stimulate innovation and improve productivity.

Benchmarking provides a way to measure current performance and identify ways to improve processes. Visiting a number of companies across different sectors will give your staff the opportunity to see best practice in action and appreciate how the same techniques can be used in their own working environment.

Professional facilitation on the tour ensures that ideas translate into actions on your return and the networking opportunities with other companies are outstanding.

Contact Us

Call us today to discuss you requirements. We will talk to you about your options, your budget and your key areas of interest and prepare a proposal for you. Email: info@uk-oi.co.uk or Phone: 023-9246-8978

Manufacturing

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