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| Company objective & values |
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| Company role |
| The
company assembles ticket printers and sells line printers
and magnetic recording leads. It has a team of 70 and
has been established in Winsford for over 15 years. |
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| Key skills & competences |
- Finance department - spreadsheet and accounting
skills
- Sales department - worldwide sales teams
- Purchasing and administration - word processing
and secretarial skills
- Production staff - precision engineering skills,
CAD, design
- Warehousing and Logistics
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| Links with national curriculum |
| Strong |
Science |
Precision engineering
skills are a key competence in this company |
| Strong |
Design & Technology |
Design drawings and innovative
technology |
| Strong |
ICT |
CAD, finance, spreadsheets
plus data recording technology |
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| Areas that could be used in lessons |
| Taking
the pupils through the design, manufacture, testing
and distribution of a technical product |
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| How could it be made interesting
and appropriate? |
| A
project to build a computer with the pupils. The company
is used by colleges for work experience and project
work of this nature. |
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| Background information |
- The company is unable to accommodate visits by
primary school children, but is happy to visit the
school and carry out presentations and project work.
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